Tegundagreining er sambland endurlits og nýrra verka Steingríms Eyfjörð sem unnin eru árin 2020 – 2021. Sýningin er tilraun listamannsins til að skýra kveikjuna að myndsköpuninni. Verkin eru afmörkuð og staðsett með flokkunarkerfi, mynstri sem þróast hefur á löngum ferli. Yfirflokkar á sýningunni eru: Hið ósnertanlega, Arfurinn, Heimur kvenna, Gagnrýni, Guðs eigið land, Kellingin, Decode, …
A solo show of works by Björg Þorsteinsdóttir from 1940 to 2019.
Being able to create more than one copy of the same work has long followed the artist tradition. Many artists have created such works, which offers a different possibility than the unique artwork, and can be considered as an object somewhere between art and production. Works made in multiple copies are priced differently, are cheaper …
Skrápur / SecondSkin opens in Reykjanes Art Museum on the 20th of November 2021. Reykjanes Art Museum presents the exhibition SecondSkin with Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Igor Antić. The exhibition tackles refugees and migration of people in the world. The title SecondSkin refers to the shelter that the body creates over time from external aggravation. The word also refers to the thick skin people develop mentally as a defence. Both artists have discussed …
The exhibition seeks to cast a light on colour in the works of Jóhannes Kjarval (1885-1972) and explore his use of colour. He used diverse colours in his work – weather and light determined his choice of colour in his landscapes, and in fantasies and other works the artist’s personal feeling and vision was in …
For the second year in a row, the Reykjanes Art Museum invites Master students in Curatorial Practice at the Iceland University of the Arts to curate an exhibition in both its exhibition halls. Memories from tomorrow opens on Saturday, 12th of March 2022 and is open until the 24th of April 2022. Memories from tomorrow …
Colouring books for children are a strange thing. What are they for? They do not develop the children’s creative thinking: they are told not to colour outside the lines and their only avenue of expression in thought the choice of colours. Perhaps the pedagogical value is only that: To teach the child to follow the …
Vena Naskręcka and Michael Richardt are performance artists, and this exhibition will be a display of where they are at this particular point in time, and a documentation of what occupies their minds at the moment. They are here and now, foreign citizens in Iceland, making their mark on the Reykjanes Art Museum where they …
Guðrún Gunnarsdóttir is a pioneer in the field of filament art and her exhibition gives a overview of the artists development from the textile art of the 70s, to the three-dimensional work that characterizes her art practice today. Filament art such as Guðrún Gunnarsdóttir practices is undeniably three-dimensional art in a classic sense, even though …
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The exhibition INFRA-GLOW opens at the Reykjanes Art Museum on Saturday 11 March at 2 pm and closes on Sunday 16 April 2023. INFRA-GLOW is curated by Elise Bergonzi, Daria Testoedova and Hannah Zander, MA students in Curatorial Practice in the Department of Fine Art at the Iceland University of the Arts. The exhibition gathers …
