Reykjavík Grapevine - sep. 2019, Blaðsíða 37

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37The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 14— 2019
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Opening
LIVING ART MUSEUM
Resonances Of A Dynamic Absence
Karl Ómarsson's new exhibit takes
familiar shapes, materials, lines,
words, and colours and turns them
into unexpected fascinations.
• Opens on August 16th, 2019
• Runs until September 22nd, 2019
KLING & BANG
Mother & Child
A Kassen—the Copenhagen-based
collective comprised of Christian
Bretton-Meyer, Morten Steen Heb-
sgaard, Soren Petersen, and Tommy
Petersen—plays with traditional no-
tions of authorship, appropriation,
and appraisal in this exhibit.
• Opens on August 16th, 2019
• Runs until September 29th, 2019
Ongoing
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND
Treasures Of A Nation
A selection of over 80 works chosen
from the national gallery’s collection
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.
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
technology, 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
sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson. This
new permanent exhibition presents
the artist in a new light. What
dialogue does his works provoke?
• Runs until December 31st, 2019
Jóhann Eyfells: Palpable Forces
Early in the 1950’s, Jóhann Eyfells
started creating abstract sculp-
tures which were based on ex-
periments in physics and chemistry.
Come see them here.
• Runs until August 25th, 2019
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
I Remember the Mountain
Weather conditions, seasons,
lightning, natural forces, and hu-
man experiences coalesce into
an exhibition of photographs cum
paintings. Analog images reworked
reveal the universal vastness and
ever-changing qualities of nature.
• Runs until August 21st, 2019
Icelandic Meat Soup
Iceland in the 70s and 80s—long
hair and printed button-ups in-
cluded—is brought back to life by
photographer Kristjón Haraldsson,
who uses the photos to articulate
the practise of photography.
• Runs until September 8th, 2019
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND
Myth Of A Woman
Agnieszka Sosnowska immigrated
to Iceland 13 years. With her
photographs, 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
transformation
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
fisheries 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
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
Human Condition Draft Of
Contemporary Art History In Iceland
[III]
What does it mean to be human?
What are the psychological and
corporeal characteristics of it?
Here, selected artists take on these
fundamental questions.
• Runs until September 15th, 2019
Finnbogi Pétursson - Hz
In a semi-dark dungeon, two mighty
subwoofers positioned over a vast
tank of black water fill the air with
an almost unbearably low hum,
generating a slight ripple over the
tank and making you feel like your
brain is slowly dribbling out of your
ears in the process.
• Runs until September 15th, 2019
SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON MUSEUM
Connections
To celebrate the 13th anniversary
of the museum, this exhibition
presents 13 artists in dialogue with
Sigurjón and his art.
• Runs until October 6th, 2019
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART
URBAN SHAPE
Architect Paolo Gianfrancesco
used data from Open Street Map
to celebrate cities. The constant
interplay of people and their
environment will be revealed before
your very eyes.
• Runs until September 8th, 2019
MORRA
Fashion designer Signý
Þórhallsdóttir takes over the lobby
to work with Icelandic flora on silk
and paper for her MORRA collection.
• Runs until September 25th, 2019
Behind The Scenes: Archiving A
Ceramic Collection
In 1979, Anna Eyjólfsdóttir began to
collect ceramic pieces by Icelandic
artists. In 2017, the Museum of
aquired her collection. Currently,
the museum is cataloguing the
collection in front of your eyes.
• Runs until September 25th, 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 '60s and '80s. Explore them here.
• Runs until September 26th, 2019
REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM -
KJARVALSSTAÐIR
Jóhannes S. Kjarval: Can't Draw a
