Artists-in-Residence

Seydisfjordur Suite

in 2015, Artists-in-Residence, Past exhibitions and events, Past program, Residency events and activities

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 chalk on vindpappa (a black windproof house wrap), were executed over a period of six weeks at Hóll, the Birgir Andrésson House in Seyðisfjörður. In fog, mist, or low-light situations, the mind compensates for missing visual information by patching holes with memory. Similarly, a drawing can evoke a place without picturing it. Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of impressions and evocations remembering a place that no longer exists. I draw […]

Parallel Line Up in Breiðdalssetur

in 2015, Artists-in-Residence, News, Past exhibitions and events, Past program

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 the creation of new landscapes or their destruction. Central to the focus of her work is the examination of how data is collected, moreover how this collection of data and its visualization impacts upon the viewer. Her residency in Iceland brought the artist to Breiðdalsvík in the east of the country where she has been invited to research at the geological centre Breiðdalssetur. The centre archives the inheritance of geologist […]