Post Tagged with: "Skaftfell gallery"

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Edge Effects

Skaftfell summer exhibition in 2017, Edge Effects, is the second of seven exhibitions opening in the multipolar exhibition series witin the international collaboration project Frontiers in Retreat. Three artists, Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton were invited for an artistic residency in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland to explore the intersection of visual art and ecological issues. The artists travelled twice to the location, staying for a total of three months each. Icelandic nature quickly captivated the newcomers but within a short time frame each artists had multiple threads to explore, ranging from past to future, humans to non-humans, consciousness to […]

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Koma

Exhibition featuring students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts participate in the annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. Curators: Björn Roth and Kristján Steingrímur. We arrived in Seyðisfjörður on a Sunday in mid-january, and two weeks later we are still finding our feet. Our takeoff was not delayed, but our arrival has been. Aliens and strangers to this town, we are not from around here, and though we come through this place, come around it, come up and down the streets, most of all we come and go. Temporary visitors bearing transient gifts. Come one, come all, […]

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