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Welcome Florin Bobu

Welcome Florin Bobu

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Florin Bobu artist-in-residence for the month of October. Bobu is a Romanian artist and curator who lives and works in Iași. He is a part of 1+1, a not-for-profit organisation with the main purpose of promoting the role of the artist in the Romanian contemporary society by strengthening its social status, by defining the artists’ responsibilities and by supporting artistic practices. 1+1 mediates the production of artistic projects in public/private spaces and encourages the mobility of artists/artworks. Bobu was a part of the curatorial team of tranzit.ro/lasi who implemented the project “Artists as agents of institutional exchange” […]

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Photograph by a workshop participant

The Young Arctic Creatures Workshop to be part of the NAARCA pedagogy toolkit

Skaftfell Art Center’s educational program The Young Arctic Creatures Workshop will be part of the pedagogy toolkit that will be published and made publicly available in Spring, 2024, by NAARCA, the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action. On 3 May 2023, young people aged 9-16 from East Iceland took part in a creative storytelling workshop using found objects, performance, and photography under the guidance and mentorship of The Arctic Creatures (a collaborative group of three artists – visual artist Hrafnkel Sigurðsson, filmmaker and director Óskar Jónasson and actor and director Stefán Jónsson), as well as photographer Jessica Auer, and actress-puppeteer Tess […]

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