Past
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Lilja Birgisdóttir + Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Hlutskipti // Fated 24 Feb - 31 Mar 2024 Fated All our lives we sell our time and energy to be able to acquire things. Slowly but surely they accumulate until they end up hidden in a closet or storage, and lose their purpose. And so our homes are inflated, inflated by things that follow us, or maybe have... Read more -
Ár•farvegur // Stream•bed
Anna Maggý, Kristinn E. Hrafnsson, Vikram Pradhan & Hrafnkell Sigurðsson 13 Jan - 18 Feb 2024 The exhibition Stream•bed invites visitors to step into a world where the micro and the macro meet, in time and space of human and earthly life. Millennia and moments converse and raise questions about man's relationship with the earth he lives on. How do we make the bed we intend... Read more -
Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir
Opna // Open 25 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 In all creative processes we open portals into new dimensions within ourselves and around us. We open up to the unknown and the unexpected, created by the interplay of the discipline and the unconscious. In the exhibition Open, Áslaug reflects on the dimensions of the painting, both the external space... Read more -
María Gudjohnsen
Digital Resurrection // Stafræn upprisa 21 Oct - 19 Nov 2023 'Digital Resurrection' is an exploration through a series of 3D animated artworks that serve as a testament to the era of the digital self. It explores the multifaceted theme of lingering essence in the digital realm after physically departing our world as we know it. Step into a world where... Read more -
Auður Ómarsdóttir
KASBOMM 15 Sep - 15 Oct 2023 KASBOMM - Let’s imagine a pile, a mass that reminds us of the aftermath of an explosion which seems absolutely unmanageable to navigate through. You need to get through this heap because there is something underneath that you are missing. In order to move around or through this pile, you... Read more -
Tolli
Sjóndeildarhringur í óreiðu // A Horizon In Chaos 19 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 In his colourful paintings, Icelandic artist Tolli
(Þorlákur Morthens) has for four decades had
movement in every sense as a main subject
of his paintings, not least the ways movement
and transformation occurs in nature, in Earth’s
colourful hues but also in the colours of our own
inner nature and the subtle vibrations that occur
in the body, creating various frequencies of
colours and sound, which correspond with the
frequencies of our natural environment.
Tolli’s art is based in the expressive New Painting
of the early 1980s and is still partly influenced by
its rawness and fast abstract painting on large
canvases, in which the movement of the artist
during the creation plays a role in amplifying
the energy that eminates from the painting.
One thread in Tolli’s art is landscape, which
he paints based on his own experiencesof in-
spiration from hiking and dwelling in mountainous
environments in his home country. In the
exhibition, two sites in Iceland are the subject
of many of the works; the majestic mountain
Lómagnúpur and the wilderness at Fjallabak in
the highlands. Both sites attract hikers due to the
feeling of freedom of the vastness and stunning
colour and they have been a source of inspiration
for many other artists and poets in the past. At
the top of Lómagnúpur one can, on a good day,
have a view to Öræfajökull glacier and sometimes
over Vatnajökull glacier. And the immenseness
of Fjallabak fills the traveler’s lungs with crisp
mountain air. On a distant horizon, heaven and
earth meet.
Here we are in a sense invited on an inner journey.
We observe the steepness that our own path of
life is constructed for each of us to grapple with.
We visualize the steep peak as an ever-changing
shape and admire the colorful expansiveness
that the struggle brings, the chaos and re-
fractions that the eye perceives in different
ways depending on the angle of view. We are
reminded that the connections between sensory
impressions, such as the experience of smell,
sound, weather, colours and shapes, which the
senses perceive in untamed nature, are of an
aesthetic nature. They reflect our individual
experience, qualities such as attentiveness,
curiosity and imagination, which change and
become stronger the more mature we become.
The works in the exhibition are all new or very
recent. The landscape-based works share a
connection with the more abstract works in that
they radiate colours and energy from the large
brushstrokes and a flow of light. The chaos of the
natural experience transforms into an atmosphere
of formlessness, beyond words and specific
locations.
