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Open call for the Goethe-Institut Dänemark residency grant in 2016

Open call for the Goethe-Institut Dänemark residency grant in 2016

  In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Dänemark, Skaftfell will be able to offer a grant to one artist, for a two-month residency between September – December 2016. Application deadline: March 15, 2016. Objectives The aim of the Residency Program at Skaftfell is to create and nurture an environment for inspiration; to encourage artists to experience life and work in a unique micro community where creativity is applied to the everyday; to foster a sense of community between artists and the public in the rural setting of East-Iceland; to facilitate circumstances for artists to experience, reflect and explore new possibilities for […]

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Suspending plains

Welcome to the presentation of experiments by Nora Mertes at the Bookshop-projectspace Thursday January 21, from 20.00 -22.00. Nora Mertes researches the relationship between the human body and material in her surroundings. While reflecting upon it she uses her hands and body to form and reshape matter.In what ways can she, with the sole use of her body, manipulate a material? In Seydisfjordur Nora Mertes worked with plaster, sheets of metal and plastic, clay and oily black ink. Her sculptures resonate the characteristics of the surrounding landscape both in a physical as well as in a visual manner: the forms are […]

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