February 25, 2019, 19:30 – 21:00, Herðubreið café. Join us for an introduction into creative reading with the artist duo Jūra Bardauskaitė (LT) and Kęstutis Montvidas (LT), who are collaborating on the project ‘Odysseus Atlas’. Inspired by Homer’s poem and the captivating archetype of its hero – Odysseus as “the man of many turns” – the project shares a generic theme with the Odyssee and its fascination with islands. In the talk, the wandering figure of Odysseus will guide through a suggestive discourse of myth. ‘Odysseus Atlas’ will narrate through the intricacies of the artists’ personal voyages while discovering the […]
2019
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 […]