The Board of Skaftfell is delighted to announce the appointment of Celia Harrison as new director of Skaftfell Art Center. She will take up her position on January 1st, 2024. With a wealth of experience and a passion for the arts, Celia Harrison is an accomplished artistic director, producer, and curator who made Seyðisfjörður her home in 2015. Her experience includes key roles in directing arts institutions in both New Zealand and Iceland, with recent contributions including co-directing the LungA School and co-founding the Herðubreið Community and Culture Center, along with the List í ljósi light festival in Seyðisfjörður. Celia […]
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Welcome new artist in residence Jonas Bentzer
Skaftfell warmly welcomes Jonas Bentzer as residency artist in November. In his practice Jonas works conceptually with sculpture and sculpture as an act. The works may contain the conditions for, the traces of, or be an ongoing act. The sculptures are often alive and are part of or constitute a system. His works are of an investigative nature and an attempt to reach out and treat and comprehend our surroundings. He does this by constructing technical solutions, often times complicated solutions to imitate a simple gesture in nature. Shining a light on these gestures that at first glance seem simple […]