Past exhibitions and events

Jessica Auer: The Heath

15.4.2024 — 8.6.2024 Opening: Saturday, April 13, 4-6 pm The Heath exhibition comprises recent photographs and videos by the renowned Seyðisfjörður- based, Canadian photographer Jessica Auer. Heiðin – an ongoing…

Ra Tack: Small Works

Ra Tack (b. 1988) is a Belgian painter and sound artist, living and working in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Their paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, often rendered in oil on large…

Composition in Five Movements

February 10 – March 10, 2023, Skaftfell Gallery Opening: February 10, 17:00 – 18:00 Video works by Barbara Naegelin, Dodda Maggý, Gústav Geir Bollason, Sigurður Guðjónsson, and Steina An exhibition…

Jessica Auer: Selected Photographs from Looking North

January 23 – April 2, 2023, Skaftfell Bistró Photographs from the series Looking North, by Seyðisfjörður-based artist Jessica Auer, will be presented in the Skaftfell Bistró from January 23 – April…

Nína Magnúsdóttir: Lines of Flight | Hársbreidd

November 26, 2022 – January 29, 2023 Skaftfell Gallery, Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður Opening: November 26, 2022, 16:00 – 18:00 Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 17:00 – 22:00, closed on Mondays More…

Artist talk: Brooke Holve (US), Catherine Richardson (UK/US), Eve Provost Chartrand

Join us for an artist talk with Skaftfell’s current residency artists on Wednesday, September 28, 17:30-18:30 in the Skaftfell apartment (top floor). Coffee and biscuits will be served. Brooke Holve…

Bernd Koberling, Autumn – Loðmundarfjörður

September 23 – December 31, 2022, Skaftfell Bistro BERND KOBERLING Haust | Autumn – Loðmundarfjördur The Painterly Self Now on view in the bistro is an installation of watercolors by…

Rikke Luther – On Moving Ground

September 17 – November 20, 2022, Skaftfell gallery Opening on September 17, 16:00-18:00 in Skaftfell and 18:00-19:30 in Herðubío (film screening) Gallery talk with the artist on September 18, 14:00 All events…

FLOCK workshop with Rachel Simmons

Saturday, August 20, 2022, 10:00-11:30 and 13:00-16:00 Join the FLOCK workshop with Rachel Simmons in Seyðisfjörður! The workshop includes taking a birdwatching walk around town and then making colourful bird prints…

Exhibition and artist talk with Rachel Simmons

Sunday, August 7 at 16:30, Herðubreið Skaftfell warmly welcomes Rachel Simmons, our artist in residence for the month of August! This Sunday afternoon Rachel will show her work FLOCK in the…

Reading with A. Kendra Greene

Saturday, July 16, 16:00. The Roth Corner, Skaftfell Bistro Skaftfell invites you to a book reading and signing with A. Kendra Greene, writer, artist, and author of The Museum of…

GÚLÍGOGG – Jón Sigurpálsson, Pétur Kristjánsson, Örlygur Kristfinnsson

June 17 – August 28, 2022, Skaftfell Bistro Opening on June 17 at 16:00. Everyone is welcome. Opening times: like the bistro. This exhibition is the final episode of the…

Afield – Diane Borsato, Geoffrey Hendricks, Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir

June 04 – September 04, 2022, Skaftfell gallery Opening on June 04 from 16-18:00. Light refreshments will be available. A guided tour with artist Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir and curator Becky Forsythe…

Again the Sunset – Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Yann Leguay

Herðubreið cinema, June 6, 2022, 20:00 Please join us for this extraordinary performance/concert on June 6 in Herðubreið Culture and Community Center, hosted by Skaftfell. The work is part of…

Exhibition / artist talk: Joan Perlman and Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt

May 17, 2022, 17:00-19:00, Herðubreið gallery and cinema Skaftfell’s residency artists Joan Perlman (US) and Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt (CA), will present current and recent work in a pop-up exhibition and screening…

Andreas Senoner – Paper Series

Friday April 29, 17:00-20:00, Herðubreið Please join us for a pop-up exhibition of new works on paper by Andreas Senoner. Light refreshments will be available and the artist will give…

Garðar Bachmann Þórðarson on the West Wall

April 1 – June 12, 2022, West Wall, Skaftfell Bistro Opening times are the same as for the bistro: Mon-Fri 12-22, Sat-Sun 17-22. Garðar Bachmann Þórðarson was born and raised…

Alter/Breyta – Brák Jónsdóttir, Hugo Llanes, Joe Keys, Nína Óskarsdóttir

The collective exhibition Alter/Breyta of the visual artists Brák Jónsdóttir, Hugo Llanes, Joe Keys and Nína Óskarsdóttir opened on March 26 and will continue until May 22. Curator is Hanna…

Johan F Karlsson – Pathway Through A Sunstone

February 11 – March 12, 2022, Skaftfell Gallery Opening on February 11 from 18:00-20:00, in partnership with List í Ljósi art festival. The exhibition will be open until 22:00 on the…

Dæja Hansdóttir on the West Wall

January 28 – March 30, West Wall, Skaftfell Bistro Opening times: Mon/Thu/Fri 12:00-14:00 and 17:00-22:00; Tue/Wed 12:00-22:00; Sat/Sun 17:00-22:00 Dæja Hansdóttir (b.1991 Reykjavík) was raised in the United States by…

Brenglað, bogið, bylgjað / Wonky, warped, wavy – Ragnheiður Káradóttir & Sara Gillies

November 27, 2021 – January 30, 2022, Skaftfell gallery Opening on November 27, 16:00-18:00. Opening times Mon-Fri 12:00-20:00, Sat-Sun 16:00-20:00. Entry is through the bistro on the ground floor. A…

Tóti Ripper on the West Wall

October 23, 2021 – January 3, 2022, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Opening times are the same as for the bistro. Þórarinn Andrésson (b. 1968), or Tóti Ripper, was born…

Artist Talk: Eva Beierheimer & Samuel Brzeski

Tuesday, October 12, 16:30 – 17:30 in Herðubreið Our next artist talk is on Tuesday Oct 12, from 16:30-17:30 in Herðubreið, and everyone is welcome. Skaftfell’s current residency artists Eva…

Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir and Karlotta Blöndal: Slóð (Trace)

Opening on September 25, 16:00-18:00, in Skaftfell´s gallery. The artists will give a guided tour on September 26 at 14:00. The exhibition continues until November 21, 2021. Opening times Mon-Fri…

Magdalena Noga – Even though it might hurt

July 27 – October 3, 2021, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Open daily 12:00-22:00 Magdalena Noga’s exhibition “Even though it might hurt” opens on July 27 in the West Wall…

New mural in Seyðisfjörður by Anna Vaivare

Norðurgata 7, Seyðisfjörður Artist in residence Anna Vaivare has been working tirelessly on finishing her latest mural, and now it is done! Come and see this beautifully cheerful addition to…

Pétur Kristjánsson – Tinkering ideas

Opening June 17, 16:00-18:00, in the Skaftfell gallery On view until September 5, 2021. Open Tue-Sun from 13:00-17:00. Closed on Mondays. Guided tour and artist talk on June 19, 15:00-16:00…

Anna Vaivare – Houses, Mountains and Landscapes of Seyðisfjörður

Herðubreið gallery, May 29 – June 4, during Herðubreið’s opening hours. Opening May 29, 14:00 -16:00. Everyone is welcome! In conclusion of Anna Vaivare’s residency at Skaftfell the artist is sharing…

Anna Margrét Ólafsdóttir – Mirror mirror

May 11 – July 25, 2021, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Open Wed-Fri from 12:00-22:00 and Sat-Sun from 16:00-22:00. In the year 2019 Anna Margrét dressed as Snow White for…

Anna Vaivare – Swimming Pool

May 7 – June 5, 2021, Seyðisfjörður Swimming Pool Open for swimming pool guests during the regular opening hours. “Swimming pool” is an exhibition of drawings from Anna’s book of the…

Artist Talk – Anna Vaivare

Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 17:00 – 18:00, Herðubreið. “Buildings, comics and children’s books – an unintentional way to become an artist.” In our first artist talk of the year, current…

Svandís Egilsdóttir – Several Drawings of Mountains

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, March 10 – May 10, 2021. Open daily 16:00-22:00. Several Drawings of Mountains is a collection of moments in which mountains come into play –…

Þór Vigfússon

Opening February 12, 18:00-20:00, Skaftfell gallery. Artist talk February 13, 14:00 (in Icelandic) Guided tour in English Mars 18, 17:00 The exhibition is on view until April 25, 2021. Open Mon-Fri…

Unrelated – Rafael Vázquez

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro. Dec 5, 2020 – Feb 5, 2021 UNRELATED is a small selection of photographs drawn from a bigger and constantly growing collection of non-related pictures,…

Piotr Kołakowski – Last Drawings

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, September 26 – November 29, 2020. My heart’s in the Highlands My heart is not here The eight lithographs in this exhibition were created in…

PREFAB / FORSMÍÐ

Skaftfell gallery, September 26 – December 20, 2020. Opening times: Mon – Fri, 12:00 – 18:00. Sat – Sun 15:00 – 18:00. Curator: Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir, Advisor: Gavin Morrison Opening reception:…

Hello and Goodbye – Tinna Guðmundsdóttir

July 3 – August 16, West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro. Opening times: Wed-Sun 12:00-17:00. The photo series Hello and Goodbye is a documentation of the short period of family life.…

Pre-screening of Shore Power

Wednesday July 1, 20:00 – 21:00, Herðubreið cinema. Skaftfell presents a special pre-screening of Jessica Auer’s film Shore Power for the local community. This project was initiated during her residency…

Quarantine drawings

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, June 17 – July 1, 2020. For many years visitors to the Skaftfell bistro have been invited to make drawings and writings on stacks of…

Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir: Mon ciel, mi cielo. What do you really mean?

