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DEIGLAN
TRANSLATION
TRANSLATIONS is a work in progress. It
is an exchange between Else Ploug
Isaksen and Iben West inspired by
their residency in Iceland. The ex-
change is like a stream of thoughts,
a poetic flow. It has its own logic.
• Runs on August 26, 27 at 14:00
SÍM
SÍM Artists in Residency Exhibition
Guest artists at the SÍM Residency at
Seljavegur and Korpúlfsstaðir pres-
ent what they have been working on
for the past month during their stay
in Iceland.
• Opens on August 28 at 17:00
• Also runs on Aug 29 at 10:00
ART67
“MORPHOGENESIS”
Louise le Roux presents experi-
mental works in fluid acrylics. The
exhibition is a result of explorations
of how colours and mediums react
with each other to create form. The
interplay of pigment density and
dispersion medium sets the stage
for the experiment.
• Opens on September 2, 2017
• Runs until September 30, 2017
Ongoing
THE CULTURE HOUSE
'Points of View'
Guests are taken on a journey
through the Icelandic visual world of
past and present.
• On permanent view
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
“Art of Memory” by Woody Vasulka
Woody’s work leads the viewer
through a dreamlike journey fo-
cused on landscapes and historical
paintings.
• Runs until September 1, 2017
Shoplifter
Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir, aka Shoplifter,
is a renowned Icelandic designer
and artist whose colourful, large
scale installations are eye-catching
and textural. She uses brightly
coloured hair fibres to create vivid,
dizzying landscapes, or “hairscapes”.
• Runs until October 10, 2017
Treasures of a Nation
This new long-term exhibit presents
a selected number of works from
1884 to 1911 of mostly Danish and
Scandinavian artists.
• Runs until December 31, 2017
EINAR JÓNSSON MUSEUM
Permanent Exhibition
The museum contains close to
300 artworks including a beautiful
garden with 26 bronze casts of the
artist’s sculptures.
• On permanent view
GALLERÝ H
“Rat Race” by Haraldur Ingi Haralds-
son
Haraldur presents 19 paintings in-
spired by politics and the addiction
to power.
• Runs until December 21, 2017
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS
God, I Feel So Bad / Woman In E
Ragnar Kjartansson’s retrospective
features four pianists and four op-
era singers playing simultaneously.
Now a new performance begins: a
presentation in which a glamorously
staged female guitarist endlessly
strums the chord e-minor.
• Runs until September 24, 2017
REYKJAVÍK CITY MUSEUM
MELANKÓLÍA
Laufey Elíasdóttir’s photographs
are extremely personal. Raw, strik-
ing, and sorrowful—the exhibit is
based on a poem by Elísabet Kristín
Jökulsdóttir.
• Runs until October 10, 2017
THE NORDIC HOUSE
THE CITY BEING
THE CITY BEING explores various
aspects of our modern cities, with
contemporary Reykjavik as the main
point of reference.
• Runs until November 5, 2017
-LINES-
This interactive sound art installa-
tion explores one of the most fun-
damental parts of Western music:
Lines. Come create music with your
own hands using hanging sensors
and electronics.
• Runs until September 3, 2017
LIVING ART MUSEUM
READ THROUGH
The Living Art Museum presents a
reading room full of domestic and
international artworks in book form
spanning from the 1960s until today.
• Runs until September 2, 2017
HLEMMUR SQUARE
Dýragarður - Zoo
Úlfur Karlsson has a cartoonish style
in this exhibit hosted by the Hlem-
mur Square Hostel/Bar. Expect lots
of colour and confusion.
• Runs until August 26, 2017
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Metamorphosis
In Metamorphosis, Sigurgeir Sigur-
jónsson compares the city to the
built-up countryside to the wild wil-
derness. From torn-down buildings
in Reykjavík to abandoned farms,
the photos are brutal, sometimes
violent, but beautiful.
• Runs until September 10, 2017
GERÐASAFN KÓPAVOGUR ART MUSEUM
The In, With and Between Us
This exhibit presents a conversation
around non-linear readings of place
and time, language and translation.
It is a collaboration between a num-
ber of international MFA students
from the SVA school in New York.
• Runs until August 30, 2017
AKUREYRI ART MUSEUM
Selected Works By North Icelandic
Artists
Thirty northern Icelandic artists
present a diverse range of art in-
spired by the intrepid North. What is
the state of Northern Icelandic arts?
You’ll find out.
• Runs until August 27, 2017
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND
Birds, Fjord and Iceland Photo-
graphs by Björn Björnsson
Björn specialised in nature photog-
raphy and travelled around Iceland
documenting such.
• Runs until September 17, 2017
Bundled Up In Blue
This exhibition is based on new
research on the bones and grave
found in a settlement-era grave.
• Runs until September 30, 2017
HÚSAVÍK MUSEUM
Far Away Right Here
Photographer Martin Cox spent a
month at the Fjuk Art Center last
year. Here he presents his work from
there, inspired by the landscape and
history of Húsavík.
• Runs until September 1, 2017
SLÁTURHÚSIÐ
Born In The Slaughterhouse
Nine artists worked with various me-
dia to create an exhibit linked by the
idea of basic needs. Carcasses will
hang from hooks and snapshots will
capture prison cells, all to create a
playful twist on human violence.
• Runs until September 15, 2017
VERKSMIÐJAN Á HJALTEYRI
Hverfing / Shapeshifting
This exhibit brings together re-
nowned artists from Iceland and the
United States to build site-specific
installations for the former herring
oil factory that hosts the museum.
• Runs until September 3, 2017
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART
Nordic Angan: A Fragrance Library Of
The Nordic Nature
Sonja Bent and Elin Hrent have set
up a workshop / showroom where
they make essential oils with the
goal of making a fragrance library
from Icelandic flora..
• Runs until September 20, 2017
MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY
HDE YOUR FIRES
This exhibit of the organic form, jux-
taposed by characteristic Icelandic
landscapes. Each photo is designed
to transpose a flickering atmo-
sphere, somewhere between dream
and tangibility as dark figures haunt
nature.
• Runs until September 15, 2017
ART67
Linda Steinþórsdóttir
Linda’s artwork is abstract and
minimalist, all bringing you to white
glaciers, black sands, barren nature,
and the blood-red sky of Iceland.
• Runs until August 31, 2017
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM -
KJARVALSSTAÐIR
Louisa Matthíasdóttir: Calm
The exhibition spans the whole
career of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, who
painted mainly Icelandic landscapes
and still-lifes.
• Runs until September 17, 2017
Kjarval – Key Works
Kjarvalsstaðir was actually named
after the artist Jóhannes Sveinsson
Kjarval. This exhibit asks: Does the
value lie in natural beauty for its
own sake, in the hidden life within it,
in our potential for utilisation, or in
the transience?
• Runs until December 31, 2017
RAMSKRAM
In And Out The Window
Nina Zurier presents a black and
white photography and video ex-
hibit focusing on presenting normal
objects in an eerie light.
• Runs until September 23, 2017
I8 GALLERY
Eggert Pétursson
Pétursson’s exhibit was inspired by
the mountain Bjarnarfell, where he
found ravines, vegetation and gul-
lies that excited him. “Each of these
ravines had their own character.” He
says, “I have really dissolved every-
thing, and I am not always certain
whether I am painting a stone, wa-
ter, the flowers or the light. The mere
size of the works should allow the
viewer to walk into the work, even to
be enveloped by it. What is pre-
sented is my mapping of a certain
period and experience – a hike.”
• Runs until September 20, 2017
BERG CONTEMPORARY
Dodda Maggý
Lingering on the verge of cinema,
video art, and music composition,
Dodda Maggý employs many mediums
with a cross-disciplinary approach.
Each piece together forms a complex
organism.
• Runs until October 21, 2017
August 25 - September 7
Our Picks

