Project(s)

Congratulations to the Nordic Baltic Grant Recipients

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Nordic Baltic Funded residency supported by Nordic Culture Point who will be joining us August-October 2025. Kristina Stallvik is an artist,…

The Narrative Collection 2011-2012

The Narrative Collection was a project initiated by the Swiss artist Chrisoph B?chel, who from 2011-2012 served as Artistic Director of Skaftfell. Over the same two-year period, Skaftfell collected narratives…

Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA), 2021-2024

Skaftfell is delighted to announce its participation in a new international research project, which was officially launched last week at Cove Park residency in Scotland and will continue until 2024.…

Frontiers in Retreat, 2013-2018

Frontiers in Retreat is a five-year collaboration project that fosters multidisciplinary dialogue on ecological questions within a European network formed around artist residencies. The project sets out to examine processes of…

Preserving Tvísöngur

Acknowledging Lukas Kühne’s sculpture Tvísöngur as “an important sonic landmark in the cultural landscape of East Iceland,” Múlaþing, which owns the work, and Skaftfell, which oversees its care, recently signed…

Tvísöngur

Tvísöngur, eftir þýska listamanninn Lukas Kühne, er „mikilvægt hljóðkennileiti í menningarlandslagi Austurlands“ og Múlaþing, sem nú á skúlptúrinn, og Skaftfell, sem sér um varðveislu hans, undirrituðu nýlega samkomulag við listamanninn…

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…

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…

Seyðisfjörður Print Workshop is opening its doors

Seyðisfjörður Print Workshop, Öldugata 14 Wednesday, July 13, 13:00-17:00 – Open studio: see the artists at work Thursday, July 14, 13:00-17:00 – Open studio: see the artists at work and…

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…

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…

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…

Skaftfell participates in the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!…

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 – 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…

Alessa Brossmer – Glow In The Dark

Þýska listakonan Alessa Brossmer er gestalistakona Skaftfells í apríl og maí. Þriðjudaginn 16. apríl kl. 21:00-23:00 opnar hún húsið og vinnustofu sín, í Nielsenhús (Hafnargata 14). Verkið GlowInTheDark verður til sýnis…

Safnarar / 06. apríl – 02. júni 2019

Sýningarsalur Skaftfells, 7. apríl – 2. júní, 2019 Sýning á undursamlega óvenjulegum og fjölbreyttum söfnum fengin að láni frá íbúum Seyðisfjarðar og nærliggjandi svæðum. Opnun 6. apríl, kl. 16:00-18:00. Allir…

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…

Åse Eg Jørgensen – Kompendium

Gallerí Vesturveggur í Bistrói Skaftfells, 27. mars – 12. júní, 2019. Åse Eg Jørgensen (fædd 1958) er dönsk listakona og grafískur hönnuður sem búsett er í Kaupmannahöfn. Hún hefur verið…

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…

Sidsel Carré: Åndedrættet – Andardrátturinn

Fimmtudaginn 21. mars, kl. 19:00 – 22:00, kaffishúsið/gallerí í Herðubreið Sidsel Carré (DK) mun sýna ný málverk og verk í vinnslu sem hún hefur unnið að við vinnustofudvöl sína í…

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,…

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…

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.…

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 ones own thoughts.…

Birds of passage – seminar

20 years of Skaftfells artist-in-residency program have resulted in 250 artists coming to Sey?isfj?r?ur and to East Iceland. Some have left a physical trace behind, or a trace in someones…

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…

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…

Seyðisfjörður Workshop 2018

Seyðisfjörður workshop is a two week long workshop hosted by the Dieter Roth Academy for students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. The workshop…

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…

Margrét H. Blöndal

Einkasýning Margrétar H. Blöndal, pollur – spegill, stendur yfir frá 7. okt – 26. nóv. Ég var á ferð fótgangandi, áverkar á stígum mynduðu dældir fyrir vatn sem hefur fossað…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Local/ Focal/ Fluctuant  

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SUM

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 film “Angels of Revolution” will be screened at Herðubreið 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…

Aspects of Abiotic Metabolism

The Bookshop – projectspace April 17 – 24, 2014 Abiotic comes from the Greek and means without life. There are things in the world that are said to not be…

the Sauna-car

The outdoor sculpture A movable feast 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 Bl?ndal (IS) and Jens Strandberg (SE) will give a short introduction to their work. All welcome !…

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.…

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 Þorkell Helgason. The event is a part of the…

Forgotten folk tale

Bistró Skaftfell Thursday May 15, at 14.00 Shadow theatre by pupils from the kindergarten Sólvellir 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, Seydisfjördur and Melbu in Norway that are separated by 1500 km sea.…

Disney, Lazy town and Toy story

Bookshop-projectspace Daníel Björnsson, guided by Elvar Már Kjartansson, exhibits versatile drawings made this winter. The event is a part of the yearly art-festival, List án landamæra.

