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33The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 07— 2019
Art Listings
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REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS
D37 Gunnar Jónsson - Gröt
The D-Gallery exhibitions show up-
and-coming artists in their first solo
exhibition. This iteration features
video, sounds, and photographs by
Gunnar Jónsson.
• Opens on May 4th, 2019
• Runs until May 12th, 2019
Ongoing
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND
Treasures Of A Nation
A selection of over 80 works chosen
from the national gallery’s collec-
tion displays the evolution of art
since the 19th century.
• Runs until December 31st, 2019
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.
THE ÁSGRIMUR JÓNSSON COLLECTION
Korriró And Dillidó
Ásgrímur’s art explores the fears
and dreams of generations, as
mysterious Icelandic elves, trolls
and monsters finally take shape and
materialise as vivid beings.
• Runs until April 30th, 2019
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
Ásmundur Sveinsson: Under the
Same Sky - Art In Public Space
Ásmundarsafn is named after sculp-
tor Ásmundur Sveinsson. This new
permanent exhibition presents the
artist in a new light. What dialogue
does his works provoke?
• Runs until December 31st, 2019
Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir: Natural
Elements
Beloved Icelandic sculptor Brynhil-
dur Þorgeirsdóttir presents a new
exhibit of her pivotal work.
• Runs until June 10th, 2019
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
...now
Páll Stefánsson has spent 37 years
as a traveller and photographer.
Here, he captures the silence of the
present. From refugees to endless
glaciers to random strangers, he
explores everything from discrimi-
nation to the inevitability of nature
in a momentary glance.
• Runs until May 12th, 2019
Sonja Margrét Ólafsdóttir - Roots
Sonja Margrét Ólafsdóttir’s photo-
graphs show everyday scenes and
places but also have an air of mys-
tery: Where are these places? Who
are these people and what connects
these images?
• Runs until June 10th, 2019
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND
Discovering Iceland's Monastaries
Are you fascinated by really old
things? God? This exhibit combines
both, based on research by archae-
ologist Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir.
• Runs until May 26th, 2019
Artists' Books
Familiarise yourself with the books
of Icelandic artists'. You'll find ex-
amples of printmaking dating all the
way back to the latter part of the
19th century.
• Runs until June 2nd, 2019
Myth Of A Woman
Agnieszka Sosnowska immigrated to
Iceland 13 years. With her photo-
graphs, she documents herself,
her students, new family members,
and friends. Her inspiration is the
strength of the female spirit.
• Runs until September 1st, 2019
Life, as it is lived, before the trans-
formation
In stark black and white, Yrsa
Roca Fannberg captured life in
Árneshreppur, the smallest parish
in Iceland. Crisp and unrelenting,
the photos capture the symbiotic
relationship between man, animal
and dirt.
• Runs until September 1st, 2019
REYKJAVÍK MARITIME MUSEUM
Fish & Folk
Name a better duo than fish and
Iceland. You can’t. So come learn
about the history of Icelandic fisher-
ies from rowing boats to monstrous
motor boats.
Melckmeyt 1659
Melckmeyt was a Dutch merchant
ship that crashed near Flatey Island
in 1659. Explore the wreck here.
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS
Anna Guðjónsdóttir: Pars Pro Toto
Here, Anna Guðjónsdóttir questions
the boundary between the original
and the copy. Two-dimensional
painted surfaces and three-dimen-
sional real spaces collide.
• Runs until May 19th, 2019
Erró: Mao's World Tour
Between 1972 and 1980, Erró
painted over 130 paintings, with two
images of different origins against
each other: Chinese propaganda
posters of Mao Zedong and Western
tourist pictures from famous sites.
• Runs until January 5th, 2020
Now Nordic
The international design platform
Adorno presents a landmark exhibi-
tion of contemporary design from
the five Nordic countries, aiming to
showcase the commonalities and
contrasts between the modern
design cultures of Norway, Finland,
Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
• Runs until May 26th, 2019
SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON MUSEUM
Connections
To celebrate the 13th anniver-
sary of the museum, this exhibition
presents 13 artists in dialogue with
Sigurjón and his art.
• Runs until October 6th, 2019
HAFNARBORG
Reservation
Here, rural, urban, and cultural areas
