Þórdís Þúfa & Kira Kira
Live music and reading.
November 28th 2024 from 20:00
20:00 Þórdís Þúfa reads from her book: Þín eru sárin
20:30 Kira kira plays new songs from her album: Unaðsdalur
Free event and open to all.
12/21 Long Thursday
November 28th 2024 from 12:00-21:00
Come and enjoy our exhibitions, introduction to products and live music on Thursday 28th when the museum will be open until 21:00.
20:00 Kirakira plays new songs from her album: Unaðsdalur
20:30 Þórdís Þúfa reads from her book: Þín eru sárin
Free event and open to all.
POL IS ART
Polish Culture days
November 9-10th 2024 from 12:00-17:00
POL IS ART
Experience and connections
On the weekend of November 9-10 we are going to hold Polish Creativity and Culture days – POL IS ART and it is to celebrate Poland’s Independence Day on November 11. And with us to organize this is Martyna Hopsa (Harasimczuk), an artist and project manager who lives and works in Hveragerði. We have invited creative individuals and businesses from Poland who are active in Iceland to present their work at the LÁ Art Museum. The main goals of the festival are to promote Polish artists and creatives living and working in Iceland, engage the local community, connect, foster interactions between artists and residents, promote Polish culture, art, and craftsmanship, and celebrate the inspiration that Iceland provides
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Poster is designed by the project manager Martyna Hopsa
and she said about the design:
I have this idea for the logo, inspired both: the museum logo and Polish traditional hand woven stripes fabrics used as blankets and for traditional clothing.
For further information: listasafn@listasafnarnesinga.is
Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir
Artist talk
November 2nd 2024 at 15:00
Even though artist Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir has long used photography as her medium in her art practice she can not be considered a traditional photographer. The photograph is the main material in her works, material she then bends, folds or stretches both literally and metaphorically. The photographs she snapps from everyday life; from other peoples artworks, architecture or nature. The photographs are then used as a basis for further structure of three dimensional art works. The outcome is an artwork that brings forward multiple surfaces that each one reflects light differently and/or making the artwork stretch into the exhibition space and dwell on the borders of two and three dimensiontal works.
Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir studied Fine Arts at Iceland Academy of the Arts; she got her B.a. degree in 2007 and in 2015 she got her M.a. from the same Academy. Alongside her individual art practice she has worked and exhibited in a two people collaborative Hugsteypan. Þórdís has exhibited widely in Iceland in Galleries and Museums.
Sigurður Guðjónsson
Artist talk
November 2nd 2024 at 14:00
Jóhannes Dagsson talkst to artist Sigurður Guðjónsson on Saturday 2nd of November.
Sigurður Guðjónsson is best known for his time-based media works where image, sound and space form an un- broken whole. He focuses particularly on the function of a variety of technical equipment, where the viewer is lured into a world of soothing repetition, rhythm and order, and the boundaries of the human and the mechanical become blurred. Sigurður Guðjónsson represented Iceland at 59th International Venice Biennale 2022 with his installation Perpetual motion, curated by Mónica Bello. Guðjónsson was awarded the Icelandic Art Prize for Visual Artist of the Year in 2018 for his exhibition Inlight organized by ASÍ Art Museum. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the National Gallery of Iceland,Reykjavik Art Museum, Scandinavia House in New York, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, Arario Gallery in Beijing, Liverpool Biennial in the UK, Tromsø Center For Contemporary Art in Norway, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and BergenKunsthall in Norway. He often collaborates with musical composers, resulting in intricate work, allowing the visual compositions to enchantingly merge with the musical ones in a single rhythmic and tonal whole.
Walk up old Kambar with historian Njörður Sigurðsson
October 5th 2024 at 11:00
Historian Njörður Sigurðsson will walk up with participants up old Kambar.
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Ronald Heu
Live Performance
September 28th 2024 at 15:00
In conjunction with our exhibition Organic Circuits we have a live performance by Ronald Heu.
Ronald Heu grew up in the south of Sweden. During his early teens he played in a variety of punk and alternative bands. After high school he studied classical guitar at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff where he graduated in 2002. With one foot in punk and its DIY approach and the other in classical music, he started composing and in 2016 he completed his first film score. The film music became a framework where he could make use of his seemingly contradictory musical background and desire for experimentation.
In 2018 he wrote the music for the multiple award winning Jordanian documentary film Tiny Souls by Dina Naser, which since its premiere in 2019 has been screened worldwide.
Ronald Hue is supported by the Nordic Culture Point, Mobility Fund
Openings on September 14th 2024 at 15:00
Gallery 1 – Sigurður Guðjónsson
Gallery 2 – Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir
Gallery 3 – Group exhibition: Organic Circuits
Anna Líndal (IS), Elísabet Jökulsdóttir & Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson, (IS), Freyja Þórsdóttir (IS), Heather Barnett (UK), Herwig Turk (AT), Ilana Halperin (UK), Jennifer Helia DeFelice (US/CZ), Magnea Magnúsdóttir (IS), Patrick Bergeron (CA), Pétur Thomsen (IS), Skade Henriksen (NO), Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir (IS).
