Pari Stave, forstöðumaður
[email protected] / [email protected]
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.
Julia Martin, verkefnastjóri
Residency Program, International Projects
[email protected] / [email protected]
Julia Martin is an artist and landscape architect from Berlin. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, with an M.F.A. in Art, Space and Nature from Edinburgh College of Art, and an M.A. in Landscape architecture from Technical University of Berlin. She moved to Seyðisfjörður in 2014 and has been working at Skaftfell since 2015, mainly managing the residency program, and contributing to the daily programming and running of the art center. From 2022-2024 she will also manage two of Skaftfell´s international collaboration projects. From 2020 to 2022 Julia has been co-director of Skaftfell.
Fyrri forstöðumenn
2006 – 2011 Þórunn Eymundardóttir
2011 – 2018 Tinna Guðmundsdóttir
2018 – 2020 Gavin Morrison
2020 – 2022 Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir & Julia Martin
Fyrri gestavinnustofufulltrúar
2012 – 2014 Litten Nýstrøm
Fyrri fræðslufulltruar
2015 – 2022 Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir
Lærlingar og sumarstarf
2022: Aino Peltola og 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 og Ninni Olllikainen (Pekka Halonen Academi, FI), Carlotta von Haebler
2016: Eva Jaskova, AAAD Prague
2015: Lisa Paland, Hochschule Merseburg
2014: Becky Forsythe, Georgian College
2013: Jasmin Meinold, HBK Braunschweig