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, concluding her residency at Skaftfell in January and February 2019.  Korkimon (b. 1995) is a visual artist from Reykjavík, Iceland. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York with a focus on visual arts, art history and gender studies. In the year following her graduation she has had two solo exhibitions and participated in multiple group shows in Reykjavík. Korkimon works in numerous media including collage, sculpture, and drawing. […]

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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 on the project ‘Odysseus Atlas’. Inspired by Homer’s poem and the captivating archetype of its hero – Odysseus as “the man of many turns” – the project shares a generic theme with the Odyssee and its fascination with islands. In the talk, the wandering figure of Odysseus will guide through a suggestive discourse of myth. ‘Odysseus Atlas’ will narrate through the intricacies of the artists’ personal voyages while discovering the […]

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