{"id":26422,"date":"2026-10-05T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/event\/looking-closely-into-the-work-of-valgerdur-briem-with-brynja-sveinsdottir\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:51:55","slug":"looking-closely-into-the-work-of-valgerdur-briem-with-brynja-sveinsdottir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/looking-closely-into-the-work-of-valgerdur-briem-with-brynja-sveinsdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Closely into the work of Valger\u00f0ur Briem with Brynja Sveinsd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are warmly invited to a guided tour of the exhibition <em>Valger\u00f0ur<\/em> with Brynja Sveinsd\u00f3ttir, Director of Ger\u00f0arsafn, at 15:00 on Sunday, 11th of October.<br>During the tour, Brynja will discuss key works by Valger\u00f0ur and offer visitors deeper insight into the artist\u2019s creative process and how Valger\u00f0ur developed her works.<br>\u00a0<br>More about the exhibition:<br>Valger\u00f0ur Briem (1914\u20132002) was an artist, teacher and pioneer in the field of art education. Her life\u2019s work developed through the interplay between her own artistic practice and her teaching, with form, colour, material and visual thinking at its core. Valger\u00f0ur first exhibited publicly as an artist at the Autumn Exhibition of the Association of Icelandic Artists in 1980, at the age of sixty-six. Behind that moment lay decades of sustained work: drawings, watercolours, wax works, sketches, lettering and patterns. When Valger\u00f0ur\u2019s family donated approximately 1,640 works on paper to Ger\u00f0arsafn in 2006, the true scope of her life\u2019s work became fully visible for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Ger\u00f0arsafn received a two-year research grant from the Icelandic Museum Fund to undertake the first comprehensive study of Valger\u00f0ur Briem\u2019s life and work, lead by Cecilie Gaihede. The project combines art-historical research into her artistic practice with its presentation through an exhibition and publication, Myndvit &#8211; The Legacy of Valger\u00f0ur comprised of scholarly essays addressing Valger\u00f0ur\u2019s art, teaching and approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are warmly invited to a guided tour of the exhibition Valger\u00f0ur with Brynja Sveinsd\u00f3ttir, Director of Ger\u00f0arsafn, at 15:00 on Sunday, 11th of October.During the tour, Brynja will discuss key works by Valger\u00f0ur and offer visitors deeper insight into the artist\u2019s creative process and how Valger\u00f0ur developed her works.\u00a0More about the exhibition:Valger\u00f0ur Briem (1914\u20132002) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26423,"template":"","cultural_house":[214],"event_category":[],"event_tag":[],"event_umbrella":[],"class_list":["post-26422","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cultural_house-gerdarsafn-en"],"acf":{"short_title":"","location":"","event_type":"single","price":"","start_date":"11.10.2026","start_time":"15:00","end_date":"11.10.2026","end_time":"16:00","multiday_schedule":false,"all_day_event":false,"action_button_text":"","action_button_link":"","embeddables":false,"photo_gallery":false,"attachments":false,"related_events":"","video_cover":"","artists":false,"curator":"","pdf_cover":false,"pdf_file":false,"umfjollun":"","performers":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/26422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/26422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cultural_house","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cultural_house?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"event_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tag?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"event_umbrella","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_umbrella?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}