March 2nd 2024
15:00
Four openings
Exhibitors:
Erla S. Haraldsdóttir My Mother ´ s dream
Kristinn Már Pálmason Kaþarsis
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir
Hrafnkell Sigurðsson Antenna
On March 2nd we open four exhibitions of accomplished Icelandic artists Erla S. Haraldsdóttir, Kristinn Már Pálmason, Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir and Hrafnkell Sigurðsson.
They each present new and recent works, some of which are created especially for the exhibitions, only a few have been shown in Iceland before. It is therefore a special honour and delight for the LÁ Art Museum to be able to invite its visitors to enjoy the exhibitions.
The works of the exhibitions are created in different media, originating in various practices. However, they are strongly connected through the artists´ use of symbolism in their approach to make visible that what belongs on the edge of the explainable, the visible and possibly the perceptible, an edge that contains elements that are not obvious at a first glance, just outside of the five senses of understanding and perception most of us define as human senses. It depends entirely on our individual experiences how many dimensions of the senses we consider as our ability to experience the world and ourselves with, and in which ways we enhance and nurture that ability. These important aspects of the human experience form the basis of the colourful and dynamic works of the exhibition and invite museum visitors on a journey at the edge of copious side worlds.
March 2nd 2024
15:15
Performance by Mikael Lind
Mikael Lind is a composer of experimental ambient music, currently residing in Reykjavik, Iceland. He has got three full-length releases under his belt, as well as a number of digital releases, and he recently earned a Master’s degree in electronic music production from the University of Edinburgh.
Mikael’s music is often based around simple themes that gradually evolve into more complex creations, where sounds and textures are given enough space to slowly introduce themselves, expand, and finally be manipulated into something different. There’s a certain minimalism and sparseness in the choice of instruments, but not in how these instruments are treated. A simple piano line might be carefully developed into a full ambient orchestration with the help of electronic techniques of sound manipulation.
Mikael enjoys the cold climate of the North, and gets inspired by symmetries in his environment, as well as by man-made buildings or artefacts that gradually change and deteriorate due to the forces of nature. He finds beauty in both the simple and the sublime, and this is something that his music wants to express. Complexity – when properly understood – is a wonderful thing, but should never be an end in itself.
Photo: In Mengi 2022. Visuals by Sigga Björg.
22. December from 15:00
Music performance and events in connection with the exhibition May Your Hand Not Hurt.
Saleh Rozati from Iran will perform on the traditional Persian Daf drum to the accompaniment of his own sound performance.
Sufism is the mystical side of Islam and music is used to fall into a trance with dance and thus get closer to God. People are welcome to experience the performance by dancing along.
Free and all welcome 💛
The event is held on the final day of Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson’s exhibition May Your Hand Not Hurt.
22. December 14:00
Artist talk with Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson
May Your Hand Not Hurt.
For the last day of the exhibition we want to invite you to the museum to enjoy artist talk with artist Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson in his installation space, gallery 4.
Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson is an artist from Hveragerði but he lives and works in Vienna. The exhibition is in some ways about his relationship with Iran as he has spent lot of time there in the past and the exhibition is done in collaboration with Shanay Artemis Hubmann and other artists from Iran.
Artist talk
17th of November 2023. At 14:00
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir.
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir, who turned nineteen this year, was awarded this year’s Fine Arts Award for her contribution to Icelandic art. She worked mainly in graphics in her younger years and is one of the pioneers of graphic art in Iceland.
The event will be in Icelandic. (but you can also ask questions in English and Alda Rose project manager of education will tell you more).
For more info contact: fraedsla (at) listasafnarnesinga.is
Cosmos / Chaos
2nd of September 2023. At 15:00
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Ragnheiður will be 90 years old in July 2023, and to celebrate we are opening a solo exhibition LÁ Art Museum.
Ragnheiður held his first solo exhibition in 1968 and has been working non-stop on art since. Ragnheiður’s work is often about self-deception – blindness – greed – loneliness – restlessness – the environment – our world.
Ragnheiður says that, in her mind, art is a conversation between the artist and the viewer. That the purpose is achieved when she manages to move the viewer.
Curated by Daría Sól Andrews.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
May Your Hand Not Hurt
2nd of September 2023, at 15:00
Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson
in collaboration with
Shanay Artemis Hubmann
Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson is an artist from Hveragerði but he lives and works in Vienna. The exhibition is in some ways about his relationship with Iran as he has spent lot of time there in the past and the exhibition is done in collaboration with Shanay Artemis Hubmann and other artists from Iran.
There will be a performance by saLeh roZati / Pourea Alimirzae from 15:00 – 17:00 in gallery 4.
Inga Jónsdóttir
Guided tour of the museum collection and the exhibition Cornerstone.
August 13th 2023 at 14:00
Former director of LÁ Art Museum will give a guided tour of the current exhibition Cornerstone. The event will be in Icelandic but there is possibilities to ask questions in English.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Hildur Hákonardóttir
Guided tour of the museum collection and the exhibition Cornerstone.
June 25th 2023 at 15:00
The visual artist Hildur Hákonardóttir will guide visitors through the exhibition Cornerstone and discuss the history of the museum and her time as director of the museum.
