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.

 

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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.

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