2020

A place to be – Gudrun Westerlund

A place to be – Gudrun Westerlund

Current artist in residence Gudrun Westerlund (SE) introduces her latest work through a pop-up exhibition and video artist talk, set in Skaftfell’s gallery, which is closed at the moment due to COVID-19. The video has been posted on Skaftfell’s Instagram and Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=926205317831042 Gudrun Westerlund is an artist based in Uppsala, Sweden. She is most of all a painter, but also works with land-art and other art-projects. Gudrun mixes abstraction with more figurative and narrative expression. In Iceland, she has worked with ink and watercolour, and has ventured into land-art using snow and ice. Gudrun has a deep interest in nature […]

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SITE_

SITE_

SITE_ is a three-day exhibition in Skaftfell’s gallery by Julian Harold (FR), Hyun Ah Kwon (KR), Kristen Mallia (US), and Kirsty Palmer (UK), who are artists in residence at Skaftfell during February and March 2020. SITE_ responds to encounters of place and space through process, materials and the observation of time. Using a variety of media and techniques, each artist examines the conceptual pinnings of space, its edges and the in-betweens, as well as its historical and memorial implications. Often reflective, these works not only archive the artists’ experiences on-site, they also generate encounters in the gallery space, creating an […]

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