Opening: 8th of August at 17:00 - 22:00.
Performative reading at 20:30.

 

Also open saturday the 9th til monday the 11th at 14:00 - 18:00 o’clock.
Performative reading on saturday 9th at 15:00.

 

This exhibition examines cycles of collecting and returning through a 15-year practice of engagement with Icelandic landscape, documented through photography, video, readings, and sculptural interventions spanning 2009-2024.
Through a constellation of paintings, weavings, sculptural elements and video works, the exhibition interrogates processes of site-specific encounter and cultural assimilation. The works trace non-linear trajectories of quest and discovery, revealing how displaced artistic practice negotiates new environments through documentation, material extraction, and ritualized engagement with local traditions.
The installation demonstrates how geographic displacement shapes artistic expression over extended temporal frameworks, proposing that sustained durational practice can yield profound revelations about place, belonging, and creative transformation through embodied landscape encounter.

 

Andrea Weber lives and works between Paris and Iceland, focusing on space, time and the body's relationship to environment.
Her core "Weather Transcription" project creates abstract paintings on tracing paper, tarpaulins, and canvas, inspired by sky variations and natural phenomena. Water transforms materials to create reliefs evoking natural movements, complemented by installations that interact with exhibition spaces.
She also works extensively in performance art and photography, creating dialogues between body and environment through dance, reading, and site-specific performances in natural landscapes.
After graduating in photography from Essen University of the Arts in Germany, she furthered her practice at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her work, supported by the DRAC Île de France grant and the Northwest Iceland Cultural Support Fund, has been exhibited in numerous cultural institutions across France, Germany, Iceland and Taiwan. From 2023-2025 , she has been a member of Cercle de l'Art, an association committed to promoting and supporting women artists.

 

 

Kaktus is funded by SSNE, Myndlistarsjóður, Menningarsjóður Akureyrar and KEA.