Artist talk (in Icelandic)

May 18th 2025 at 15:00

All the artists with work in our exhibition Among Gods and Mortals: Icelandic Artists in Varanasi will be present in the museum and give an artist talk in Icelandic. There will be chance to meet the artists and ask questions in English afterwards.

Einar Falur Ingólfsson

Eygló Harðadóttir

Guðjón Ketilsson

Margrét H. Blöndal

Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson

Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir

Curator: Pari Stave

An evening with Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (in Icelandic)

May 22nd 2025 at 19:30

Guðrún Eva was born in Reykjavík in 1976 but raised all over the country, including in Mosfellssveit, Kirkjubæjarklaustur and Garður in Gerðahreppur. She completed her matriculation examination from Hamrahlíð High School in 1996 and graduated from the University of Iceland in 2007 with a BA in philosophy. Guðrún Eva has been nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize four times and won it in 2011 for the novel Allt með kossi vekur. She has been nominated for the DV Cultural Prize three times and won it twice; in 2005 for Yosoy and in 2014 for Englaryk. She also received Award in early 2019 for the short story collection Ástin Texas. In 2021, she was nominated for the Nordic Literature Prize. She has also received recognition from RÚV for her writing and the Literary Prize for her novel Í skugga trjánna. In addition to writing fiction, Guðrún Eva works part-time as a writing teacher at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Yoga hour

June 14th 2025 at 15:30

In collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Iceland we are offering a free Yoga practice.

Come and join us for this event.

Darmowa joga w muzeum – we współpracy z Indyjską Ambasadą w Islandii zapraszamy na darmową praktykę Jogi.

Dołącz do nas!

Blooming days in collaboration with the town of Hveragerði

August 14 – 17th 2025

Program will follow soon.