Black and White

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Opposites and different things, attitudes and perspectives. What separates us can also connect us. This exhibition consists of work by five artists who work with black and white photography. The artists approach their subjects in different ways and the art pieces are multiple: landscape, people, stories, places and atmosphere. Opposites and fears, quiet and affection …

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Svarthvítt

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Andstæður og ólíkir hlutir, viðhorf og sjónarhorn. Það sem skilur okkur að getur einnig tengt okkur saman. Fimm listamenn sem vinna með svart-hvítar ljósmyndir eiga verk á þessari sýningu. Listamennirnir nálgast viðfengsefnin á ólíkan hátt og myndefnin eru einnig margvísleg: landslag, fólk, sögur, staðir og stemning. Andstæður og ógnir, rólegheit og væntumþykja og fjölmargar birtingarmyndir …

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Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir (f. 1993) er myndlistarmaður sem leikur sér á landamærum hins huglæga og hlutlæga, skúlptúrs og teikningar, listar og veruleika. Hún vinnur markvisst með hversdagsfyrirbæri og fígúratíft myndmál sem hún sækir í forna jafnt og nýliðna sögu. Auður Lóa leitast við að virkja sjálf listaverkin, ætíð þó sem fyrirbæri í sínu eigin félagslega …

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Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir (b. 1993) is an artist that plays on the border of the objective and the subjective, of sculpture and drawing, art and reality. She works with mundane phenomena, figurative imitation, and the visual language of both ancient and recent history. She seeks to activate the artwork itself, but always as an object …

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Gústav Geir Bollason: Sandtímasálmur um fölnandi jarðarblóm

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

„Teiknimyndir og lifandi myndir af jurtaleifum, ryki og rusli. Einnig blendingshlutir sem jarðtengjast í hugmynd um mæli- og farartæki, sem og skjól eða holur sem verða til í skemmdu landslagi. Alls staðar er sandurinn, sýnilegur eða ósýnilegur: í steyptum veggjunum, sjóntækjunum, símanum, landfyllingunni. Hreyfingar blómanna í teiknimyndunum verða flöktandi í hröðuninni. Inn á milli mynda; ekkert. Tóm eða …

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Gústav Geir Bollason: Sandtime Psalm of Fading Flowers

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Cartoons and live pictures of plant-remnants, dust and garbage. Also, hybrid things which become grounded in an idea about measuring devices and vehicles as well as shelters or holes that are formed in damaged landscape. The sand is everywhere, visible or invisible: in the concrete walls, the optical equipment, telephone and in the landfill. The …

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Útskriftarsýning

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Sýningar á lokaverkefnum nemenda hafa lengi verið fastur liður í starfsemi listnáms- og hönnunarbrautar Verkmenntaskólans á Akureyri. Sýningarnar eru tvær yfir árið, annars vegar í lok vorannar og hins vegar í lok haustannar. Þetta er áttunda árið í röð sem þær eru haldnar í samstarfi við Listasafnið á Akureyri. Við undirbúning slíkra sýninga velja nemendur …

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Final Projects 2022

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

It has become a tradition to exhibit the final projects of Akureyri Comprehensive College’s art and design students at the Akureyri Art Museum. Two exhibitions are held every year, one at the end of the spring term and one at the end of the fall term. This is the seventh year in a row, these …

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Creation of Childhood 2022

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

This is the ninth exhibition with the title Creation of Childhood. As part of the museum education  the aim is to present and stimulate creative work and creative thinking of school children from the age of five to sixteen. Participants each time are children and artists who create works according to the theme, which this time …

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Sköpun bernskunnar 2022

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Þetta er níunda sýningin undir heitinu Sköpun bernskunnar. Hún er sett upp sem hluti af safnfræðslu, með það markmið að gera sýnilegt og örva skapandi starf barna á aldrinum fimm til sextán ára. Þátttakendur hverju sinni eru skólabörn og starfandi myndlistarmenn. Þátttakendurnir vinna verk sem falla að þema sýningarinnar sem að þessu sinni er Fuglar …

