Perplexing Spaces in the Work of Elín Hansdóttir
by Nadia Egan // June 14, 2022
Perception stands at the centre of Elín Hansdóttir’s work. Focusing on immersive, site-specific installations, the Icelandic artist constructs unfamiliar and seemingly displaced…[read on]
The Poetics of dulsmál: María Dalberg’s ‘Uncontainable Truth’
by Erin Honeycutt // July 6, 2021
In Dalberg’s exhibition, a video installation shows two screens: on one screen, five women draped in red clothing walk along a beach, each representing the women whose voices are…[read on]
Article by Martha Lochhead // Nov. 01, 2019
Influential Icelandic contemporary artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson’s exhibition ‘To Catch a Fish with a Song’ at KW Institute celebrates over half a century of his work…[read on]
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir
by MONA // June 8, 2018
For Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir the world is a community of people, including their surroundings and movements through time and space. She observes the patterns of…[read on]
Article by Louisa Stark // May 23, 2018
On May 26, Cycle Music and Art Festival, in collaboration with the Icelandic Embassy, will host ‘Cryptopian States’, an afternoon and evening of art, music and performance held at the residence…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Feb. 5, 2018
Berlin-based Icelandic artist Anna Rún Tryggvadottir’s most recent exhibition, ‘Garður/Garden’ at the Reykjavík Art Museum, envisioned an altered state of nature as materials coalesced in a durational performance…[read on]
Article by Claudia Grigg Edo in Berlin // Apr. 12, 2017
Egill Sæbjörnsson is a Berlin-based, Icelandic visual and performance artist. He graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts (now the Icelandic Academy of the Arts) in 1997 and studied at the University of Paris…[read on]
Article by Romily Alice in London // Saturday, Oct. 01, 2016
Cycle Festival of contemporary music and art will take place from October 27—30, 2016 in Kópavogur, Iceland. Exploring a human, non-, or post-human future, the festival will explore questions of deep time and peak futures…[read on]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 01, 2012.
The vastness of space spills beyond the eye’s sight, beyond the photograph’s frame, beyond the body’s physical capacity for travel. Without a landmark, the space loses perspective meaning, expanding and contracting with no definite boundary points. There is nothing to suggest how large the given landscape is. Were you located in the space, you would find yourself…[read on…]