The event will be in Icelandic but there is possibilities to ask questions in English.
Photo credit:
https://skald.is/vidtol/17-eins-og-huldukonur-i-sogu-thjodarinnar-vidtal-vid-huldu-hakonardottur
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Where the land begins
Guided tour of Cornerstone exhibition.
June 25th 2023 at 14:00
Sunday, June 25 at 14:00, Rakel Pétursdóttir, museum expert, will guide you through the Cornerstone exhibition in the LÁ Art Museum.
The exhibition will be discussed from the perspective of the development of Icelandic art history in the light of a combination of younger and older works.
Today, Rakel is a self-employed specialist, but for about 35 years she held the position of specialist and head of the department of education and later of research and special collections at the National Gallery of Iceland.
The event will be in Icelandic but there is possibilities to ask questions in English.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Independent Day in the Museum.
June 17th 2023 from 14:00
The Museum is open on Independent day and we will have some folklore music and performance. Also there will be a discussion about the artist Ásgrímur Jónsson
The event will be in Icelandic but there is possibilities to ask questions in English.
We encourage people to drive the Way of Ásgrímur. You can find the map here:
In Ásgrímur museum
Helgi Gíslason artist´s memories.
June 4th 2023 at 14:00
Artist Helgi Gíslason stayed as a young students many hours in the house of the artist Ásgrímur Jónsson. He will share his memories and his time with Bjarnveig Bjarnadóttir, Ásgrímur´s cousin and the first director of Ásgrímur´s museum.
The event will be in Icelandic but there is possibilities to ask questions in English.
photo credit: https://listasafnreykjavikur.is/en/events/helgi-gislason-where-boundaries-lie
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Bjarnveig Bjarnadóttir
with Vilhjálmur Bjarnason
May 14th 2023 at 14:00
Former MP and current chairman of the Museum Council of Iceland mr. Vilhjálmur Bjarnason will introduce Bjarnveig Bjarnadóttir who gave the foundation gift to the museum 60 years ago.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Our Art history
Guided tour
April 30th 2023 at 14:00
Art historian Halldór Björn Runólfsson will guide visitors through the exhibition Cornerstone, guided by Icelandic art history.
Halldór Björn has a PhD in Art Studies from the University of Paris (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne) and is the former director of the National Gallery of Iceland.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Landscape with the eyes of Ásgrímur
Guided tour
April 1st 2023 at 14:00
On Saturday, April 1st at 14:00, Rakel Pétursdóttir, museum expert, will guide you through a limited section of the Cornerstone exhibition in the LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði. The work of Ásgrímur Jónsson will be discussed in particular at the exhibition in connection with the project Life of Ásgrímur, where organized trips to Ásgrímur’s paths in Árnes County will be offered. The partners are: Heritage Museum in Eyrarbakki – the House and National Gallery of Iceland
Today, Rakel is a self-employed specialist, but for about 35 years she held the position of specialist and head of the department of education and later of research and special collections at the National Gallery of Iceland. Rakel will discuss the formative years and career of Ásgrímur Jónsson and the impact of his works in relation to the national awakening and the struggle for independence of Icelanders in the first half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition is supported by:
Museum Council of Iceland and South Iceland Development fund.
Cornerstone
60 years of LÁ Art Museum, Highlights of the collection
February 11th – August 20th 2023
At 15:00
We are celebrating our 60th anniversary and you are invited.
The museum has a unique collection of approximately 550 works of art, from the greatest masters of Icelandic art to lesser-known artists. Founded in 1963, it was the first art museum in Iceland to open outside the capital. Bjarnveig Bjarnadóttir and her sons Loftur and Bjarni Magnús may justly be said to have laid the cornerstone for the LÁ Art Museum with a generous donation of works of art from their collection in 1963. Their initial gift comprised 41 works of art, and they continued to donate works to the museum until 1986 – when the collection amounted to 75 works of art. It contains works of the greatest masters of Icelandic painting in the first half of the twentieth century: 19 paintings by Ásgrímur Jónsson, and works by Kjarval, Gunnlaugur Scheving, Jón Stefánsson and Þorvaldur Skúlason among others. Bjarnveig’s taste is noteworthy, as is her sense of new trends, as shown in her later gifts. She paid attention to the work of abstract artists (Hörður Ágústsson and Kjartan Guðjónsson) but also devoted a lot of effort to the works of Icelandic women, such as Björg Þorsteinsdóttir, Þorbjörg Höskuldsdóttir and Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir.
The exhibition is supported by the Museum Council and South Iceland Development Fund.
Mmm, Authors in the museum.
1st. of December 2022 at 20:00.
Welcome to an author’s night in LÁ Art Museum on December 1st. from 20:00. This event is in collaboration with Hveragerði Library.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Elísabet Jökulsdóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Pjetur Hafstein Lárusson and Þorvaldur S. Helgason read from their new books.
Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson tenor, will perform few songs and guests are invited to explore the current exhibition Sums & Differences.
Free Entry and all are welcome but the reading will be in Icelandic.
This event is supported by South Iceland Development fund.
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir
Celebration of her new book.
8th of December 2022 at 17:00.
