Past exhibitions

Mynd: stilla úr verki Cecilia Nygren, My Dreams Are Still About Flying, 2012. Video

Real Life

in 2015, Past exhibitions, Past exhibitions and events, Past program

Gallery April 11 June 21, 2015 Curated by Gavin Morrison …as though literature, theater, deceit, infidelity, hypocrisy, infelicity, parasitism, and the simulation of real life were not part of real life!* This exhibition is about the lives of real people, albeit people that are somewhat extraordinary: an Icelandic artist, a Swiss ski jumper, a Swedish polar explorer and a Norwegian philosopher. The work that the artists and filmmakers have made about these individuals may be biographical but they are not however conventional biographies. They tell the stories of these people from particular, and sometimes peculiar perspectives. Uncertainties often occur, at […]

Sequences VII Off-Venue program: “Salat Dagar” April 18-19

in 2015, Past exhibitions, Past exhibitions and events, Past program, Residency events and activities

At the Bookshop – projectspace. Opening Saturday April 18, at 17.00. Sunday April 19, open 13.00-16.00. As a part of Sequences VII – off venue program Skaftfell presents SALAT DAGAR (Salat Days) by Jan- Michel Harmening, current Artist-in-Residence. Harmening will show the new work Die Locherin made in Seyðisfjörður. Die Locherin is a machine that by the means of a small needle makes holes in a 35 mm. film while projecting this action simultaneously. A sewing machine and projector joined to a single collaborating unit. The position of the constant addition of holes are calculated by the recursive function and […]