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Nánd

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Á sýningunni Nánd er athyglinni beint að innri rökfærslum listmálunar sem eru staðsettar, skuldbundnar og innbyggðar. Á sýningunni fellur allt saman í þeim tilgangi að skapa og miðla stöðum og aðstæðum fyrir málverk til að vera og verða – að anda inn og anda út, með áhorfandanum og staðnum. Markmiðið er að yfirgefa hugmyndina um …

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Embrace

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

The exhibition Embrace focuses on the internal logic of the painterly acts that are situated, committed and embedded. It is an exhibition in which all parts come together with the aim of creating and generating sites and situations for paintings to not only be but to become – to breath in, and to breath out, …

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Gjöfin til íslenzkrar alþýðu

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Það þóttu stórtíðindi þegar athafnamaðurinn Ragnar Jónsson, kenndur við Smára, ákvað að færa Alþýðusambandi Íslands málverkasafnið sitt að gjöf sumarið 1961. Ósk Ragnars var sú að stofnað yrði listasafn sem kæmi listinni á framfæri við vinnandi fólk í landinu. Listaverkagjöf Ragnars – um 147 verk – lagði grunninn að Listasafni ASÍ og geymir verk margra …

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The Gift to the People

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

ASÍ Art Museum’s Founding Collection from Ragnar Jónsson of Smári It was big news when the entrepreneur Ragnar Jónsson, known for his margarine factory Smári, decided to donate his collection of paintings to the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ) in the summer of 1961. Jónsson’s wish was to establish an art museum that would present …

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Karl Guðmundsson: Lífslínur

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Listferill Karls Guðmundssonar spannar nú rúmlega tvo áratugi. Hann hefur haldið einkasýningar frá 2000 og jafnframt tekið þátt í fjölda samsýninga. Karl hóf nám í Myndlistaskólanum á Akureyri fimm ára gamall undir handleiðslu Rósu Kristínar Júlíusdóttur og útskrifaðist af myndlistabraut Verkmenntaskólans á Akureyri 2007. Þau hafa unnið saman síðan.buy actos generic https://myindianpharmacy.net/actos.html over the counter Í …

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Karl Guðmundsson: Lifelines

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Karl Guðmundsson‘s career as an artist now spans over two decades and includes several solo exhibitions, starting in 2000, and numerous group exhibitions. Guðmundsson began his studies at Akureyri School of Visual Arts at the age of five under guidance from Rósa Kristín Júlíusdóttir and graduated from the art department of Akureyri Comprehensive College in …

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Nemendur listnáms- og hönnunarbrautar VMA: Útskriftarsýning

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Sýningar á lokaverkefnum nemenda hafa lengi verið fastur liður í starfsemi listnáms- og hönnunarbrautar Verkmenntaskólans á Akureyri. Sýningarnar eru tvær yfir árið, annars vegar í lok vorannar og hins vegar í lok haustannar. Þetta er sjötta árið í röð sem þær eru haldnar í samstarfi við Listasafnið á Akureyri. Við undirbúning slíkra sýninga velja nemendur …

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VMA Visual Art and Textile students: Final Projects 2021

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

It has become a tradition to exhibit the final projects of Akureyri Comprehensive College’s art and design students at the Akureyri Art Museum.buy flagyl Canada https://langleyrx.com/flagyl.html no prescription Two exhibitions are held every year, one at the end of the spring term and one at the end of the fall term. This is the sixth …

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SEQUENCES X – Freyja Reynisdóttir: ABACUS: calculating truths (Miniature installation)

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Freyja Reynisdóttir uses her work to conduct performative experiments in the search for subjective “Truths“, deeming the artistic experience suitable for communication regarding the undefined yet tangible in our perceptions and understanding of the self or our supposed shared reality. Freyja approaches her subjects through her own writing. She creates formulas and recipes, objects, drawings, …