Welcome to a publishing party in LÁ Art Museum on December 8th from 17:00 – 19:00.
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir will read from her newly published book Saknaðilmur and she will sign copies for guests.
Páll Óskar will also perform a few songs.
Ölverk Brewery in Hveragerði will be presenting Christmas beer and other drinks.
Free entry and all welcome.
South Iceland Biennale: Gathering
Saturday 12th of November at 13:00
On Saturday 12. November, a group of artists, designers, architects and scholars will gather at LÁ Art Museum and offer a varied program.
South Iceland Biennale (SIB) is a progressive movement that tackles, overturns, reverses and transforms. The purpose is to create a platform that brings art, design and architecture together to deal with the present and the future.
The program begins at 13h00 with a walk around the surrounding area of the LÁ Art Museum. A book work will be premiered as well as a new installation inspired by the works of Magnús Pálsson. There will be refreshments, an art workshop for children and adults, and informative discussions on pressing issues: sustainability, land conservation, innovation, energy efficiency, tourism, globalisation, global warming, the imbalance of power and the economy.
SIB develops and prepares interdisciplinary art events that are held every fall in the uplands of the south of Iceland at the edge of the highlands, where culture and nature collide. This time artists Steina Vasulka and Magnús Pálsson were named honorary artists and were looked to for guidance and inspiration. Annual events are about creating a platform for fruitful and creative ideas, interdisciplinary conversation that sharpens the view of man’s relationship with nature and the environment.
SIB’s goal is to strengthen progressive and critical discussion, research and education in the field of art, design and architecture. Through exhibitions, conferences, debates, publications and events, SIB aims to deepen the conversation about conflict lines and art’s methods of knowledge creation. The aim is to promote dialogue about what is at the top of the agenda in art, design and architecture in a local as well as an international context.
The project is supported by Iceland Visual Arts Fund.
Participants:
Aðalheiður L. Guðmundsdóttir ,Björk Hrafnsdóttir, Freyja Reynisdóttir, Garðar Eyjólfsson, Hlökk Þrastardóttir, Joe Keys, Kolbeinn Hringur Bambus Einarsson, Laufey Jakobsdóttir, María Dalberg, Maríanna Dúfa Sævarsdóttir, Martha Lyons Haywood, Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir, Óskar Örn Arnórsson, Pétur Eggertsson, Ragnhildur von Weisshappel, Sigrún Birgisdóttir, Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir, Silja Jónsdóttir, Sólbjört Vera Ómarsdóttir, Sólveig María Gunnarsdóttir, Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir, Tinna Guðmundsdóttir, Tinna Gunnarsdóttir, Unnar Örn, Vikram Pradhan, Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson, Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir, Þráinn Hjálmarsson.
Stop Motion workshop
Saturday 22nd of October at 13:00
French/Swedish artist and teacher Thomasine Giesecke leads the Stop motion workshop. The workshop is about creating still images in a variety of ways that are arranged in such a way that they become a moving image. Thomasine works at the largest museums in the city of Paris as an educational specialist, including the Musee d’Orsay, Le Louvre and the Orangerie museum.
Please register here:
fraedsla@listasafnarnesinga.is
Guided tour in Arabic.
29th of October 2022 at 15:00.
Yara Zein will introduce the history of the museum as well as the current exhibition for our guests in Arabic.
Free entry and all are welcome.
Funded by South Iceland Development Fund.
ستتجول الفنانة يارا زين معكم في أرجاء المتحف لتروي لكم تاريخه و تقدّم المعرض للزوار باللغة العربية.
الكلّ مرحّب به والدخول المجاني.
Stop Motion workshop
Saturday 22nd of October at 13:00
French/Swedish artist and teacher Thomasine Giesecke leads the Stop motion workshop. The workshop is about creating still images in a variety of ways that are arranged in such a way that they become a moving image. Thomasine works at the largest museums in the city of Paris as an educational specialist, including the Musee d’Orsay, Le Louvre and the Orangerie museum.
Please register here:
fraedsla@listasafnarnesinga.is
Symposium;
Can you read visual Arts?
24th of September 2022
LÁ Art museum holds a symposium where we look into how we can teach children and youngsters to read visual arts.
For more information write to: fraedsla@listasafnarnesinga.is
The Symposium is funded by: South Iceland Development Fund.
Artist talk with Gary Hill.
September 18th 2022 at 14:00
Gary Hill will take guests on a tour of his work. Booking is needed for this event and it will be in English.
Please register by writing an e-mail to: listasafn@listasafnarnesinga.is
The exhibition is supported by: Thoma Foundation, Icelandic Museum Council, South Iceland Development Fund, BERG Contemporary, Vasulka Foundation and the Town of Hveragerði.
OPENING
Sums & Differences
17th September at 15:00
The exhibition Sums & Differences at Listasafn Árnesinga—LÁ Art Museum brings together works by Gary Hill, Steina and Woody Vasulka. It aims to present the commonalities of their earliest explorations and the subsequent divergence of their artistic practices, their conceptual, performative, and contemplative interpretations of the physical and the immaterial, along three unique trajectories.
