The Drumming Beat: Daníel Magnússon at Hverfisgallerí
Daníel Magnússons´s exhibition TRANSIT at Hverfisgallerí explores a rhythm of detail, depicting images of close up angles and geometrical forms created out of seemingly everyday moments and objects. In this way Magnússon´s photographs examine how construction and...
What rainbows we choose to see, a show and tell with Florence Lam
In what continues to be my favourite work of Hong Kong-based artist Florence Lam, a mirror, a stool and a spray bottle are arranged by a window in a carefully considered way. The Particularities of a Place (2015) humbly supplies us the tools to make a rainbow (should...
Handsaumaður fílabúningur fær uppreisn æru
Í Wind and Weather Window Gallery við Hverfisgötu í Reykjavík er þessa dagana sýning Unu Margrétar Árnadóttir sem nefnist Janúar/January. Undirritaður heyrði í Unu á dögunum og forvitnaðist um sýninguna og hana sjálfa sem listamann. Una segir að það hafi tekið hana...
Pavilion Nordico: a bridge between the Nordic countries and Argentina
I met with Sara Løve Daðadóttir, Josefin Askfelt and Emil Willumsen who are part of the team behind Pavilion Nordico in Buenos Aires, a project established in early 2019 which functions as exhibition space, residency and art centre for Nordic creators. The project...
A Violent Absurdity: Valheimur at Hverfisgallerí
Valheimur - a world is created, one that has semblances to our natural order and the social stories our cultures echo, yet is a product and figment of artistic imagination. In Sigurður Ámundason and Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson recently opened exhibition at...
“Event Horizon” at BERG Contemporary: a conversation with artists Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Sigrid Sandström & Hulda Stefánsdóttir
I spoke with the artists of Berg Contemporary's recently opened exhibition, Event Horizon. Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Sigrid Sandström & Hulda Stefánsdóttir told me about their practice in non-representational painting, the particularities of working jointly yet...
…and what then? at Nýlistasafnið
Entering Nýló I see a large clock, colorful drawings for musical scores, crumbling plastic containers, meticulously crafted bodies and utopian visions that explore what’s ahead by touching upon our modern and possible not-so-distant future positions, identities and...
A Mirrored Detritus and the Camouflaged Body : B. Ingrid Olson at i8 Gallery
I8 recently added B. Ingrid Olson (b.1987) to their roster of represented artists, a Chicago based artist whose intriguing practice can be placed somewhat ambiguously along an undefined axis of photography and sculpture. Olson´s exhibition at i8, Fingered Eyed, her...
Hildur Ása Henrýsdóttir í Kaktus: „Ég á um 1200 vini á Facebook”
Ókei næs! Ég fór á frábæra sýningu í sýningarrýminu Kaktus á Akureyri um daginn. Hún heitir Með böggum Hildar og er nýjasta einkasýning Hildar Ásu Henrýsdóttur. Ég spurði Hildi hvort að ég mætti taka við hana viðtal og hún var heldur betur til í það! Finnst þér...
Boekie Woekie, the longest running artists’ bookshop performance
In 1975, Ulises Carrión wrote the manifesto The New Art of Making Books. In the manifesto, the Mexican writer, curator, and conceptual artist expanded upon the traditional book form as a three-dimensional site of experience rather than as a container of texts. The...
Isle of Art: an interview with the author Sarah Schug
Sarah Schug is a German journalist based in Brussels who has been traveling in Iceland since 2009, after noticing the lack of books about Icelandic art she decided to take action and fill the gap. Her recently published book Isle of Art constitutes a comprehensive...
“Between people and places”: An Interview with Gavin Morrison
My first meeting with Gavin Morrison was brief, sparked through his research on Donald Judd in Iceland, and its connection to the Living Art Museum. Morrison visited the museum, via Ingólfur Arnarson, in hopes to collect information related to a group exhibition in...
An interview with Cosmos Carl
Cosmos Carl is a project by artists Frederique Pisuisse and Saemundur Thor Helgason. Their website can be described as an artist-run online exhibition platform that celebrates the democratization of the web while unveiling its potential when it comes to presenting...
About science, emotions and the Roman Empire: a conversation with Geirþrúður Finnbogadóttir Hjörvar
A few weeks ago I had a chat with Geirþrúður Finnbogadóttir Hjörvar about her show Desargues’s Theorem Lecture and Three Other Sculptures at Kling og Bang. Some sculptures would welcome the visitors into the exhibition, playing on the concepts of two-dimensional and...
Eygló Harðardóttir and Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson Take Home Awards at the Icelandic Art Prize
“Time is money, it’s cliché, but it’s quite simple and true.” I’m sitting with Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson in his studio in downtown Reykjavík over coffee, as he builds shelves to house and protect 250 ceramic plate artworks coming from the Reykjavík Art Museum. He...
Pappakassar stór hluti af íslenskri menningu
Tvíburasysturnar Maria og Natalia Petschatnikov héldu sýninguna „Learning to read Icelandic patterns“ í Gallerí Úthverfu á Ísafirði seint á síðasta ári. Maria og Natalia dvöldu vikurnar fyrir sýninguna í gestavinnustofum ArtsIceland á Ísafirði og var sýningin byggð á...
“What’s wrong with this picture?” An interview with Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson about their work at AVL MUNDO in Rotterdam
The artist duo Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson recently presented two works for What's wrong with this picture?, a group exhibition at AVL MUNDO in Rotterdam. The space itself is run by the Dutch sculptor Joep van Lieshout, and places a diversity of artists in...
Reflections on Belonging: Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir at Ctrl Shft Collective
In the downtown district of Oakland, California, sound artist Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir opened her latest installation work, Reflecting, in a group exhibition at the Ctrl Shft Collective, Traslación. Entering into a urban warehouse building, piercing blue eyes blink...
Hinsegin list eða pólitísk barátta?
Frá árinu 2015 hefur sýningarrýmið Gallerí 78 verið rekið í samvinnu við Samtökin ’78 í Suðurgötu 3. Gallerí 78 heldur að meðaltali 6 sýningar á ári sem eiga það sameiginlegt að kynna aðeins list eftir hinsegin listafólk. Blaðamaður artzine kíkti í heimsókn til að...
SAMAN í SOE Kitchen 101
Í Marshallhúsinu úti á Granda hefur stórt teymi frá vinnustofu listamannsins Ólafs Elíassonar hreiðrað um sig undanfarna mánuði. Ólafur, systir hans og kokkurinn Victoría Elíasdóttir ásamt föruneyti tóku yfir jarðhæð hússins, sem venjulega hýsir veitingastaðinn...
Afbygging dýrðarljómans
Myndlistarkonan Erla Haraldsdóttir er búsett í Berlín en sýnir reglulega á hinum ýmsum stöðum á landinu. Um þessar mundir sýnir hún tuttugu óhlutbundin málverk í Gallerí Gróttu á Seltjarnarnesi og ber sýningin titilinn „Memory of Colour“. Það kemur á óvart að Erla sé...