New installation by Björk Viggósdóttir. In her work, Björk often assembles multiple and diverse media. During the exhibition period, Björk refreshes her installation with staged live performances, changing the environment and giving the installation an altered appearance. As the title of the exhibition suggests Björk refers here to the natura...
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An exhibition by Thorunn Elisabet Sveinsdottir
Creativity, originality and endless inspiration as well as an interest in history characerize the work of Thorunn Elisabet Sveinsdottir. She has developed a personal style, particularly in her quilts, that bears witness to an exceptional eye for c...
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The works Thuridur Ros Sigurthorsdottir exhibits in Sverrissalur display a poetic take on everyday materials, uncovering the magic that can reside in innovative and well thought out installations. Here she exhibits sculptures made out of light plastic fabrics reminiscent of helium balloons as well as works made with found objec...
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The title of the exhibition, SKIA, comes from greek and means shadow. SKIA – shadow explores the different manifestations of shadow in the works of several Icelandic artists from the mid 20th century to the present. For the exhibition the curator, Guðni Tómasson, has chosen work where the ar...
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The Last Abstraction is the third exhibition in an ongoing series at Hafnarborg aimed at introducing Eiríkur Smith’s wide-ranging career. This exhibition focuses on his abstract paintings from the late 1960´s. Earlier exhibitions in this exhibition series are Formal Discipline and >>MORE
House is an exhibition of new and older work by Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. The photographic series House Project, Second House and Third House are exhibited here together for the first time.
The idea for the work House Project was inspired by the character Sólon Guðmundsson in...
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Exhibition of new work by Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, mostly from 2011 and 2012, displaying photography, video and wall mounted sculptures. Hrafnkell Sigurðsson (b. 1963) graduated from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1987 and studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Nederlands,...
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Exhibition of work by Icelandic folk artist Atli Viðar Engilbertsson. Atli creates sculptures and reliefs, using cardboard as his main material. The exhibition is a part of the Art Without Boundaries Festival. The aim of the festival is to promote diversity and present the art of people with disabilities, underlining the importance for a...
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On Saturday the 10th of March the exhibition Roots opens in Hafnarborg. The exhibition focuses on contemporary jewelery design and the various roots goldsmiths and jewelery designers look to for material, ideas and inspiration. The goldsmiths and designers use diverse materials, ranging from exp...
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Sigurður Guðjónsson makes video works in which image, sound, and space form a seamless whole. He finds his ideas in his immediate environment, often in abandoned and dark places. These become settings for movement and sound that have laws of their own and generate a strong atmosphere. The dista...
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The exhibition focuses on still life paintings by Icelandic artists of different generations, some better known for other types of work. Artworks from the Hafnarborg collection will be on display as well as works from other public and private collections. This is an opportunity to see works by some of the country’s most important 20th century...
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The work of Harpa Björnsdóttir (b. 1955) deals in one way or another with the role and place of the artist, the message he brings to his environment and the cultural world of ideas and symbols which artists often refer to. The creation, the truth in art and the route to the core of the artistic experience are subjects close to her and she has...
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The artists Hildur Bjarnadóttir and Guðjón Ketilsson channel their ideas through pieces where coherence and unity of form and content draw the viewer into the artists´ own footsteps.
Hildur Bjarnadóttir makes use of women´s traditional working methods in pieces that describe her connection to her origins while they also r...
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Metamorphosis is a exhibition of collaboration between Hildur Yeoman, Fashion designer and illustrator and Saga Sigurdardottir, photographer. They're installation will be based on the ideas they use in their work in fashion and will be on display i...
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On the 29th September the exhibition Earthward opens in Sverrisal at Hafnarborg. The photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson studied photography in Iceland in 1965-69, he went abroad for further studies at the Christer Strömholm school of photography in Stockholm in 1970-71 and in San Diego, California in 1980-84.
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Hafnarborg - The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art collection includes works by contemporary and established artists from early 20th century which explores Icelandic art history, ranging from important works by the considered pioneers of Icelandic art to the more experimental art of today. The collection is mostly Icelandic with an...
