Exhibitions opening
Group exhibition
Is This North?
06.06.2024 – 15.09.2024
Galleries 01 02 03 04 05
What are the boundaries and delimitations of “The North”? Where do we find the borders of the Arctic? What characterizes those who call the Arctic their home? Is their work always inherently influenced by this connection to a Nordic home? The group exhibition delves into these questions, presenting work by artists from the far-reaching North. Exhibiting artists include Gunnar Jónsson, Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara, Inuuteq Storch, Nicholas Galanin, Dunya Zakharova, Marja Helander, and Maureen Gruben.
The homes of the participating artists include the Sami regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Siberia, Alaska, and Canada. The exhibition focuses on the experience of living in the far North, which communal and connective aspects can be found within artists who call the Arctic their home? Expanding the reach from Alaska to Siberia and Scandinavia in between, these vastly different cultures and communities share this one common thread: the Arctic, the North. The exhibition is a part of Reykjavík Arts Festival.
Curators: Daría Sól Andrews and Hlynur Hallsson.
Exhibition project
Stranded – W(h)ale a Remake Portfolio – More Than This, Even
06.06.2024 – 29.09.2024
Galleries 10 11
The exhibition consists of works created in various mediums that all address or are connected to whales in “one way or another” – done in the spirit of the Fluxus Movement, not to forget Marcel Duchamp. It has been installed in various locations such as Budapest in Hungary and Recife in Brazil.
Among the pieces exhibited – beside a remake of Marcel Duchamp’s BOITE-EN-VALISE (1968) is a huge, life-size reprint of a painting from 1669 by Franz Wulfhagen, one of Rembrandt’s pupils, which shows a stranded whale. For about 300 years the painting was hanging in the ornate upper chamber of the historic Town Hall of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany. Also, on display are works by several Fluxus artists such as AY-O, Nam June Paik, Emmett Williams; younger ones related to Fluxus like Boris Nieslony, Ann Noël, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Pavel Schmidt, Natalie Thomkins and by 20th Century Avantgarde artists Richard Hamilton, Allan Kaprow, and Daniel Spoerri.
Participation, collaboration, and communication are central in the exhibition design – meant to serve as a kind of gathering place to DANCE WITH LIFE.
Layout: Wolfgang Hainke. Curator: Freyja Reynisdóttir.