Alter/Breyta

Skaftfell- Center for Visual Art Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

Alter / Breyta is a collective exhibition by four emerging artists who have all graduated fairly recently from Iceland University of the Arts. The group was chosen collaboratively with Bjarki Bragason, Dean of the Department of Fine Art, and invited to stay in Skaftfell´s residency for three weeks while further developing their proposals. While their …

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Grounded Currents

The Factory in Hjalteyri Brekkuhús 3b, Hjalteyri, Iceland

Artists: Maryse Goudreau, Hugo Llanes, Zinnia Naqvi, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Marzieh Emadi & Sina Saadat Curator: Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir Open daily except Mondays 2:00 – 5:00 PM Eavesdroppers I lived in Iceland for over a decade but—dismissively—never went whale watching until back in Reykjavík this spring. With my eight-year-old as alibi, I bought two tickets for …

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Hugo Llanes: And When The Sun Rises, I Look at The Sun

Associate Gallery Köllunarklettsvegi 4, Reykjavík, Iceland

With ‘When The Sun Rises, I Look at The Sun’, Hugo Llanes proposes to reframe domestication, exploitation, and the introduction of certain crops as an example of socio-political events, namely the arrival of the Spanish to the Americas, and the evolution of the agricultural industries built in the Latin American context. Focusing on land and …

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Anna Reutinger, Brák Jónsdóttir, Hugo Llanes and Sigurður Ámundason: Goodgonebadwrong

The Living Art Museum Grandagarður 20, Reykjavík, Iceland

The exhibition brings together new works by artists Anna Reutinger, Brákar Jónsdóttur, Hugo Llanes and Sigurðar Ámundason. Goodgonebadwrong emerges from a close collaboration between the artists,  and takes shape as a kind of a gathering place — the beginning or end of a slightly chaotic conversation where different voices intertwine and ideas take shape in …

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