This collaborative project offers a new, albeit reductive, path through the artists’ extensive practices. In the exhibition the mutual exploratory relationship between image and sound is highlighted. The spectrum of work spans several decades and presents early exploratory pieces which use electronic processing tools that document real-time machine interactions and their performance and use as an augmentation of the senses. Additional works reflect the development of the artists’ individual vocabularies and illustrate how they utilize, examine, and break with the algorithm or code in a unique way through their experiential research.
Steina’s new work Parallel Trajectories and Gary Hill’s new piece None of the Above will be premiered at the exhibition and the rarely seen film works Peril in Orbit and 360 degree space records by Woody Vašulka will be featured in this new unexpected constellation.
Curated by Jennifer Helia DeFelice, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, and Kristín Scheving.
The exhibition is supported by: Thoma Foundation, Icelandic Museum Council, South Iceland Development Fund, BERG Contemporary, Vasulka Foundation and the Town of Hveragerði.
Forrest Forrester (Ola Baldyga) cellist and composer.
3rd of September at 15:00
Forrest Forrester – is the alias of Ola Baldyga, a cellist and composer from Poland now based in Reykjavik, Iceland. Over the years she has collaborated with numerous musicians e.g. as a cellist in folk band “Saint NIcholas Orchestra” or as a session cellist in “Percival” group. In her solo performances she uses a live looping effect which can give an impression of a whole string quartet playing live. She’s experimenting with an unusual timbre of cello along with vocal and backup of a bass guitar. The music you’re gonna hear is an original, artistic work, where neoclassical and experimental genres collide with the Slavic and Nordic traditions.
POLISH:
Forrest Forrester – czyli Ola Baldyga, to wiolonczelista, kompozytorka i aranżerka, pochodząca z Polski, mieszkająca na stałe w Reykjaviku. Przez lata współpracowała z szeregiem muzyków m.in. z folkową grupą muzyczną “Orkiestra Świętego Mikołaja”, oraz z grupą “Percival”. W swoich solowych występach używa efektu zapętlania ścieżek melodycznych, co daje wrażenie pełnego kwartetu smyczkowego, grającego na żywo. Artystka eksperymentuje z unikatowym brzmieniem wiolonczeli, przy akompaniamencie gitary basowej i wokalu. Muzyka którą usłyszycie, jest oryginalną pracą artystki, gdzie neoklasyczne i eksperymentalne gatunki muzyki zderzają się ze słowiańskimi i nordyckimi tradycjami.
Artist talk.
September 3rd 2022 at 14:00
Artists’ talk in Icelandic
CLOSING WEEKEND with an exciting artist-talk: Eggert Pétursson, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Kees Visser and Rúrí will be in conversation about art and international connections in the seventies and their art practices today.
Rúrí / ljósmynd: María Rún Jóhannsdóttir
Curator talk
August 20th. 2022 at 14:00.
Curatorial talk with Zsóka Leposa will be in the museum on August 20th. in English for our summer exhibition Are you glad if you can ask something?
Avant-garde artists from the Eastern Bloc wanted to connect to the Western art world in the sixties and seventies. At the same time, Icelandic art scene was opening to Fluxus and mail art due to the widespread networking by the artists and galleries such as SÚM and Gallery Suðurgata 7. This two-sided attempt to connect resulted in lively correspondence and a few exhibitions by Hungarian artists.
We will shed light on artists’ practices in networking and putting up exhibitions in Iceland when in the East communication was hectically censored, and traveling was strictly limited. Cooperation between Icelandic and Hungarian artists led to humorous, thought-provoking, and often self-ironic shows.
In the summer exhibition at LÁ Art Museum, the re-enactment of these historical shows will be accompanied by recent art practices of the very same artists who took part in the cooperation and made the Icelandic art field of the seventies alive.
Artists: Eggert Pétursson, Endre Tot, Gábor Attalai, Géza Perneczky, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Kees Visser, Rúrí, Sigurður Guðmundsson.
A FemLink screening during Flowering days festival in Hveragerði
August 11th – 14th. 2022
At the Floweringdays (festival) in Hveragerði August 11th – 14th 2022, the LÁ Art Museum (Listasafn Árnesinga) will show video works from the international association of women artists FemLink – Art.
FemLink – Art (FL’Art) was founded in 2005 by visual artist and curator Veronique Sapin from France and USA intermedia artist C.M. Judge with the aim create and show collec-tively women’s video works internationally.145 women artists from 64 countries are par-ticipants in FemLink and have created works for 12 thematic video combinations that contain 24 – 34 videos each theme.
According to the FemLink website: “In a historical context, women have had a difficult time in the art world and women’s art practice was called “women’s art” for degrading purposes. Even today, women artists are ostracized in too many countries around the world. FL’Art’s main goal is for them to be recognized as artists”.
In this exhibition, the theme “Vital” was chosen and contains 24 videos by 24 women artists from 24 countries.
