10.5 2026 at 13:00
Artist talk – Rebekka Kühnis
You are welcome to join us for an artist talk with Rebekka Kühnis Sunday May 10th at 1PM, where she will talk about her current exhibition: Transient in Gallery 3.
The recent paintings of Rebekka Kühnis explore states of being in nature. The Swiss-born artist has traveled extensively in Iceland, and her experiences of hiking in Iceland are an important visual input and source for the paintings that she produces. She finds beauty in the natural world and seeks to both capture and augment it, to express potential states of being in nature, in particular conditions of flux and change.
For Kühnis, who moved to Iceland in 2015, part of an initial attraction to the landscape was the condition of “becoming” that seems to characterize the rough landscape of the island nation.2
This stands in contrast to the mountainous and wooded landscape with manicured cityscapes of a landlocked Western European nation like Switzerland that Kühnis left behind.
Free entry
17.5 2026 at 14:00
Curator talk – Toxic Grounds
Please join us for a guided tour of Bernard Khoury’s exhibition Toxic Grounds with the curator Yara Zein.
The talk will be in english and admission is free.
For more than two decades, Bernard Khoury has stood on the edge of art, rejecting its traditions, exposing its hypocrisy, and reconstructing its language. His works are not about buildings. They concern what buildings reveal when stripped of their symbolism and forced to speak.
This is his first exhibition in Iceland, and it is provocative. It does not offer neutrality but draws the viewer in and makes them complicit.
Khoury tells stories that others dare not touch. Stories embedded in a landscape characterized by conflict, exile, surveillance, and temptation. His artistic vision shapes areas that resist peace, offering no clear solutions or easy understanding.
17.5 2026 at 15:00
Artist talk – Jeannette Castioni
“Art is a game between all people of all periods.”
Marcel Duchamp
Join us for an artist talk with Jeannette Castioni Sunday 17th of May at 3PM.
For her installation at Listasafn Árnesinga, Jeannette Castioni presents Only Data: a video that is a work of contemporary art. Only Data utilises a 3-dimensional data reader to analyse birdsong and convert the sound into colourful visual animations. The bird’s song of the “Anselm” is also given intertitles with their sounds transliterated and layered on top of one another. The intertitles come and go at rapid intervals and in a dizzying variety of colours. Occasionally, there are small windows within the frame of the video, showing men gathering twigs and branches; ornithological narratives in German, both scientific and fictionalised, scroll across the screen, and one wonders if the men in the video are building a nest for themselves.
20.5 2026 at 16:00
Sim Ying music performance
Sim Ying will be playing works from Baroque, Classical and 20th century.
Loo Sim Ying is a classical guitarist and graduate of the Malaysia Institute of Arts. He is a prizewinner of the Malaysia Youth Music Festival, having won First Prize in 2008 and 2009, and a Gold Award in 2011.
He holds the Associate (ATCL) and Licentiate (LTCL) Diplomas in Music Performance from Trinity College London, both with Distinction, and received the Trinity College London Award of Excellence for his ATCL achievement.
As an award recipient, he has appeared at the Trinity Guildhall Awards Concert and performed at the Bel Canto concert series presented by the Classical Music Society of Selangor/Kuala Lumpur, the 8th JB Arts Festival, Alliance Française de Singapour, library@esplanade, and The Arts House.
He has participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned guitarists and has performed in Indonesia, Singapore, and Iceland.
Free entry