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…

“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

Screen

December 14, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Every day from 16.00 to midnight 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 Sigurkarlsdóttir, 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 Sigurkarlsdóttir, 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 Fancy-Cake in the Sun 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 by Anna Friz (CA) with special guest Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK/IS). Anna Friz has been transmitting the radio art beacon Radiotelegraph 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 Seyðisfjörður (around 107.1 FM) and by the experimental radio platform Radius in Chicago (88.9 FM) at sundown Seyðisfjörður 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 Fljódalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður November 11 and 12. Four documentaries will be screened in…

They come out at Night

Students from the visual art class in Seyðisfjörður elementary school, grade 7 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 Seyðisfjörður 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 60s 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 Center for Visual Art in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland proudly celebrates the 15th anniversary of the institution with an exhibition…

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

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…

PALE BLUE DOT(

Friday July 26, at 17.00, the Bookshop-projectspace Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir 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 collaboration with Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art, published in 2013 a web based map which contains information on workshops, residencies, galleries, project platforms, schools and interesting…

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 Tvísöngur sound sculpture. A Kassen presents a performance…

The painthing in painting at the magic moment

The Bookshop – projectspace Opening Friday June 21, at 17.00 Saturday June 22, open from 11.oo 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…

Video-outstallation; permanent

The surroundings and houses close to Skaftell will be transformed into an exhibition venue Saturday November 30 when Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir (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 programs 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 Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir (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, from 19.00-20.00

Sequences VI – Off Venue

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

ABOUT

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13, 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 April 13, 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…

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 – Hóll 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 Egilsstaðir, for visual art students.

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 Bistró British philosopher Liam Sproud will talk about his newly published book Nuclear Futurism. The talk will touch upon literature and philosophy. Starting from the end…

Found Colors

West Wall Gallery 15.-29. Nov 2012 Skaftfell art class 7.-8. class Seyðisfjörður school: Chinsujee, Emil, Héðinn, Magnus, Jón, Stefán, 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…

RIFF selection Oct. 13-14

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

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…

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…

Extract of the Complete Works

August 23 – September 20, 2012 Roger Döring, from Berlin, will open two exhibitions in Seyðisfjörður 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 filmmakers Heilika & Ülo Pikkov 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 / Herðubreið / the old harbour – Bjölfsbakki Jens Reichert at 15.30 German artist Jens Reichert presents his work and his newest piece,…

TRYING TO TEACH ICELANDIC WHILE LIVING IN GERMANY

10.08-31.08, 2012 Herðubreið – community center / Reaction Intermediate [ Opening hours : Monday-Thursday 16:00-18:00 and when Herðubreið 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 by Ülo and Heilika Pikkov. Film lineup: BLOW/ 2007…

REBIRTH OF THE BLACK UNICORN

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

OPEN STUDIO

LungA: GREEN IS GOLD

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 BÓKABÚÐ

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.…

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

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 capturing real memories.Instead she constructs surreal encounters in which the…

FAVORITE SPOTS

17.06.-27.06. The project Favourite Spots is based on the process that a resident of Seyðisfjörður takes the artist and his camera to their favourite spot, in and around town. 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…

Works by Geiri exhibited in Brisbane

Six works by local artist Geiri, Ásgeir Jón Emilsson (1931-1999), have been lend to MetroArts í 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 Skaftfell´s main gallery. New narratives will be presented, alongside the whole collection, thereof 25 with English subtitles. Relay –…

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. Please feel welcome to come to the Bookshop…

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 José Pereira at the college in…

I look down over my tummy and feel

West Wall Gallery Friday the 23rd of March – the 5th of April, 2012 Work by Judy-Ann Moule, currently artist in residency at Hóll, 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 Seyðisfjörður, 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 José Pereira (Porto, 1961), current artist in Residence at Skaftfell…

SHELTER 1

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

Skalar preview venue

Monday, April 9, at 21 Skálar Sound Art Festival preview venue: Presentation of Skálar and showcase-concert. Konrad Korabiewski, AuxPan & Helgi Örn Pétursson. The art-collective will present the ideology behind…

PERMAFROST

The video artwork PERMAFROST ( looped video, 10 mins ) by Fernando José Pereira at The Bookshop -projectspace, shown evenings from 20-22 o´clock 14.03 – 20.03, 2012. A short film set in the…

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,…

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, Seyðdisfjörður Fri. 13th – Sun. 22th of January 2012

Paperwork

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

Short videos

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 Egilsstaðir) exhibits the process he went through in creating the comic book Skuggi Rökkva (2006) or Rökkvi’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 Noële 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

Vertíð Visual art/music/performing art’s Auxpan Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir Carl Boutard Claudia Hausfeld Barbara Amelia S. Tomsen Ragnar Kjartansson Ráðhildur Ingadóttir Enter the Mayhemisphere (nafnalisti ekki kominn) Félagsskapur Fjallkonunnar Helgi Örn…