Artists Anna Jóa, Hulda Ágústsdóttir, and Ragnheiður Hrafnkelsdóttir will open the exhibition Leysing in Mjólkurbúðin Gallery on July 10. They have previously exhibited together in the shows Himna at the SÍM Gallery in Reykjavík in 2024 and Nálgun at the IPA Gallery in Reykjavík in 2016. Although the artists work with different media and approaches, their works share thematic threads relating to transformation of phenomena in individual perception and everyday life.
The exhibition runs to July 19, opening hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 14-17 pm.
In her art, Anna Jóa focuses on the creative process and the metamorphic nature of environment and imagination, arising from a sensory contact with materials and patterns in her dwelling places and mundane reality. Her work mainly consists of oil paintings, gouache works, drawings and poetic texts that relate to the materiality of objects, their form and appearance.
Anna graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and completed her master’s degree in fine art at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris 1996. She later studied art theory and history at the University of Iceland. Anna has held many solo shows of her work and participated in group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad, and her work is in the collections of public institutions, as well as private collections. Anna was one of the founders of Gallerí Skuggi exhibition space in Reykjavík. She has worked as a curator and art critic, published articles about art and art history and taught as a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland and at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. She currently works as a specialist as a specialist at the National Gallery of Iceland.
Hulda Ágústsdóttir works with reflections and the displacement of everyday objects, focusing on the dissolution of boundaries between the outer and inner environment that occurs in the process.
Hulda Ágústsdóttir studied at the Icelandic School of Art and Crafts and completed a Master og Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in New York, in 1993. In 2018, Hulda completed an MA in Art History from the University of Iceland. She has held solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and has been involved in various projects in the field of fine arts in recent years.
Ragnheiður Guðbjargar Hrafnkelsdóttir focuses on the everyday environment and the objects we encounter in daily life. Her work revolves around the connection between our perseption and the material world; how we experience and interpret it. In her works, Ragnheiður seeks to subvert the conventional associations linked to specific objects — whether they be tablecloths, knitted thumbs, or other elements in her surroundings — and to evoke unexpected associations.
Ragnheiður graduated from Skolen for Brugskunst in Copenhagen in 1982 and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1982 to 1984. She earned a master's degree from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1991 and later a BA degree in philosophy from the University of Iceland. Ragnheiður lives and works in Reykjavík.