The artists are: Sima Zureikat, Jordan. Evgenija Demnievska, Serbia. Elena Arzuffi, Italy. Samirah Alkassim, Palestine. Kamila B. Richter, from the Czech Republic. Van Breest Smallenburg, The Netherlands. Aki Nakazawa, Japan. Véronique Sapin, France. Raquel Kogan / Lea van Steen, Brazil. Ana Bezelga, Portugal. Najmun Nahar Keya, Bangladesh. Aliaa El-Gready, Egypt. Esther Johson, United Kingdom. C. M. Judge, United States. Dorte Jelstrup, Denmark. Sigrún Harðardóttir, Iceland. Monica Dower, Mexico. Verena Schaukal, Germany. Alejandra Delgado, Bolivia. Judith Lava, Austria. Carolina Saquel, Chile. Minoo Iran pour Mobarakeh, Iran. Christie Widiarto, Australia. Raya Mazigi, Lebanon.
12th of August at 17:00
Ómar Einarsson´s Jazz Quartet
at Flower festival in Hveragerði
The museum will host a Jazz concert during the Flower festival in collaboration with the Town of Hveragerði. Entry Free and all are welcome.
(The artwork here above is by Hörð Ágústsson and is in the museum collection)
Videoart from Lebanon by Yara Zein.
July 29th – August 1st. 2022
Yara Zein is an Iceland based Lebanese artist belonging to the generation raised after Lebanon’s civil war. Through video, Zein addresses the idea of collective amnesia and pleasure in an extremely complex and problematic environment.
She will introduce her films on Friday July 29th at 15:00 and then they will be playing during the bank holiday weekend July 29th – August 1st. the event will be in English, Arabic (and French), free entry and all are welcome.
يارا زين فنانة لبنانية مقيمة في آيسلندا تنتمي إلى الجيل الذي نشأ بعد الحرب الأهلية في لبنان. من خلال الفيديو ، تخاطب
زين فكرة فقدان الذاكرة الجماعية والمتعة في بيئة صعبة. ستعرض الأفلام في عطلة نهاية الأسبوع من 29 يوليو إلى 1
أغسطس. سيكون الحدث باللغات الإنجليزية والعربية والفرنسية ، والدخول مجاني والجميع مرحب بهم
Yara Zein est une artiste libanaise basée en Islande appartenant à la génération élevée après la guerre civile au Liban. À travers la vidéo, Zein aborde l’idée d’amnésie collective et le plaisir dans un environnement extrêmement complexe et problématique. Elle présentera ses vidéos pendant le week-end férié du 29 juillet au 1er août. L‘événement sera en anglais, arabe et en français, entrée gratuite et tous sont les bienvenus.
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir, Sam Reese (UK) og Nick White (UK)
Small Art book workshops
June 2022
Artist Lóa H. Hjálmtýsdóttir will invite artists into her exhibition space in LÁ Art Museum where they will offer workshops and add into her ongoing exhibition until end of summer ´22.
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Opening
June 4th 2022 at 15:00
The South Icelandic Symphony Orchestra plays for guests.
Are you glad if you can ask something?
Networking between East and North
June 4th- September 4th 2022
Avant-garde artists from the Eastern Bloc wanted to connect to the Western art world in the sixties and seventies. At the same time, Icelandic art scene was opening to Fluxus and mail art due to the widespread networking by the artists and galleries such as SÚM and Gallery Suðurgata 7. This two-sided attempt to connect resulted in lively correspondence and a few exhibitions by Hungarian artists.
We will shed light on artists’ practices in networking and putting up exhibitions in Iceland when in the East communication was hectically censored, and traveling was strictly limited. Cooperation between Icelandic and Hungarian artists led to humorous, thought-provoking, and often self-ironic shows.
In the summer exhibition at LÁ Art Museum, the re-enactment of these historical shows will be accompanied by recent art practices of the very same artists who took part in the cooperation and made the Icelandic art field of the seventies alive.
Participating artists:
Eggert Pétursson (IS, 1956) his visual world focusses on plants in all their various forms, as found in Iceland. Lives and works in Reykjavík.
Endre Tot (HU, 1937) Hungarian painter, performer, and conceptual artist. One of the most active practitioners of the Mail Art movement and creator of artist’s books. In 1978, he emigrated to West-Berlin then to Cologne, where he lives and works. His works are, among others, in Centre George Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, New York; or Tate Modern, London.
Gábor Attalai (HU, 1934–2011), was conceptual artist, photographer, installation artist and performer, one of the leading representatives of the Hungarian artistic nomadism. In his conceptual work, with a large dose of humour and irony, he explores the relationship between art practice and theory, as well as art and its environment.
Géza Perneczky (HU, 1936) is a protagonist of Hungarian conceptual art and part of the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde. In 1970 the artist, art historian, art critic and author emigrated to Cologne, where he lives and works until today.
Ingólfur Arnarsson (IS, 1956) former Professor at Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland, one of the leading artists of Icelandic minimal art.
Kees Visser (b. 1948) left his native Holland in the 1970s and settled in Iceland where he continues to spend part of his time while also residing in the Netherlands and in France. In Iceland he became part of the cosmopolitan art scene with its strong focus on Fluxus, minimalism and conceptual art. Visser’s own work has long combined these influences in works that emphasise abstraction and serial presentation, focusing on colour theory and the exploration of spatial forms and representations.
Kristján Guðmundsson (IS, 1941) was central to the Icelandic group SÚM in the 1960s, young artists inspired by international conceptualism. They became a hugely influential turning point in the history of contemporary art in Iceland. For decades Kristján Gudmundsson has created artworks that capture the moment where concept collides with reality. He lives and works in Iceland.
