Artists-in-Residence

Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir artists in residence for the month of April. The Danish/Swiss and Icelandic visual artists Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir both studied their BA in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and their paths crossed again when Veronika started coming to Iceland. When they were hired to teach photography to young creatives they found they were equally infatuated with the medium. They employ the light sensitivity of silver to make images of Seyðisfjörður using a site specific room sized camera obscura. Thus revisiting the foundational elements of photography as well as taking time […]

Cristina Mariani

in Artists-in-Residence, Residency program

We are thrilled to welcome Cristina Mariani, Skaftfell’s artist in residence in April and May. Mariani’s current research is focused on the perception of soil and rocks as immutable and inert entities, according to Man’s time what modifies slowly is considered immobile. Mariani works primarily with textile, but recently began investigating bioplastic, her initial goal was to produce a bio yarn made of soil, then she moved towards the creation of an elastic surface that would not require any thread or weaving structure. Despite being a relatively new material, bioplastic samples are actually older than most equipments and electronic objects […]