Reykjavík Grapevine - 18.05.2018, Page 37

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Opening
GERÐARSAFN KÓPAVOGUR ART MUSEUM
GERÐUR: Retrospective
This retrospective explores Icelan-
dic sculptor Gerður Helgadóttir, af-
ter whom the museum was named.
• Opens on 31th May, 2018
• Runs until 12th August, 2018
AUSTURVÖLLUR
Espresso Bar
Come fight the man with an art
installation where each espresso is
100 ISK. There will also be fantastic
artwork.
• Opens on 26th May, 2018
• Runs until 2nd June, 2018
Ongoing
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND
Treasures Of A Nation
A selection of over 80 works chosen
from the national gallery’s collection
display the evolution of art since the
19th century.
• Runs until 31st December, 2019
Rule Of The Game
Finnish artist Elina Brotherus comes
to Iceland with a retrospective.
She's known for her arresting self-
portraits and landscapes.
• Runs until 24th June, 2018
Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking
This exhibit takes printmaking and
looks at it in parallel with other
means of expression, including writ-
ing, composition, and visual arts.
• Runs until 23rd September, 2018
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
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS
Erró: More is Beautiful
This exhibition shines a special
light on Erró’s works—intricate and
charged structures related to poli-
tics, science, fiction and art history.
• Runs until 21st May, 2018
Tak i lige måde: Contemporary Art
from Denmark
The museum celebrates the centen-
nial of Iceland’s independence from
Denmark by inviting Danish artists
to exhibit their work and address
pressing issues of our times.
• Runs until 21st May, 2018
D33 Anna Fríða Jónsdóttir: Tone
Here, Anna Fríða presents an exhibit
that looks at the world through
sound waves, making music directly
from the brain.
• Runs until 21st May, 2018
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART
Behind The Scenes With
Einar Þorsteinn
In 2014, architect and mathemati-
cian Einar Þorsteinn Ásgeirsson gave
all his belongings to the museum.
Best described as a renaissance
man, the exhibit is full of curiosities.
• Runs until 7th October, 2018
The Imaginarium Of Kron By KronKron
Magni and Hugrún (aka KronKron)
have designed over 2000 fashion
items, thereof 1200 shoe designs
which make up the core of this
exhibition.
• Runs until 18th September, 2018
ÁRBÆR OPEN AIR MUSEM
Daily Guided Tours
Tours are from 13:00 to 14:00
through its open air exhibits.
REYKJAVÍK CITY MUSEUM
Settlement Sagas
As Viking ruins meet digital technol-
ogy, this exhibition provides insight
into Reykjavík's farms at the time of
the first settlers.
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM -
ÁSMUNDARSAFN
Invasion II: Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir /
Shoplifter
The first instalment of a series of
exhibitions that encourage artists
to engage with the artistic heritage
of Ásmundur Sveinsson.
• Runs until 12th August, 2018
Ásmundur Sveinsson: Art For The
People
Ásmundur Sveinsson watched
Iceland grow from a poor agrar-
ian society into one of the richest
countries in the world. His sculp-
tures reflect this, presenting a
conversation between assimilation
and innovation.
• Runs until 31st December, 2018
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
HEIMA / HOME
Photographer Hanna Siv Bjarnardót-
tir documented a number of senior
citizens living in Stokkseyri–a small
town on the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
• Runs until 29th May, 2018
Olaf Otto Becker: Ice & Land
Here, spectacular documentary
photography highlights changes
in Iceland and Greenland due to
climate change and other human
interference.
• Runs until 16th September, 2018
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND
The Long Apartment
Block in Upper Breiðholt
Photographer David Barreiro took
one building Breiðholt and explored
it inside and out. Come get intimate-
ly acquainted with the 320 metre
space and its inhabitants.
• Runs until 27th May, 2018
Fishing Stations of Old Iceland
Iceland's rich history of fishing sta-
tions is put on display here by pho-
tographer Karl Jeppesen. Some are
still in use. Others have disappeared
from the face of the earth.
• Runs until 27th May, 2018
Slendid Saddlery
In the past, beautifully-decorated
and oranate saddles were valuable
possessions. Here, see a collection
of them.
• Runs until 21st October, 2018
SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON MUSEUM
Two Comrades
Icelandic artists Sigurjón Ólafsson
and Asger Jern were both influential
figures in the Danish art scene in the
1930s. Their works are now shown
together to hopefully unveil new
links and relationships.
• Runs until 7th October, 2018
THE NORDIC HOUSE
Inspired by Aalto: Sustainability as
an Attitude
Come see some of Alvar Aalto‘s clas-
sic furniture designs and some of
the works he inspired including an
assortment of Artek furniture.
• Runs until 2nd September, 2018