Tolli’s works can be characterised by a flow
of colour. They are sort of a colour-bath, a
powerful waterfall of colours that we are invited
to step under and into. This waterfall of colour is
immersive, it embraces us and in it our physical
being is infused by spiritual potency. Stepping
out of this waterfall, the colours continue to have
an effect, they are healing. Colours have had a
significant and ontological effect on the human
spirit throughout the ages and their effects, as
basically created through refractions of light
in nature, perceived through the retina, have
profound physiological effect on us. Harnessing
such refractions with paint on a movable, two-
dimensional surface indoors is an enchantment
of the ages. The perspective and the experience
continues to be our own.
The paintings eminate light. The clarity of the
colours and their contrasts play tricks on the eye.
We breathe in colours, and we exhale a flow of joy. Read more -
Sunneva Ása Weisshappel
Flagð 8 Jul - 12 Aug 2023 Flagð // Jezebel, is an intimate dance between corrosive elements of femininity, a candid exploration of nuanced social relationships, layered with thinly veiled power struggles and the longingfor connection. Long strands of human hair find their way into the exhibit ‘s narrative arc, juxtaposed with torn lace they tell the... Read more -
Kristín Morthens
Andrými á hafsbotni / Air under water 3 Jun - 2 Jul 2023 Air Under Water is an excursion exploring territories unknown, yet faintly recognizable landscapes etched into the borders of our psyche. The artist, herself, becomes a conduit for ideas that seem familiar, yet totally novel to us, even sometimes to the artist herself. The works communicate something deeply personal whilst searching... Read more -
Þorvaldur Jónsson
Hringiða / Vortex 4 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 In the exhibition Hringiðu, Þorvalur continues his playful ways with his stories on canvas. The red thread of the exhibition is time, time that is always on the move and we are swept up in circles with the hands of the clock. In the paintings you can see several characters... Read more -
Anna Maggý
Avoiding Death and Birth 3 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Journal entries transferred to visual form. Improvised writing from an unseen and unspoken subconscious. The eternal battle with the state of mind. Up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up and everything in between. Order, disorder. An exploration of the inner spirit, one's own nature, an exploration of existence. Sensing... Read more -
Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir
Be Mine 5 - 26 Nov 2022 Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir (b. 1993) is an artist who plays on the border between the objective and subjective, sculpture and drawing, art and reality. She works with everyday phenomena, figures, and imagery that she draws from ancient as well as recent history, sourcing material from books and classical arts as... Read more -
Rakel McMahon
NO PRETENDING 8 - 30 Oct 2022 In NO PRETENDING is an exhibition of drawings and paintings made by Rakel during her stay in Greece this year, which refer to self-healing and fortune-telling. This quote from Marlene Dumas, the artist says describes the exhibition well. Never mind if it is art, or smart, But is it true?... Read more -
Melanie Ubaldo
Almost Perfect 10 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 Melanie Ubaldo (b. 1992, Philippines) is an Icelandic artist based in Reykjavik. Ubaldo creates monuments to unbelonging. Her works are an exercise in linguistic vulnerability where image and text are inextricably linked, among others, through deconstructionist paintings incorporating text with graffiti like vandalism oftentimes of her own crude experiences of... Read more -
Fritz Hendrik IV
Regnbogi hunds / Dog Rainbow 13 Aug - 4 Sep 2022 Fritz Hendrik IV (b. 1993) examens unconscious staging that characterizes life, arts and culture. Fritz also deals with the relationship between tradition and perception in his work. What do we know, how do we know, and what are we looking at? In the exhibition Dog Rainbow, we explore the world... Read more -
Björg Örvar
