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 […]
Oh, so quiet
* French below Welcome to the opening of the exhibition opening at Gerðarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum, Saturday January 12th at 4 p.m. Graham Paul, French Ambassador in Iceland will open the exhibition formally. Various events will take place throughout the exhibition dates, starting with curator’s talk with Pascale Cassagnau, CNAP, Sunday January 13th at 3 […]
IMPRINT
The exhibition Imprint comprises works by seven contemporary artists who deconstruct our ideas about the photograph as a window on reality. The exhibition is an exploration of the ambiguous nature of the photograph, while also playing with the potential of the medium and pushing the boundaries. Works in the exhibition remind us that a photograph […]
GERÐUR
The exhibition GERÐUR will focus on Gerður Helgadóttir‘s iron sculptures from the 50‘s. Gerður was the first Icelandic aritst to use iron in her artwork and was pioneer of three-dimensional abstract art in Iceland. The exhibition is an extention of the exhibiton GERÐUR: retrospective, held in 2018. Gerður‘s creativity and experimental nature is an inspiration for […]
Sculpture/Sculpture
The exhibition series SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE opens in Gerðarsafn for the fourth time with two solo exhibitions by artists Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir and Magnús Helgason. The aim of the series is to explore contemporary sculpture and the development within three-dimensional art, not only as an important part of art history, but also as a living visual […]
GERÐUR
The exhibition GERÐUR will focus on Gerður Helgadóttir‘s iron sculptures from the 50’s. Gerður was the first Icelandic aritst to use iron in her artwork and was pioneer of three-dimensional abstract art in Iceland. The exhibition is an extention of the exhibiton GERÐUR: retrospective, held in 2018. Gerður’s creativity and experimental nature is a motif […]
Castles in the sky
06.03.2021 – 15.05.2021 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Everything has begun but isn’t over* Castles in the Sky is an exhibition of the works of four contemporary artists which springs from the same source: Kópavogur. The town’s history is marked by ambitious plans and epitomises the speed at which the urban spaces were created. The urban development was so […]
After All
After All is a group exhibition with works by twelve contemporary Icelandic artists. The works have been selected based on how the beauty in the everyday, lightness, humour and playfulness appear in them. The exhibition is a response to the present situation in society, a reflection on what matters in the present and a contribution to […]