Edda Jónsdóttir (b. 1942) was born in Reykjavík were she studied at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts, The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and later at Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsted Amsterdam. She worked as an artist from 1975-1995, then founded i8 Gallery and directed the gallery in the years 1995-2007 when she returned …
Atli Pálsson graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2020. Atli's works often scrutinize everyday activities and social values in a humorous way. Subjects such as gratuitous rewards, personal triumphs, hyper-hospitality and generosity have been at the forefront of his work, as well as characterisation. Excess often characterizes the presentation …
Ólöf Nordal's exhibition, Blirds, in Ásmundarsalur is an installation with sculptures, text and sound. Ólöf Nordal has for long worked with bird images in her work which are often rooted in folklore, image building and contemporary culture. Blirds are bronze casts that portray figures in transformation. Their transition suggests morphing from human form to bird form, from the …
Solveig Thoroddsen studied visual art at the Iceland University of the Arts 2007-2010, graduating with a Master's in 2015. She has been an active artist ever since, working through various mediums, whatever suits the occasion. Her practice explores the relationship between humans and nature, "I am interested in how humans live in the world, from survival to …
Solveig Thoroddsen at Gallery SIM 4.-22. March 2023
Glassrain is an installation from 1984, one of the first of Rúrí‘s many works that address the theme of time and menace. Glassrain comprises 500 razor-sharp fragments of glass, each ending in a point; the glass sheets, of variable length, hang in clusters from ceiling to floor. Each piece is suspended on a clear thread, …
At Y gallery from the 4th of March until the 25th of March.
At the beginning of 2022, the art collection of Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir and entrepreneur Þorvaldur Guðmundsson was placed in the permanent keeping of the National Gallery of Iceland. The collection, which includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, reliefs etc., is one of Iceland’s largest private collections. It comprises about 1400 works by many of Iceland’s leading artists, …
“A world in process of shifting, of being made or dissolved, and yet we didn’t live that way; all of us lived our lives as simultaneous ritualized enactment of a great principle, something felt but not understood. And the remarks we made were like in a play, spoken with conviction but not from choice. A …
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir Schemes 11.03.-22.04.2023
To speak in dated terms via metaphysics of a force field surrounding a set of material art objects I determine that my practise is all about such construction. In a world of it’s own however an osmosis is assumed with a perfect stranger whos’ subjecthood would qualify the experience with regard to history and society, …
Language is at the essence of Lawrence Weiner and Birgir Andrésson’s artistries. The iconic conceptualists, who were also friends, are inextricably linked to the power of words and their methods of expression, particularly through the visual power of text. Andrésson and Weiner explored the boundaries of what art can be, pushing past traditional understandings of …
Associate Gallery is located at Köllunarklettsvegur 4. 'looking for / stumbling across’ is a collection of research, a gathering of gestures, a map of movement. Sophie Durand presents an installation of objects that hold within them a journey, using the gallery space to create a temporary place for the ideas she has accumulated. "I think …
In her work, Emma Heiðarsdóttir (b. 1990) deals with the shifting boundaries between sculpture and architecture, art and life. Her works are often based on interventions into the spaces or surroundings where they are exhibited and tend to challenge our habitual view of the environment. Her exhibition Light Switch shows an effort to examine space …
Hallgrímur Árnason (b. 1988) lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna f. ex. under the mentorship of Daniel Richter. Hallgrímur has participated in exhibitions abroad such as a group exhibition at the Icelandic Embassy in Vienna. Last February he opened his first solo exhibition in Vienna, Fehlerhaft …
