The annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður” began in middle February for the graduating class of fine art art students in the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. The process ends with an exhibition that opens March 1 in Skaftfell. The workshop is a collaboration between the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, the Dieter Roth Academy, the Technical Museum of East Iceland and Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art. Students: Andreas Jari Juhani Toriseva, Brynjar Helgason, Freyja Eilíf Logadóttir, Grétar Mar Sigurðsson, Hanna Kristín Birgisdóttir, Heiða Björg Valbjörnsdóttir, Helena Aðalsteinsdóttir, Ævar Glói Gunnarsson, Karl Torsten, Katrina Mogensen, Logi Leó Gunnarsson, Nína Óskarsdóttir, Óskar Kristinn […]
Past exhibitions and events
Screen
December 14, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Every day from 16.00 to midnight Screen is a time and site-specific installation using different kinds of light, crystals, objects and slowly rotating motors. The installation works on two levels, utilizing both the pictorial Bookshop display window and the three dimensional space behind. Jens Reichert (born 1967) lives in Freiburg, Germany. He will be staying for the months of December and January at Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art as an artist in residence. Jens works in the fields of sculpture, installation, painting, photography and acoustics. During my first residency stay in Iceland […]