No Corset Needed
Ladies and Crinolines :
Society of Female Theatre
3-5 September, Various Times,
Iðnó,2.900 ISK
This powerful
comedy offers a
glimpse into the
world of music
and women’s
fashion from the
years 1890-1990.
The show has
been selling out
fast since its pre-
mier on June 17h,
so get ready for a
laugh and a hit of
hilarious nostal-
gia. The women of
Society of Female
Theatre Artists
make jokes and
strut catwalks of
various outfits,
from crinolines
and hoop skirts
through flimsy
Charleston dress-
es, over fluffy
tulle dresses of
the fifties, the
little black dress
to hippie times
as well as the
legendary Hag-
kaups-sloppur, a
classic Icelandic
housewife’s gown
from the sixties.
The show is at
17:00 and 20:00
on the 3rd and
20:00 on the 5th.
ZVS

Not The Lars Von Trier Film
MELANKÓLÍA
Reykjavík City
Museum, Runs
until 10 October
Laufey Elíasdót-
tir’s photographs
are extremely
personal. Raw,
striking, and
sorrowful—the
exhibit is based
on a poem by
Elísabet Kristín
Jökulsdóttir. HJC

One Medium? No Way
Dodda Maggý
BERG Cont.,
Runs until 21 Oct.
Lingering on the
verge of cinema,
video art, and
music composi-
tion, Dodda Maggý
employs many
mediums with a
cross-disciplinary
approach. Each
piece together
forms a complex
organism that can
be perceived from
different points of
view. HJC

Art Party!
A!
Performance
Festival
31 August to
3 September,
Various Times,
Akureyri
Looking to ven-
ture to the North
and see some
great art while
doing so? The A!
Festival is here to
save the day. HJC
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