Artists-in-Residence

By the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains

in 2015, Artists-in-Residence, Past exhibitions and events, Past program, Residency events and activities

In her book by the rivers in the wetlands up in the mountains, atlas of icelands plant life with a pinhole camera, published for the time being as an artist multiple/book and currently on display at the store at Skaftfell, Halina Kliem explores Icelands plant life without a lens. By time exposure and its variations the pinhole hails climate and weather conditions of the arctic ecosystem to sprout the image. All plants printed in the book were photographed in East Iceland in May and June 2015. Although new images from the Dawn spacecraft provide more clues, the unusual bright spots on […]

Island Iceland offshore projekt

in 2015, Artists-in-Residence, Past exhibitions and events, Past program, Residency events and activities

the Bookshop-Projectspace Opening Wednesday August 26 at 17.00 We, a group of 15 artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians were lucky to call Nielsenshs in Seyðisfjörður our temporal home over this summer of rain. Communal living and utopian ideas as an initial subject of interest was quickly translated into reality when we lived, cooked, cleaned, read and made works together in ever changing new formations and within spacial limitations. In weekly Basement Exhibitions that consistently explored one communal medium (Drawings, Photographs, Sculptures, Videos, Readings, Garden), we presented works to the local community. Our basement became a meeting point, a dance […]