LIVING ART MUSEUM
Between Mountain And Tide
Ragna Róbertsdóttir presents a cir-
cular reflection of her work, drawing
forward the past into Ragna's cur-
rent reflections on her work.
• Runs until 19th May, 2018
GERÐUBERG CULTURE HOUSE
Hildur Björnsdóttir
How do we experience a culture that
is remote and exotic to us? With her
photographs and illustrations, Hildur
dives into this question.
• Runs until 4th June, 2018
Moments From The Life Of Asylum
Seekers
Is asylum in Iceland paradise or
purgatory? Here, Annie Ling explores
the lives of those who arrived in
Iceland last year.
• Runs until 24th August, 2018
GRÓFIN CULTURAL CENTRE
Ex Libris: Bookplates Then & Now
Students from the Reykjavík School
of Visual Arts reference tradition
with their own modern take on ex
libris bookplates.
• Runs until 29th May, 2018
WIND & WEATHER WINDOW GALLERY
The Hidden Angels
Rustic brick sculptures rise from
the ground in Nermine El Ansari’s
window installation.
• Runs until 27th May, 2018
HAFNARBORG
Relativity
The paintings of Jóns Axels Björnsso-
nar tiptoe on the colourful boundar-
ies between forms that present us
with objects and those that capture
a state of mind.
• Runs until 27th May, 2018
Many Times We See and Many Times
We See Again
Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir is
all about combining different medi-
ums, such as traditional oil paint-
ings, wooden sculptures, videos,
texts and performances.
• Runs until 27th May, 2018
VERKSMIÐJAN Á HJALTEYRI
BY SIDE
Four artists are pulled together by
a sense of space and aesthetics
to create new works on site that
respond to the historical setting of
Verksmiðjan.
• Runs until 10th June, 2018
KLING & BANG
The Universe Of The World Breath
Elizabeth Peyton presents a
series of works all of friends: Bella
D’arcangelo age 8; the Japanese
figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, and
many more.
• Runs until 20th May, 2018
TVEIR HRAFNAR
Never again or is it too late to
change my mind?
Los Angeles-based artist, Heimir
Björgúlfson, questions the relation-
ship between man and nature.
• Runs until 9th June, 2018
LISTASALUR MOSFELLSBÆJAR
Kristján og Logi umpotta
Two embroidery artists collaborate
in a seamless project that makes
you wonder: Which artist stitched
what?
• Runs until 15th June, 2018
May 17th- May 31th
Our Picks

Tranquility & Discord
Sig Vicious - Lavastract
May 24-June 7 - Listastofan
Sig Vicious will open up his visual world,
Lavastract, combining his location
and landscape photography with his
graphic design origins. As Iceland’s first
Instagram celebrity as @SigVicious, he
portrayed the stark nature of the island
in an especially angular and defined
fashion. Before that, he made his name
in graphic design, with iconic works for
Undirtónar, CCP, Metalheadz and more.
The exhibition spins out from his past
work, in dialogue with the visual worlds
of graphic design, music and cinema.
His work is beautiful and captivating,
with a sense of immediacy and wonder,
creating a feeling of tranquillity in dis-
cord. The name describes it well, an ab-
straction of landscapes, in an explosion
of colours. “The setting is dramatic and
paradoxical — the material is ancient
but the plot futuristic.” SP

The Patri(ART)chy
Allt í klessu
Until May 26 - Harbinger
Do you laugh at the patriarchy? Glo-
rify it? Criticise it? With everything
from men brewing beer to playing
basketball, Guðmundur Thoroddsen
does all at the same time. HJC

May Flowers
Garður Meðalmennskunnar
Until May 26 - Gallery Port
Loji follows a thread of Icelandic
“home-ness” with his mother, em-
broiderer Jóhanna Vilborg, in a show
of hand-stitched work that seeks to
describe domestication. SP

Living In Limbo
Moments From The Life Of Asylum
Seekers
Until Aug.24 - Gerðuberg House
Is asylum in Iceland paradise or
purgatory? Here, Annie Ling explores
the lives of those who arrived in
Iceland last year. HJC
37The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 08 — 2018
Garðatorg 1 · Garðabær
Open Tue - Sun 12 -17
Exhibitions:
The imaginarium
of Kron by Kronkron
600 pairs of shoes
Ðyslextwhere
spelling mistakes
in knitwear
Behind the scenes
with Einar Þorsteinn
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