Reykjavík Grapevine - mar. 2023, Blaðsíða 18

Reykjavík Grapevine - mar. 2023, Blaðsíða 18
18 The Reykjavík Grapevine 2/23 Best before: March 2, 2023 Art Exhibitions Gallery openings, happenings, showings and pop-up exhibitions all around the capital region. OPENING Ásmundarsafn Ásmundur Sveinsson and Sigga Björg: Breath on a Window With a focus on legends, fairy tales and imagination, Sigga Björg’s drawings, installations, videos and books create a unique visual world where fantasy, humour and horror go hand in hand. At this exhibition, she works, among other things, on a new series based on Icelandic folk tales. ⮕ Opens February 3rd Runs until May 7th Ásmundur Sveinsson and Carl Milles The exhibition features the works of sculptors Ásmund Sveinsson (1893- 1982) and Carl Milles (1875-1955) from Sweden and is part of the collaboration between Millesgården Museum and Ásmundarsafn. Carl Milles is one of Sweden’s most respected sculptors and, like his one-time mentee Ásmundur, he donated his house, studio and work to the public after his death. ⮕ Opens February 18th Runs until May 21st Gallerí Göng No Set Course - Sigrún Halla The exhibition consists of abstract watercolours from the past year, which often carry references to the environment and surroundings. The dissolution of material into colours and lines that scatter around the picture surface stands as a sign of the creativity that can be born in lack of direction. ⮕ Opens February 4th Runs until February 27th Gallery Grásteinn Álfheiður Ólafsdóttir - Fegurð álfheima Álfheiður Ólafsdóttir opens an exhibition of oil paintings as part of the Reykjavík Winter Festival 2023. The exhibition gives an insight into the mysterious world of fairies, which is characterised by softness, beauty and joy, as if the creative process itself were a fairy tale. ⮕ Opens February 3rd Runs until February 28th Hafnarhús D-47 Logi Leó Gunnarsson Logi Leó works with sound, sculpture and video in unexpected compositions and installations that often take over the exhibition space. By activating everyday materials in combination with music, recordings and sound equipment, he enables the audience to look at and listen to familiar things in a new way. ⮕ Opens February 16th Runs until May 7th Höggmyndagarðurinn The Struggle Is Real — Curver Thoroddsen This work is a “real-life- performance” filmed on 16mm film in Russia. Curver had been asked by Ragnar Kjartansson to do a naked- crawl-performance at a big group exhibition tied to his Santa Barbara show in Moscow shortly before the start of the Ukrainian war. No one thought that war was imminent, but in retrospect the signs were there. ⮕ Screenings on Feb 3rd & 4th Museum of Design and Applied Arts At Home in the Design Museum The exhibition is displayed as a blueprint of a home where different objects from different eras come together side by side as they would in a home. Furniture, tableware, books and textiles from different eras are displayed, exemplifying a fraction of what Icelandic designers and artisans have been creating. The home is in constant flux. Things are moved, thrown or given away. Change is constant. ⮕ Opens February 3rd Runs until 2026 National Gallery of Iceland Forty Years of The Corridor The Corridor is an artist-run exhibition space founded by artist Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson in 1979. It is probably Iceland’s longest-running privately-operated gallery. The Corridor has always been housed in Helgi Þorgils‘ own home; the gallery‘s first exhibition, of For the Time Being by Hreinn Friðfinnsson early in 1980, was held at Laufásvegur 79. ⮕ Opens February 3rd Runs until June 4th Nordic House HOW DID I GET TO THE BOMBSHELTER How did I get to the bomb shelter is a multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring seven contemporary Ukrainian artists. Curated by Yulia Sapiha and produced by The Nordic House, the exhibition explores themes related to the artists’ personal experience of the war, their longing for a peaceful life, their paths towards survival and their hope for the future. ⮕ Opens February 4th Runs until May 14th Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum The Gift of Children Sigurjón Ólafsson's reliefs and portraits of the family members of Westman Islands fisheries magnate Einar Sigurðs son. In a booklet accompanying the ex hibit ion, art hist or ian Aðal steinn Ingólfs- son discus ses the por traits in the con text of Sigurjón’s other works, emphasising the re sponsi bility that Einar Sigurðs son felt to wards struggl ing artists. ⮕ Opens February 3rd ⮕ Runs until Autumn 2023 From Various Sources Some of Sigurjón Ólafsson's key works from the period 1938 to 1982 made of di fferent materi als, such as plaster, bronze, marble and wood. The title of the ex hibit ion refers to both the var iety of the works and their owner ship. ⮕ Opens February 3rd Runs until Autumn 2023 SÍM Gallery Til-efni: Ingibjörg Gunnlaugsdóttir Jóhanna Björk paints with oil on canvas, with reference to natural forces, environment and landscape. She fascinates with a free flow and each picture is a journey to an exotic destination, although often a specific idea of the subject matter or colours has been proposed. ⮕ Opens February 4th Runs until February 19th ONGOING Ásmundarsalur Delayed at Triste: Gunnar Jónsson & Sigurður Ámundason Photography and drawings. ⮕ Runs until February 12th Inverse: Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir & Mikael Lind Video- and sound installation. ⮕ Runs until February 19th Ásmundarsafn Unndór Egill Jónsson and Ásmundur Sveinsson: After the Blizzard Sculpture. ⮕ Runs until February 22nd BERG Contemporary Sigurður Guðjónsson - Perpetual Motion Installation experimenting with lenses, light, and motion. ⮕ Runs until February 19th Kristján Steingrímur - From Near and Afar Paintings. ⮕ Runs until February 25th Einar Jónsson Museum Eurovision Contenders Announced The 10 songs competing to rep Iceland at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool have been announced by national broadcaster RÚV. The tunes will go head-to-head in two semi-finals in February, with the deciding vote scheduled for March 4th. According to Söng- vakeppnin rules, all songs have to be submitted in Icelandic, even though many contenders chose to submit two version so they can target the interna- tional audience with an English version. The 2023 submissions range from rock-inspired tunes to dance songs, performed by BRAGI, MÓA, Benedikt, Celebs, Diljá, Kristín Sesselja, Langi Seli and the Shadows, Silja Rós & Kjalar, Úlfar, and Sigga Ózk. IZ Ólöf Arnalds Is Crowdfunding A New Album Icelandic composer and multi- instrumentalist Ólöf Arnalds has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the €23,000 needed to release some new music — her fifth studio album, titled ‘Tár í morgunsárið’. Possi- ble donations start at €15 (2.250 ISK), but if you pledge €400, Ólöf will cover a song of your choice, and those who donate over €1,000 will be invited to a private concert held in one of the most intimate music venues in Reykjavík — Mengi. She’s 48% of the way to her goal. Lend your support through karolinafund. com. IZ Iceland To Get A New Music Export Office The government has announced that ÚTÓN, the Iceland Music Export Office, is being recon- figured (ahem, closed entirely in its current iteration) this spring. Over the years, ÚTÓN has been charged with promot- ing and creating opportunities for Icelandic musicians both at home and abroad, facilitat- ing funding and networking opportunities, organising events and spreading the word about new music releases. The exact makeup of the organisa- tion that will succeed ÚTÓN is fuzzy at this point, but it is clear that having such an entity is crucial for the music industry, particularly for emerging artists. The consequences of the absence of the export office, in the long term, could lead to decreased opportunities for the Icelandic artists. IZ February 3 to March 2 The Visitors - Ragnar Kjartansson February 4 to August 13 – Akureyri Art Museum – 2.000 ISK Named as the best artwork of the 21st century by The Guardian and displayed all around the world, Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition The Visitors is finally coming up north. The Visitors is a 64-minute nine channel video installation that pays tribute to friendship with a hint of romantic sadness. A farm in Upstate New York, a bohemian musician gang and exceptional music — The Visitors has it all. IZ Tracing Fragments February 3 to May 21 – Gerðasafn – General Admission 1.000 ISK It’s no small task, trying to make sense of oneself, one's person- hood, one's culture, out of a tangled web of generational and cultural trauma. Through physi- cal acts of art the six artists in this exhibition grapple with the complexities of heritage and iden- tity and achieve a deeply intimate catharsis. Confronting histories of slavery, colonialism, racism, religious persecution, queerness and more, with both tenderness and criticism, this show is one to enter into with a heart ready to be filled with grief, love, beauty, sorrow and power. RX Landvörður - Jessica Auer Runs until April 2 – Sláturhúsið – Free It is a particular identity to be an immigrant, to both be at home and a visitor. Canadian-born artist Jessica Auer, who has lived in Iceland for many years, embraces this identity through documenta- tion of her travels throughout the country, the people who take on stewardship of the land and the connection between ourselves and the lands we live, travel and exist in. The resulting photography perfectly conveys the ouroboros of simplicity-to-grandeur that Iceland can be. Jessica concur- rently has an installation at Skaftfell Bistró in Seyðisfjörður, which is well worth the hop over the heath. RX Delayed At Triste - Gunnar Jónsson and Sigurður Ámundason Runs until February 12 — Ásmundarsalur — Free It’s the plot of a film that ended up being the catalyst for an art exhibition. Gunnar and Sigurður found themselves waylaid by a storm while traversing the Icelan- dic highlands. In the shelter of a cabin they were fortunate enough to happen upon, they found their imaginations piqued by the surrounding landscapes and this exhibition was born, marry- ing Gunnar’s photography and Sigurður’s illustrations. As the storm beat at the cabin, the duo created art. Go see it. CF CULTURE

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