Past program

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Silent Act

Solo exhibition. Hanna Kristín Birgisdóttir’s exhibition Silent Act comprises of two sculptures, both of which are somewhat confounding in their material form. A squared-off length of timber sits atop trestles, its ends covered in soil. Some of the same material has dropped to the floor. A circular hole runs along its internal length. Nearby are two rods, which also bear evidence of the soil on their surface, and are mounted on the wall. Across the gallery, on a shelf, is a long cylindrical deposit of soil. The back length of the gallery has been transformed into a bricolage tennis court; its net […]

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Edge Effects

Skaftfell summer exhibition in 2017, Edge Effects, is the second of seven exhibitions opening in the multipolar exhibition series witin the international collaboration project Frontiers in Retreat. Three artists, Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton were invited for an artistic residency in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland to explore the intersection of visual art and ecological issues. The artists travelled twice to the location, staying for a total of three months each. Icelandic nature quickly captivated the newcomers but within a short time frame each artists had multiple threads to explore, ranging from past to future, humans to non-humans, consciousness to […]

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