Past exhibitions and events

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All kinds of landscapes

in 2018, Past program

Landscape and nature has always been an inspiration for artists. Icelandic artists Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913-1968) and Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972) are no exception from that tradition. Even though their key works in the exhibition “All Kinds of Landscapes”, Síldarbátur (e. Herringboat) by Gunnlaugur and Eyðimörk (e. Desert) by Nína, are not conventional landscape paintings they do present a kind of a conclusion of these two artists’ development and experiments through the years. Nína finally established the artistic freedom to work and develop her own style while studying at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. From the late 30’s Nína painted many […]

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White sun: a sun dial and summer sky exploration

in 2018, Past program

Living in the northern hemisphere we have to tolerate the fact that the sun is not a reliable source to tell time, yet it softly eases us into the different seasons with extreme light and darkness. If we were to build our own sundial, how would it manifest? What would it measure? Four artists travel to Seyðisfjörður during mid-summer to explore the sumer sky with the agenda of creating a sundial. Over one week they will work with various tools, to map out and measure the summer sky, that will result in a sundial. Tuesday July 17 at 18.00 they will host a sun performance under […]