Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome Katia Klose, artist in residence for the month of March. Klose, born 1972 in Berlin (Germany), works as a photographer, photo editor and lecturer in Leipzig. At the core of her photographic work lies an exploration of reality in terms of its sensual and poetic qualities. The documentary aspect intertwines with the inquiry into hidden connections of human existence in dialogue with the environment and nature. For her stay in Seyðisfjörður, she expects new impulses characterized by the tension between elemental nature and its increasingly questionable civilization use in terms of technical and media phenomena. […]
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Welcome Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson and Fjóla Gautadóttir
Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson and Fjóla Gautadóttir artists in residence for the month of February. Fjóla is an Icelandic performer, sound designer, writer and DJ. They have a background both in classical dance and music and finished a BA in Dance and Choreography from HZT Berlin in 2019 and have since been working actively as a Sound Designer in the Berlin dance and performance scene. Þórir is a visual/sound artist with a Bachelor’s degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty in the Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag. His works often take the shape of performative installations where […]