Gallery 4 – Volvox
Thomasine Giesecke with Jean-Marc Chomaz, Bruno Palpant, Sound by Tom Georgel. (FR/SE)
Gallery 4 – Metamorphosis – At the foot of volcanoes –
Video by Pascale Chau-Huu, Thomasine Giesecke and Tom Georgel.
Video corner – Algorithmic lies curated by Nikos Podias.
(image: Ilana Halperin (UK))
Performance with Elísabet Jökulsdóttir
September 15th 2024 at 11:00 at Varmá
Elísabet graduated from Kvennaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1987. After that she studied screenwriting and has a BA diploma in stage-art from Iceland University of the Arts from 2008.
Elísabet has worked as a journalist, she is an active speaker for the environment and amongst other things she ran for president in 2016. She has received many rewards for her poems, short stories, novels and plays as well as having been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Þetta líður hjá (This too shall pass) is a 12-ton rock of dolerite lava from Mount Núpi. The artist Elísabet had the rock moved to the riverbank of Hvítá. Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson, Sculptor, carved the seat in it. “It is a seat that stands by the river Varmá, where you can sit if you are not feeling well, then it will all pass by, just like the river,” says Elísabet.
“The artwork is about the friendship and our relationship with nature. And what nature wants to tell us at our weaker moments. And that it’s alright for us to live with our emotions.”
The artist dedicates this work to teenagers.
Organic Circuits Colloquium
15 September 2024
9AM – 6PM (with accompanying program)
The Organic Circuits Colloquium is a one-day event that brings together international scholars, artists, and researchers who share a deep fascination with the natural world and who seek to highlight the value of environmentally minded practices through the deepening of our knowledge and understanding of nature’s interconnectedness. Reflecting a profound and complex understanding of nature grounded in both rigorous research and experiential knowledge, invited guest speakers will present their initiatives for interdisciplinary dialogue and transdisciplinary exploration, all aimed toward fostering a true shift in how we perceive and engage with the macro and micro earthly landscapes we inhabit and occupy.
The colloquium takes place within the Organic Circuits exhibition and offers a unique moment for the contemplation of unorthodox and forward-thinking and approaches to the overlapping fields of ecology and art. Participants will acquaint one another and the public with their ongoing research and projects and present their views on the potential for new connectedness and possible relationships between sentient beings and the organic world.
In a time when the effects of climate change are increasingly palpable, this meeting emphasizes the importance of specific long term projects and the personal investments that individuals and both academic and lay communities are making in an attempt to be proactive in a move toward a more holistic environmental existence. Presentations will explore natural cycles, algorithmic processes, self-rectification mechanisms, and the potential for fostering new ecological alliances through the practice of heightened awareness and sensitivity.
PROGRAM
9:00
10:30 11:30 1:00 PM
Meeting at the Geothermal Park, breakfast offered by LÁ Art Museum. Opening of work at the park by Heather Barnett and Jennifer Helia DeFelice
Walk to the river to the artwork This too shall pass
Break
Beginning of Colloquium
Welcome and Introduction: Jennifer Helia DeFelice and Kristín Scheving
(Each talk is planned for 20 minutes, times are approximate)
1:05 PM Keynote Speech
Ole Sandberg: Creative Holobionts: Intra-actions of Nature, Art, Science and Philosophy
1:40 PM Heather Barnett: The Physarum Experiments
2:00 PM Herwig Turk: contaminated landscapes
2:20 PM Jennifer Helia DeFelice: Right to Roam
2:40 PM Bruno Palpant (Volvox): Physical Colors in the Visual Arts
3:00 – 3:20 Discussion / Q&A / Coffee Break
3:20 PM Pawel Wasowicz: The Hidden Costs of Plant
3:40 PM Introductions: Lessons from Iceland’s Changing Landscape Pétur Thomsen: Imported Landscape
4:00 PM Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir: Island Fiction
4:20 PM Patrick Bergeron: Acoustic Shadows
4:40 PM Magnea Magnúsdóttir: Land Reclamation Efforts
5:00 PM Discussion / Q&A / Coffee Break
5:30 PM Gallery Tour – talk with Anna Líndal by her work Expedition
1PM Keynote Speech
Creative Holobionts: Intra-actions of Nature, Art, Science and Philosophy Dr. Ole Martin Sandberg
Science, art and humanities are separated into different academic categories with distinct methodologies, subject matters and aims. In this talk, philosopher Ole Martin Sandberg argues that they have more in common and that they benefit from more explicit collaboration and communication. Artistic creativity is more than a tool to communicate scientific findings – it can also expand the imagination of the scientist and generate new ideas that lead to new approaches. Likewise, philosophy and humanities can put scientific discoveries into context and aid the scientific process by generating concepts that lead to new thoughts and connections. And reversely, scientific discoveries inspire new movements in art and philosophy as they lead to new ideas about nature and human nature. Drawing on research on embodied thinking and process philosophy, Sandberg argues that art, philosophy and science can, and must, work together in a mutual relationship, to enable us to both understand and appreciate nature as well as think through our own role in nature. The talk will give examples of epistemological similarities between the artistic and the scientific process which both involve the skill of seeing and sensing. This is a skill that requires practice and an ability to let go of preconceived mental categories in order to get closer to the perception of nature itself – not as a collection of static, mechanical objects, but as a dynamic process which we are part of.
