Reykjavík Grapevine - jún. 2021, Blaðsíða 21

Reykjavík Grapevine - jún. 2021, Blaðsíða 21
Our Picks 21The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 06— 2021 Art Listin!s Events are listed by venue. For complete listin!s and detailed information on venues, visit !rapevine.is/happenin!. Send your listin!s to: listin!s@!rapevine.is Opening REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM " HAFNARHÚS I"avöllur: Icelandic Art in the 21st Century In 2021, Reykjavík Art Museum focuses on the microenvironment, with an aim of displaying the growth of the Icelandic art scene. The whole Hafnarhús becomes the setting for a powerful exhibition of new works by young artists who may be considered to be in the lead for their generation, and assumptions can also be made about the larger context of Icelandic and interna- tional contemporary art. • Opens on June 10th, 2021 • Runs until October 17th, 2021 I8 Ragna Róbertsdóttir No information is currently available on this particular exhibition, but if it's anything like Ragna's previ- ous work, you can bet it'll be full of strong forms and made of natural materials found freely in the Icelan- dic landscape. If it's not... well... we tried. • Opens on June 10th, 2021 • Runs until July 31st, 2021 MUTT GALLERY 21 Artists It's 2021, baby, which means 21 artists are showcasing works at Mutt to open the summer season. Many Grapevine favourites including Freyja Eilíf and Almar Atlason will be present. • Opens on June 6th, 2021 • Runs until August 8th, 2021 HVERFISGALLERÍ Abyss Hildur Bjarnadóttir presents her third solo show at Hverfisgallerí. Exact information hasn't yet been released, but Hildur is known for works that investigate issues of belonging, ecology, place and co- habitation with animals and plants in the south of Iceland. • Opens on June 19th, 2021 • Runs until August 21st, 2021 Ongoing NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND Of The North 'Of the North' (2001) is created from Steina Vasulka’s archive of video recordings, mostly of Icelandic nature—either the surface of the earth, or microscopic views: microbes, as well as crashing waves and melting ice, landslips and an array of natural phenomena relating to the formation and destruction of our planet. • Runs until January 9th, 2022 HELLO UNIVERSE It's 2021 and we're over Earth. Enter Finnur Jónsson. The avant-garde art of Finnur—the first Icelandic artist to address outer space in his works, in the first half of the 20th cen- tury—presents the artist's unfet- tered interpretation of the marvels of the celestial bodies, which are the theme of this exhibition. Always remember: We are but matter expe- riencing itself on a pale blue dot. • Runs until January 9th, 2022 Death Is Elsewhere Ragnar Kjartansson’s opus “Death is Elsewhere” made its debut in 2019 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Now, it’s back in the artists hometown for a sum- mer long residency at the National Gallery. Featuring ya fav musician twins GY#A, Kristín Anna, and (ran- domly) those two brothers from the National, the seven-channel video installation sees a single song played without end in a continuous loop. Filmed around the summer sol- stice in southern Iceland, “Death Is Elsewhere” is a referential work that turns romantic clichés on their head with irony, nihilism and absurdity to spare • Runs until September 19th, 2021 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. REYKJAVÍK CITY MUSEUM Settlement Exhibition As Viking ruins meet digital technol- ogy, this exhibition provides insight into Reykjavík's farms at the time of the first settlers. REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY The Silent But Noble Art Sigurhans Vignir (1894-1975) le$ the museum an archive of around 40,000 photographs. Many of these document everyday Icelandic society just a$er the creation of the Republic of Iceland in 1944—a chris- tening, labourers at work, people skating, the occupation of Iceland during World War II by British troops, a beauty pageant, a birthday party, a wigmaker… and so on. • Runs until September 19th, 2021 The Border Between Nature And The Scene “In my art, I explore the limits of pho- tography by fragmentarily excluding the concept of time for scenes that testify to the human encounter with life. The photographic scenes are set in scenographies where I have worked to show perspectives that make visible the fictional environ- ment and illusion within the sceno- graphic image.” – Peter Stridsberg • Runs until August 8th, 2021 REYKJAVÍK MARITIME MUSEUM Fish & Folk Name a better duo than fish and Iceland. You can’t. So come learn about the history of Icelandic fisher- ies from row boats to monstrous trawlers. Melckmeyt 1659 Melckmeyt was a Dutch merchant ship that crashed near Flatey Island in 1659. Explore the wreck here. with two images of di%erent origins against each other. MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART Kristín #orkelsdóttir You've probably seen Kristín &orkels- dóttir's work before though you might not know it. She's designed the packaging of countless foods as well as the banknotes in Iceland, among other famous items. Come see her progression as an artist. • Runs until January 30th, 2022 Behind the Scenes — Natural Dyes: A Modern Perspective Where do textile colours come from? Nowadays many are chemi- cal, but this project shows the wide range of colours one can produce nautrally in the Iceland. • Runs until September 12th, 2021 REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM " KJARVALSSTA#IR Eternal Recurrence Jóhannes S. Kjarval—a$er whom the museum is named—is put in dialogue with a number of promi- nent contemporary Iceland artists including Ólafur Elíasson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Steina and Eggert Pétursson. Now that's a lineup. • Runs until September 19th, 2021 HAFNARBORG Discotheque Arnfinnur Amazeen‘s exhibition pres- ents new works that draw inspira- tion from the ambiguous imagery of Icelandic night club culture in the seventies and eighties. While the ti- tle is a reference to revelry, what we have here is nonetheless a rather dreary discotheque. There is no glitz and glamour to be found here, only the subtle indication of something that has already happened. • Runs until August 15th, 2021 REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM " ÁSMUNDARSAFN Sirra Sigrún Sigur"ardóttir & Ásmundur Sveinsson: As If To Demon- strate An Eclipse Sirra’s work is cosmic in nature, o$en connected to speculation about our position within the inner workings of nature, physics and the forces that drive the world. Her works o$en display our position as individuals, our significance and insignificance. As an existentialist paper, who ruminated on our own obscurity, we can't agree more. • Runs until October 17th, 2021 Design for sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson Five product designers take over the museum shop at Ásmundarsafn with objects inspired by Ásmundur Sveinsson's world and heritage. • Runs until October 17th, 2021 HI# ÍSLENSKA BÓKMENNTAFÉLAG Abstract Reality The ground floor of the Hotel Saga will play host to a series of abstract art works by Valt'r Pétursson. He used abstraction to express sudden cultural, social and political shi$s in Iceland, so his pieces are the perfect thing to stare at and reflect on our own relatively abstract times. But don't worry: it's an upli$ing and colourful exhibition, so no need to bring the tissues. • Runs until August 31st, 2021 NORDIC HOUSE Nature in Transition: Shi$ing Identities The North is changing. Man-made climate change is pushing our climates into new territory and things are moving more rapidly than we could have ever imagined. This special exhibition dissects the na- ture of that instability in the light of the four Nordic countries and their history and future. It’s an important topic—and one that we cannot af- ford to ignore. • Runs until August 1st, 2021 Rockscramblers Rockscramblers is inspired by the illustrated poetry of poet Mats Söderlund and illustrator Kathrina Skar(sá. On view are the illustrations and poetry in their original forms and one can also interact with a mysterious recording of Söderlund himself, a cave where young visitors can have a cozy time and (!!!) a new climbing wall. • Runs until September 5th, 2021 June 4th-July 1st The incredible reality of you Until June 12th - Gallery Port )mir Grönvold has been busy. The pandemic didn’t dampen his stride and the young artist has now returned with a selection of drawings and paintings made over the past year. While the works are diverse in content and sub- ject matter, his pieces are always characterised by an overwhelm- ing sense of playfulness. Full of natural elements like leaves and flowers and bulg- ing with colours, patterns and soul, his paintings bring comfort— much like a toasty fire on a foggy day. The title of the exhibition refers to a book about conscious- ness—something )mir is extremely interested in—and it’s this pervasive fascina- tion with life and being present that has captured many towards )mir’s art. HJC Object of Desire Until August 26th - Ger(arsafn A collaboration be- tween Singapore and Iceland, ‘Ob- ject of Desire’ will travel between both countries with an explora- tion of “things” ( i.e. the desire, distribution, and reproduc- tion of “things”). Anti-consumerists rejoice. Gathering “things” will never make you happy— unless they are free newspapers. HJC MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART GAR!ATORG 1 210 GAR!ABÆR EXHIBITIONS BEHIND SCENES OPEN TUE–SUN 12–17 WWW.HONNUNARSAFN.IS NATURAL DYES: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE UNTIL 12.09. KRISTÍN "ORKELSDÓTTIR UNTIL 30.12. THE Instagram Facebook honnunarsafn Dreamfields Until July 4th - Kling og Bang This collaborative exhibition aims to take view- ers through an “otherworldly vista” by playing with textural ex- periments against landscapes that are both miniature and monumen- tal in scale. The artwork inspires a feeling of desola- tion through the scenery, blending each artist’s unique palette. HJC Pillow Talk - Reload June 10th-24th - Reykjavík City Library: Grófin Sonja Kova*evi+’s newest immersive installation dives deep into the lives of asylum seekers and refugees in Iceland. In it, emergency beds are hooked up to speakers that broadcast stories told directly from those trying to find a new, safer life in Iceland. Lie down, listen, and learn. HJC

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