Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Alessa Brossmer (DE) opens her in-house installation GlowInTheDark on April 16, 21:00 – 23:00 in Nielsenhús, Hafnargata 14. There will be hot drinks and conversations to melt the winter away. Everyone is welcome! GlowInTheDark takes place in a house once owned by a fisherman. In the living room, glowing bioluminescence has settled, a natural phenomenon by which microbes and algae glow in the dark. For their residency, these tiny organisms favour the edges of the walls, ceiling and floor. In darkness, the room appears to be inverted – what you clearly see in daylight is […]
Open studio
Lisa M. Stybor – Flow of time
Lisa M. Stybor (DE), with Lísa Leónharðsdóttir (IS) / Anna Raabe (DE) / Max Richter (DE) Open Studio on February 22, 2019, 17:00 – 20:00, Skaftfell 3rd floor, Austurvegur 42. One of Skaftfell’s current artists-in-residence, Lisa M. Stybor, will host an Open Studio and present work in progress in the artist apartment on Skaftfell’s top floor (enter through gallery entrance). Lisa M. Stybor was born in 1953 and grew up in Aachen. She has been coming to Iceland for 20 years to study atmospheres, earth, sea, and fire. Today she focuses on time. Against the linearity of time she […]