Past exhibitions and events

Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir: Mon ciel, mi cielo. What do you really mean?

Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir: Mon ciel, mi cielo. What do you really mean?

June 17 – September 6th, 2020 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art’s summer exhibition will be with the Reykjavik based artist Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1985). For this project she has chosen to show–alongside her own drawings, digital prints and small scale sculptures–the work of Benedikt Guðmundsson (1907-1960), whose modernist paintings and ceramics she grew up around.  Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir’s works are concerned with ‘the basic gesture of making art and the fundamental building blocks of it – line, colour, composition’ but have the sense of being part of a narrative which is only glimpsed in fragments. The title of the exhibition comes […]

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Tíra / Scintilla – Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

Current artist in residence Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (IS) presents her exhibition Tíra / Scintilla in the Skaftfell gallery from May 11 to May 30. Access is through the bistro, on weekdays 12:00 -13:00 and 18:00 – 20:00, on Sat/Sun 18:00 – 20:00, or by appointment (call Skaftfell on 4721632). Bjargey Ólafsdóttir lives and works in Reykjavík. She studied photography, painting and mixed media at Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík and Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, and she studied Screenwriting and Directing in Binger Filmlab, Amsterdam. Bjargey’s practice is not confined to a single medium as each of her projects calls […]

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