Artist-in-Residence

Fosshús – Open studio

Composer and artist Nathan Hall will transform the house Brekka (Austurvegur 44b) into an installation called FOSSHÚS. The three floors will have sound and visual works that can be discovered.…

Nature’s Values

Iceland’s economy is becoming more and more dependent on tourism, a growing industry that offers the country’s natural wonders as attractions to be consumed. In this context it seems hard…

Birds of passage 1998-2018

An artist residency “is an outcome of time, place and people and it offers an opportunity for enduring relationships and a profound communion with both art and one’s own thoughts.“…

Five artists are currently participating in the Skaftfell Residency Program. Elena Mazzi, Hannimari Jokinen, Joe Sam-Essandoh, Jemila MacEwan and Pierre Tremblay will this Friday, May 18, introduce their work and practice…

Open studio – Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov

Eliso Tsintsabadze (GE) and Pavel Filkov (RU) have been artists-in-residency at Skaftfell in March and April. Their work explores human relations to landscape through photography, and studies the medium of photography…

Misguided Fieldwork

Join us at Seyðisfjörður Information Centre, Wednesday June 28, 16.00-18.00. The exhibition is also open Thursday June 29, 08.00-16.00. Misguided Fieldwork brings together works by Kristie MacDonald (CA) and Factory…

Stereoskin

British artist Mary Hurrell concludes her residency stay with a live audio visual presentation entitle Stereoskon. The presentation will take place Friday April 28 at 18:30 in the cinema of…

When I Visit Homes

German artists Uta Pütz presents works in progress in the foyer of Herðubreið Community Center Friday April 28 at 18.00. The art works have been in development for the past…

Open studio and artists talk

It has been only a month in this total white. I started to produce some drawings and paper sculptures reflecting my state of mind being in this place where my…

Artists Talk #28

Skaftfell welcomes three artists-in-residence for March with an open artists talk Thursday March 9 in the Bistro. Mary Hurrel (UK), Uta Pütz (DE) and Tzu Ting Wang (TW) each have 20…

A Saturday Night Crack Sabbath with the Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra

Norwegian artists collective Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra will host a performance Saturday Nov 12. at 17.00 in the Bookshop-projectspace. Tromsø Dollsz Arkestra collective is founded on principles of free, pseudo-telepathic noise…

Mini-workshop for children

Friday Oct 21 artists-in-residency Morgan Kinne will host a mini-workshop for children age 6-10. Everyone is welcome while there is still space. Hanna Christel, Skaftfells education manager, will assist. The…

Open studios

Current artists-in-residence will host open studios and present works in progress as a part of the Visual Art Day. Morgan Kinne, and the artist duo Curtis Tamm and Hermione Spriggs will show their works-in-progress in…

Shadow Work – Short Films About Light and Dark

Throughout August and December 2016 London Fieldworks will be in residence at Skaftfell. Over the two-month residency the artists will create “Short films about light and dark” identifying and expressing…

Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive for second residency

Skaftfell welcomes residency artists: Kati Gausman, Richard Skelton and Ráðhildur Ingadóttir. The artists first stayed at Seyðisfjörður in September 2014 for one month and simultaneously launched their participation in Frontiers in Retreat. They have now…

Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems

Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented…

Interzone

Interzones or territories, disparate and similar, connected to each other by conducting images and by the energy transmitted through the filmed landscapes. The zones are combining, overlapping, opposing, creating dynamics.…

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…

Artist talk #25

Tuesday January 19 at 16:30 Skaftfell, Austurvegur 43, 3rd floor. Meet and hear the current Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell in January, Nora Mertes (DE) & Rashanna Rashied-Walker (USA), on Tuesday when…

Colourfields: Radiating and Reflecting

Lola Bezemers work concentrateson the experience of colour and light in architectural spaces. When going to Iceland, she brought a pile of coloured fabrics to work with in the snow…

Zeus Tears and a seance performance

Linda Persson is a Swedish artist / filmmaker and a returning Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell. Throughout my practice language has played a central role. What interests me in language is its…

Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga

For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations…

Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga

For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations…

Online broadcast

Artist-in-Residence Cristina David (RO) is participating in the Romanian Icelandic collaboration project entitled Artists as Agents of Institutional Exchange. As a part of the project she will stream live via…

Online broadcast

Herna

Herna is the Icelandic word for here now and is used in everyday speech to bring you back into the moment when loosing yourself a little bit. Artists Victoria Brannstrom…

Silent Walk – Herbarium

Join the Silent Walk Saturday 3rd October at 11:00 and 15:00 starting at the Bookshop-projectspace On a communal silent walk we collect Seydisfjordurs last autumn plants to create an experimental…

Local/ Focal/ Fluctuant  

Friday, Sept 25 from 19:30 – 22.00 Bookshop-projectspace Seydisfjordur is an international gate. Campus Novel investigate the port town in East Iceland against a global paradigm of nodal locations. Fluxes…

A-i-R 2016

The deadline for the Skaftfell Artist-in-Residence program in 2016 expired on September 1 and over120 applications were received. A selection panel will review the applications and selected artists will be…

Seydisfjordur Suite

One night only ! Opening Tuesday September 16th from 6pm – 8pm at the Bookshop-projectspace Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of nine drawings. These drawings, executed in lead, silver and…

Parallel Line Up in Breiðdalssetur

In her current project ‘Parallel Line Up’ Berlin-based artist Jenny Brockmann investigates environment, its dynamics and how poeple interact with it. She researches volcanic and geological processes that contain either…