Rúrí (IS, 1951) is a contemporary artist who works in new media, photography, sculpture, and installation. She is one of Scandinavia’s first performance artists, and an early practitioner of multimedia installation in northern Europe. She is an internationally exhibiting artist and currently lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Sigurður Guðmundsson (IS, 1942) is among the most prominent artists of Iceland. During his career, he has expressed himself in most media – photography, text, sculpture, painting, performance. In his works, absurdity and occasional comedy shift into a mood of melancholy and a flight from life on earth as we know it. He lives and works in Djúpivogur, Reykjavík, Amsterdam and Xiamen in China.
Curator: Zsóka Leposa
Co-curator: László Százados
Open studio with Nick White (UK).
June 4th – 6th, 2022
Artist and musician Nick White will be in Hveragerði in June for a Residency. He will be based partly in LÁ Art Museum. During the weekend 4th – 6th of June he will invite you to his open studio in Gallery 4 in the museum. Guests are invited to take part in his creative process.
Supported by the town of Hveragerði.
11th of June from 14:00 -16:00
Symposium; Are you glad if you can ask something?
14:00 – 14:05 Short introduction and welcoming;
Zsóka Leposa and Kristín Scheving.
14:05 – 14:25 Zsóka Leposa: Are you glad if you can ask something?
14:25 – 14: 45 Kristian Handberg; “Exhibiting across the Iron Curtain: The forgotten trail of Danish artists exhibiting in the context of state socialism, ca. 1955-1985”
14:45 – 15:00 Part of the interviews with artists Géza Perneczky & Endre Tót
15:00 – 15:20 Unnar Örn Auðarson – ‘The Network is Everlasting’ : A visual essay on artists breaking out of isolation
New art-work by
Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir.
May 1st 2022 at 13:30
We are celebrating with Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir and PETIT_ARTPRINTS the launch of a new art work in editions.
Open to all, free entry.
Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir (1976) is a visual artist based in Iceland. Ingunn Fjóla graduated with an MA degree in Fine Art from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2017 and a BA degree in Fine Art from the same institution in 2007. She also holds a BA degree in Art History from the University of Aarhus, received in 2002. Ingunn Fjóla works mainly in painting and installation. Her practice draws on the history of minimalism and abstract painting, by adding interactive elements or direct participation, Ingunn Fjóla extends the field of painting into an open system in which the work is animated by the viewer and the space. Ingunn Fjóla’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in Iceland, including The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art. Ingunn Fjóla has participated in several group exhibitions internationally including the Prague Biennale 5, Cluj Museum, Rumenia and Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany. Recent exhibitions include Moments Unfolding / Efnisgerð augnablik (Living Art Museum, 2021), Threads of Art / Listþræðir (The National Gallery of Iceland, 2021) and Image afterimage / Mynd eftirmynd (Kompan- Alþýðuhúsið, Siglufjörður, 2020)
www.ingunnfjola.net
Photograph: Helgi V. Bragason
Kutikuti (FI)
21-24 April 2022
Pop-up exhibition & workshops.
KUTIKUTI is a non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland in 2005. The core of Kutikuti consists of ca. fifty members who make, teach, and publish comics. Kutikuti has over a hundred supportive members around the world and has fastly become one of the most recognized marvels of the Finnish comics scene abroad.
Artists presenting their work:
Heikki Rönkkö www.heikkironkko.com
Sanna Hukkanen www.sannahukkanen.com
Terhi Ekebom www.terhiekebom.com
Emmi Valve facebook.com/emmi.valve
Miissa Rantanen www.miissa.com
Hanneriina Moisseinen cargocollective.com/moisseinen
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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Small art books – workshops with
Lóa H. Hjálmtýsdóttir & Sam Reese.
April 21st. – 24th. 2022
Artists Lóa H. Hjálmtýsdóttir and Sam Reese will introduce some ways of making small art books and print-work for our guests from April 21st. until 24th.
Free Entrance and everybody is welcome.
Thanks to South Iceland Development fund and the Town of Hveragerði for supporting this event.
Guided tour with artist Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir.
April 21st. 2022 at 13:00
In You are the Input, Ingunn Fjóla explores the tension between order and disorder in a playful manner. The installation is first of all painterly, in the sense that a system of patterns can be painterly. Within this system is an immersive experience in which the visitor operates the shifting scene as they move about the space, interacting with subtle ques embedded in the layout. The installation is meant to be disturbed, but the manner of this disruption is displayed in such a way that the polarity between acts of disruption and composition are brought into question.
Ingunn Fjóla’s previous works have mainly been composed of painting and installation. Using different materials arranged in unsuspecting ways that challenge the viewer’s aesthetic and visual perception of an exhibition space, she merges the preconceived information received by the eye with a conceptualism that speaks to the physicality of the body. The body of the viewer takes part in an abstract narrative created by a variety of surfaces and angles. The painted surfaces in her oeuvre play many roles – at times they are a partition wall or cat-walk and at other times a sign, stage, or screen.