Dr. Ole Martin Sandberg is an environmental philosopher working at the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History. He teaches Ethics of Nature and does research into the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity and loss of nature-connectedness. His work has focused on embodied critical thinking, affect, and process philosophy.
1:40 PM
The Physarum Experiments: Ripple Rift
Heather Barnett
Heather will share the inspiration for the work made in response to the lively Icelandic landscape, exploring how different organisms relate to and converse with their environment. She will also discuss the practice of co-creating with another living being and the issues of care and control that it raises.
Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with natural phenomena and emergent systems. Employing live organisms, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies, her work explores how we observe, influence and understand multi-species ecosystems. Recent work centres around nonhuman intelligence, collective behaviour and experimental systems for co-enquiry, working with slime moulds, ants and humans. Heather is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science, and co-director of the Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) and founding member of The Slime Mould Collective.
2:00 PM
contaminated landscapes
Herwig Turk
In the talk, the landscape around the great Salt Lake in Utah takes the center stage. The radical and practically treeless landscape around the Great Salt Lake originates from an inland sea. Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America; its remnants are the Great Salt Lake. The specific ecological circles there might be easily overlooked, the exploitation of natural resources often not subject to strict regulations. Remote landscapes without trees, little vegetation and sparse settlements in general, seem ideal for all kinds of dirty or toxic industries. One example is a Magnesium Chloride Plant, a facility that processed magnesium chloride salts taken from water of the Great Salt Lake. But there are several other installations, like commercial waste incineration plants or big military complexes for the production and testing of biological and chemical weapons in this area.
Herwig Turk lives and works in Vienna. His projects probe the interconnectivity of the fields of art, technology and science. Since 2016, he has been conducting artistic research on the Tagliamento River in northern Italy and other river systems like the Danube or the rivers in the area of Bolzano cooperating with artists and scientists. Since 2021, he leads the development of the project Rift//Landscape//Read with Zdravko Haderlap and the multidisciplinary Art and Research Group in Lepen/Carinthia Austria. From 2014 – 2022 he worked as Senior Artist at the department of Social Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
2:20PM
Right to Roam
Jennifer Helia DeFelice
You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road
Czechs maintain a close societal relationship to nature and pagan ritual related to the changing of the seasons. From the earliest age they are initiated into the practice of recognizing and picking up mushrooms, orientation in the forest, and the phenomenon of the ‘výlet’ or ‘trip’ which can be anything from an afternoon walk in the countryside, a climb in the mountains, or a drive in the car,
with absolutely no particular destination in mind. Trails and routes have been blazed and marked throughout the entire country using a system of colored symbols which are maintained voluntarily by members of the Czech Tourist Club dating back to 1889. It is perhaps the most extensive network of marked trails in the world. Another major contribution to the Czech relationship to the countryside and the forest in particular is law 289/1995/19/1, based on legislature dating back to the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, which states:
Anyone has the right to enter the forest at their own risk, including the right to pick berries for their own consumption and gather dry twigs from the ground. They are obliged to not harm or disrupt the forest environment in any way and to follow the rules of the owner, renter, or employees of the forest.
Jennifer DeFelice is a conceptual artist focusing on the performative potential of nonverbal, experiential aspects of artistic encounters that gently allow for the transformation of everyday paradigms. In addition to performance, her expressive repertoire includes work with video, installations, situations, participatory projects, music, and new media. Her work transcends the confines of gallery operations and what we traditionally considered art and its means. She has long asserted her valuable artistic sensibility in pedagogical and curatorial practice and in co-creating the concepts of artistic events and institutions. She facilitates the softening, complicating, and expanding of the paths through which artistic operations flow, all in a critically artistic spirit. She lives and works in Brno, Czech Republic.
