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Hamraborg Festival: Art Poetica: An Ekphrastic Writing Practice

Ekphrasis is writing inspired by art, dating back to ancient Greece, that attempts to capture the sights andsensations of the visual and translate them into text. Writers from Reykjavík Poetics will lead a guidedhour-long workshop at Gerðarsafn, open to writers and non-writers alike, where we will explore thiscreative tool, forming poetry or prose inspired by […]

Hamraborg Festival: Evolving Sensory Landscape

A playful workshop for children and families where sound, movement, and clay come together.Participants co-create an evolving sensory landscape through music, touch, and imagination. Usingrepurposed bottles, participants will build a water xylophone that can be played by many at once,changing its sound by adding or removing water. Come and play with Geta! This workshop is […]

Hamraborg Festival: Would you like some sugar?

A performance where the Icelandic pancake tradition and “women’s work” are intertwined. The pancakesare used as a material for various activities, such as wiping and scrubbing, folding, mending and evenrelaxing with a face mask. A very thin round shape, fragrance fills the space, hands move in repetition,Measure, stir, pour.A smooth and thin mixture, scooped over […]

Hamraborg Festival: Performance Night

Join us for a series of performances at Gerðarsafn 28 August, 8PM. The official opening of the Festival is 6PM. Hamraborg Festival takes over Gerðarsafn and the underground parking lot by Molinn for an evening of bodies, machines, noise, dreams, movement… and a little bit of glorious chaos. Estonian dance duo Juliuus Vaiksoo & Helena […]

Guided tour: Fraser Muggeridge about National Happiness by Jeremy Deller

You are warmly welcome to a guided tour by Fraser Muggeridge through the exhibition National Happiness by Jeremy Deller on Wednesday 26th of August at 18:00. Fraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer from London who has worked with Jeremy Deller since 2012 on shaping the graphic content of Dellers work. The talk will be a […]

Guided tour in Spanish: Hugo Llanes about National Happiness by Jeremy Deller

Join us for a guided tour in Spanish of National Happiness, Jeremy Deller’s exhibition, led by artist and cultural mediator Hugo Llanes. Born in Mexico and based in Reykjavík, Llanes has been actively involved in initiatives that promote inclusion and community engagement, including Komd’inn, AIVAG, and Get Together (GETA). [Español a continuación] At the core […]

Leiðsögn: Hugo Llanes um Landlæga hamingju eftir Jeremy Deller

Vertu velkomin í leiðsögn á spænsku um sýninguna Landlæg hamingja eftir Jeremy Deller, sem verður leidd af listamanninum Hugo Llanes. Llanes er fæddur í Mexíkó og búsettur í Reykjavík. Hann hefur tekið virkan þátt í verkefnum sem stuðla að inngildingu og þátttöku, meðal annars Komd’inn, AIVAG og Get Together (GETA). [Español a continuación] Í kjarna […]

Kidarchy – voting workshop (7-11 yearolds)

Icelanders will go to the polls in a national referendum on August 29, yet one fifth of the population will be excluded from having their say at the ballot box: children! Kidarchy wants to change that and invites children to a workshop on Wednesday, August 26, to prepare a performance that will take place on […]

Performance Night: Polyphony of Voices

We are excited to welcome you to our next Performance Night. This time the event is curated by Oyun Daria Testo.___ On the 17th of June, Icelandic National Day, we invite you to Gerðarsafn for a polyphony of voices at 8 PM. On this day, we will explore the tensions of identity, belonging, and interrelation […]

Loop | Consider to be Allies & Kristín Karólína Helgadóttir

The third iteration of Lúppa is a dialogue between two video works that each, in their own way, address the interplay between nature and marketing, transformation, tourism, and the desire to experience something extraordinary. The work Getur þú hugsað í sviðsmyndum? (2022) by Kristín Karólína Helgadóttir was created in the vicinity of Vatnajökull at the […]

OLÍS EYELASH AXIS

Nanna Abell‘s exhibition OLÍS EYELASH AXIS opens in Gerðarsafn‘s sculpture garden and Y gallery at 15:00 on Saturday the 6th of June. Abell draws out tones, textures, architectural particularities and local histories in an exhibition that is rooted here, but formed at distance.  „Her works extend the architecture, with a stretch of drainpipe echoing wire […]