Pari Stave, Director
director@skaftfell.is / skaftfell@skaftfell.is
Pari Stave comes from The Metropolitan Museum in New York, where for the past eight years she has held the position of Senior Manager of Administration, Collections, and Curatorial Projects in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Prior to joining The Met she worked as Consulting Curator for the American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF). An art historian and curator, Pari has collaborated on numerous exhibitions, among them Ragnar Kjartansson: Death Is Elsewhere, which was co-organized with Jennifer Farrell and debuted at the Met in 2019. She was co-curator, with Ingibjörg Jóhannsdóttir, of Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking, organized for the International Print Center New York and later shown at Listasafn ĺslands in 2018. In 2017, she organized and wrote a catalogue essay for Hverfing|Shapeshifting, which was shown at Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri. At ASF, she co-curated with Patricia C. Berman, Munch|Warhol and the Multiple Image, which traveled to Ankara in 2013 on the occasion of the first visit to Turkey of the King and Queen of Norway. She also collaborated with Timothy Persons on the exhibition, New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School. In 2013, she curated Iceland: Artists Respond to Place, a group exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York.
Pari took up position as director of Skaftfell in May 2022.
Kamilla Gylfadóttir, Project Manager
Education and community outreach
Kamilla Gylfadóttir joined Skaftfell in July 2022 as project manager of Skaftfell’s education program and community outreach. She graduated with a B.A. degree in Italian and Tourism Studies in 2014, studied photography in Aarhus and filmmaking in Sarajevo and has worked with filmmaking and installation of exhibitions in Berlin and Morocco. In 2020, she completed her M.A. studies in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam. In 2021 she taught Skaftfell’s art education project for the east of Iceland and she is part of planning and teaching Skjaldbakan, a documentary filmmaking course that took place during BRAS 2022.
Previous directors
2006 – 2011 Þórunn Eymundardóttir
2011 – 2018 Tinna Guðmundsdóttir
2018 – 2020 Gavin Morrison
2020 – 2022 Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir & Julia Martin
Previous residency managers
2012 – 2014 Litten Nystrøm
2015 – 2022 Julia Martin
Previous education managers
2015 – 2022 Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir
Interns & Seasonal Staff
2022: Aino Peltola and Netta Alanko (Pekka Halonen Academi, FI); Ra Tack
2021: Magdalena Noga, Ísold Gná Ingvadóttir
2020: Unnur Birna J. Backman
2019: Mary Buckland, Lilaï Licata
2018: Jenny Niinimaa and Ninni Olllikainen (Pekka Halonen Academi, FI), Carlotta von Haebler
2016: Eva Jaskova
2015: Lisa Paland, Hochschule Merseburg
2014: Becky Forsythe, Georgian College
2013: Jasmin Meinold, HBK Braunschweig