June 17 – September 6th, 2020 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art’s summer exhibition will be with the Reykjavik based artist Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1985). For this project she has chosen…

Tíra / Scintilla – Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

Current artist in residence Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (IS) presents her exhibition Tíra / Scintilla in the Skaftfell gallery from May 11 to May 30. Access is through the bistro, on weekdays…

(Matter) – Kirsty Palmer in the West Wall gallery

Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Kirsty Palmer (UK) is showing a selection of her newest work in the West Wall gallery in Skaftfell’s bistro, beginning on 5th May 2020. (Matter)…

A place to be – Gudrun Westerlund

Current artist in residence Gudrun Westerlund (SE) introduces her latest work through a pop-up exhibition and video artist talk, set in Skaftfell’s gallery, which is closed at the moment due to…

SITE_

SITE_ is a three-day exhibition in Skaftfell’s gallery by Julian Harold (FR), Hyun Ah Kwon (KR), Kristen Mallia (US), and Kirsty Palmer (UK), who are artists in residence at Skaftfell…

Artist in residence Kristen Mallia and students of Seyðisförður School take part in List í Ljósi 2020

Skaftfell’s artist in residence Kristen Mallia (US) has been teaching a short workshop for school children in Seyðisfjörður, working with light and darkness and the unexpected outcome while using a…

Hyun Ah Kwon – Perspective. List í Ljósi 2020

List í Ljósi festival, Seyðisfjörður, 13.-15. February 2020, daily 18:00 – 22:00. Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Hyun Ah Kwon (KR) is participating in the annual List í Ljósi light festival…

Pressure

The exhibition is a result from a printmaking workshop held by the Iceland University of The Arts in Seyðisfjörður, East Fjords of Iceland, in collaboration with Skaftfell Center for Visual…

Ingirafn Steinarsson – Hólmi / Elevation

New exhibition in the West Wall gallery in Skaftfell’s Bistro. Open daily from 15:00. “The drawings bear a reference to the attempts of humans to understand and explain their experiences, and to the resulting knowledge…

Amanda Riffo: ELASTIC STRESS

09.11.2019 — 05.01.2020 Opening: Saturday, 09.11.2019, 16h-18h Gallery talk with the artist: Sunday, 10.11.2019, 14h-15h The exhibition, Amanda Riffo: ELASTIC STRESS is part of Skaftfell’s exhibition strategy to work with…

Days of Darkness Artist Talk – Ioana Popovici, Michala Paludan, Rasmus Røhling

October 31, 2019, 16:30 – 18:00, at Skaftfell, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor. In celebration of the Days of Darkness in East Iceland, Skaftfell’s current artists in residence Ioana Popovici (RO),…

Ioana Popovici – Discard, decay, rust

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, Oct 26 – Nov 14, 2019. Opening times: daily from 15:00 to 22:00, or until the Bistro closes. Ioana Popovici is a choreographer, performer, and…

Jin Jing & Liu Yuanyuan

When The Boat Is Sailing Into Island I Know No More Than What I Know Now On September 26, from 17:00-20:00, Jin Jing (CN) and Liu Yuanyuan (CN) are holding…

Elvar Már Kjartansson & Litten Nystrøm: It’s not true

Opening: Saturday, 21.09.2019, 16h-18h21.09 – 26.10.2019 The title of the exhibition, It’s not true is purposefully enigmatic and as such is highly appropriate for the work of Elvar Már Kjartansson…

Collectors

Opening reception April 6, 16-18h. April 7 – June 1, 2019 An exhibition of the wonderful, strange, and varied collections drawn from the residents of Seyðisfjörður and surrounding areas. Skaftfell…

Hazard Zone – Through the Layers

September 10, 20:00-21:00, Herðubreið cinema Zdenka Brungot Svíteková and her team, currently participating in Skaftfell’s residency program, will show a performative work in progress in Herðubreið’s cinema space on September…

Zdenka Brungot Svíteková – Through the Layers

Dance workshop and individual bodywork sessions “As in all of nature, our patterns are layered into landscapes,changing each moment, while maintaining a sense of continuity and longevity.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen…

Jessica Auer & Zuhaitz Akizu – Kujira (A White Whale)

New work by Jessica Auer and Zuhaitz Akizu in Skaftfell’s West Wall gallery in the bistro. Join us for the opening reception on June 17, 17:00 – 19:00. Everyone is welcome!…

Cheryl Donegan & Dieter Roth

Opening: June 17, 2019, Skaftfell galleryOpen from 17 June – 1 September, 2019 The exhibition Cheryl Donegan & Dieter Roth considers Dieter Roth as an artist and publisher of books alongside…

Dieter Roth, Húsin á Seyðisfirði, vetur 1988 – sumar 1995

Opening 17 June, 17:00-19:00. Angró, Hafnargata, Seyðisförður18.06 – 01.09. 2019Exhibition open Friday – Sunday 12:00-18:00 Skaftfell with Tækniminjasafns Austurlands and the Dieter Roth Estate will collaborate to re-stage the installation…

Alessa Brossmer / Morten Modin

Alessa Brossmer (DE) and Morten Modin (DK) are holding a pop-up exhibition in Herðubreið’s cinema on Friday May 24, 16:00-18:30. They will present the outcomes of their 2-month residencies at…

Alessa Brossmer – Glow In The Dark

Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Alessa Brossmer (DE) opens her in-house installation GlowInTheDark on April 16, 21:00 – 23:00 in Nielsenhús, Hafnargata 14. There will be hot drinks and conversations…

Åse Eg Jørgensen – Kompendium

West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, March 27 to June 12, 2019. Åse Eg Jørgensen (b. 1958) is a danish artist and graphic designer based in Copenhagen. She has been co-editor of…

Printing Matter – Exhibition #4

Saturday March 23, 16:00 – 18:00, Technical Museum of East Iceland, Seyðisfjörður. Amy Uyeda (CA), Apolline Fjara (FR), Eva Bjarnadóttir (IS), Labhaoise Ni Shuilleabhain (IE), Mary Buckland (CA), Olga Adele…

Sidsel Carré: Åndedrættet – The Breath

Thursday March 21, 19:00 – 22:00, Herðubreið café/gallery Sidsel Carré (DK) will show new paintings and works in progress, which have been developing during her residency at Skaftfell in February…

Artist talk by Marta Hryniuk & WET screening

Thursday, March 21, 20:00 – 22:00, Herðubreið cinema The program is organised by Marta Hryniuk, current artist in residence at Skaftfell, in collaboration with WET– a Rotterdam-based cooperative for video…

FOSS editions at the West Wall gallery

FOSS publishes limited editions of printed and non printed matter by international artists. FOSS is based in Seyðisfjörður, and is run by Litten Nystrøm and Linus Lohmann. The exhibition at…

Korkimon – Semi-erect and non-threatening

Monday February 25, 19:00 – 21:00, in Herðubreið. Open until Wednesday February 27, daily 10:00 – 18:00. Korkimon – Melkorka Katrín Ingibjargardóttir (IS) – presents new work in the Herðubreið gallery,…

Creative Reading with Odysseus Atlas

February 25, 2019, 19:30 – 21:00, Herðubreið café. Join us for an introduction into creative reading with the artist duo Jūra Bardauskaitė (LT) and Kęstutis Montvidas (LT), who are collaborating…

Lisa M. Stybor – Flow of time

Lisa M. Stybor (DE), with Lísa Leónharðsdóttir (IS) / Anna Raabe (DE) / Max Richter (DE) Open Studio on February 22, 2019, 17:00 – 20:00, Skaftfell 3rd floor, Austurvegur…

Ultima Thule

Odysseus Atlas – Kęstutis Montvidas (LT) and Jūra Bardauskaité (LT) Fjarðará Lake, February 15 and 16, 2019, from 18:00 to 22:00. Odysseus Atlas is a creative initiative by artists Kęstutis…

Creative Writing course #2

Following up on its successful first run in the autumn, Skaftfell is excited to announce the second Creative Writing course, designed and led by writer, journalist and editor Nanna Vibe…

30 Days – Work in Progress

On Wednesday Nov 28, Dana Neilson (CA) and Tuomo Savolainen (FI) will be showing what direction their work has taken while being on residency at Skaftfell. Join us in Herðubreið café…

Fosshús – Open studio

Composer and artist Nathan Hall will transform the house Brekka (Austurvegur 44b) into an installation called FOSSHÚS. The three floors will have sound and visual works that can be discovered.…

Works on Paper

This place has the smoogy look as the opening scene of Fargo. Kumiko thought the money was real and went for a hunt. James Bond drove with his car over…

Artists Talk #30

This Tuesday, Oct 16 at 16.30, Skaftfell will host its thirtieth Artist Talk. In this session six international artist will present their work and practice for 15 minutes each. The event…

Printing Matter exhibition

On Saturday, September 22, the yield from Printing Matter, a thematic residency organized by Skaftfell in collaboration with the Technical Museum of East Iceland, will be on public display. This…

