Residency program

Welcome Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson and Fjóla Gautadóttir

Welcome Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson and Fjóla Gautadóttir

Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson and Fjóla Gautadóttir artists in residence for the month of February. Fjóla is an Icelandic performer, sound designer, writer and DJ. They have a background both in classical dance and music and finished a BA in Dance and Choreography from HZT Berlin in 2019 and have since been working actively as a Sound Designer in the Berlin dance and performance scene. Þórir is a visual/sound artist with a Bachelor’s degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty in the Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag. His works often take the shape of performative installations where […]

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Welcome Solveig Thoroddsen

Welcome Solveig Thoroddsen

A warm welcome to Solveig Thoroddsen, Skaftfell artist in residence in February. Solveig is an Icelandic artist, based in Iceland. She graduated from the master study from The Iceland University of the Arts in 2015 and has been an active artist ever since. Solveig works across media and her main subjects are rooted in interactions between man and nature. Her works also focus on society with feminist references. She has published two books of poetry and at the moment she is working on a book where she collects Icelandic folktales with female protagonists, rewriting them in modern narrative style. The […]

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