Residency events and activities

Sound Bridge by Jan Krtička

Sound Bridge by Jan Krtička

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/

Artist talk + concert: Solveig Thoroddsen, Frederik Heidemann, Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson og Fjóla Gautadóttir.

Artist talk + concert: Solveig Thoroddsen, Frederik Heidemann, Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson og Fjóla Gautadóttir.

Skaftfell warmly invites you to an artist talk and concert with our current residency artists Solveig Thoroddsen, Frederik Heidemann, Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson og Fjóla Gautadóttir. Sunday, February 25th at 4 pm, in the Skaftfell gallery where we will have a look at and listen to what the artists have been working on for the past weeks. Both paintings, soundworks and reasearch. The event will be in english and coffee and twisted doughnuts will be served. At 5 we will parade over to the Blue church where Frederik Heidemann will perform piano pieces by Colette Roper originally released by the Dieter […]

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