BRAS

Join us in Herðubreið for the launching of BRAS, a new cultural festival dedicated to children and young adults. Live music from young locals and light refreshments. The Icelandic musician…

All kinds of landscapes

Landscape and nature has always been an inspiration for artists. Icelandic artists Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913-1968) and Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972) are no exception from that tradition. Even though their key works…

White sun: a sun dial and summer sky exploration

Living in the northern hemisphere we have to tolerate the fact that the sun is not a reliable source to tell time, yet it softly eases us into the different seasons with…

Birds of passage 1998-2018

An artist residency “is an outcome of time, place and people and it offers an opportunity for enduring relationships and a profound communion with both art and one’s own thoughts.“…

Birds of passage – seminar

20 years of Skaftfell’s artist-in-residency program have resulted in 250 artists coming to Seyðisfjörður and to East Iceland. Some have left a physical trace behind, or a trace in someone’s…

Artists Talk #29

Five artists are currently participating in the Skaftfell Residency Program. Elena Mazzi, Hannimari Jokinen, Joe Sam-Essandoh, Jemila MacEwan and Pierre Tremblay will this Friday, May 18, introduce their work and practice…

On Site

FOSS presents four recently published editions at the event “On Site” at Skaftfell gallery. The editions represent a range of artistic expressions and formats however all developed under the influence…

Open studio – Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov

Eliso Tsintsabadze (GE) and Pavel Filkov (RU) have been artists-in-residency at Skaftfell in March and April. Their work explores human relations to landscape through photography, and studies the medium of photography…

C A B L E

The exhibition highlights the major changes and advances that communication technology has entailed. Overload of information and increasingly fast-paced communication in the present time provokes ideas about the submarine cable…

Printing Matter – Intensity

For the past three weeks a group of international artists have participated in a thematic residency, entitled Printing Matter, at Skaftfell. During this period the artists have explored the art…

White Sun

The artist group IYFAC (Inspirational Young Female Artist Club) have for the past months researched time as a concept and experience, as well as the connection that humans have with the…

All Paths Blocked

The exhibition All Paths Blocked presents the result of a workshop with the 3rd year students of the Fine Art Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts. The two week…

The Authors Train in Seyðisfjörður

The annual authors train will stop in Seyðisfjörður the first weekend of advent Saturday Dec 2. The event will start at 20.30 and take place in the Skaftfell gallery. The authors…

The Thing is

New works by Claudia Hausfeld, Sindri Leifsson, Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Elísabet Brynhildardóttir explore objecthood in a multitude of ways. For the past year, the artists have been engaged in conversation…

Corrected Vision

LOCATION: Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor. We recommend potential guest follow the FB event, see here. “Corrected Vision” is a new installation by artist Jessica MacMillan, where she has turned her…

Margrét H. Blöndal

The solo exhibition pollur – spegill by Margrét H. Blöndal, is ongoing from Oct 7 – Nov 26 in the Skaftfell gallery. I was moving along on foot, water that…

Blink

Blink presents works by four artists, who are in various ways exploring mechanisms of observation and documentation in relation to time and space. The exhibiting artists, Jessica MacMillan (US), Maiken…

Neighbours

Neighbours is an artist talk and reading event co-organized by Yen Noh and Inga Danysz, who are current artists-in-residence at Skaftfell. Having resided in Seyðisfjörður for a month, they will…

Screening of the web series ENDZEIT

This Friday August 25, the web series ENDZEIT (The End of Time) by the siblings Anna & Jan Groos will be screened at the Skaftfell Residency, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor at…

Misguided Fieldwork

Join us at Seyðisfjörður Information Centre, Wednesday June 28, 16.00-18.00. The exhibition is also open Thursday June 29, 08.00-16.00. Misguided Fieldwork brings together works by Kristie MacDonald (CA) and Factory…

Amy Knoles – electronic performance

Electronic musician and percussionist Amy Knoles (US) performs a unique electronic performance in Seyðisfjarðarkirkja, church of Seyðisfjörður. The event will take place Wednesday May 24 at 21.00 and is organized in…

Stereoskin

British artist Mary Hurrell concludes her residency stay with a live audio visual presentation entitle Stereoskon. The presentation will take place Friday April 28 at 18:30 in the cinema of…

When I Visit Homes

German artists Uta Pütz presents works in progress in the foyer of Herðubreið Community Center Friday April 28 at 18.00. The art works have been in development for the past…

Open studio and artists talk

It has been only a month in this total white. I started to produce some drawings and paper sculptures reflecting my state of mind being in this place where my…

Silent Act

Solo exhibition. Hanna Kristín Birgisdóttir’s exhibition Silent Act comprises of two sculptures, both of which are somewhat confounding in their material form. A squared-off length of timber sits atop trestles, its ends…

Edge Effects

Skaftfell summer exhibition in 2017, Edge Effects, is the second of seven exhibitions opening in the multipolar exhibition series witin the international collaboration project Frontiers in Retreat. Three artists, Kati…

Artists Talk #28

Skaftfell welcomes three artists-in-residence for March with an open artists talk Thursday March 9 in the Bistro. Mary Hurrel (UK), Uta Pütz (DE) and Tzu Ting Wang (TW) each have 20…

The visualisation of light and dark

Seyðisfjörður is currently preparing for the come-back of the sun. Last year the light was celebrated in a visual way through a new light festival List i Ljósi and this…

Artists’ books from Printing Matter

For the past two weeks Skaftfells first thematic residency, Printing Matter, for practising artists has taken place. The work process focused on printmaking and artists books with the intention to…

Koma

Exhibition featuring students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts participate in the annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. Curators: Björn Roth and Kristján Steingrímur. We arrived in…

Artists’ Talk #27

Current artists-in-residence, Helen Nisbet and Jennifer Schmidt, will present their work and practice Wednesday January 18 at 17.00 in the Skaftfell gallery. Helen is a curator and her stay is…

A Saturday Night Crack Sabbath with the Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra

Norwegian artists collective Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra will host a performance Saturday Nov 12. at 17.00 in the Bookshop-projectspace. Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra collective is founded on principles of free, pseudo-telepathic noise…

RIFF selection in Seyðisfjörður

Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Fljótdalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður Thursday Nov 3 in Herðubreið Community Center two movies will be…

Open studios

Current artists-in-residence will host open studios and present works in progress as a part of the Visual Art Day. Morgan Kinne, and the artist duo Curtis Tamm and Hermione Spriggs will show their works-in-progress in…

Release party for Valdamiklir menn

The release of the publication of Valdamiklir menn (e. Powerful men) by Jón Pálsson will be celebrated in Skaftfell Bistro Saturday Nov 5 at 16.00. The author will read from the…

Unoriginal

Exhibition about copying, duplicating and plagiarism in collaboration with LungA school. Curator Gavin Morrison. Copying is commonplace and fundamental to art. Yet not all copying is equal. A range of moral…

One is On

Unnur’s works talk in different ways about fading human connectedness caused by different forms of accepted narcissism. Making an impression has become a norm of the human condition, it provides…

An image of you

Solo exhibition by Icelandic artists Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson. Curator Gavin Morrison. Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson (b. 1988) is unusually attentive to those incidental moments and structures of modern life within which…

Russian film: Journey to the Mother

The Russian film Journey to the Mother by director Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov will be screened at Herðubreið Community Center. The film features Maxim that travels to France to visit his mother, who has been living in…

Authors train 2016

The annual Authors train will stop at Seyðisfjörður and the reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the gallery by Pétur Gunnarsson, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Magnús Sigurðsson…

never mine

The exhibition never mine by Miriam Jonas transforms the Bookshop project space into a story not to be read, but to be stepped into: A visit to her Alter Ego´s imaginary mine,…

Depositions

Film screening in Herðubreið – cinema, 24:21 min. Luke Fowler’s films dwell on potentiality: what might be, what might have been, what might still be if the world were to…

Performance

In a series of text recitals, Nora tells stories through historical facts, philological ponderings and poetic means. For The Assembly of the Hyperboreans, she will tell a story about the…

Small worlds

Artist talk and community discussion on the impact of tourism in Seydisfjördur. As Iceland continues to experience the fastest growing rate of foreign tourism in the world, it is becoming crucial to…

Visible side when installed

Vasco Costa and Wolfgang Obermair have been working together on projects since 2011, exploring the imprints and impacts on particular spaces in culture, economy and politics. By combining artistic and ethnographic methods…

in progress

Current Artists-in-Residence Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton conclude their stay with a presentation of works in progress in the Bookshop-projecspace Sunday June 26 from 12.00-18.00. The artists first stayed…

Triple headed

Art without borders with Skaftfell and LungA festival introduce the exhibition Triple Headed which will be held in Herðubreið, the community center of Seyðisfjörður. Opening is on the 11th of…

Secret veil – The lecture

The event is composed of potential misunderstandings in the common memory. Various myths will be unveiled that possibly have their origins in the roots of the north. Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir…

The Assembly of the Hyperboreans

We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew…

Spring’s Call of Nature & Echo of Oral Poetics

Performances in Tvísöngur sound sculpture. Spring’s Call of Nature by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson. A storyteller, a performer, a singer, an object maker, an illustrator. Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson has a love…

Shadow Work – Short Films About Light and Dark

Throughout August and December 2016 London Fieldworks will be in residence at Skaftfell. Over the two-month residency the artists will create “Short films about light and dark” identifying and expressing…

Folk Tale

Skaftfell proudly presents a unique staging of the voice sculpture Folk Tale, Ævintýri, by Magnús Pálsson as a part of the ongoing summer exhibition, The Assembly of the Hyperboreans. The event…