2:40PM
Bruno Palpant (Volvox)
Physical colors in the visual arts
Light, Matter and Interfaces laboratory CentraleSupélec – Université Paris-Saclay, France
The world of color is fully integrated into the interdependence of art and science. Although color is often pigment-based, resulting from the interaction of light with a chemical substance that changes its properties by selectively absorbing color, physical phenomena can also inspire artists and fill
their works. Very often, the visual result is the complex combination of several effects of pigmentary or physical origin. These effects can be obtained through a scientific approach, as in E. Becquerel’s polychromatic images and G. Lippmann’s interference photographs in the 19th century, or they can be deliberately used, or even achieved by chance, optimized and reproduced by the hand of the craftsman or artist. In this talk we explore the main physical phenomena that lead to color effects in artworks, from the tesserae of Roman mosaics to certain contemporary photographs, via the Lycurgus Cup, metal lusters on Abbasid ceramics, the use of silver yellow in medieval stained glass and ‘ruby red’ in the decorative arts, and the incorporation of opalescent or iridescent effects in glass, ceramics and paintings. The physics involved is that of wave optics: scattering, diffraction, interferences, optical resonances… These effects are briefly explained and their use in art is illustrated by a few examples, including the Volvox installation.
3:00 – 3:20PM Discussion / Q&A / Coffee Break
3:20PM
The Hidden Costs of Plant Introductions: Lessons from Iceland’s Changing Landscape Pawel Wasowicz
(online)
In this talk, the history of plant species introduction to Iceland will be examined, with a focus on the pace at which this process has occurred over time. Several examples will be presented to illustrate how the introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) can lead to significant environmental damage. Additionally, it will be discussed how actions taken in the name of climate change mitigation can, in fact, result in unintended harm to the natural environment. The complex relationship between species introduction, environmental impact, and conservation efforts will be highlighted throughout the presentation.
Pawel Wasowicz, Ph.D. is a research scientist at the Icelandic Institute of Nature Research, specializing in botany with a focus on plant taxonomy, biogeography, and the study of non-native species. He holds a Ph.D. in biology/botany and has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Ecology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Conservation, and the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Pawel is actively involved in international expert groups on invasive alien species, contributing to the global understanding of these critical environmental issues.
3:40PM
Pétur Thomsen
Imported Landscape
In Pétur Thomsen’s work, humanity’s harnessing of nature is visualized through scale that takes into account its tragic dimensions. The destructive potential of humans, revealed in their attempts to dominate the natural world, is lent a palpable form. In the year 2003 The National Power Company of Iceland started the building of the 700 MW Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project in eastern Iceland to supply electricity to an aluminum smelter built by Alcoa in the fjord of Reyðarfjörður on the east coast of Iceland. The projects’ three dams block among others the big glacial river Jökulsá á Dal, creating the 57km2 artificial lake Hálslón.
When the project started he felt a great need to participate in these debates. Pétur had worked in an aluminum smelter for five years before starting his photography career. He felt the best way for him to participate was to follow the land in its transformation through his observational artistic photography, visiting the construction site regularly, taking landscape photographs, revealing the state of the contemporary Icelandic countryside.
Pétur Thomsen is an Icelandic artist and photographer focused on the disruption of nature, both in his photographs of the Kárahnjúkar power plant project area in his series Imported Landscape, and in his works Umhverfing (an Icelandic word for the state between nature and environment) and Ásfjall (Mt. Ásfjall). In his latest series Landnám (Settlement) Pétur Thomsen is observing or rather operating as an investigator out in the field during the winter nights, investigating three aspects of land use in the south of Iceland: mines, tree plantation and farmers’ use of land. He received his master’s degree in fine arts from the École Nationale Supérieur de la Photographie in Arles, France in 2004. He lives and works in the south of Iceland.
4:00PM
Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir Island Fiction
Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir lives and works in Iceland. In her artistic practice she considers various objects and phenomena that are connected to our understanding of and relation to the natural world as it meets, overlaps and is interpreted within human environments. Her work is layered in process, research and fieldwork where her approach is recognised through different notions of time, narratives and scales. She has also contributed to various artist-run spaces, projects, festivals and publications. From 2014 – 2018 she was the director of The Living Art Museum, an artist-run museum established in 1978. In 2021, Þorgerður received a research permit to travel to Surtsey island. In her recent publication Island Fiction, Þorgerður weaves together artworks with essays that address the complex aspects of the existence, history and meaning of Surtsey.
Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir’s talk will give an insight into the research, travels and artworks which shaped the Island Fiction publication.
4:20PM
Acoustic Shadows
Patrick Bergeron
The conference will be a discussion about the paths which lead him to the creation of Acoustic Shadows. He will talk about being an engineer going into the digital visual effects industry and diverting his technical knowledge into creating arts. He will show images and videos from his early works and talk about the tools and techniques he has developed over the years. With visual examples, he will explain the way he uses the optical flow algorithm and the sound spectrograms to create an artwork which results in a sound and an image linked into metamorphosis.