In You are the Input, the visitor can move materials in the exhibition around so that the system can break, or form, depending on how you conceive of the continuum of order and disorder. Everything exists within a range of movement established by the input of the visitor. At the end of the day, the exhibition is reset to the original pattern so that the variability always begins from the same point zero the next day and so the installation continues to exist in a constant flux between order and disorder.
Curator: Erin Honeycutt.
3rd of July 2021 at 15:00
The Ocean survives without us.
OPENING OF AN EXHIBITION WITH WORK BY GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR AND INGER-JOHANNE BRAUTASET.
The exhibition was previously at Oseana Kunst- & Kultursenter in Norway.
The Norwegian Ambassador Mrs. Aud Lise Norheim will open the exhibition formally. The Norwegian embassy is sponsoring the opening.
“The Ocean survives without us” is a collaborative project about the ocean between Iceland and Norway where we wish to dive into an unknown, unexplored underworld – we swim between sharks, plants, plankton and unknown species, and now, in addition, also plastics, a new breed.
The book “Shark Drunk” by Morten Strøksnes has been common reading for this exhibition.
Guðrún and Inger-Johanne
The project and exhibition is supported by Kulturradet in Norway.
17th of June 2021 from 14 – 16
Pop-up concert with Ingibjörg Turchi and her band in collaboration with the town of Hveragerði.
Open call
Open call – we are looking for female participants to take part in a performance in LÁ Art Museum, please contact: annakolfinna@gmail.com
Nabór otwarty – poszukujemy uczestniczek do udziału w przedsięwzięciu w Galerii Sztuki Listasafn Árnesinga, kontakt: annakolfinna@gmail.com
Árnes دعوة مفتوحة: نبحث عن مشاركات للمشاركة في عرض بمتحف للفنون ، ويرجى الاتصال بالبريد الإلكتروني التالي: annakolfinna@gmail.com
18th of May
International Museum Day
After a successful first partnership in International Museum Day 2020, ICOM and five Wikimedia associations continue their cooperation to boost the visibility of museums in Wikipedia, Wikidata and more.
The museum sector is among the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, this crisis has served as a catalyst for crucial innovations, notably an increased focus on the creation of new forms of cultural experience and dissemination. Many museums have adapted their operations to support virtual formats, released high resolution images and information under a free license and organise virtual collection tours.
The objective of Wikimedia associations in the GLAM area is to help memory institutions to share their curatorial resources with the global community through Wikipedia and its sister projects, making cultural heritage discoverable and free accessible to the world. Given our common objectives, strengthening our collaboration and launching another International Museum Day Wiki-project was the logical step for the 2021 edition, dedicated to the theme “The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine”.
“This year, International Museum Day is addressing a very interesting theme due to the circumstances we all are facing in the cultural sector and elsewhere”, says Debora Lopomo, GLAM Program and Partnership Manager of Wikimedia CH. Together with the Wikimedia associations of Austria, Germany, France and Italy, Wikimedia Switzerland has set up a new program which includes the call to improve the presence of museums on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. A Wikidata competition from 3 to 18 May shall motivate volunteers to contribute.
In 2020, 278 participants created 715 items and edited nearly 20,000 others. The campaign also encouraged volunteers to add translations of existing pages in minority languages, to allow accessibility across diverse communities. Through the two weeks, the number of edits reached 175,000, representing 28,6 million bytes!
https://icom.museum/en/news/icom-wikimedia-international-museum-day/
Artist and curator talk
7th of February 2021 at 14:00
Jonatan Habib Engqvist curator of тройка exhibition, talks to artists Kristján Steingrímur, Pétur Magnússon and Tumi Magnússon about their work.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions we can only admit 20 guests at a time.
Artist and curator talk
7th of February at 16:00
Jonatan Habib Engqvist curator of Rófurass exhibition, talks to artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir about their work.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions we can only admit 20 guests at a time.
Pop-up exhibition with work by Pálína Erlendsdóttir and Elfa Björk Jónsdóttir.
16th of October – 1st of November 2020
Art Without Borders is an annual festival in Reykjavik, Iceland. It showcases art from all art forms by disabled artists and supports collaborations between artists. The festival was founded in 2003 during the European Year of People with Disabilities.
Artist director of Art without border Birta Guðjónsdóttir has installed work by two artists Pálína Erlendsdóttir and Elfa Björk Jónsdóttir, who live at Sólheimar.
Art Without Borders is the only venue in Iceland that focuses entirely on the artistic creation of disabled artists and is absolutely unique within the Icelandic art scene. Every year the festival gains more attention, interest and respect. It is essential to create a platform where new opportunities and paths can open up to encourage equality within our society. Bringing together different groups and individuals opens more and more doors and opportunities. The visibility of different individuals is important, both in society and in social discourse.
The festival has collaborated with different individuals, organisations and groups, collaborated with art museums, working artists, playgroups and musicians. The festival has initiated discourse on the image of disabled artists in the arts and the art of disabled people in collaboration with the University of Iceland, the National Museum and the Nordic House. Art Without Borders emphasizes that the art of disabled artists is valued equally within the arts scene as the art of disabled artists.
LÁ Art Museum in collaboration with Art Without Border and Sólheimar.
