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CONTEMPORARY
ART IN THE CITY.
ON THE LAST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH A NUMBER OF
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITION SPACES OFFER EXTENDED
OPENING HOURS AND SPECIAL EVENTS.
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GOOD
THURSDAY
Opening
GALLERY KANNSKI
Vena Naskrecka – CRIP&CRAP
Using sculpture, performative relics
and photographic documentation,
this exhibition reclaims both the crip
and supercrip.
Opens July 28
Runs until August 6
LISTHÚS ÓFEIGS
Hafú – Wild Grass
In Wild Grass, we look into the world
down below the ground under our
feet when we walk in the wilderness.
Opens July 29
Runs until August 23
NORDIC HOUSE
MASKS: A Censored Exhibition
Photographs and slides by Göran
Ohldieck and Kjetil Berge taken in
the late 70s and 80s, bubbling with
queer rhetoric and aesthetics.
Opens August 10
Runs until September 30
NÚLLIÐ GALLERÝ
Elín Dögg Baldvinsdóttir – Þrot
Religious iconography set against
pharmaceutical packages and
leaflets, prayers and physical pain
existing side by side.
Opens August 3
Runs until August 6
KORPÚLFSSTAÐIR ART
STUDIOS
SÍM Residency Open Space
A collective project by internation-
al artists participating in the SÍM
Residency.
Friday, July 28, 17:00
Ongoing
ÁSMUNDARSAFN (REY-
KJAVÍK ART MUSEUM)
Mentor: Ásmundur Sveinsson and
Carl Milles
Sculpture.
Runs until September 9
ÁSMUNDARSALUR
Kristin Nordhøy – JANGLE
Paintings
Runs until August 12
Ra Tack – Sunset before feeling your
complexity
Paintings, sound art
Runs until August 13
Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir – Hlið vítis /
Gates of Hell
Interactive workshop
Runs until August 13
CAFÉ PYSJA
Skúlptúrveizla
Group exhibition by the Sculptors
Association
Runs until September 3
EINAR JÓNSSON MUSEUM
Einar Jónsson – Sculpture Works &
Garden
Sculpture
Permanent exhibition
GALLERY FOLD
Ásta Sigurðardóttir – Dúkristur
Lino cut works
Runs until August 31
GALLERÍ GÖNG
Litka – SUMAR
Paintings, group exhibition
Runs until August 29
GALLERY GRÁSTEINN
Vicente Garcia Fuentes: Horizons
Paintings
Runs until August 1
GALLERÍ GRÓTTA
Björg Eiríksdóttir – FJÖLRÖDDUN
Paintings, drawings, video, and tex-
tile works
Runs until August 18
GALLERY PORT
Internally Comfortable
Textile works
Runs until August 10
GALLERY SKILTI
Lukas Bury – Zigaretten nach Berlin
Installation
Runs until December 15
Rósa Gísladóttir – FORA
Sculpture
Runs until September 17
GERÐUR
Sculpture works of Gerður Hel-
gadóttir from the museum’s collec-
tion.
Runs until December 31
GERÐUBERG CULTURE
HOUSE
Art Without Borders – All Roads
Open
Multidisciplinary group exhibition
Runs until August 31
GLERHÚSIÐ REYKJAVÍK
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir – From Heart
to Stone - Circle of Sight
Ink drawings, sculptures, sound in-
stallations; open on Sundays only
Runs until September 17
HAFNARBORG CENTER OF
CULTURE AND FINE ART
Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson – On a
Sea of Tranquillity
Textile works
Runs until September 3
Elísabet Brynhildardóttir – Hesitant
Line
Drawings
Runs until September 3
HAFNARHÚS (REYKJAVÍK
ART MUSEUM)
D48: Dýrfinna Benita Basalan –
Chronic Pain
Mixed media
Runs until August 20
Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century
Art
Multidisciplinary group exhibition
Runs until December 31
Erró – Cunning Scissors
Works spanning the entirety of Erró’s
vibrant art career
Runs until December 31
HARPA
Cir culeight
Mixed media installation
Permanent exhibition
HÖFUÐSTÖÐIN
Saturday Workshop
Open art workshops every
Saturday during the summer
Final workshop August 26
Shoplifter / Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir –
Chromo Sapiens
Installation, colourful whole body
experience
Permanent exhibition
I8 GALLERY
Karin Sander – Idioscapes
Installation, 3D landscape
maquettes
Runs until September 2
I8 GRANDI
B. Ingrid Olson – Cast of Mind
Installation, mixed media
Runs until December 20
KJARVALSSTAÐIR (REY-
KJAVÍK ART MUSEUM)
Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 20th
Century Art
Paintings, sketches, drafts, and
more
Runs until August 7
