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Opening
GALLERY KVERK
Kristín Gunnlaugsdottir – Selfie
New collection of works by Kristín
that explore the preoccupation with
creating external images of our-
selves and how it shapes our identi-
ty and reality.
Opens November 4
Runs until December 9
GALLERY PORT
Stephan Stephensen - SUBMISSION
Stephan Stephensen, AKA President
Bongo, invites you to embark on a
journey across the entire universe,
from the peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro to
the innermost core of your being.
Opens November 4
Runs until November 23
IÐNÓ
Refraction
Multidisciplinary artists Antonía
Berg, Íris María Leifsdóttir and
Vikram Pradhan have worked to-
gether on an exhibition focusing on
the hidden world of crystals, using
different methods to get closer to
them.
Opens November 12
Runs until December 12
KJARVALSSTAÐIR (REY-
KJAVÍK ART MUSEUM)
Our Art: Installation by Ívar
Valgarðsson
Extra viewing of large scale instal-
lation first shown at Kjarvalsstaðir
in 1991 that attracted attention from
both visitors and critics. The works
were selected in a public vote.
Opens November 3
Runs until November 5
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir – 0° 0° Null
Island
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir’s works ex-
amine positioning systems and draw
the viewers’ attention to the notions
of place and time and the “here and
now.”
Opens November 18
Runs until February 2024
LOFT HOSTEL
November Art Market
Third art market of the season
hosted by the gallery and ceramics
workshop FLÆÐI in collaboration
with Loft Hostel, featuring versatile
works by grassroots artists.
Saturday November 4, 14:00
(single event)
NORDIC HOUSE
SHOPTALK#3: Varna
Monthly talk by a creative practition-
er offering a glimpse into their prac-
tice. This month features musician,
drum dancer and performance artist
Varna.
Tuesday November 7, 17:00
(single event)
Unearthed: Exhibition in the
Greenhouse
An investigation of the area
Rauðhólar, located in the Heiðmörk
recreational area, presented by
both artistic practice and geological
research.
Opens November 18
Runs until November 26
REYKJAVÍK CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Sid Chidiac – The Chocolate Painter
Using chocolate as a medium,
multidisciplinary artist and philan-
thropist Sid Chidiac’s works show
portraits of well known figures using
the colour palette range of the be-
loved confection.
Opens November 4
Runs until November 5
THE SCULPTURE ASSOCIA-
TION GARDEN
Bryndís Björnsdóttir – origin
A common toy found in institutional
waiting rooms takes on new mean-
ing, as a metaphor for the colonial
era’s exploitation of natural resourc-
es that has pushed ecosystems to
the brink.
Opens November 4
Runs until December 31
SÍM KORPÚLFSSTAÐIR
Jean Antoine Posocco – 40 Years
Later
Celebrating his long career and
40th year living in Iceland, French-
born artist Jean Antoine Posocco
shows a retrospective of his com-
ic-style art.
Opens November 4
Runs until November 19
Ongoing
ÁSMUNDARSAFN (REY-
KJAVÍK ART MUSEUM)
Mentor – Ásmundur Sveinsson and
Carl Milles
Sculpture
Runs until January 2024
ÁSMUNDARSALUR
Eygló Harðardóttir – It’s Your Move
Paper-based works
Runs until November 19
Julie Lænkholm – Andvakandi
Installation, ecological sculpture
Ongoing, permanent
BERG CONTEMPORARY
Ian McKeever – Henge Paintings
Paintings
Runs until December 2
EINAR JÓNSSON MUSEUM
Hildur Henrýsdóttir – Hamskipti /
Change of Heart
Mixed media, autobiographical
works
Runs until January 2
Einar Jónsson – Sculpture Works &
Garden
Sculpture
Permanent exhibition
GALLERY GRÓTTA
Ása K. Jónsdóttir – Unseen Energies
Paintings
Runs until November 11
GALLERY SKILTI
Lukas Bury – Zigaretten nach Berlin
Installation
Runs until December 15
GALLERY UNDERPASS
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir – Cross
The Line
Runs until February 2024
GERÐARSAFN (KÓPAVOGUR
ART MUSEUM)
Sculpture/Sculpture
Group exhibition, sculpture
Opens September 30
July 2024
GERÐUR
Sculpture works of Gerður Hel-
gadóttir from the museum’s collec-
tion.
Runs until December 31
GLERHÚSIÐ
Anne Carson & Ásta Fanney –
Hesitation
Drawings and text-based works
Runs until November 12
HAFNARBORG CENTER OF
CULTURE & FINE ART
Landscape for the Chosen Ones
Mixed media, group exhibition
Runs until December 3
VALUE: 40 Years Since the Founding
of Hafnarborg
Exhibition featuring works acquired
by the museum over the last fifteen
years, some of which have not been
previously shown at Hafnarborg.