Artist talk 20th of September at 15:00
Daria Sol Andrews curator of Norðrið speaks to artists Arngunnur Ýr and Erna Skúladóttir about their work in the exhibition.
Norðrið focuses in on the Northern countries and their adapting environments, exploring the ways in which changes in nature are influencing and informing artists ́ expressions and ideas, through a lens of climate change here in a Scandinavian climate specifically. In order to make sense of these rapid shifts in the northern landscape, the selected artists affirm instability and change as a necessary part of nature. As the effects of climate change in the North bring with it an uncertainty towards the future of our known landscapes, these six artists reimagine the place and the function of the human, using their artistic practices to come to terms with change and reinvention within nature.
This event is in Icelandic.
A conversation with Skúli Gunnlaugsson
6th of September at 14:00
The exhibition Zeitgeist comprises a diverse range of works from the collection of physician and collector Skúli Gunnlaugsson. The common factor of the pieces is that all were made in the last decade. The artists represented in the exhibition are of the younger generation of artists, who have made their mark on the Icelandic art scene in recent years. The exhibition Zeitgeist takes as its starting-point the artist’s relationship with the culture and zeitgeist of their time, and explores how societal upheavals may be observed through art.
This event is in Icelandic.
Zeitgeist – Curator´s talk
19th of July at 14:00
Vigdís Rún Jónsdóttir, art theorist, is the curator of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary art from the private collection of Skúli Gunnlaugsson
The exhibition comprises a diverse range of works from the collection of physician and collector Skúli Gunnlaugsson. The common factor of the pieces is that all were made in the last decade. The artists represented in the exhibition are of the younger generation of artists, who have made their mark on the Icelandic art scene in recent years. The exhibition Zeitgeist takes as its starting-point the artist’s relationship with the culture and zeitgeist of their time, and explores how societal upheavals may be observed through art.
This event is in Icelandic.
Baniprosonno paper animals
The Indian artist Baniprosonno has visited LÁ Art Museum few times and worked with the locals in making his art. He has made his own paper animals that he allowed us to produce and to celebrate summer we are giving a copy of it to all schools in South Iceland.
It is also for sale in our museum shop.
This project got funding from South Iceland Development Fund.
Baniprosonno verkefnamappa
Mappan inniheldur leiðbeiningar fyrir fjögur dýr; fíl, frosk, fisk og hest. Einnig prufubrotsblöð og skapalónsblöð fyrir hvert dýr og litað skólakarton tilsniðið í réttum stærðum. Leiðbeiningarnar, prufubrotsblöðin og skapalónin er síðan hægt að ljósrita að vild til áframhaldandi sköpunar. Í möppunni er einnig einblöðungur um líf og list Bani.Sökum Covid 19 hefur safnið verið lokað og því höfum ekki getað sinnt neinu barna-og fjölskyldustarfi eða skólastarfi og er þetta okkar leið til skapa tengsl við skóla á Suðurlandi og eiga þátt í því að örva sköpunargleði barna og ungmenna, því það er leikur að læra og svo lengi lærir sem lifir.Við tökum svo upp þráðinn að nýju þegar skólastarf hefst í haust og bjóðum nemendum og kennurum að taka þátt í verkefnum með okkur.Hér er að finna leiðbeiningarvídeó fyrir verkefninu og vídeóupptöku af Baniprosonno (á ensku):
https://vimeo.com/414555495
https://vimeo.com/415106588
https://vimeo.com/415105709
https://vimeo.com/415104767
https://vimeo.com/415107684
Nánari upplýsingar gefur: Kristín Þóra Guðbjartsdóttir, fræðslufulltrúi, kristin@listasafnarnesinga.is
18th of May – International Museum Day
With the theme “Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion”, International Museum Day 2020 aims at becoming a rallying point to both celebrate the diversity of perspectives that make up the communities and personnel of museums, and champion tools for identifying and overcoming bias in what they display and the stories they tell.
We have invited two artists, Hera Fjord and Hrefna Lind to introduce their project ´Breaking barriers´ in collaboration with the prison Litla Hraun in South Iceland, where they have been developing work with the inmates and the staff at the prison.
Breaking barriers
Breaking barriers is a collaboration between artists Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir and Hera Fjord, Iceland’s largest prison Litla Hraun and LÁ Art Museum. The project is an offspring of Saga Residency which has been hosted in the town of Eyrarbakki since 2015. In February 2020 the residency worked with the staff and inmates at the prison Litla Hraun for the first time doing various art projects with the prisoners. Following the success of that Hera Fjord and Hrefna Lind now prepare workshops and an exhibition with the inmates, allowing them to turn their thoughts and feelings into art as well as allowing their voices to be heard by the public. LÁ Art Museum has invited Hera Fjord and Hrefna Lind to introduce their work on International Museum Day where it will be posted on this webpage as well as on Facebook and vimeo. With the theme Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion, International Museum Day 2020 aims at becoming a rallying point to both celebrate the diversity of perspectives that make up the communities and personnel of museums, and champion tools for identifying and overcoming bias in what they display and the stories they tell.
The project Breaking barriers has received a grant from https://www.sass.is/uppbyggingarsjodur/