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Einar Thorsteinn Asgeirsson’s ideas of design stem from his conviction that ingenuity, rightly applied, can build a better world. His works reflect great knowledge and a singular grasp of the laws of nature and how these laws can be applied to architecture, design, and visual art. This Hafnarborg exhibition presents ...
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Stefán Jónsson is an Icelandic artist, born in the town of Akureyri 1964. He studied in The Icelandic Academy of Arts and later in The School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, New York. Throughout his artistic career Stefán makes mixed media sculpture´s inspired from the art history. Recently he has been studying landscape paintings by the Iceland...
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Hafnarborg presents an exhibition of new paintings by one of Icelands best known painters Eggert Pétursson (b. 1956). Petursson has for years painted the Icelandic flora, which he paints with botanical accuracy. He is also known for his drawings in a comprehensive publication of the Icelandic flora, which has received international awards. Th...
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An exhibition consisting of works by contemporary Icelandic artists from different generations which deal with humour and irony some in a satorical manner. In many pieces one can find satorical humour, intelligent or irrational jokes. The keytone of existence is a harmless joke' said writer Þorbergur Þórðarson in his book Lette...
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It’s Hard to Be an Artist...
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Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Centre for Culture and Fine Arts, presents an exhibition of works by the German photographer Friederike von Rauch (b. 1967), who has garnered attention for her limpid, tranquil photographs of familiar and unfamiliar locales. Through her pictures, Rauch seeks to present unusual viewpoints on desolate and deserted ...
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An exhibition of selected design by Icelandic and international designers who have influenced design for children as well as influenced the children's world or environment. The emphasis is on three dimentional design, toys and furniture, particularily objects that are user friendly for children and designed with their special needs and ...
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Wights or supernatural beings is the subject of the artist Jónína Guðnadóttir. Her works derive from ceramics but she also creates reliefs and other wallpieces where she examines the clay or the material she uses in connection with other materials and techniques. In the exhibition she wrestles with supernatural beings and forces of nature. Sh...
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Guðný Guðmundsdóttir (b. 1970) has attracted attention for her large drawings which display exceptional sensitiveness and an innovative elimination of traditional mediums. The exhibition in Hafnarborg will display sculptures and large drawings where she combines forms and poetic illustrations which are similar to the drawings in the book ‘Skó...
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Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir is known for her impressive works that interpret Icelandic nature in a very pioneering way. This exhibition displays her photos, video installations and paintings. The exhibition curator is Birta Guðjónsdóttir.
Icelandic artist Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir is, in her work, making an approach to move...
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Björg Thorsteinsdóttir was born ...
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Sigurjón Ólafsson sculptor and Þorvaldur Skúlason painter are considered pioneering artists of their time and whilst working on their art for over 50 years they introduced new emphasis and theories into Icelandic 20th Century Art. This year 100 years have passed since Sigurjón Ólafsson was born and in 2006 the centenary of Þorvaldur Skúlason ...
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A retrospective exhibition of Sigrún Ólafsdóttir’s sculptures and drawings in 1996-2008.
The artist Sigrún Ólafsdóttir, was born in Reykjavík in 1963 and now lives in Saarbrücken in Germany. Her creativeness in particular has been focused on sculpture and drawing. She has been commissioned to make large sculptures for companies such as ...
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An exhibition of sculptures and etchings by the American artist Creighton Michael will open at Hafnarborg on Saturday 26th of July at 3 pm and is open to 25th of August 2008
The artist will be present at the opening
Two exhibitions will open with Creighton Michael’s art works in Iceland, the first one in Hafnarborg 26th of Jul...
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Einar Már Guðvarðarson sculptor was born in Hafnarfjordur 9th of February 1954 and died in 2003. He lived and worked at Ljósaklif in Hafnarfjordur. He finished his A-levels (Stúdentspróf in Icelandic) at Menntaskólinn in Reykjavík in 1974 and graduated from the Iceland University of Education in 1979, specializing in the art and crafts field....
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The people of Hafnarfjordur celebrate its towns 100 years anniversary in 2008 and Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art celebrates its 25 years anniversary. On this occasion the museum hosts an exhibition of works by artists working or living in Hafnarfjordur. Fifty different artists were offered to ex...
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