Í jörðu djúpt undir umferðinni bíður ófæddur skógur þögull í þúsund ár 16 Jul - 7 Aug 2022 Björg Örvar graduated from Iceland's School of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1979 and then studied art at the University of California in 1981-1983. Björg has exhibited widely and has long been known for paintings that are difficult to define, but the connection to nature, emotions and people is evident... Read more -
Elli Egilsson
NEVADA 28 May - 19 Jun 2022 ELLI EGILSSON (1981) is a self-taught visual artist born and raised in Reykjavík, but has been working in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he currently resides. Elli's works are based on imaginary forms of Icelandic nature with no specific places in mind, the brush steers the directionof the works... Read more -
Lukas Bury
You Look Like a Viking 30 Apr - 22 May 2022 In his exhibition 'You look like a viking' Lukas Bury explores the creation of identity and what it means to be an immigrant and a man of many nations. Where is home and what does it mean? Through the making of paintings, accompanied by writing – both, external as a... Read more -
Lilja Birgisdóttir
It's Not You, It's Me 2 - 24 Apr 2022 Read more -
Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir
Arfur 5 - 27 Mar 2022 Read more -
Snowland Art
Snowland Art @ Þula 4 - 23 Dec 2021 Read more -
Lilý Erla Adamsdóttir
Ofankoma 6 - 28 Nov 2021 Read more -
Sindri "Sparkle" Freyr
Portraits of Pleasure 23 Oct - 7 Nov 2021 Read more -
Rakel McMahon
LAX 11 Sep - 3 Oct 2021 Read more -
Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttr
Pönk rómantík (Fullkominn ófullkomleiki) / Punk Romance 14 Aug - 5 Sep 2021 Read more -
Sigurður Ámundason
Landslag með manneskju / Landacape with a human 29 May - 20 Jun 2021 Read more -
Anna Maggý
The Perfect Body 1 - 23 May 2021 Read more -
Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir
Húsvörður slær í gegn 10 Apr - 1 May 2021 Read more -
Kristín Morthens
Gegnumtrekkur 6 - 28 Mar 2021 In this body of works, Kristín explores narrative tradition, timelessness, paradoxes, and risks. She does this through paintings that show ecosystems of organic forms with sharp claws in chaotic spaces and landscapes. The forms either sink/float, stretch, pull on and poke, either through a dialogue with themselves or towards each... Read more -
Sunneva Ása Weisshappel
Undirlög / Layers 6 - 28 Feb 2021 Read more -
Tolli
Landflæði / Landflow 14 Nov - 5 Dec 2020 Read more -
Dýrfinna Benita Basalan
Náttúrulega brothætt / Natural Fragility 17 Oct - 7 Nov 2020 Read more -
Aðalheiður Daly Þórhallsdóttir
Allar leiðir liggja heim / All Roads Lead To Home 19 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 Utinam nonumy aliquip ne vim, no nihil dicam est. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut suas vocent prodesset nam. Mel libris phaedrum ad. Dicit possit luptatum qui an. Quisque egestas diam in arcu cursus euismod quis. Arcu vitae elementum curabitur vitae nunc... Read more -
Þórdís Erla Zoega
Hyper Cyber 29 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 Utinam nonumy aliquip ne vim, no nihil dicam est. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut suas vocent prodesset nam. Mel libris phaedrum ad. Dicit possit luptatum qui an. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut... Read more -
Hugleikur Dagsson
Ríða, Drepa, Kúra / Fuck, Cuddle, Kill 1 - 22 Aug 2020 Utinam nonumy aliquip ne vim, no nihil dicam est. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut suas vocent prodesset nam. Mel libris phaedrum ad. Dicit possit luptatum qui an. Read more -
Guðmundur Thoroddsen
Houndshills, Houndshollows 6 Jun - 8 Aug 2020 It is possible to buy a beer called Hundur, the English translation being: Dog. It is in a can, with a yellow label, it is organic. If you look closer at the label you’ll see that what you thought was a pattern or some green-colored smudges are really small dogs... Read more -
Guðmundur Thoroddsen
Tittlingaskítur 30 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 The world we encounter in Thoroddsen’s cut out pictures is strange but striking. We see odd men wandering about in a directionless space, some wearing suits and others in their underwear, but all of them very preoccupied; they are focused and busy doing something though it is hard to see... Read more