THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Skaftfell is inviting applications from individual artists and artistic collaborators to participate in its residency program in 2023. Application deadline: September 1, 2022 About the program: Skaftfell Center for Visual Art is located in Seyðisfjörður, a small town of around 650 inhabitants in Iceland’s eastfjords surrounded by a stunning chain of mountains. Despite its small size, Seyðisfjörður offers a rich and diverse cultural life, and has a long history of welcoming visiting artists. Skaftfell is the regional visual art center for East Iceland, and is running a gallery as well as an art education program and the residency […]
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GÚLÍGOGG – Jón Sigurpálsson, Pétur Kristjánsson, Örlygur Kristfinnsson
June 17 – August 28, 2022, Skaftfell Bistro Opening on June 17 at 16:00. Everyone is welcome. Opening times: like the bistro. This exhibition is the final episode of the YPSILON GOGG trilogy. Preparations for this series of exhibitions began in the autumn of 2019 with philosophical speculations and a modest hint of emotional tendencies towards the friendship that the three museum veterans from the three towns of Ísafjörður, Siglufjörður and Seyðisfjörður had cultivated over the years. The first exhibition, GOGG, was staged in Ísafjörður during the summer of 2020. Second up was GÚL in Siglufjörður 2021 and in June 2022 opens […]