OPENING EVENT AND RELEASE OF PUBLICATION AT HÃLL, AUGUST 28 AT 16.00 The project SECRET GARDEN VERÃND was initiated in 2012 by visual artist Suzanna Asp in collaboration with Skaftfell, and starts off from the actual site of the house and garden at Hóll in Seyðisfjörður. The project builds on queer feminist and post-colonial theory and asks questions about relationships between text, body and place. Who is given a place, where is place given and how can a place be altered. Hóll, built in the early 20th century, is the former studio house of the Icelandic artist Birgir Andrésson and […]
2014
Artist talk #18
Friday the 8th of August at 17:00 Skaftfell invites you for an artist talk with the current artists in residence for the month of August; Daniel Björnsson (IS), Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras (GR) at the Bookshop – projectspace. Each artist will give a brief introduction to their practice and present selected works. There will be room for tea and coffee, questions, discussions etc. in between. All Welcome and free of charge. Daniel Karl Björnsson, born in Reykjavik 1977, lives and works in Reykjavik and Berlin. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002. Daniel has been very […]