Gursus in Tvísöngur

Gursus Iceland Tour – aka. the Tour of the Unexpected. The duo Gursus is a result of a sudden meeting between a folk fiddler and a jazz saxophonist, all caused by a delayed train.…

Tool-kit for survivalism at the edge of the world

Skaftfell is hosting a three day symposium and dialogue platform focusing on the intersection of visual art and ecological issues in Iceland as a part of the project Frontiers in…

Frontiers of Solitude – project presentation

Frontiers of Solitude is a collaborative project between Skolska Gallery in Prague (CZ), Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Seyðisfjörður (IS), which is now…

Artist Talk #26

Join us when current artists-in-residence Faith La Rocque, Leander Djønne and Valérie Bourquin, will present their work and practice Thursday March 31 at 20.00 in Herðubreið Community Center. Norwegian artists…

Photographs from the opening of Frontiers of Solitude in Prague

The final chapter of the Czech, Icelandic and Norwegian collaboration project Frontiers of Solitude took place Feb 4.- 6. in Prague,Czech Rebublic when an exhibition opened with 19 artists and…

Frontiers of Solitude – exhibition opening and seminar in Prag

Exhibition: February 5 – March 4, 2016 at Skolska 28 Gallery, Fotograf Gallery and Ex Post Opening on February 4, 2016 from 6 pm at Skolska 28 Gallery and Fotograf…

Light paintings

Nemendur Seyðisfjarðarskóla í 8.-10. bekk tóku þátt í listsmiðju fyrr í vetur sem var stýrð af Nikolas Grabar. Í smiðjunni lærðu þau undirstöðuatriði stafrænnar ljósmyndunar og gerðu í lokin hvert…

No Solo

Students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts participate in the annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. This is the sixteenth workshop and is lead by Björn Roth…

Public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange

Friday, January 28, tranzit.ro/ Iași will host a public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange, organized by tranzit.ro/ Iași in partnership with Skaftfell. In the frame…

Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems

Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented…

Interzone

Interzones or territories, disparate and similar, connected to each other by conducting images and by the energy transmitted through the filmed landscapes. The zones are combining, overlapping, opposing, creating dynamics.…

Suspending plains

Welcome to the presentation of experiments by Nora Mertes at the Bookshop-projectspace Thursday January 21, from 20.00 -22.00. Nora Mertes researches the relationship between the human body and material in her…

Artist talk #25

Tuesday January 19 at 16:30 Skaftfell, Austurvegur 43, 3rd floor. Meet and hear the current Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell in January, Nora Mertes (DE) & Rashanna Rashied-Walker (USA), on Tuesday when…

Colourfields: Radiating and Reflecting

Lola Bezemers work concentrateson the experience of colour and light in architectural spaces. When going to Iceland, she brought a pile of coloured fabrics to work with in the snow…

Authors train 2015

The annual Authors train will stop at Seydisfjordur Saturday November 28. The reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the exhibition space. Five authors will read from their newly…

Zeus Tears and a seance performance

Linda Persson is a Swedish artist / filmmaker and a returning Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell. Throughout my practice language has played a central role. What interests me in language is its…

The Kitchen Sink Revolution in Herdubreid Cinema

The Kitchen Sink Revolution is a documentary film chronicling the effect of the womens party that ran for office in 1982 on women in politics in Iceland. After the colourful…

Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga

For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations…

Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga

For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations…

Perception lab for color and shape

In conjunction with the exhibition opening of Icelandic artists Eyborg Gudmundsdottir and Eyglo Hardardottir, Skaftfell will launch its seventh educational project. Since 2007 the Center has produced a total of…

Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir & Eygló Harðardóttir

October 31, 2015 – February 13, 2016 Gallery Two person show featuring Eyborg Gudmundsdottir and Eyglo Hardardottir. Curated by Gavin Morrison. Eyborg Gudmundsdottir (1924-1977) and Eyglo Hardardottir (born 1964) are…

Online broadcast

Artist-in-Residence Cristina David (RO) is participating in the Romanian Icelandic collaboration project entitled Artists as Agents of Institutional Exchange. As a part of the project she will stream live via…

Online broadcast

Herna

Herna is the Icelandic word for here now and is used in everyday speech to bring you back into the moment when loosing yourself a little bit. Artists Victoria Brannstrom…

Artist talk #24

Artists-in-Residence Cristina David (RO), Robertas Narkus (LT) & Victoria Brannstrom (DE) will talk about selected works and current projects at Skaftfell, 3rd floor. Both David and Narkus are participating in international…

Silent Walk – Herbarium

Join the Silent Walk Saturday 3rd October at 11:00 and 15:00 starting at the Bookshop-projectspace On a communal silent walk we collect Seydisfjordurs last autumn plants to create an experimental…

Local/ Focal/ Fluctuant  

Friday, Sept 25 from 19:30 – 22.00 Bookshop-projectspace Seydisfjordur is an international gate. Campus Novel investigate the port town in East Iceland against a global paradigm of nodal locations. Fluxes…

A-i-R 2016

The deadline for the Skaftfell Artist-in-Residence program in 2016 expired on September 1 and over120 applications were received. A selection panel will review the applications and selected artists will be…

Seydisfjordur Suite

One night only ! Opening Tuesday September 16th from 6pm – 8pm at the Bookshop-projectspace Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of nine drawings. These drawings, executed in lead, silver and…

Eyborg Gudmundsdottir & Eyglo Hardardottir

October 31, 2015 – February 13, 2016 Gallery The gallery is open: Wed – Fri from 12-16 Sat 14-18 and by appointment. Two person show featuring Eyborg Gudmundsdottir and Eyglo…

Six Icelandic representatives in Frontiers of Solitude

Icelandic artists Finnur Arnar Arnarson, Elvar Már Kjartansson, Karlotta Blöndal, Monika Frycová, Kristín Rúnarsdóttir and Þórunn Eymundardóttir have been selected to participate in the international project Frontiers of Solitude. The…

Frontiers of Solitude: Artists presentation and panel discussion

The Icelandic part of the international collaboration project Frontiers of Solitude is currently ongoing. A group of artists is on an expedition through Iceland and visiting various locations in South,…

Lecture – Frontiers of Solitude

Curator Markus Þór Andrésson will give a lecture in Herubreid Community Centre, as a part of the international collaboration project Frontiers of Solitude. Markus will present Icelandic artists and exhibitions dating…

Parallel Line Up in Breiðdalssetur

In her current project ‘Parallel Line Up’ Berlin-based artist Jenny Brockmann investigates environment, its dynamics and how poeple interact with it. She researches volcanic and geological processes that contain either…

Frontiers of Solitude

Frontiers of Solitude is an international collaboration between artists and arts organizations in three European countries: Skolska 28 (Czech Republic), Atelier Nord (Norway) and Skaftfell. The project…

Stigi

On August 13th. at 17:00 Swedish sisters Gerd Aurell, visual artist, and Karin Aurell, musician, will present new collaborative work; the audiovisual performance Stigi, at the Bookshop – projectspace. All…

Artist talk #23

Tuesday August 4th. Skaftfell invites for an artist talk and conversation at the Skaftfell Hub ( top floor of Skaftfell) where the artists Gerd Aurell, Jenny Brockmann, Richard Merrill Hoglund,…

By the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains

In her book by the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains, atlas of icelands plant life with a pinhole camera, published for the time being as an artist multiple/book…

The Skaftfell Residency Program 2016 is open for applications

The call for applications for the Long-term Residency Program at Skaftfell 2016 is open now until the deadline of September 1. 2015. Applications must be submitted via the online application…

the House of Geiri – Open house

For the past two years Skaftfell, in collaboration with The Technical Museum of East Iceland and the assistance of many individuals, worked on researching and restoring the House of Geiri. The…

Films from Real Life

Herðubreið – cinema Skaftfell will screen two film Saturday June 20 at 20.00 in Herðubreið, cinema, in connection with the ongoing exhibition Real Life. My Dreams Are Still About Flying…

Landscape of the Heart

Curator Þórunn Eymundardóttir Every human has in common the desire to belong, to see and understand oneself. The surroundings that a person grows up in inevitably become a big part…

denatured

At The Bookshop-Projectspace June 26-28, 2015 In connection to the 120 years anniversary of Seyðisfjörður, current artist-in-residence David Edward Allen will present a selection of his recent and current work…

Sing song with children at Tvísöngur

On Sunday June 28 at 15.00 a sing song for children will be held in Tvísöngur, sound sculpture by German artists Lukas Khüne. The sculpture is located in the mountainside…

The Spaghetti Incident

July 3.-5. 2015 6:00 -9:00 pm. at The Bookshop-Projectspace. The Spaghetti Incident is a single video installation based on the concept of action painting and the Guns N’ Roses cover…

Ingólfur Arnarsson, Þuríður Rós Sigurþórsdóttir

Ingólfur Arnarsson (b. 1956) and Þuríður Rós Sigurþórsdóttir (b.1975) are somewhat different artists, yet in this exhibition their work can be seen to relate to painting without it being painting.…

Islandia en Islandia

August 19.-22. 2015 at the Bookshop – projectspace Islandia en Islandia aims to activate an interaction with local artists, activating a Meta-Residency dialogue: Local artists will be invited into a…

Island Iceland offshore projekt

the Bookshop-Projectspace Opening Wednesday August 26 at 17.00 We, a group of 15 artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians were lucky to call Nielsenshs in Seyðisfjörður our temporal home over…

