Dream Evening with Elísabet Lorange
March 27th 2025 at 19:30
Elísabet Lorange is the other half of Draumsaga (Dreamsaga). She is a teacher and art therapist by training and has worked as a freelance art therapist for the past 12 years. She has been involved in therapy work with groups and individuals of all ages. In recent years she has specialized in working with adults and foster families. For a dozen years, Elísabet has worked with her own dreams as well as the dreams of those who want and need it in art therapy.
Elísabet will give guests an insight into her work with dreams and a workshop will be held afterwards.
Watercoloring with Svandís Egilsdóttir
April 3rd 2025 at 16:00
Come and join us with Svandís Egilsdóttir where she will share her ways of working with watercolors, and if the weather allows, we will go outdoors. Please dress accordingly and bring your own watercolour set (if you don´t have any – the LÁ Art Museum shop does sell some too).
Registration: fraedsla@listasafnarnesinga.is
Free of charge.
AYURVEDA AND THE TRANSITION PHASE
April 3rd 2025 at 19:30
Ayurveda views the Transition Period as a natural process in a woman’s life. This is a period of life that offers a new outlook on life and a new approach to life. However, it is necessary to let go of the old in order to enjoy the new. Some women experience great discomfort during this period of life, while others feel little. It all depends on the state of the three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha and whether there is an imbalance when we enter the transition period.
There is much that can be done with the help of Ayurveda to alleviate the symptoms if there is an imbalance in the three doshas and improve the quality of life. There are many tools in the toolbox of Ayurveda.
In the lecture, the fundamentals of Ayurveda will be explained, such as the three doshas, the five elemental forces, the agni digestive fire, and then the transition period will be delved into through the lens of Ayurveda.
Instructor: Heiða Björk, Ayurveda Specialist (AP)
Heiða Björk works with health and lifestyle counseling based on Ayurveda life sciences and nutritional therapy. She also works on holistic healing with the method of LNT energy therapy.
Free event, registration is required – only to this e-mail:
fraedsla@listasafnarnesinga.is
Please do not send messages, they will not be answered regarding this event, only e-mail.
Performance by Saya Nonomura
April 10th 2025 at 19:30
野々村さや
1952年５月1日生まれ。
広島県尾道市出身。
京都精華芸大美術科絵画卒業。
1979年から1982年、パリ、Carré Silvia Montfort 国立サーカスマイム学校マイム科卒業。
1982年、マイムカンパニーPOKKOWA PA! をJean Claude Pommier と共に、結成、主宰。インターナショナルカンパニーとして活動。
その他、フランスにて行われる文化イベントの際に、カリグラフィー、オリガミのワークショップを指導。
Saya Nonomura
Born May 1st 1952, in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University of Arts, Fine Arts Department, Painting Section, in Kyoto, Japan.
From 1979 to 1982, studied at and graduated from Le Carré Silvia Montfort National School of Circus and Mime, in Paris, France.
In 1982, founded the Mime Theatre company, Compagnie POKKOWA PA ! with Jean-Claude Pommier, in Angers City, France.
Since then, the company performs their Mime Theatre creations worldwide.
Also animates Calligraphy and Origami workshops during cultural events in France.
Art can heal – symposium (in Icelandic)
April 24th 2025 at 19:30
Ágústa Oddsdóttir, author of the book Art Can Heal, discusses the life and work of Sigríður Björnsdóttir, an art therapist and artist, but also tells of her own experience when she herself sought treatment from Sigríður.
“Sigríður is a great pioneer in the field of art therapy in Iceland and a sought-after lecturer around the world. She began shaping and developing an independent field within the visual arts, mainly in children’s hospitals both in Iceland and abroad in the 1950s. Sigríður’s work attracted great attention internationally and she was invited to every single pediatric congress around the world for many decades to present her work,” says Alda Rose Cartwright of the project manager of Education at the LÁ Art Museum.
“On Thursday, art therapists Elísabet Lorange and Dr. Unnur Óttarsdóttir will also present the work of art therapists in Iceland today and the development of the profession, which includes, among other things, Dr. Unnur’s research on educational art therapy, drawing and memory, which has received attention domestically and internationally and is therefore having an impact globally. Elísabet and Dr. Unnur will also present art therapy workshops that they will hold at the Árnesinga Art Museum later this summer.”
Artist talk (in Icelandic)
May 18th 2025 at 15:00
All the artists with work in our exhibition Among Gods and Mortals: Icelandic Artists in Varanasi will be present in the museum and give an artist talk in Icelandic. There will be chance to meet the artists and ask questions in English afterwards.
Einar Falur Ingólfsson
Eygló Harðadóttir
Guðjón Ketilsson
Margrét H. Blöndal
Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson
Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir
Curator: Pari Stave
An evening with Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (in Icelandic)
May 22nd 2025 at 19:30
Guðrún Eva was born in Reykjavík in 1976 but raised all over the country, including in Mosfellssveit, Kirkjubæjarklaustur and Garður in Gerðahreppur. She completed her matriculation examination from Hamrahlíð High School in 1996 and graduated from the University of Iceland in 2007 with a BA in philosophy. Guðrún Eva has been nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize four times and won it in 2011 for the novel Allt með kossi vekur. She has been nominated for the DV Cultural Prize three times and won it twice; in 2005 for Yosoy and in 2014 for Englaryk. She also received Award in early 2019 for the short story collection Ástin Texas. In 2021, she was nominated for the Nordic Literature Prize. She has also received recognition from RÚV for her writing and the Literary Prize for her novel Í skugga trjánna. In addition to writing fiction, Guðrún Eva works part-time as a writing teacher at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
Yoga hour
June 14th 2025 at 15:30
In collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Iceland we are offering a free Yoga practice.
Come and join us for this event.
Blooming days in collaboration with the town of Hveragerði
August 14 – 17th 2025
Program will follow soon.