Articles by: Hanna Christel

IUA fine art department and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art call for applications

IUA fine art department and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art call for applications

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RESIDENCY AND GROUP EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY FOR IUA FINE ART DEPARTMENT GRADUATES FROM THE YEARS 2017-2022 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art and the fine art department of the Iceland University of the Arts have collaborated for many years. Due to special circumstances both partners have decided to offer artists who graduated from the department in the years 2017-2022 to apply for the Skaftfell residency in the period March 1–28, 2022, along with an exhibition in the Skaftfell gallery from March 26 – May 22, 2022. Applications are invited either from individual artists with projects for a group exhibition, or […]

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Sequences – Romanticism researched

Sequences – Romanticism researched

The art festival Sequences 2021 finished recently where Skaftfell participated by hosting an art event by Anna Margrét Ólafsdóttir which took place in Seyðisfjörður. Anna Margét invited twenty residents of Seyðisfjörður everyday for four days to participate in a walk where they would contemplate the concept romanticism with different exercises and discussions. By the end of the week she held an open event called Symposium in Herðubreið, the community center of Seyðisfjörður. Curators of Sequences 2021 were Þóranna Björnsdóttir and Þráinn Hjálmarsson.