Runs until December 30
HAFNARHÚS (REYKJAVÍK
ART MUSEUM)
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
D50 Klāvs Liepiņš & Renāte Feizaka
– Doom Loop
Mixed media, installation
Runs until January 11
Collection Creatures
Digital & 3D artworks
Runs until January 2024
HÖFUÐSTÖÐIN
Shoplifter/Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir –
Chromo Sapiens
Installation, colourful whole body
experience
Permanent exhibition
I8 GALLERY
Between the Window and the Door
Language-based mixed media
Runs until November 4
I8 GRANDI
B. Ingrid Olson – Cast of Mind
Installation, mixed media
Runs until December 20
ICELANDIC PRINTMAKERS
ASSOCIATION
Gunnhildur Þórðardóttir – Sticks
Mixed media
Runs until November 12
IÐNÓ
Maggi Gnúsari – Man of the People
Photography
Runs until November 5
KJARVALSSTAÐIR (REY-
KJAVÍK ART MUSEUM)
Kjarval and the 20th Century: When
Modernity Anchored
Paintings, drawings
Runs until December 31
Our Art
Artworks selected by public
Runs until October 29
KAFFI LAUGALÆKUR
Eydís Rose Vilmundardóttir –
Moments on a Dancefloor
Photography
Runs until November 3
KLING & BANG
Sequences XI: Can’t See – Soil
Group exhibition, mixed media
Runs until November 26
LISTVAL
Ragnhildur Þóra Ágústsdóttir – Fögur
Fyrirheit / Beautiful Promises
Watercolour paintings
Runs until November 25
Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir
& Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir – In
Harmony
Paintings and textile
Runs until January 2024
THE LIVING ART MUSEUM
Sequences XI: Can’t See –
Subterrain
Group exhibition, mixed media
Runs until November 26
MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND
APPLIED ARTS
Lilý Erla Adamsdóttir – Artist in
Residence
Textile works
Runs until December 30
Dolinda Tanner
Ceramic, textile works
Runs until December 30
Lothar Grund – Archiving Drawings
Drafts, drawings and design
Runs until December 30
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
Sequences XI: Can’t See – The
Metaphysical Realm
Group exhibition, mixed media
Runs until November 26
Ásgrímur Jónsson – A Window in
Reykjavík
Paintings
Runs until December 31
Egill Sæbjörnsson and Infinite
Friends of the Universe
Mixed media, installation
Runs until February 25
Some Recent Works – New
Acquisitions
New works in the museum’s perma-
nent collection
Runs until February 25
Resistance
Interdisciplinary works
Permanent exhibition
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
ICELAND
If Garden Gnomes Could Talk
Photography
Runs until February 14
NORDIC HOUSE
Sequences XI: Can’t See – Water
Group exhibition, mixed media
Runs until November 26
Under the Polar Ice
Mixed media, interactivity, work-
shops
Runs until March 31
PORTFOLIO GALLERY
Erla Þórarinsdóttir – 107.000 km/klst
Paintings
Runs until November 4
REYKJAVÍK MARITIME MU-
SEUM
Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson – We Are
Earth, We Are Water
Video installation
Runs until February 2
REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gréta S. Guðjónsdóttir – 19, 24, 29,
34, 39 Fate and Destiny
Photography, testimonials
Runs until December 10
Anni Kinnunen – The Great Escape
Photography
Runs until January 28
SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON MU-
SEUM
Þuríður Sigurðardóttir – Home &
Away
Paintings
Runs until Spring 2024
From Various Sources
Sculpture
Permanent exhibition
ÞULA
María Guðjohnsen – Digital
Resurrection
3D animated art
Runs until November 19
Art Exhibitions 03.11–30.11
Gallery openings, happenings, showings and pop-up exhibitions all around the capital region
Art Picks
FLÆÐI x Loft – November Art Market
Saturday November 4, 14:00
Loft Hostel
Free
You know that feeling when you go to
an art exhibition and you really like a
piece and then you look at the price
tag and immediately do the Hom-
er-Simpson-receding-into-the-bush-
es move? So do the fine folks behind
FLÆÐI, who are throwing their third
art market of the season where the
wallet range is far more reasonable.
With many local independent artists
selling their own wares at their own
booths, ready to talk your ear off
about their work and haggle for deals,
you won’t have to deal with gallery
prices or attitudes. It’s the perfect
place to get your holiday gift shop-
ping done early for that art-lover in
your life while knocking back some
cold ones. RX
Bryndís Björnsdóttir – origin
Opens November 4
The Sculpture Association
Garden
Free
Remember having to go to the doc-
tor’s office as a kid, which sucked,
but it meant you got to go nuts on
that wood-blocks-on-metal-wires
toy? Did you know it’s called a bead
maze? We were today years old when
we learned that. Bryndís Björnsdóttir
must have learned that while craft-
ing her new exhibition origin, which
repurposes the epochal toy as a rep-
resentation of the way humans have
exploited our planet’s natural re-
sources and decimated ecosystems.
Instead of the colourful wood blocks
we loved to slide around, these ones
are made of industrially produced
salt stone intended as livestock feed.
Childhood ruined? Yes. Yes, it is. RX
SHOPTALK#3: Varna
Tuesday November 7, 17:00
Nordic House
Free
When it comes to knowing the pro-
cess behind an artist’s work, there
are those who prefer the ephemeral
mystery and those who want every
tiny detail. For the latter, the Nordic
House’s amazing SHOPTALK series
puts cutting edge artists in the hot
seat to go full process-dork. The
third instalment features the incred-
ible Greenlandic artist Varna, whose
sudden burst onto the music scene
backed by the new label Marvaða
has been as refreshing as getting
smacked in the face by the arctic
wind. Go learn how she weaves tra-
ditional musical heritage with futur-
istic electronic production to create
her spellbinding sounds. RX