Sagas

Saturday night May 30th. at 21:00 Francesco Bertel will present the video performance Sagas connected to his current project and exhibition at the Bookshop – projectspace; GUHA. The Video…

Artists-in-residence at Skaftfell in May

David Edward Allen (UK) lives in Berlin. His work revolves around a broadened notion of Landscape and our position as part of it. Using, for example, natural phenomena such as…

Inside, from above and underneath

On the West wall in Skaftfell Bistro a young residence of Seyðisfjörður, Aron Fannar Skarphéðinsson, will have his photographs exhibited. In his pictures Aron Fannar is able to bring new…

King of the North

Students from 2nd to 7th grade in Seyðisfjörður primary school worked in context with the festivals theme on the east side of Iceland which was Reindeer. They enjoyed a visit…

Minimalist Composition (I+II)

Saturday and Sunday May 9-10, from 12.00-14.00 Minimalist Composition (I+II) is a mini field + studio workshop hosted by Canadian artist Reza Rezai. The focus of the workshop will be…

Artist talk #22

This Thursday May 7th. it will be possible to get introduced to current and newly arrived artists in residence; Francesco Bertele, Reza Rezai, David Edward Allen and Halina Kliem whom will talk about selected works…

Call for applications – Climbing Invisible Structures

Climbing Invisible Structures is a curated visual arts residency exchange and exhibition programme organised by the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) (Lithuania), in collaboration with the…

Breaking the frame

As a part of Sequences VII Skaftfell will screen a new documentary about the festivals honary artist Carolee Schneemann (1939). Breaking the Frame is a feature length profile of the…

Guha

Opening Thurday May 28th. at 18:30 at the Bookshop – projectspace. The exhibition will alsobe open Friday May 29th. 16:30-20:00 and conclude with a video performance presented at HEIMA collective…

Real Life

Gallery April 11 June 21, 2015 Curated by Gavin Morrison …as though literature, theater, deceit, infidelity, hypocrisy, infelicity, parasitism, and the simulation of real life were not part of real…

New honorary artistic director appointed

Skaftfell appoints with great pleasure Gavin Morrison as honorary artistic director for 2015-2016. I am fascinated by the different roles which Skaftfell fulfils for Seydisfjordur and how the art centre…

Sequences VII Off-Venue program: “Salat Dagar” April 18-19

At the Bookshop – projectspace. Opening Saturday April 18, at 17.00. Sunday April 19, open 13.00-16.00. As a part of Sequences VII – off venue program Skaftfell presents SALAT DAGAR…

PRESENTATION

Friday – Sunday, 27- 29th. of March, at the Bookshop – Projectspace. The exhibition PRESENTATION shows the result of the artists two months residency in Seyðisfjörður. Welcome at the opening Friday the…

GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE International Video Art Festival

Herðubreið cinema Wednesday March the 25th. at 20:00. (109 min.) GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE is a travelling video art festival initiated by artist Clemens Wilhelm (Berlin) in 2011. This…

Call for artists for a shared residency

Due to cancellation the Skaftfell Residency Program now has an opening this coming April and May for artists to apply and come with short notice ! The residency available is…

Digital Craftsmanship

In September of 2014 the educational project Digital Craftsmanship was launched. The project emphasizes the union of creativity and sustainability and is designed for fifth, sixth and seventh graders in…

No time to look through the mountains?

The Bookshop – Projectspace March 7-8, at 18:30 – 20:30 No time to look through the mountains? is a site-specific project by Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop…

SUM

Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in HerÃ°ubreiÃ° cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space…

Listamannaspjall #21

Fimmtudaginn 12. febrúar kl. 17:00 í Skaftfell Bistró. Danski listamaðurinn Cai Ulrich von Platen, gríski listamaðurinn Effrosyni Kontogeorgou – búsettur í Berlín, og breski rithöfundurinn Helen Jukes kynna verk sín…

Artist talk #20

Meet and hear the current artists in residence at Skaftfell Jessica Auer (CA) and the artist duo GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ (SE) present their work on Tuesday January the 20th. at 17:00. The…

Still Ruins, Moving Stones

The video work Still Ruins, Moving Stones by Canadian artist Jessica Auer is screened at the Bookshop – projectspace window evenings from Thursday Jan 22 to Jan 29, 2015. Four…

Twenty-Four Seven

The balance between exhaustion and regeneration as a rhythmic exchange between light and darkness. In the brightness, we’re in a state of exposure with a constant demand to produce. The…

New years greeting – Geiri’s house

Geiri’s house, the former home of native artists Ásgeir Jón Emilsson at Oddagata 4c, graces Skaftfell’s greeting card. Geiri was creatively compulsive and decorated his house with great care. His…

Sightseeing Tour – Minna Pöllänen

Thursday Dec 18,Â at 18.00, Minna Pöllänen will perform “Sightseeing Tour”, as a part of the ongoing exhibition (MAL)FUNCTION in the Bookshop. Due to the weather the performance will take…

(MAL)FUNCTION

Welcome to the opening Tuesday 16.12.2014 at 5-7pm. Concert by Jukka Hautamäki starts at 6pm. Sightseeing Tour – outdoor performance by Minna Pöllänen Thursday the 18th at 6pm. Duration 30…

Two Rivers

“Two Rivers” explores two different marginalized socio-political and cultural spaces of globalization. Rather than polarizing the two site-specific installations shown question the conditions, which function as basis for processes of…

The fifteenth Art Academy student group has arrived in Seyðisfjörður

Students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts have arrived for the second time this year to participate in “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. This is the fifteenth…

Artist talk #19

Friday November 7 at 14:00 at the Skaftfell Residency Hub! Current artists in residence Petter Lehto (SE),Â Jukka Hautamäki and Minna Pöllänen (FI) will talk…

Darkness exhibition

Art class students, grade 6-9 in the Seyðisfjörður primary school, exhibit horror art works. The exhibition is a part of the Afturgangan walk and Days of Darkness.

The Girl Who Never Was

Swedish artist Erik Bünger performs “The Girl Who Never Was” in the Skaftfell gallery. In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the…

Hats from New Yok

Winter hats made with traditional methods Opening Saturday November 22, at 16:00. The exhibition is open daily from 14.00-18.00, until November 29. New Yok has moved its production to the…

RIFF selection 2014

Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Fljótdalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður October 9 and 10. The screenings will take place´ in the…

The residency application process for 2015

The deadline for the Skaftfell residency program in 2015 expired on September 1 and nearly 180 applications were received. A selection panel goes over the applications and results will be…

The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive

The first artists participating in the Frontiers in Retreat project at Skaftfell, Kati Gausmann and Richard Skelton, arrived in Iceland in the end of August. Simultaneously the volcanic activity in South Iceland reached…

Authors train 2014

The annual Authors train will stop at Seyðisfjörður Saturday November 29. The reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the exhibition space. Five authors will read from their newly published…

Secret Garden Verönd

OPENING EVENT AND RELEASE OF PUBLICATION AT HÃLL, AUGUST 28 AT 16.00 The project SECRET GARDEN VERÃND was initiated in 2012 by visual artist Suzanna Asp in collaboration with Skaftfell,…

Artist talk #18

Friday the 8th of August at 17:00 Skaftfell invites you for an artist talk with the current artists in residence for the month of August; Daniel BjÃ¶rnsson (IS), Maria Glyka…

Guided tour of “RÓ RÓ” Wednesdays at 16:00

During the summer Skaftfell offers a guided presentation of the current exhibition “RÃ RÃ” every Wednesday afternoon. The staff will present each artwork in the exhibition room…

Singing at Tvísöngur

Sunday July 6 at 15.00 a singing event will be held in the sound sculpture Tvísöngur by artists Lukas Kühne. The Tvísöngur sculpture is located in the mountainside just above…

Performances and the Mountain Lady´s garden party

Welcome on Sunday to events that are a part of RÓ RÓ, the Skaftfell summer exhibition. The program begins in the Harbour community garden and then relocates to Skaftfell’s backyard.…

Concert with Prins Póló – sóló

The concert will be held at “Heima”, Austurvegur 15, and starts at 15.00. The musicianÂ Prins PÃ³lÃ³Â will this coming Saturday performÂ a solo concert in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur. This is the last event in…

The Residency Program is now open for applications for 2015

Program Outline The aim of Skaftfell´s residency program is manifold: to create and nurture an environment for inspiration; to encourage artists to experience life and work in a unique micro-community…

Point of View

The Bookshop – Projectspace Opening Friday May 30, at 21.00 In the end of may, Katrín Agnes Klar and Lukas Kindermann will show works dealing with the movement of the…

RÓ RÓ

The Skaftfell summer exhibition 2014 is entitled RÓ RÓ and presents a group of local and international visual artists who are in an active contact with Seyðisfjörður, a village with…

Russian Cinema: Angels of Revolution

Wednesday October 29 at 210.00 the Russian filmÂ “Angels of Revolution” Â will be screened at HerÃ°ubreiÃ° Cinema in collaboration with the Russian Embassy in Reykjavik. The film has English subtitles and…

SOÐ

Students on their final year in the Fine Arts department from the Iceland Academy of the Arts present the exhibition SOÐ (e. stew), in Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. This exhibition…

In colour

Thursday April 17 Students from grade 7-10 from the Seyðisfjarðarskóli primary school exhibit paintings made with home-made paint and tints from locally available material. Supervised by Litten Nyström.

