Past program

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Alessa Brossmer – Glow In The Dark

Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Alessa Brossmer (DE) opens her in-house installation GlowInTheDark on April 16, 21:00 – 23:00 in Nielsenhús, Hafnargata 14. There will be hot drinks and conversations to melt the winter away. Everyone is welcome! GlowInTheDark takes place in a house once owned by a fisherman. In the living room, glowing bioluminescence has settled, a natural phenomenon by which microbes and algae glow in the dark. For their residency, these tiny organisms favour the edges of the walls, ceiling and floor. In darkness, the room appears to be inverted – what you clearly see in daylight is […]

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Åse Eg Jørgensen – Kompendium 

West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, March 27 to June 12, 2019.  Åse Eg Jørgensen (b. 1958) is a danish artist and graphic designer based in Copenhagen. She has been co-editor of the artist magazine Pist Protta since 1981. She works with printed matter, and is very fond of paper, colours and books. Åse has been coming to Seyðisfjörður since 2013, as artist in residence, and more recently to lead Skaftfell’s thematic residency “Printing Matter”.  Åse’s publications include the ongoing artist’s book series Kompendium 1-38 (2010-2019), a selection of which is forming her current exhibition in the West Wall Gallery. The series are printed on a mono-laserwriter in A4 […]

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