Patrick Bergeron graduated as an engineer and then moved towards creation after working for the National Film Board of Canada. Since then, he shares his artistic career with his work in the digital visual effects industry. In this field, he has participated in projects like The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix. His art installations and experimental videos have been presented internationally in galleries and film festivals (South by Southwest, ARS Electronica). In his artworks, he elaborates and studies the concepts of time, memory and movement. He is interested in the vegetal world, its cycles and the natural forces that interact with it. He lives and works in Montreal.
4:40PM
Magnea Magnúsdóttir
Land Reclamation Efforts
Orka náttúrunnar places great emphasis on land reclamation around the geothermal power plants in Hellisheiði and Nesjavellir, with the goal of restoring the landscape and vegetation to conditions as close as possible as before construction. In all projects on vegetated land, we preserve the vegetation cover and reuse it directly for site rehabilitation or on other disturbed areas.
During the summer, a restoration team works on land reclamation around the power plants. Projects include restoration of moss heaths, where a moss slurry, consisting of sour milk, water, and moss, is
sometimes used to heal eroded spots, though we also use moss spreading without sour milk. Additionally, a so-called seed containing hey is used, which is collected by mowing natural grasslands in autumn, when the plants have produced seeds, and then spread over disturbed areas. Willow cuttings from local shrubs have been used for planting to cultivate natural willow, and birch trees have also been planted in recent years.
In the presentation, Magnea Magnúsdóttir discusses Orka náttúrunnar’s land reclamation efforts and shows before and after photos of the projects.
5:00-5:30PM 5:30PM
6:15PM
Discussion / Q&A / Coffee Break
Gallery Tour – Announced to the public with Presentation of Moss preservation with conservationist Magnea Magnúsdóttir, talk with Anna Líndal about her work Expedition
Dinner
The Organic Circuits Colloquium has been organized by LÁ Art Museum and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology.
Special thanks to the Town of Hvergerði for their generous support in the realization of the project.
Blooming Days 2024
August 15th 17:00
Teitur Magnússon
Teitur Magnússon will be ending his tour around the country in LÁ Art Museum during Blooming days in Hveragerði. After releasing a reggae fusion with Ojba Rasta few years ago, Teitur first attracted attention in 2014 with the solo album 27. The album contained psychedelic pop and was followed by the album Orna in 2018 with a good reputation. In 2021, he released the album 33 and it received three nominations and one award at the Icelandic Music Awards.
The event is offered by the town of Hveragerði.
Blooming Days 2024
August 18th 2024 16:00
Mandolín
The band Mandólín will perform at LÁ Art Museum on Blooming Days offered by the town of Hveragerði.
The repertoire includes fun music mixed with slow tunes from different parts of the world. Finnish and Argentinian tango, Lebanese swing dance, klezmer dance and Balkan music and evergreen ballads, some in special tulle costumes for the occasion.
The band Mandólín was founded in a garden shed in Kópavogur in 2014 and has been working continuously since then. The band has performed at numerous concerts and music festivals.
June 15th 2024
15:30
Introduction to the artwork of Gígja Reynisdóttir and workshop.
Artist Gígja Reynisdóttir will be presenting her work and directing a workshop on Saturday, June 15 from 3:30 p.m.
After the presentation of her works, a workshop will be held where guests will have the opportunity to express themselves in creating composite collages and/or drawings of different leaves, dried flowers and golden leaf. The workshop will take approx. 1 hour.
Nature, especially the plant kingdom, is a prominent theme in Gígja Reynisdóttir’s works. She intertwines natural materials and subjects that concern her, but the complexity of human and social aspects is especially important to her.
Gígja graduated with a BFA degree from Academy Minerva in Groningen in 1997 and an MFA degree from Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam in 2000. She has since lived and worked in the Netherlands.
On the one hand, Gígja’s work is divided into sculptures and collage, and on the other hand, delicate pencil and pastel drawings. Recently, she developed a special technique that allows her to transform leaves into material that can be drawn on.
In her surroundings in northern Holland, Gígja collects various types of leaves for her works, both from the wild but also from garden and indoor plants. The drawings are delicate pencil or pastel drawings, often of birds or animals but also portraits of people.
The plant leaves she chooses as material are often from inconspicuous wild plants that we humans usually pay little attention to.
More information can be found at www.gigjareynisdottir.com
June 15th at 15:00
Artist talk.
Artist talk with Kristinn Már Pálmason May 9th 2024.