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SEQUENCES X – Freyja Reynisdóttir: ABACUS: reiknað hið sanna (Miniature innsetning)

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Freyja Reynisdóttir notar verk sín til þess að framkvæma gjörningatengdar tilraunir í leit að huglægum sannleikum, þar sem hún telur ferli túlkunar og skynjunar ákjósanlega leið til að eiga í samskiptum um það óyrðanlega en áþreyfanlega í skilningi okkar á sjálfinu og veruleika okkar. Freyja nálgast viðfangsefni sín í gegnum sín eigin skrif.buy amoxicillin online …

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A! Performance Festival

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

A! is a four-day international performance festival held every year, now for the fifth time. The festival is a collaboration between Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri Culture Society, Akureyri Theater, LÓKAL International Theater Festival, Reykjavík Dance Festival and Icelandic Art Centre. A variety of performances and theatre-based projects of all kinds are on the agenda. Participants …

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Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson: Visitations

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson are a collaborative art partnership. Their interdisciplinary art practice is research-based and socially-engaged, exploring issues of history, culture and environment in relation to both humans and non-human species. Often working in close consultation with experts and amateurs in the field, their work tests cultural constructs and tropes, and human behavior …

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Ann Noël: Icons and Symbols

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Ann Noël, born in England 1944, has lived in Berlin since 1980. She has a background in graphic design, printmaking, photography, painting and performance. After graduating in graphic arts and design in 1968 from the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, she worked with Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart, who was one of the first publishers of …

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Ann Noël: Teikn og tákn

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Ann Noël, fædd á Englandi 1944, hefur verið búsett í Berlín frá 1980. Bakgrunnur hennar er í grafískri hönnun, prenti, ljósmyndun, málun og gjörningum. Eftir útskrift úr grafískri hönnun 1968, frá Bathlistaakademíunni í Corsham, vann hún með Hansjörg Mayer í Stuttgart, en hann var einn af fyrstu útgefendum bókverka. Þessi reynsla kom sér vel þegar …

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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Underworld of Akureyri

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Ragnar Kjartansson is one of the most respected Icelandic artists – known for his video-work, paintings, performances and installations. Kjartansson exhibits a new art-piece especially created for the balcony of Akureyri Art Museum with a direct reference to the Akureyrian community, in his own words: “In Akureyri everything is a little bit more OK than …

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Recent Acquisitions

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

One of the main roles of art museums is to collect art and exhibit their collections. Unfortunately no funds were reserved to buy art in the 2021 budget for Akureyri Art Museum. And so it has been for over a decade. This will hopefully change soon so the museum can attend to the important task …

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Nýleg aðföng

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Eitt af meginhlutverkum listasafna er að safna myndlist og miðla safneigninni. Því miður er ekkert fjármagn áætlað á fjárhagsáætlun Listasafnsins á Akureyri til kaupa á listaverkum og þannig hefur það verið í meira en áratug. Þetta stendur vonandi til bóta, enda mikilvægt að safna með reglubundnum hætti listaverkum sem endurspegla listasöguna. Listasafninu hafa aftur á …

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Limitations

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Group exhibition works by North Icelandic artists. This is the fourth biennale, an exhibition of works by artists fr om North Iceland, held at Akureyri Art Museum. This time with special theme: Limitations – obviously referring to the state of the world these days. Participants apply to a call from Akureyri Art Museum and a …

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Selected Works, Part II: Akureyri Art Museum Collection

Akureyri Art Museum Kaupvangsstræti 8-12, Akureyri, Iceland

Akureyri municipality formally began purchasing artworks around 1930, when a painting by Freymóður Jóhannsson was bought. Today the municipality owns around 700 diverse visual art works. After the founding of Akureyri Art Museum in 1993, preservation of the collection became one of its roles.buy stromectol online https://www.mobleymd.com/wp-content/languages/new/stromectol.html no prescription The Museum adopted a policy of …

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