Stigi

On August 13th. at 17:00 Swedish sisters Gerd Aurell, visual artist, and Karin Aurell, musician, will present new collaborative work; the audiovisual performance Stigi, at the Bookshop – projectspace. All…

Artist talk #23

Tuesday August 4th. Skaftfell invites for an artist talk and conversation at the Skaftfell Hub ( top floor of Skaftfell) where the artists Gerd Aurell, Jenny Brockmann, Richard Merrill Hoglund,…

By the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains

In her book by the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains, atlas of icelands plant life with a pinhole camera, published for the time being as an artist multiple/book…

denatured

At The Bookshop-Projectspace June 26-28, 2015 In connection to the 120 years anniversary of Seyðisfjörður, current artist-in-residence David Edward Allen will present a selection of his recent and current work…

The Spaghetti Incident

July 3.-5. 2015 6:00 -9:00 pm. at The Bookshop-Projectspace. The Spaghetti Incident is a single video installation based on the concept of action painting and the Guns N’ Roses cover…

Islandia en Islandia

August 19.-22. 2015 at the Bookshop – projectspace Islandia en Islandia aims to activate an interaction with local artists, activating a Meta-Residency dialogue: Local artists will be invited into a…

Artists-in-residence at Skaftfell in May

David Edward Allen (UK) lives in Berlin. His work revolves around a broadened notion of Landscape and our position as part of it. Using, for example, natural phenomena such as…

Minimalist Composition (I+II)

Saturday and Sunday May 9-10, from 12.00-14.00 Minimalist Composition (I+II) is a mini field + studio workshop hosted by Canadian artist Reza Rezai. The focus of the workshop will be…

Artist talk #22

This Thursday May 7th. it will be possible to get introduced to current and newly arrived artists in residence; Francesco Bertele, Reza Rezai, David Edward Allen and Halina Kliem whom will talk about selected works…

Guha

Opening Thurday May 28th. at 18:30 at the Bookshop – projectspace. The exhibition will alsobe open Friday May 29th. 16:30-20:00 and conclude with a video performance presented at HEIMA collective…

Sequences VII Off-Venue program: “Salat Dagar” April 18-19

At the Bookshop – projectspace. Opening Saturday April 18, at 17.00. Sunday April 19, open 13.00-16.00. As a part of Sequences VII – off venue program Skaftfell presents SALAT DAGAR…

PRESENTATION

Friday – Sunday, 27- 29th. of March, at the Bookshop – Projectspace. The exhibition PRESENTATION shows the result of the artists two months residency in Seyðisfjörður. Welcome at the opening Friday the…

SUM

Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in HerÃ°ubreiÃ° cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space…

Listamannaspjall #21

Fimmtudaginn 12. febrúar kl. 17:00 í Skaftfell Bistró. Danski listamaðurinn Cai Ulrich von Platen, gríski listamaðurinn Effrosyni Kontogeorgou – búsettur í Berlín, og breski rithöfundurinn Helen Jukes kynna verk sín…

Artist talk #20

Meet and hear the current artists in residence at Skaftfell Jessica Auer (CA) and the artist duo GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ (SE) present their work on Tuesday January the 20th. at 17:00. The…

Still Ruins, Moving Stones

The video work Still Ruins, Moving Stones by Canadian artist Jessica Auer is screened at the Bookshop – projectspace window evenings from Thursday Jan 22 to Jan 29, 2015. Four…

Sightseeing Tour – Minna Pöllänen

Thursday Dec 18,Â at 18.00, Minna Pöllänen will perform “Sightseeing Tour”, as a part of the ongoing exhibition (MAL)FUNCTION in the Bookshop. Due to the weather the performance will take…

The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive

The first artists participating in the Frontiers in Retreat project at Skaftfell, Kati Gausmann and Richard Skelton, arrived in Iceland in the end of August. Simultaneously the volcanic activity in South Iceland reached…

Point of View

The Bookshop – Projectspace Opening Friday May 30, at 21.00 In the end of may, Katrín Agnes Klar and Lukas Kindermann will show works dealing with the movement of the…

Aspects of Abiotic Metabolism

The Bookshop – projectspace April 17 – 24, 2014 Abiotic comes from the Greek and means Âwithout lifeÂ. There are things in the world that are said to not be…

Artist talk #17

At the Bookshop – projectspace Newly arrived artists in residence at Skaftfell; Munan Ovrelid (NO) and Melissa Pokorny (US) will give an introduction to their work and practice. Munan will…

Aspects of Abiotic Metabolism

The Bookshop – projectspace Abiotic comes from the Greek and means “without life”. There are things in the world that are said to not be living – and yet they…

Artists talk #16

Friday the 4th of April at 14:00 Newly arrived artists in residence Karlotta Blöndal (IS) and Jens Strandberg (SE) will give a short introduction to their work. All welcome !…

Artists talk #15

Current artists-in-residence at Skaftfell; Simona Koch and J. Pasila will give a short introduction to their work. This will be the fifteenth time artists-in-resicence give an public introduction to their…

Open studio at Skaftfell

Jens Reichert (DE) invites into his studio: Thursday January 23rd from 16:00 – 20:00 Skaftfell residency, Austurvegur 42, top floor Jens has been in residence at Skaftfell for December and…

Artist Talk #14

Skaftfell is currently hosting five Artists-in-Recidence:Â Anna FrizÂ from Canada,Â Ãse EgÂ from Denmark,Â BjÃ¶rn Olsson,Â Helena WikstrÃ¶m andÂ Gerd AurellÂ from Sweden. This coming Friday, Sept. 20, they will present their work and subject matter in an…