KLING & BANG
certain technicalities of being
Multidisciplinary group exhibition
Runs until August 31
LISTVAL
Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttir – I Am
Transparent
Paintings
Runs until August 12
THE LIVING ART MUSEUM
Leftovers – Performance Series
Performance art; weekly perfor-
mances every Saturday afternoon
Runs until August 3
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND
APPLIED ARTS
Ýrúrarí – Presence
Textile works, installation
Runs until August 27
Nina Gautadóttir – Weaver in
Residency
Textile works
Runs until August 27
Habitations
An exhibition of miniature apart-
ments created by 4th graders from
Garðabær
Runs until September 10th
At Home in the Design Museum
Over 200 examples of Icelandic de-
sign from 1900 to the present
Runs until March 2026
NATIONAL GALLERY OF
ICELAND
Sigtryggur Bjarni Baldvinsson – Into
the Valley in Late Autumn
Watercolour paintings
Runs until August 27
Rúrí – Glassrain
Installation
Runs until September 17
The Thought of Drawing
Drawings by Jóhannes S. Kjarval
Runs until October 1
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
ICELAND
Rúnar Gunnarsson – An eternity in a
moment
Photography
Runs until September 9
NORDIC HOUSE
For Those Who Couldn’t Cross the
Sea
Multidisciplinary group exhibition
Runs until September 3
SUMMER STUDIO: a creative space
for families
Interactive open arts workshop
Runs until September 30
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
Giita Hammond – View From The
Sea
Photography and video work
Runs until August 13
And Now In Full Colour!
Colour photo from Iceland 1950-
1970
Runs until September 10
THE SCULPTURE ASSOCIA-
TION GARDEN
Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir – Jarðrask /
Earth Disturbance
Sculpture
Runs until September 2
SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON MU-
SEUM
The Gift of Children
Portraits and reliefs
Runs until Autumn 2023
From Various Sources
Sculpture
Runs until Autumn 2023
SLIPPBARINN
Rauðskinna - Í Myrkri
Ink drawings, lino cut prints
Runs until August 4
Y GALLERY
Emma Heiðarsdóttir – Open Endings
Installation, mixed media
Runs until August 31
ÞULA GALLERY
Sunneva Ása Weisshappel – Flagð /
Jezebel
Mixed media
Runs until August 6
Art Exhibitions 28.07–10.08
Gallery openings, happenings, showings and pop-up exhibitions all around the capital region
Art Picks
Vena Naskrecka – CRIP&CRAP
Opens July 28
Gally Kannski
Where’s the line between praise
and condescension? Why are some
bodies held as inspiration porn for
those who fear them? In her new ex-
hibition, interdisciplinary artist Vena
Naskrecka unpacks the concept
of the supercrip, a dehumanizing
stereotype that focuses solely on a
person’s disability, rather than their
identity, experiences, and capa-
bilities. Through sculpture, perfor-
mance relics and video art, she will
show how sick disabled folks aren’t
heroes for simply existing in their
bodies and have had enough of be-
ing called “so brave.” RX
Fljóðir – A moment in between
moments
Opens August 2
Hafnarborg
The connection between nature and
movement is innate. All things are
constantly in flux, all things move,
and we move alongside as humans.
Sprung from the city’s Skapandi
Sumarstörf summer youth culture
initiative, the performance art duo Fl-
jóðir (“Flood”) explores this concept
in their final exhibition. Consisting
of dancers Guðrún Ísabella Kjar-
tansdóttir and Íris Ásmundardóttir,
they have created ecological perfor-
mances captured on video that ex-
plore the very concept. With poetic
elements alongside the choreogra-
phy, they create a holistic world. RX
MASKS: A Censored Exhibition
Opens August 10
Nordic House
Back in 1983, two Norwegian artists
showed up to install an exhibition at
the Nordic House of over 200 pho-
tographs and slides showing queer
rhetoric and aesthetics. The uptight
management of the establishment
at the time told Göran Ohldieck and
Kjetil Berge to censor the “undesir-
able” works in the show, and the art-
ists told them to shove it. Two days
later, they left the country. Now, this
exhibition lost in time will finally be
shown, with all the glory and history
of our queer elders. RX