Harebell
Here, explore the floral works of
Jóhannes S. Kjarval, after whom the
museum is named. Be it ornamental
plants, potted plants, or wildflowers,
you'll find it all.
• Runs until December 31st, 2019
William Morris: Let Beauty Rule!
English artist William Morris was
a true Icelandophile, and even
translated the Sagas. Here, see
original drawings of Morris’s
patterns, wallpapers and work
processes, paintings, drawings, and
more.
• Runs until October 6th, 2019
HAFNARBORG
In Transition
Eight photographers present their
take on the town of Hafnarfjörður.
The town is currently in a state
of transition, and this exhibition
documents its progress into that of
a true urban centre.
• Runs until August 25th, 2019
GERÐARSAFN KÓPAVOGUR ART MUSEUM
Outline
The exhibition 'Outline' shows works
from the collection of Gerðarsafn
from 1950 until this day. In the
exhibition, the outline becomes
the connection between works in
different mediums, the thread that
ties them together.
• Runs until September 8th, 2019
Culture Hunt
This Culture Hunt will lead you
in-between the Kópavogur Culture
Houses, where in each location
guests will be asked to solve a
puzzle or answer a question on
nature, art or music. It is available in
English, Icelandic and Polish and is
free of charge
• Ending date TBA
ÁRBÆR OPEN AIR MUSEUM
HEIMAt: Two Worlds
To mark the 70th anniversary of
the arrival in 1949 of a group of
Germans to who travelled to Iceland
aboard the Esja ship, this exhibition
presents photographs of their
journey made by Marzena Skubatz.
• Runs until October 31st, 2019
REYKJAVÍK ROASTERS
Í Kring 02: Sigurður Ámundason
Sigurður's drawings display classic
battles between good and evil that
dive into the deepest pits of his
subconscious. Ooh, spooky stuff.
• Runs until August 21st, 2019
WIND AND WEATHER WINDOW GALLERY
Nonverbal Dialogues
This site specific installation
observes and explores how
different found objects relate to
each other. The objects create a
new meaning, a nonverbal dialogue
in the space between them.
• Runs until August 28th, 2019
ÍSLENSK GRAFÍK
Alternating Currents
A 35 square metre red curtain
printed Iceland's imaginary weather
patterns in cobalt blue takes over
Íslensk Grafík
• Runs until July 26th, 2019
RÝMD GALLERY
Pastelería Ideal
Here, sculpture and video installa-
tions perfectly replicate a Mexico
City bakery... but in Iceland. The
exhibit will only be open on August
2nd from 16:00 to 20:00.
• Runs until September 1st, 2019
August 16th—August 29th
William Morris: Let Beauty Rule!
Runs until October 6th - Kjarvalsstaðir
Kjarvalsstaðir
is currently
festooned with
eye-pleasing
patterns, hand
painted originals,
woven fabrics,
print plates,
books, furniture,
stained glass and
tiles by legend-
ary British artist,
activist, poet and
craftsman Wil-
liam Morris. ‘Let
Beauty Rule’ also
displays items
Morris bought
in Iceland during
his travels in 1871
and 1873, and sa-
gas he translated
from Icelandic
with Cambridge
scholar Erík Mag-
nússon. Morris’s
writing and trans-
lations inspired
many fiction and
fantasy writers
like C.S. Lewis
and J.R.R. Tolkien,
some of whose
Middle Earth
languages are
believed to have
been inspired by
Morris’s Icelandic-
sounding English.
The exquisite
works of Morris
will interest
anyone keen on
beauty. BJH

í kring 03
August 23rd-
October 9th
- Reykjavík
Roasters
A collection of
short stories.
A mishmash of
pictures. A zine.
Journey to all
three Reykjavík
Roasters loca-
tions and you’ll
experience all of
this in Kári Björn’s
three-part exhibi-
tion. HJC

Seeing Alba
August 22nd-
September 1st
- Listastofan
In this exhibi-
tion, meet Alba,
the only albino
orangutan known
to man. Her tragic
story inspired
artist Halla Gun-
narsdóttir to ask
one question: Do
we have more
right to exist on
this planet than
other animals?
HJC

D39 Emma Heiðarsdóttir: Margin
Until September
22nd - Hafnarhús
In her first solo
exhibition, Emma
Heiðarsdóttir
questions when
and where the
art experience
begins and ends.
Her works deal
with site-specific
interventions,
three-dimension-
al objects, and
visuals. HJC
Garðatorg 1· Garðabær
Open Tue - Sun 12 -17
Exhibitions:
Urban Shape
Paolo Gianfrancesco
Behind the Scenes
Archiving a ceramic collection
Morra
Signý Þórhallsdóttir
Designer in residence