Kaþarsis / Gallery 3 / March 2nd – August 25th 2024
Kristinn Már Pálmason shows paintings that are large in size and fizzing with life. Almost in motion, they draw us in like a whirlwind – so much is happening on the picture plane. We see a range of geometrical shapes, manifestations of diverse symbols, and allusions to semiotics of past and present, figurative and abstract drawings, along with some handwritten words, and elsewhere natural shapes. In Kristinn’s paintings the light comes from within and shines outwards. He uses a combination of spray technique, ink drawing and paint to create an ambiguous world of diverse objects and forms that seem to float around each other within the picture plane. Kristinn’s work is very musical, with sharp, gripping swings between crescendo and diminuendo, chaotic rhythm and a turbulent energy that seems to vibrate, making our pupils expand. And underneath is a heavy beat. In these visually complex paintings, chaos is not a force to be tamed but an integral part of a visual work of art. The world of Kristinn’s art is organized and at the same time fragmented, a sort of visual cacophony that has its zone in the overtones of consciousness, like the zone where dreams appear to us.
Kristinn Már Pálmason (b. 1967) lives and works in Reykjavík. His works have been exhibited widely abroad and in most major art museums and art spaces in Iceland. He has engaged in various art related projects and co-founding art galleries in Reykjavík, such as Anima (2006 -2008) and Kling & Bang (from 2003). Pálmason graduated with an MA degree from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1998) as well as studying at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts (1990-1994).
The Artist wants to thank Artists´ Salary Fund and Visual Art Fund for their support.
June 15th 2024
14:00
Artist talk.
Artist talk with Erla S. Haraldsdóttir on June 15th at 14:00
Gallery 4 – My Mother´s dream – 2nd of March – 25th of August 2024
My Mother’s Dream: The Recent Work of Erla S. Haraldsdóttir
The unconscious text is already a weave of pure traces, differences in which meaning and force are united—a text nowhere present, consisting of archives which are always already transcriptions. Originary prints.
—Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference (1967)
In Writing and Difference, French philosopher and theoretician Jacques Derrida clarifies his concepts of the trace and the supplement. He speaks of the “unconscious text” as an ideal where meaning and force are conjoined, and yet spectrally absent—file cabinets filled with copies of “originary prints.”
Erla Haraldsdóttir’s autobiographical and autoethnographic project My Mother’s Dream revolves around a dream that her great-great grandmother had when she was a teenager. It consists of a book with the diary entry with which the artist’s great- grandmother records her mother’s dream and of a series of large-format paintings and smaller sketches that illustrate sequences from a kinswoman’s dream from around the year 1858.
The dream unfolds as a series of encounters with “hidden people,” as elves or fairies are called in local Icelandic belief. The book contains a facsimile of the diary entries, a photograph of the artist’s great-great-grandmother and great-grandmother, and translations of the dream into a matrix of languages that Haraldsdóttir has encountered in her lived experience in recent years, namely, English, Swedish, Icelandic, German, and isiNdebele (a Bantu language of South Africa). Dominant and minoritarian languages form a basis for different readings and transcriptions—Derrida’s “originary prints”— and this text of the unconscious is likewise valorized by the artistic process of its translation into pigment on canvas, or paper, or wall. Text and textile merge as family matters, women’s work, and what C. G. Jung would call an archetypical dream that taps into the collective unconscious are coming into focus. The familial and private thus strives towards the collective public and symbolic. But it doesn’t end there, as My Mother’s Dream has a reverse side My Dream, consisting of blank pages that invite readers to record their own unconscious dreamscapes.
The dream deals with birthing: the husband of a “hidden woman”/fairy mother seeks the help of a young girl (the dreamer) for his wife who is going into a difficult labor. The girl agrees to assist and in return is promised the gift of an intricate Icelandic traditional folk costume. But the fairy mother provides an injunction: the girl must never speak of this sequence of events in waking life. Naive as she is, she fails to heed this advice and is visited again later by the furious fairy mother, who takes back the folk costume. This traumatizes the dreaming girl to such an extent that she refuses to undergo confirmation, an important rite of passage into adulthood for Icelandic teenagers. How does the dream end? Twofold: after reconciling with the dreamer, the “hidden woman” tells her a secret blessed word for times of trouble; on her deathbed, the dreamer recounts her dream to her daughter, she did not reveal the secret of the blessed word of the “hidden woman” while retelling the stories of her encounters with her.
The distant, fairytale-like, unconscious material of these dreams is probed for the contents of this exhibition. It presents a new large-format painted diptych of the “hidden woman”/fairy mother before and after the great-great-grandmother incurs her wrath. It also includes a mural that sits between the two parts of the painting. The English translation of My Mother’s Dream appears in a new series of works on paper that are illuminated manuscript pages in seven parts. A large-format painting, My Mother’s Dream, where the dream is recorded as a blown-up illuminated manuscript page, is presented for the second time after an exhibition at Nörrtalje Konsthall in 2021. Additionally, there are several inkjet prints of female reproductive organs merging with Icelandic folk costumes in a variety of colors. Last but not least, Haraldsdóttir is exhibiting for the first time a series of oil paintings of dream sequences and natural landscapes from Iceland in small square-format paintings.