Aspects of Abiotic Metabolism

The Bookshop – projectspace April 17 – 24, 2014 Abiotic comes from the Greek and means Âwithout lifeÂ. There are things in the world that are said to not be…

Artist talk #17

At the Bookshop – projectspace Newly arrived artists in residence at Skaftfell; Munan Ovrelid (NO) and Melissa Pokorny (US) will give an introduction to their work and practice. Munan will…

Aspects of Abiotic Metabolism

The Bookshop – projectspace Abiotic comes from the Greek and means “without life”. There are things in the world that are said to not be living – and yet they…

the Sauna-car

The outdoor sculpture ÂA movable feastÂ by Andreas Jari Juhani Toriseva is a part of the exhibition Veldi, that is currently running in Skaftfell. The work is a car that…

Artists talk #16

Friday the 4th of April at 14:00 Newly arrived artists in residence Karlotta Blöndal (IS) and Jens Strandberg (SE) will give a short introduction to their work. All welcome !…

Artists talk #15

Current artists-in-residence at Skaftfell; Simona Koch and J. Pasila will give a short introduction to their work. This will be the fifteenth time artists-in-resicence give an public introduction to their…

Educational project 2013-2014

The educational project during the winter of 2013-2014 revolved around the visual language and practice of the Swiss artist Dieter Roth. Skaftfell invited primary school students from ten to twelve…

23:58 – Just a little time

Marie decided to take one year of her time to spent it in Iceland. Time to share with people while exploring an unknown world. Time is money. Time is precious.…

Veldi

Veldi is a group exhibition by graduating students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. The exhibition forms the conclusion of a two week long…

Roots of the past

the West Wall Thursday May 15, at 14.00 Students from grade 3.-6. Seydisfjordur primary school illustrate Icelandic folk tale. Supervised by Ãorkell Helgason. The event is a part of the…

Forgotten folk tale

BistrÃ³ Skaftfell Thursday May 15, at 14.00Â Shadow theatre by pupils from the kindergarten SÃ³lvellir that came to life from stories told by elderly patients in the Seydisfjordur hospital. Supervised…

Twin City: February 7-15, 2014

Skaftfell recommends Twin City a public art show that opens this Friday. The show combines temporarily two locations, SeydisfjÃ¶rdur and Melbu in Norway that are separated by 1500 km sea.…

Disney, Lazy town and Toy story

Bookshop-projectspace DanÃel BjÃ¶rnsson, guided by Elvar MÃ¡r Kjartansson, exhibits versatile drawings made this winter. The event is a part of the yearly art-festival, List Ã¡n landamÃ¦ra.

Educational project winter 2013-2014

For the past months Skaftfell has invited students from elementary schools in East Iceland to do an educational project about Dieter Roth and graphic technique. Students took a field trip…

Open studio at Skaftfell

Jens Reichert (DE) invites into his studio: Thursday January 23rd from 16:00 – 20:00 Skaftfell residency, Austurvegur 42, top floor Jens has been in residence at Skaftfell for December and…

Christoph Büchel represents Iceland in the Venice Biennale

Skaftfell wishes artist Christopher Büchel and curator Nína Magnúsdóttir congratulations on representing Iceland in the next Venice Biennale. Büchel was Skaftfell’s honory artistic director in 2011-2012 and initiated the Narrative…

Everything is in Everything

Art Class theme week collaboration Everything is in Everything between Skaftfell and Seyðisfjarðarskóli will conclude this friday with a student exhibition at the old school building from 12.30-14.00. All students…

“Don´t let the sun go down on your grievances”

A two-day show at The Bookshop – projectspace Opening on the 24/1 at 16.00 + open 25/1 14.00-18.00 Matthias Ruthenberg (born 1984 in Berlin) lives, works and studies in Bremen,…

Eyrarrós award ceremony

Students from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts

The annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður” began in middle February for the graduating class of fine art art students in the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. The process ends with an exhibition…

Screen

December 14, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Every day from 16.00 to midnightÂ Screen is a time and site-specific installation using different kinds of light, crystals, objects and slowly rotating…

Workshop for children and RIFF selection

Guided tour and workshop for families Saturday Nov 9, at 15.00 Hanna Christel SigurkarlsdÃ³ttir, educational manager at Skaftfell, will offer a gudied tour for families through the exhibition “Fancy-Cake in…

Guided tour and workshop for families

Hanna Christel SigurkarlsdÃ³ttir, educational manager at Skaftfell, will offer a gudied tour for families through the exhibition “Fancy-Cake in the Sun” followed by a workshop. The event is free of…

The Visual Art Day – Open studios

Every year the Association of Visual Artists in Iceland celebrate the Visual Art day. The event will take place this coming Saturday, November 2, and artists all over the country…

Guided tour

Skaftfell offers a guided tour through the exhibition ÂFancy-Cake in the SunÂ Wednesday Oct 28, 15.00 Admission 500 ISK Language English The tour gives an insight to the history of…

Night Fall

Saturday October 12th from 14:00 to dusk Night Fall A live radio art performance byÂ Anna FrizÂ (CA)Â with special guestÂ Konrad KorabiewskiÂ Â (PL/DK/IS).Â Anna Friz has been transmitting the radio art beaconÂ RadiotelegraphÂ from 7.-11. October at…

Släden

Saturday October 12, 2013. With this tool, I try to explore the landscape nature in a more filmic and painterly narrative way. From 14:00-17:00, visual artist BjÃ¶rn Olsson (SE) will…

Radiotelegraph – 107.1 FM

Radiotelegraph is a beacon simulcast by a private low-watt transmitter in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur (around 107.1 FM) and by the experimental radio platform Radius in Chicago (88.9 FM) at sundown SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur time,…

Poetry reading

Icelandic poet Sveinn Snorri Sveinsson will read from his newly published book ” The leafs on the raintree”. The reading will take place in the Bistro in Icelandic after Tapas…

RIFF selection 2013

Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of FljÃ³dalshÃ©raÃ°, will host an off-venue for ReykjavÃk International Film Festival in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur November 11 and 12. Four documentaries will be screened in…

Artist Talk #14

Skaftfell is currently hosting five Artists-in-Recidence:Â Anna FrizÂ from Canada,Â Ãse EgÂ from Denmark,Â BjÃ¶rn Olsson,Â Helena WikstrÃ¶m andÂ Gerd AurellÂ from Sweden. This coming Friday, Sept. 20, they will present their work and subject matter in an…

Call for Application / Short Notice

Call for Application / Short Notice Due to cancellation we have an unexpected opening in the Skaftfell residency program from 1st of October – 30th of November 2013 (two…

They come out at Night

Students from the visual art class in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur elementary school, grade 7 Â 10, will present projects with a focus on light and darkness.

Entrance

“Entrance” by previous artist-in-residence Anna Anders will be screened on during the weekend November 15-17. The video was recorded in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur June 2012 and many locals participated in the making.…

Found

13.09.13-17.09.13 Bookshop-projectspace The work Found by Paula Prats is a series of snapshots from the 60Âs found in a Canadian flea market with images taken by her today, each pair…

Fancy-Cake in the Sun

September 7, 2013 – February 16, 2014 Main exhibition space Skaftfell Â Center for Visual Art in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur, East Iceland proudly celebrates the 15thÂ anniversary of the institution with an exhibition…

Workshop for Everything – October 14-28

Detailed information Dates: October 14-28, 2013. The workshop is two-weeks long, starting and ending on a Monday. Location: SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur, East Iceland. Participants: Practising artists at all levels Registration deadline: On-line…

Seyðisfjörður carpeting

Thursday August 29, from 21.00 Visual studies of the weather, light, wind and other environmental data collected by Michal Kindernay (CZ) during his current stay as an artist in residence…

Mapping artistic practise and working relationships in Seyðisfjörður

Artist talk #13

Monday the 5th. of AugustÂ Ãse Eg JÃ¸rgensen, Ragnar Helgi Olafsson and Michal Kindernay, – all newly arrived artists-in-residence at Skaftfell, will give a short introduction to their work. welcome…

PALE BLUE DOT 

Friday July 26, at 17.00, the Bookshop-projectspace RagnheiÃ°ur GestsdÃ³ttir and Curver Thoroddsen have stayed as Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell for July. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists and will…

Creative: mapping the creative industry in Seyðisfjörður

The artist group RoShamBo, in good collaboration with Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art has now published a web based map which contains information on workshops, residencies, galleries, project platforms, schools and…

Performance and concert

The danish artists group A Kassen and Icelandic electronic musician Auxpan will host an event this Sunday, July 7th at 17.00, by TvÃsÃ¶ngur sound sculpture. A Kassen presents a performance…

The painthing in painting at the magic moment

The Bookshop – projectspace OpeningÂ Friday June 21, at 17.00 Saturday June 22, open from 11.oo Â 15.00 Karin Reichmuth previous Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell and will be presenting new paintings and…

Creative: the Seyðisfjörður map

The artist group RoShamBo, in good collaboration with Skaftfell Center for Visual Art has now published a web based map which contains information on workshops, residencies, galleries, project platforms, schools…

Skaftfell Residency Program: Call for applications 2014

Deadline September 1, 2013 Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art runs a residency program in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. The program is aimed at visual artists but artists working in intermediate fields…

Authors train

The annual Authors train will stop at Seyðisfjörður Saturday November 30. The reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the exhibition space. Five authors will read from their newly published…

