RETROSPECTIVE

A retrospective of Icelandic sculptor, Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975). A seminal artist of the twentieth century, Gerður was a pioneer of abstract sculpture in Iceland and created works in stained glass and mosaic. She passed away beyond her years at only 47 years of age. The exhibition is set up by selected themes, each of which […]

MA degree showing

28.04.2018 – 18.05.2018 The MA Degree Show in Design and MA Fine Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts will be opened in Gerðarsafn, Saturday 28. April at 15:00. The exhibition allows an outlook on the results of two years of Master level’s studies where five designers and five artists in the field of fine […]

Líkamleiki

The exhibition Embody is a meditation on the human body as manifested in contemporary art. The exhibition presents selected works by artists who share the common factor of referencing the body and embodiment in various ways. The guiding principle of the exhibition is the human being as a physical body that experiences, responds to and interacts with […]

Normality is the new avant-garde

13.01.2017 – 12.03.2017 The exhibition NORMALITY IS THE NEW AVANT-GARDE considers manifestations of the everyday in Icelandic contemporary art. The objective of the show is to establish conceptual and visual connections between works by artists of different generations – who nonetheless share the attribute of alluding to and working with the broad semiotics of the […]

Debatable Lands: Dialogues from Shared Worlds

11.09.2021-09.01.2022 Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson 2001-2021 A mid-career retrospective of the 20-year collaboration between artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson. Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson approach their collective art partnership with an ecological and pluralistic view. In a research-based practice they prompt discussion and thought about our changing world, and our own human role in those changes. Related themes of human and […]

Spin| Hanna Dís Whitehead

Hanna Dís Whitehead takes another spin on previous works where interesting materials, colours, shapes and history are mixed together in a new way. The energy of a chain reaction leads the process, one idea pushes the next. Sometimes it would be ideal to take another spin on old ideas with new knowledge in your pocket. […]

Status Check

The exhibition Status Check provides an insight into the minds and hopes of ten visual artists and writers of the same generation which are prominent in their own field. The exhibition does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of the status of contemporary art and literature. It rather focuses on the artists’ personal experience of their […]

08-18 (Past Perfect) | Santiago Mostyn

In this newly conceived exhibition at Gerðarsafn, Santiago Mostyn presents a constellation of photographic and moving-image works created across the Black Atlantic, focusing on sites of personal significance for the artist. The photo series 08–18 (Past Perfect), presented here for the first time, was created over a decade of returns to Trinidad, Zimbabwe, Grenada, the United States, and Scandinavia. Sections of the gallery will be hung with wallpaper treated to a cyanotype process, which will shift and […]

AD INFINITUM

Ad Infnitum in Gerðarsafn is a thought-provoking collaboration between visual artist Elín Hansdóttir and composer/sound artist Úlfur Hansson. Together, the Icelandic duo (and siblings) explore subtle phenomenological aspects of spatial orientation. Hansdóttir and Hansson invite the viewer to dwell in a liminal space that evades concrete meaning but foregrounds the embodied awareness of being present in an environment. Elín Hansdóttir’s immersive installations leverage […]

Follow us

20.05.2021-30.05.2021 The exhibition Follow Us introduces selected works by new and emerging designers, recently arrived on the scene. The designers have all attracted attention and excitement for their early works, each in their own field. Coalescence and collaboration across fields is prominent, but the designers look inwards, outwards and forwards in search of new ways to deal […]

SHELLter

SHELLter (a play on the words shell and shelter) is a designed as a sanctuary for children and grown-ups alike to find peace and quiet in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The three spaces are inspired by tortoises, snails, shellfish and other animals who can retreat into their shell when they need to. […]

GERÐUResque

Biting an apple, experiencing isolation, developent of superorganisms and seismosensory systems in fish from Lake Baikal…  These are just some of the elements that intersect with Gerður Helgadóttir’s practice to produce the variety of works seen in this show. Gerðarsafn invited MA students from the Iceland University of the Arts and the University of Iceland […]