Reykjavík Grapevine - 04.08.2008, Side 46

B6 | The Reykjavík Grapevine | Issue 10 2008
Listings
The National Gallery of Iceland
July 10 – September 28
Exhibition: Highlight of Icelandic
Art
The National Museum
Permanent exhibition:
The Making of a Nation
June 6 – January 21
Over the Ocean and Home:
Icelandic artefacts from Sweden.
May 16 – Sept 14
Endurkast (Reflection):
Cooperative photography
exhibition between eight Icelandic
photographers.
May 16 – Sept 14
In the Mist: Exhibition by French
photographer Thomas Humery.
May 15 – Sept 1
Lífshlaup: Cooperative project
between The University of Iceland
and the National Museum.
The Nordic House
June 14 – August 31
An exhibition celebrating the 40th
anniversary of the Nordic House.
The Numismatic Museum
Permanent exhibition:
The Central Bank of Iceland and
the National Museum of Iceland
jointly operate a numismatic
collection consisting of Icelandic
notes and coins.
Reykjavík 871 +/- 2
Permanent exhibition:
The Settlement Exhibition
Reykjavík Art Gallery
Current exhibition:
Magnús Tómasson, Pétur Már
Pétursson and Tolli
Reykjavík Art Museum
– Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture
Museum
May 20 – August 10
The Shape of Line
A new retrospective of works
by Ásmundur Sveinsson. The
exhibition focuses on abstract
works from 1945 onwards.
Reykjavík Art Museum
– Hafnarhús
May 15 – August 24
Hafnarhús - Experimental
Marathon Reykjavík: Hafnarhús
turns into a major laboratory
where leading artists, architects,
film-makers, and scientists
will create an environment
of invention through various
experiments and performances
(in English). Curated by Hans
Ulrich Obrist and Ólafur Elíasson.
Reykjavík Art Museum
– Kjarvalsstaðir
18 May – 31 August
Dreams of the Sublime and
Nowhere in Contemporary
Icelandic Art:
This exhibition includes many
new works of photography
and video art by Iceland’s most
outstanding artists, building on
their disparate ideas about nature
as a phenomenon.
18 May – 20 July
I Hate Nature/Aluminati:
Installation by Martha Schwartz
18 May – 31 August
Where Am I?: An exhibition in
which children and adults can
contemplate their planet, their
country, and the landmarks of
their environment.
18 May – 31 December
Jóhannes S. Kjarval – Key
Works: The current exhibition
in Kjarvalsstaðir’s east gallery
features key works from the
museum’s collection along
with works on loan from the
Labor Unions’ Art Gallery and
from the collection of Ingibjörg
Guðmundsdóttir and Þorvaldur
Guðmundsson.
Reykjavík Maritime Museum
Current Exhibitions:
Living Museum by the Sea;
Arterial for Country and City;
From Poverty to Abundance; The
Shark – Light and Life Energy;
Hidden Craftsman.
Reykjavík Museum
(Árbæjarsafn)
Current exhibitions:
Building Techniques in Reykjavík
1840-1940; Disco and Punk –
Different cultures?; Christmas is
Coming; History of Reykjavík –
from farm to city; Memories of a
House; Living and Playing
The Reykjavík Museum of
Photography
May 31 – Aug 31
Skovbo: Exhibtion by Viggo
Mortensen
June 5 – July 29
The Lodgers: Photographs by
Anne Kathrin Greiner
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum
Permanent exhibition:
Works of sculptor Sigurjón
Ólafsson.
>>>OUTSIDE REYKJAVÍK
Hafnarborg
May 29 – July 21
Hundrað (Hundred) –
Photographic exhibition
featuring photographs spanning
Hafnarfjörður’s 100-year history
June 1 – July 21
Hafnfirðingar – Photographic
exhibition by Árni Gunnlaugsson
focusing on long time residents of
Hafnarfjörður
The Icelandic Settlement Centre
Permanent exhibitions:
The Settlement of Iceland; The
Saga of Egill Skalla-Grímsson
Current theatre productions:
Brák – a monologue by Brynhildur
Gudjonsdottir
Mr. Skallagrímsson – a monologue
by Benedikt Erlingsson
Vatnasafn / Library of Water
Permanent exhibition:
Roni Horn installation. She has
replaced stacks of books with
glass columns containing water
gathered from Iceland’s glaciers
and glacial rivers.
Akureyri Art Museum
July 5 – August 24
Summer Exhibition: Guðmundar
Ármann Sigurjónsson
retrospective exhibition
GalleriBOX
July 26 – August 16
Alexander Steig exhibition
Veggverk
Current exhibition:
Painting by Bridget Kennedy
Kunstraum Wohnraum
(Home gallery)
July 5 – 20 September
Huginn Þór Arason exhibition
Skaftfell
June 7 – September 14
Audovision: Various artists exhibit
at the west-wall. In this series of
exhibitions the curators choose
together visual artist and sound
artists as a pair. Curators are
Ingólfur Arnarsson and Elísabet
Indra Ragnarsdóttir. . On July 19,
Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir and Kira
Kira open their exhibition.
June 28 – August 3
Summer Exhibition: Curating
this year is Gudmundur Oddur
Magnusson.
LÁ Art Museum
Current Exhibition: Exhibition on
the works of visual artist Magnús
Kjartansson.
Movies
Big Stan
Regnboginn, Borgarbíó, Sambíóin
Keflavík
Deception
Sambíóin Álfabakki
Hancock
Smárabíó, Sambíóin Álfabakki,
Háskólabíó, Laugarásbíó, Reg-
nboginn, Borgarbíó, Sambíóin
Keflavík, Sambíóin Selfoss
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Smárabíó, Háskólabíó, Laugarás-
bíó, Borgarbíó, Sambíóin Keflavík
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull
Sambíóin Álfabakki, Sambíóin
Kringlan
Kung Fu Panda
Smárabíó, Sambíóin Álfabakki,
Háskólabíó, Sambíóin Kringlan,
Laugarásbíó, Sambíóin Keflavík,
Sambíóin Akureyri, Sambíóin
Selfoss
Mamma Mia!
Smárabíó, Háskólabíó, Laugarás-
bíó, Borgarbíó
Meet Dave
Smárabíó, Regnboginn
Sex and the City
Háskólabíó, Regnboginn
Step into
the Viking Age
Experience Viking-Age Reykjavík at the
new Settlement Exhibition. The focus of the
exhibition is an excavated longhouse site which
dates from the 10th century ad. It includes
relics of human habitation from about 871, the
oldest such site found in Iceland.

Multimedia techniques bring Reykjavík’s
past to life, providing visitors with insights
into how people lived in the Viking Age, and
what the Reykjavík environment looked like
to the first settlers.
The exhibition and
museum shop are open
daily 10–17
Aðalstræti 16
101 Reykjavík / Iceland
Phone +(354) 411 6370
www.reykjavikmuseum.is