are connected in an attempt to
forge new relationships between
environments—all through mixed-
media art, of course. The exhibit is
presented as part of Design March.
• Runs until May 19th, 2019
Drawsings/Sketches In Clay &
Textiles
Ceramic artist and designer Kristín
Garðarsdóttir journeys between the
clear and the obscure in this simple,
primitive, but still beautiful exhibit.
• Runs until May 26th, 2019
LIVING ART MUSEUM
Soft Landing
The MA students in Fine Art at the
Icelandic Academy Of The Arts pres-
ent their final projects. Here, you'll
find the freshest artists before they
become famous.
• Runs until May 26th, 2019
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART
Weather Workshop
Artist Shu Yi opens up a conversation
on Iceland's ever-changing weather
by transforming weather data into
visual forms in the entrance of the
Design Museum.
• Runs until June 2nd, 2019
URBAN SHAPE
Architect Paolo Gianfrancesco used
data from Open Street Map to cel-
ebrate cities. The constant interplay
of people and their environment will
be revealed before your very eyes.
• Runs until September 8th, 2019
KLING OG BANG
Sensible Structures
This exhibition explores the concep-
tual relationships that occur in the
parenthesis between the visual and
the verbal through the work of Kris-
tinn Már Pálmason, Bryndís Hrönn
Ragnarsdóttir and the late Fluxus
artist Ludwig Gosewitz.
• Runs until May 26th, 2019
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Janice Kerbel
Kerbel’s large silkscreen prints put
verbs and nouns into the focus of
the piece like it’s a portrait. These
aren’t your average words though,
Janice’s picks are pretty brutal—
think jab, grab, head butt, barge,
straddle, and more.
• Runs until May 25th, 2019
HARBINGER
Networking & Chilling
Until May 19th, 12 artists will take
over Harbinger for one day each.
Some will turn the space into a
temporary waiting room, some will
tattoo their mother, while one will
make sculptures from green beans.
• Runs until May 19th, 2019
ÁSMUNDARSALUR
OMEN
Graduates of the MA Design, Explora-
tions, and Translations programme
at the Icelandic University Of The
Arts present their final works. Come
for tech, food science, and fun.
• Runs until May 19th, 2019
LISTASALUR MOSFELLSBÆJAR
Atli Már
Bright colours, cartoonish figures,
and movie references are what
you can expect at Atli's exhibit of
sketches and paintings.
• Runs until May 31st, 2019
NORDIC HOUSE
Porcelain Souls
Photographer Inuuteq Storch went
through his parents' archives and
found photos and letters from their
lives in Greenland and Denmark in
the 1960s and 80s. Explore them
here.
• Runs until September 26th, 2019
WIND & WEATHER WINDOW GALLERY
Matrix, or Genesis of Private Prop-
erty
This site specific installation uses
word, printed images, and chromed
metal to make an overwhelming im-
age that questions your very reality.
• Runs until June 26th, 2019
May 10th—May 23rd
It's Oh So Quiet...
Louder Than Bombs
Until June 15th - BERG Contemporary
Silence both
opens and closes
a conversation. It
creates lightness
and darkness,
envelopes and
releases, leaving
a path in its wake
that irrepretely
change those in-
volved. In ‘Louder
Than Bombs’
three artists—
Birgir Snæbjörn
Birgisson, Heidi
Lampenius, and
Miikka Vaskola—
engage with the
theme of silence,
tearing it down to
its artistic core,
exploring the
nothingness and
somethingness
the word evokes.
While all the works
within the exhibi-
tion relate to each
other, each was
created indi-
vidually, the effect
being a conversa-
tion in which all
three painters’
sentiments and
beliefs exist in
dialogue with the
rest. In the end,
they discovered
a silence that is
active, that is car-
ing, that doesn’t
suffocate, but
embraces. HJC

Hover, float
May 12th-26th -
Íslenskt Gráfik
Helsinki-based
Anna Niskanen is
here with a series
of cyanotype
works on paper
and silk. They
depict the flow-
ing tides of the
world, and the
magnetic pushes
and pulls which
drive them. HJC

Old Orchard
May 17th-May
31st - Listastofan
In this collection
of abstract silken
air-brushed
paintings, Mi-
randa Crabtree
invites us into
an ambiguous
landscape where
women gather
fruit from a
barren orchard.
Come fantasise
and wander into
the spiritual idyl-
lic. HJC

Hnallþóran
Until May 26th -
Midpunkt
Sigurrós Guðb-
jörg Björnsdóttir
og Berglind Erna
Tryggvadóttir
take Icelandic
food, baking, and
tradition and
turn it into pop
photography and
bright art. Note:
The exhibit is only
open on week-
ends from 14:00
to 17:00. HJC
Garðatorg 1· Garðabær
Open Tue - Sun 12 -17
Exhibitions:
Urban Shape
Paolo Gianfrancesco

Weather Workshop
Shu Yi
Behind the Scenes
Archiving a ceramic collection