Video-outstallation; permanent

The surroundings and houses close to Skaftell will be transformed into an exhibition venue Saturday November 30 when ÃsdÃs Sif GunnarsdÃ³ttir (IS) will exhibit a large scale outdoor video installation.…

Bananas

Danish artists group A Kassen have been invited to stay as Artists-in-Residence from June to July at Skaftfell. The residency programÂs objectives is to facilitate circumstances for artists to experience,…

Heiða and Berglind: mom’s and sons

The musicians Heiða Eiríks and Berglind Ágústsdóttir will go on a small tour around the country, beginning of June. They both play original music, that can be categorized as experimental,…

Record your Memory at the Bookshop

Tuesday – Wednesday, May 28-29 The Bookshop is open from 10.00-17.00 Current Artists-in-Residence ÃsdÃs Sif GunnarsdÃ³ttir (IS), Manfred Hubmann (AT), and Yann Leguay (F) will host a mutual two-day exhibition…

Summer Show

All welcome to experience the summer show of Skaftfell Art Class Tuesday June 4,Â from 19.00-20.00

KNIT: Performance project

Ãsta Fanney SigurÃ°ardÃ³ttir (IS) Brent Birnbaum (US) Gavin Morrison (GB/F)Â – collaborating withÂ Karen Breneman (US) Karlotta BlÃ¶ndal (IS) Yvette Brackman (US/DK) Curated byÂ RÃ¡Ã°hildur IngadÃ³ttir Performance sessions: May 16 – 24 Open…

Artist talk #12

Tuesday, May 7 at 21.00, three Artists-in-Residence will have an artist talk in the Bookshop-Projectspace. They are: ÃsdÃs Sif GunnarsdÃ³ttir from Iceland, staying for one month. Manfred Hubmann from Austria,…

Artist talks #11

Wednesday 24th of April at 14:00 in the NorÃ°urgata Residency The current artists in residence; Joey Syta, Andrius Mulokas and Liam Scully and Skaftfell invites for an informal artist talkÂ at…

Sequences VI – Off Venue

Program Saturday, April 13 Sunday, April 14 16.00-19.00 Liam Scully (UK) HÃLLISTIC THERAPY HÃ³ll residency 15.00-22.00 Inga Jautakyte (LT) SLEEPING BEAUTY Skaftfell, main gallery 17.00-19.00 Joey Syta (US) ABOUT The…

DOMESTIC BLISS

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13, at 18:00-21:00 The Norðurgata residency In a three hour performative installation for Sequences, Andrius Mulokas will be proposing ways to push and support…

ABOUT

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13, Â 17.00-19.00 The Bookshop – projectspace In keeping with Sequences’s theme, Joey Syta presents “About”, a work that focuses on how time and…

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Sequences VI – Off Venue Sunday AprilÂ 13, Â 15.00-22.00 17.00-22.00 Exhibition space In the performance Sleeping beauty by Inga Jautakyte, the audience is invited to re-look into the action of…

HÓLLISTIC THERAPY

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13, Â 16.00-19.00 HÃ³ll – the Birgir AndrÃ©sson Residency For Sequences Liam Scully (UK) will be presenting his film entitled Quake. The film is…

Skaftfell receives a reward

Skaftfell won the EyrarrÃ³s award 2013 for outstanding cultural achievement in non-urban areas in Iceland. We are proud and very thankful for all the attentions. Here is a link to…

Relay – the word passed on

The Icelandic Art Center invited Skaftfell to contribute to a new monthly column, Relay – the word passed on. Relay – the word passed on presents Skaftfell from Icelandic Art…

TRARAPPA

Each year third year students from the fine art department at the Icelandic Art Academy participate in a two week workshop in Seyðisfjörður. The workshop is a collaboration between the…

Open Studio: Livia Salome Gnos & Stephan Perrinjaquet

Swiss artists Livia Salome Gnos and Stephan Perrinjaquet have stayed in the Nordurgata residency since December 2012. They will conclude the residency with an open studio on Saturday January 5,…

The Shades of Blue

– A videoscreening Jan. 5th from 16:00-20:00 at the Bookshop – projectspace Mariko Takahashi has been an artist in residence at Skaftfell – HÃ³ll for the months of November, December…

Presentation at Egilsstadir College

On Wednesday November 28, current artists-in-residence Linda Persson and Liam Sprod gave an artist talk at the college in EgilsstaÃ°ir, for visual art students.

The Narrative Collection completed

The Narrative Collection project will have its official conclusion on December 1st. The project has been going on for the past two years and roughly 200 narratives from the people…

ONTOLOGICAL MEDIATION

Saturday November 24 15.00 Bookshop-Projectspace Linda Persson SE has been an artists in residence at Skaftfell in October and November. She will conclude her stay with a performance at the…

Book presentation: Nuclear Futurism

Saturday November 24 16.00 Skaftfell BistrÃ³ British philosopher Liam Sproud will talk about his newly published bookÂ Nuclear Futurism. The talk will touch upon literature and philosophy. Starting from the end…

Found Colors

West Wall GalleryÂ 15.-29. Nov 2012 Skaftfell art class 7.-8. class SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur school: Chinsujee, Emil, HÃ©Ã°inn, Magnus, JÃ³n, StefÃ¡n, Sveinn The art class show recent works – color pigments on…

COLORS OF THE NIGHT

The Visual Art Day

Every year the Association of Visual Artists in Iceland celebrate the Visual Art day. The event will take place this coming Saturday, November 3, and artists all over the country…

Residency available this November

Call for artists: Due to cancellation Skaftfell residency program now has an opening this November for artists to apply and come with short notice. IfÂ interested, please contact us by email…

RIFF selection Oct. 13-14

Saturday, Oct 13, 15.00: LARVA Animation from South Korea, 50 min. Screened in Skaftfell. Trailer:Â Saturday,Â OctÂ 13, 17.00:Â FREDDIE MERCURY Â THE GREAT PRETENDER British documetnary, 107 min. Screened in SeyÃ°isfjarÃ°arbÃÃ³,…

TO GO VIKING

Hilde Skevik & Guro Gomo: TO GO VIKING The Dreamhouse – Norðurgata residency. 26. – 29. October 2012 Four evenings, from 18.00-20.00, the artistic duo will “go viking”and mediate a…

WE’LL TAKE YOU THERE

Hóll – residency, Vesturgata 28. – 29. October 2012Â Else Ploug Isaksen invites you in to see her work in progress Sunday and Monday afternoon 16:00-18:00. She has been…

Skálar Sound Art Festival

On 3 – 6Â October 2012 sound artists and composers in collaboration with the festivals partnered institutions and organizations, convert the factory space of the former Nordursild fish factory to…

Twin City: open studio and Artist talk #10

10.09-30.09 During September the Bookshop – Projectspace will be hosting Asle Lauvland Pettersen and Ditte Knus TÃ¶nnesen, currently artists in residence at Skaftfell, serving as a project space for the…

TVÍSÖNGUR

On Wednesday September 5, at 17.00 oclock, the sound sculpture Tvisongur will be opened for the public on a mountainside above the town of Seydisfjordur, East Iceland. The sculpture is…

Available residency this September – apply now!

The Skaftfell residency program now has an available residency forÂ September (2012) due to sudden cancellations. If you are interested please contact us enclosing a short artist statement and/or projectdescription, min…

Extract of the Complete Works

August 23 – September 20, 2012 Roger DÃ¶ring, from Berlin, will open two exhibitions in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur in August. He will present a selection of his drawings at the West Wall…

Short Estonian Animations for Kids

Sunday the 19th of August from 15:00-16:00, Skaftfell and the Estonian filmmakersÂ Heilika & Ãlo PikkovÂ invites for an afternoon screening of short Estonian animations for kids of all ages. Popcorn…

Opening and events – friday at 15.30

Friday, August 10. Skaftfell Main Gallery / HerÃ°ubreiÃ° / the old harbour – BjÃ¶lfsbakki Jens Reichert Â at 15.30 German artist Jens Reichert presents his work and his newest piece,…

Artist talk #9 and Body Memory

August the 10th. at 16:00 – Skaftfell Main Gallery Filmmaker Ãlo Pikkov will screen and talk about his latest short film Body Memory (2011 / Nukufilm / 9 min), which…

TRYING TO TEACH ICELANDIC WHILE LIVING IN GERMANY

10.08-31.08, 2012 HerÃ°ubreiÃ° – community center /Â Reaction Intermediate [ Opening hours : Monday-Thursday 16:00-18:00 and when HerÃ°ubreiÃ° is open for various events. ] Friday, August 10, at 15.30. at Skaftfell…

EVENING SCREENING: Estonian Short films

Sunday August 5th. at 20:00. Main exhibition space at Skaftfell / Reaction Intermediate Screening of contemporary Estonian short films, selected and presented byÂ Ãlo and Heilika Pikkov. Film lineup: BLOW/ 2007…

REBIRTH OF THE BLACK UNICORN

Agust 10-17, 2012 The Bookshop Â Projectspace /Â Reaction Intermediate On the 26 of February 2012 the Black Unicorn went down into the sea at BjÃ³lfsbakki. On Friday August 10, the…

SKAFTFELL RESIDENCY AVAILABLE 15.th of Aug- 15th of Sep. 2012

Call for artists: Due to cancellation, Skaftfell residency flat at the Skaftfell main building is now available for one month: 15th of August – 15th of September 2012. If you…

