… and what then? curator talk
The Living Art Museum welcomes you to a guided tour of the museum’s current exhibition … and what then? at The Marshall House, Sunday 7th July at 3 PM.
Sunna Ástþórsdóttir, the curator of the exhibition, will provide the tour which is free of charge and open to everyone. The tour will be conducted in Icelandic.
Exhibited artists include: Andreas Brunner, Eva Ísleifs, Freyja Eilíf, Fritz Hendrik IV, Huginn Þór Arason, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Rebecca Erin Moran, Rúna Þorkelsdóttir, Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir, Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson, Þórður Ben Sveinsson.
Together and individually the works address the imminent and investigate art as an influencer. What does it tell us about the future? Can art change what is yet to happen? Even many years after the work was created? Does art help us cope with reality or to disappear into different realms? If so, where to? How can art be political? By taking a stand? Or by helping us get away from the everyday? By showing us something that might possibly never happen?
The exhibition will go on until the 4th of August 2019.
…and what then? artist talk with Rebecca Erin Moran
Welcome to an artist talk by Rebecca Erin Moran this Wednesday June 26 where she will talk about the exhibition …and what then? and her works in the show. The conversation will take place at the Living Art Museum at the Marshall House and the exhibition will be open during the talk. No entry and everyone’s welcome!
The talk will be conducted in English
Closed for installation
The Living Art Museum is closed for installation. We open again on the 13th of june.
Launch event – Isle of Art
📚 ☕️ Join us for a get-together at Nýlistasafnið (The Living Art Museum) in the beautiful Marshall House to celebrate the release of Isle of art! 📚 ☕️
28th of may 2019
There’ll be coffee, Belgian chocolate and of course the chance to get your hands on a freshly printed copy.
A wall installation will feature poignant quotes from the book about the state of Iceland’s art scene today, inviting everyone to hang out and join the discussion.
Eternal thanks to our amazing sponsors Icelandair & Reykjavík Roasters 💙
About the book
Writer: Sarah Schug
Photographer: Pauline Mikó with additional contributions by Lilja Birgisdóttir and Ágúst Atlason
Graphic Design: Raya Boteva
Proofreading: Rose Kelleher
Is there a common denominator in Icelandic art? How has the scene changed over the last decades? What does it mean to live, work and create as an artist on a remote island in the north Atlantic? How does such a tiny scene function? What are the highs and lows of living in a small art community? Why would a Paris-based artist decide to run an art space in a remote fishing village here? Why exactly is the scene so vibrant? And how does one deal with the lack of an art market? These are the kinds of questions we asked the artists, curators, gallerists, framers and collectors that we interviewed for this book in February, March, April and August of 2017. We spoke to newbies and oldtimers, Icelanders and foreigners, and created this compendium of our in-depth conversations, a rich canon of different voices from inside the Icelandic art community. A selection of outdoor art pieces, museums and other arty discoveries around the island complete the mosaic. The first of its kind, this book compiles the people, places, and projects defining the scene, which extends far beyond the country’s capital Reykjavík