Thus, the pure traces of an original unconscious writing take shape in a painting of the unconscious, an autoanthropology of the unconscious, and a questioning of the self, kinship, womanhood, and language.
Haraldsdóttir studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the San Francisco Arts Institute and has a degree from the Valand Academy of Fine Art in Gothenburg, 1998. Born in Reykjavík, she currently lives and works in Berlin and Johannesburg.
Text by: Craniv Boyd
May 18th 2024 16:00
Live music on the International Museum day.
May 18th 2024
International Museum Day.
The International Museum Day 2024 is set to kick off with a captivating theme that highlights the pivotal role of museums in education and research.
LÁ Art museum offers a fun program from 13:00 with family workshop making Kites.
15:00 an introduction to a research project by artist Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir, the mountains in Árnes county.
16:00 Live music with Hróðmar Sigurðsson and Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi.
This year’s theme, “Museums for Education and Research,” aims to underscore the significance of museums as dynamic educational institutions fostering learning, discovery, and cultural understanding.
Gabor Palotai (Gabor Palotai Design), celebrated for an award winning avant-garde design philosophy, has lent its artistic prowess to create a visually striking and conceptually profound poster that encapsulates the essence of the theme. The poster, set against a sophisticated black background, features the iconic museum ‘M’ in various vibrant colors, symbolizing the diverse spectrum of knowledge that museums impart to the world. The abstract composition is a visual metaphor for the vast repository of information housed within museums, waiting to be explored and shared.
The International Museum Day, established by ICOM and celebrated annually on May 18th, serves as a global platform to promote the role of museums in cultural exchange and development. Museums worldwide will join forces to organize events, exhibitions, and educational programs centered around the theme, emphasizing the invaluable contribution of museums to society.
Each year since 2020, the International Museum Day supports a set of Goals from the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. In 2024, we will focus on:
Goal 4: Quality Education – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
As museums prepare to engage audiences through a myriad of activities, the International Museum Day 2024 promises to be an enriching and enlightening celebration.
For IMD 2024 we want to invite people to rethink education and imagine a future where knowledge sharing transcends barriers; where innovation unites with tradition. Join us as we explore the wealth of knowledge museums have to offer and, together, build a more informed and inclusive world !
May 9th 2024
14:00
Artist talk.
Kristín Scheving museum director talks to artists Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir and Mikael Lind on May 9th from 14:00.
Skinnings / Gallery 2 / 2nd of March – 25th of August 2024
The new video installation Skinnings by Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir and Mikael Lind was created specifically for the exhibition. The installation consists of 30 video pieces and 30 sound works created for 3 projectors and 6 speakers.
Sigga Björg works with both figurative and abstract drawings on paper and also draws straight onto walls. She has made many video works using stop-motion technique, in which every frame of the animation is drawn by hand. The exhibition includes drawings from the process of making the video works, and those drawings could be seen as animations even if they are made with pencil, pen and watercolour on paper. The drawings were created layer by layer and recorded frame by frame, so the connection between the drawings and the video works is indissoluble.
The sound world of the video installation is composed by the electronic musician Mikael Lind, who has worked together with Sigga Björg on a number of video projects in the past years. Mikael interprets the colours and movements of the subject with individual soundscapes characterized by diverse electronic music styles. The sound designs span everything from ambient music and musique concrete to pure techno. Mikael’s sound world works effectively to open up and create space within the overall work. Sigga Björg’s works often bring together figurative line drawings, colourful and parallel worlds that indicate that there are more than five dimensions of perception, and provide insight into magic as well as our potential for weaving more complex patterns of reality than we experience in our own lives, thus tracing our way along unpredictable paths into the future.
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir (b. 1977) lives and works in Reykjavík. Her works have been exhibited widely abroad and in all major art museums and art spaces in Iceland. Sigurðardóttir´s works are in the collections of all major art museums in Iceland as well as in art collection in the Nordic countries, Belgium, England, Switzerland and Germany. Sigurðardóttir graduated with an MA degree from the Glasgow School of Art (2004) and a BA degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts (2001).
Mikael Lind (b. 1981) lives and works in Reykjavík. He has released four LPs as well as numerous digital releases, both independently and in collaboration with others. He has played his music in many concert venues in Iceland and in many parts of Europe. Lind has a Master’s degree in electronic music production from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The Artists want to thank Artists´ Salary Fund for their support.
https://siggabjorg.net
April 25th 2024
14:00
Artist talk.
Artist talk with Hrafnkell Sigurðsson. The event will be in Icelandic but there will be some time in the end of the talk that you can ask questions in English.