OPEN STUDIO

LungA: GREEN IS GOLD

Call for applications

The Skaftfell residency program in 2013 Call for applications Deadline 1st. September 2012 Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art has opened a call for applications for the residency program in…

ALKEMISTI: SKÍTAGULL

Between July 23 and August 8 The Bookshop – Projectspace will suddenly and gradually transform into conceptual venues for a row of happenings and projects by the artist group Roshambo;Â …

A DAY OF 13 SUCCESSIVE HALF HOUR EXHIBITIONS ALTERNATING BETWEEN TWO ROOMS IN SKAFTFELL BÃKABÃÃ

July 22, 2012, at 14:00-19:00 The Bookshop – Projectspace / Reaction Intermediate Performative series of short exhibitions by locally invited artists alternating between separate rooms at the Bookshop – Projectspace.…

ART BOOK ORCHESTRA

Concert on Friday July 6 at 18:00 at the Bookshop-projectspace The concert ART BOOK ORCHESTRA consists of re-compositions of ten original sound art pieces incorporated in ten different art books,…

(MIXTAPE) NOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT MOUNTAIN – FAST DOWNLOAD

Opens Friday July 6, at 17:00 06.07.-22.07. 2012 The West Wall The London based Taiwanese artist Ting Cheng isn’t bothered about capturingÂ real memories.Instead she constructs surreal encounters in which the…

REACTION INTERMEDIATE 2012

RI_2012_program Reaction Intermediate offers 11 different projects presented by visual and sound artists presented by Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art. The program is based on events, happenings, performances, open…

FAVORITE SPOTS

17.06.-27.06. The project Favourite Spots is based on the process that a resident of SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur takes the artist and his camera to their favourite spot, in and around town.Â Together they…

COVERED

17.06.-27.06. Anna Anders has been using video as a means of artistic expression since 1986. She first began making short films; in 1991, she started creating works for spaces. These…

New honorary artistic director: Ráðhildur Ingadóttir

Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art, East Iceland, appoints with great pleasure Ráðhildur Ingadóttir as honorary artistic director for 2013-2014. A completed artwork is only a fraction of its existence…

Works by Geiri exhibited in Brisbane

Six works by local artist Geiri, Ãsgeir JÃ³n Emilsson (1931-1999), have been lend to MetroArts Ã Brisbane, Australia, to be on display in group exhibition. The exhibition is entitled A…

6983253 …call and be surprised

10/5-20/5 2012 Work by Rebecca Stephany (born 1980) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is Artist in residence at Skaftfell during April and May 2012. www.rebeccastephany.com

The Narrative Collection 2011-2012

On Saturday, May 12 at 16:00, the Collection Center reopens in SkaftfellÂ´s main gallery. New narratives will be presented, alongside the whole collection, thereof 25 with English subtitles. Relay –…

Call for applications

Skaftfell Residency Program hereby calls for applications for a Residency stay with a grant courtesy of KulturKontaktNord. Nordic and Baltic artists are eligible to apply for a 2 month residency…

SYLT / SÍLD opening Saturday 17:00

Saturday the 28th. of April 2012 the sculpture SYLT / SÃLD – Island On The Island, by the artist group GV will be celebratory opened. The project was developed during…

Open Hóll

Saturday the 21st of April at 16:00-18:00 Open House at Hóll, Vesturvegur 15, where Judy-ann Moule has been in residence for March and April. Judy-ann is a visual artist from…

GV at the Bookshop – projectspace

For the month of April, The Bookshop – projectspace will serve as a studio platform for the development of work by the members of the GV group; Philipp Ackermann, Christin…

Dansa kvöld með ljós bjór og vídeó list

“DansaÂ kvÃ¶ldÂ meÃ° ljÃ³sÂ bjÃ³rÂ ogÂ vÃdeÃ³Â list. ” – Saturday night 14/4 from 21:00 at the Bookshop – projectspace At the Decks: HÃ¶hne & SÃ¶hne & Topmann & Acktryggur. Entschuldigen Sie bitte? For the month…

BOOKSHOP 10/4 18:00.

We, GV, a group of artist would like to invite you for an introduction to our planned project on the landfill area.Â Â Please feel welcome to come to the Bookshop…

Lately enlightened

Non static electric night sky Northern lights over Seyðisfjörður in March

Presentation at Egilsstadir College

Tuesday the 29th of Mars 2012 Artist talk by current artists in residence at Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art; Judy-ann Moule and Fernando JosÃ© Pereira at the college in…

I look down over my tummy and feel

West Wall Gallery Â Friday the 23rd of March – the 5th of April, 2012 Work by Judy-Ann Moule, currently artist in residency at HÃ³ll, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art This…

moveNATURE – Sunday, March 25, at 20.00

This Sunday at The Bookshop – Projectspace Transforming into a minicinema, the Bookshop – Projectspace in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur, will host a program of experimental film- and video work, under the title…

Untitled (speechless)

looped video, 10 min. 20.03.12 – 24.03.12. Shown daily from 20:00-22:00 at The Bookshop – projectspace window Untitled (speechless) by Fernando JosÃ© Pereira (Porto, 1961), current artist in Residence atÂ Skaftfell…

SHELTER 1

Saturday, April 7th at 15.00, ÃÃ³runn EymundardÃ³ttir will open a solo exhibition in the West Wall Gallery. The exhibition consists of photo-collages, from 2011-2012. CV: ÂÃÃ³runn EymundardÃ³ttir (b. 1979) Austurvegur…

Skalar preview venue

Monday, April 9, at 21 SkÃ¡lar Sound Art Festival preview venue: Presentation of SkÃ¡lar and showcase-concert. Konrad Korabiewski, AuxPan & Helgi Ãrn PÃ©tursson. The art-collective will present the ideology behind…

Artist talk #8 – Monday, March 19, at 14:00

Judy-Ann Moule and Fernando JosÃ© Pereira are artists in residency at Skaftfell – Center For Visual Art. They will give and artist talk next Monday at 14 oÂ´clock, at…

PERMAFROST

The video artworkÂ PERMAFROSTÂ ( looped video, 10 mins )Â by Fernando JosÃ© Pereira at The BookshopÂ -projectspace, shown evenings from 20-22 oÂ´clock 14.03 – 20.03, 2012. A short film set in the…

Welcome on Saturday March 3

Skaftfell Bistro will be open Saturday March 3 from 15-21. The exhibition SKÃSKEGG Ã VHS+CD is open on the second floor.

SKÁSKEGG Á VHS + CD

Saturday, February 25th, at 16:00 the exhibition SKÁSKEGG Á VHS + CD opens at Skaftfell. The exhibition is the conclusion of a two-week workshop, lead by Björn Roth, at Skaftfell,…

Artist talk #7- February 20, at 14:00

Artists Erwin van der Werve and Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir will present their work at Skaftfell this coming Monday, February 20, at 14:00. Erwin and Thora are currently artists in residence…

The Art Academy students have arrived

The annual Art Academy workshop, in collaboration with the Dieter Roth Academy and Technology museum, started today. The students are in total 14 and the process will end with a…

Video work presentation 27. jan 17.00

Friday the 27th of january 17.00-18.00 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art – Main Gallery presents a selection of Video and Sound work of Marcellvs L. – who is currently Artist…

Hanging Books

Skaftfell Art Class show Book Art Work at The West Wall Gallery Austurvegur 42, SeyÃ°disfjÃ¶rÃ°ur Fri. 13th – Sun. 22th of January 2012

Paperwork

Matt Jacobs, currently Artist in residence at Skaftfell, staying and working at HÃ³ll, will be exhibiting new work at The Bookshop Projectspace Friday the 13th. to Sunday the 15th. of…

Short videos

Author’s night

The yearly author’s night at Skaftfell will take place Saturday 26th November at 20:30 Hallgrímur Helgason – Konan við 1000°, Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson – Landnám, ævisaga Gunnars Gunnarssonar, Ragna Sigurðardóttir…

Open studios in Seydisfjordur Saturday Nov. 5th @13:00 – 16:00

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Open Studio at Hóll residency October 27th

In Other Dimensions

During the Day of Darkness the Skaftfell art classes will be exhibiting two light installations referring to the subject of light and darkness. The 8th grade students have been working…

Making a comic book

Upcoming November 5th @ 16:00 The poet Sveinn Snorri Sveinsson (b. 1963 in EgilsstaÃ°ir) exhibits the process he went through in creating the comic book Skuggi RÃ¶kkva (2006) or RÃ¶kkvi’s…

RIFF – International Film Festival

Sjóriða_happening

1.10.11 – 16.10.11 Karin Reichmuth, 1979, Switzerland, artist in residence at Skaftfell in September through October 2011

I want to feel how close you are

29.09.11 – 16.10.11 The visual artists Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen & Ulla Eriksen have been assisting each other for years. This is their very first time that they work together…

Lecture Performance – the Books I didn’t read

The Bookshop – Projectspace Friday 26th @17.00 The artist NoÃ«le Ody will perform at the Bookshop – Projectspace Friday 26th @17.00. The performance is based on her relationship with the…

Documentation of the summer program

VertÃÃ° Visual art/music/performing art’s Auxpan ÃsdÃs Sif GunnarsdÃ³ttir Carl Boutard Claudia Hausfeld Barbara Amelia S. Tomsen Ragnar Kjartansson RÃ¡Ã°hildur IngadÃ³ttir Enter the Mayhemisphere (nafnalisti ekki kominn) FÃ©lagsskapur Fjallkonunnar Helgi Ãrn…