Residency events and activities

Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir artists in residence for the month of April. The Danish/Swiss and Icelandic visual artists Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir both studied their BA in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and their paths crossed again when Veronika started coming to Iceland. When they were hired to teach photography to young creatives they found they were equally infatuated with the medium. They employ the light sensitivity of silver to make images of Seyðisfjörður using a site specific room sized camera obscura. Thus revisiting the foundational elements of photography as well as taking time […]

Sound Bridge by Jan Krtička

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Listen to the soft rain currently dripping off Skaftfell’s roof contrasting the birds chirping in the garden around the House of Arts in Ústi nad Laben. The Sound Bridge by Jan Krtička was created during his residency at Skaftfell as a part of the international collaboration @gardening_of_soul. The work sonically connects two very distant places and two institutions that collaborate with each other: the Skaftfell Art Center in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, and the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts of the Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in the Czech Republic. https://jankrticka.com/SOUNDBRIDGE/