Gallery 1 / 2nd of March – 25th of August 2024 / Aerials
Nature is not only encompassing it also resides in us preventing us from distinguishing clearly between outer reality and inner perception. This is why Hrafnkell Sigurðsson is preoccupied with nature as the one who realizes that he belongs to it completely. He pitches his cusped, prominent tents – foreign elements in style of symmetric space laboratories or oriental pagodas – in front of the snow-white surroundings. His whimsicality towards nature is characterized by a provocative boldness whereas the surroundings cannot assume his orderliness and must consent to a position of a neutral background to his staging. Our inner nature is however amply revealed in Buchers´ Duel, a video of two symmetric butchers, holding on to hooks in mid-air as fighting Samurais dressed in pastel coloured freezing plant outfit against a black background, ready to attack one another with long daggers, which however never touch.
Another challenge appeared in 2024 in form of Aerials, as continuation of Freeze Frame, a video loop installation on five LED screens exhibited in Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik, in 2020. Both series are the result of innumerable climbing to the summit of Mount Skálafell, dating back to 2017, where the snow laid aerials and the sculptor’s supporting iron rods covered in clay seems obvious. The difference is that Hrafnkell is not involved with the modeling but satisfies himself with documenting the attacking snowdrift, the result of nature’s elements thus approaching creation itself yet avoiding any appropriation of its product.
Hrafnkell Sigurðsson (b. 1963) lives and works in Reykjavik. He graduated as Master of Arts from the Goldsmiths College in London, in 2002, after studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, 1988-1990, and the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, 1987. According to himself, he provides the structure on which nature relies, photographs it and processes in a computer, partly assisted by artificial intelligence. The human hand, nature’s elements and digital technology are combined in a complete process where the final result appears in the form of photographic works.
In 2023 Hrafnkell Sigurðsson received the prestigious Icelandic Visual Art Award.
https://www.hrafnkellsigurdsson.com/
Text by: Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson
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
May Your Hand Not Hurt
17th of September 2023, at 14:00
Jakob Veigar Sigurðsson artist talk.
Jakob Veigar will tell museum guests about his installation and the inspiration from Iran.
Photograph: Saleh Rozati.
Cosmos / Chaos
17th of September 2023. At 15:00
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir – artist and curator talk.
Ragnheiður will walk around the museum with curator Daría Sól Andrews and tell museum guests about her artworks.
Photograph: Jóhanna Ólafsdóttir
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.
Please follow our social media for more information.
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
Nick White & Lóa H. Hjálmtýsdóttir
Surprise event!!
16th and 17th of June 2022
Artists Nick White (UK) and Lóa H. Hjálmtýsdóttir will be hosting an event in LÁ Art Museum on June 16th and 17th.
We will advertise this soon …. Stay tuned…
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.
Artist and curator talk
Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir
February 6th at 14:00
Curator Erin Honeycutt talks to artist Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir about her exhibition You are the input that is on display in the museum in gallery 4 until May 22nd.
Please book your seat at mottaka@listasafnarnesinga.is
Artist and curator talk
Magnús Helgason
February 6th at 14:30
Curator Erin Honeycutt talks to artist Magnús Helgason about his exhibition Roll on that is on display in the museum in gallery 3 until May 22nd.
Please book your seat at mottaka@listasafnarnesinga.is
Artist and curator talk
Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir
February 6th at 15:30
Curator Erin Honeycutt talks to artist Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir about her exhibition Powersuit that is on display in the museum in gallery 4 until May 22nd.
Please book your seat at mottaka@listasafnarnesinga.is
Artist and curator talk
Þórdís Erla Zoega
February 6th at 16:00
Curator Erin Honeycutt talks to artist Þórdís Erla Zoega about her exhibition Routine that is on display in the museum in gallery 3 until May 22nd.
Please book your seat at mottaka@listasafnarnesinga.is
Photo: Art Bicknick
ELÍSABET JÖKULSDÓTTIR
October 2021
SEE, SEE ME
THEN YOU CAN
LOVE ME
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir author and poet will read her book in Icelandic.
Organ: Pétur Nói Stefánsson.
For more information: listasafn@listasafnarnesinga.is
Artist talk for Turbulence and Takeover.
Will take place in the museum on 9th and 24th of October in Icelandic.
For more information: listasafn@listasafnarnesinga.is
Róska
9th of October at 14:00
Ástríður Magnúsdóttir & Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson discuss life and art of Róska.
The event is in Icelandic.
For more information: listasafn@listasafnarnesinga.is
ELÍSABET JÖKULSDÓTTIR
22nd of August at 14:00
SEE, SEE ME
THEN YOU CAN
LOVE ME
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir author and poet will read her book in Icelandic.
Organ: Pétur Nói Stefánsson.
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.
19th of June 2021 at 14:00
Curator talk for exhibition Róska with Ástríður Magnúsdóttir (in Icelandic).
Registration: mottaka@listasafnarnesinga.is
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/
