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.
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:
Where the land begins
Guided tour of Cornerstone exhibition.
June 25h 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.
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.
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.
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.
Iran / Iceland
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.