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NEWS PAGE
Who's going to Venice, what is new?

From CIA.IS
CIA.IS DVD Archive Expands
Though ominously named, the archive has become a unique and diverse resource on Icelandic contemporary art.

Homesick:
Center for Icelandic Art in New Exhibition Project
Homesick is a project with three other partners in Turkey (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Israel (Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv) and Switzerland (venue to be decided).

Nominees for New Art Award
Three Women Nominated for High-Purse Award ...

Christian Schoen
Sigurður Guðjónsson: Dark Places
"Bleak", 2006: Two grotesque people in two different rooms are at the center of the grotesque situation.

Jon Proppe
A Quiet Corner in Reykjavík
An artist-run exhibition space in an old coner house in downtown Reykjavík was central to a generation of Icelandic artists and a stop for many promonent fluxus and performance artists in the late 1970s.

Jon Proppe
Steingrímur Eyfjörð
For thirty years, Steingrímur Eyfjörð has been a strong and often critical participant on the Icelandic art scene. Now he is represented in the Carnegie Art Show and is going to Venice next year ...

Jon Proppe
Environment and Art: An Interview with Patrick Huse
Since 1995, Norvegian Artist Patrick Huse has brough all five of his large-scale museum shows to Iceland: Iceland has also been an important subject in his exploration of the landscape and cultures of the Arcitc. Increasingly, his paitnings and photographs have a political edge to them ...

 

IN THIS ISSUE

NEWS PAGE
Recent news include a new festive of time-based art in Iceland and several exhibtions by Icelandic artists abroad.

From CIA.IS
New Grants from the Center for Icelandic Art
In the middle of March CIA.IS announced grants to nine artists out of 65 applications.

Homesick:
Center for Icelandic Art in New Exhibition Project
Homesick is a project with three other partners in Turkey (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Israel (Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv) and Switzerland (venue to be decided).

Peace Column to Rise near Reykjavik
Yoko Ono Brings Peace to Videy
Yoko Ono's work is to be a tower, 10 to 12 metres high, made of transparent material and lit from within ...

ARTICLES

Sigrun Sandra Olafsdottir
Dandruff Space and Shroud: An Icelandic project space in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In an apartment on Driggs Avenue, a small project space is home to the idea of two Icelandic siblings

Jon Proppe
Nam June Paik Shocks Icelandic Audience ... in 1965
In May 1965, at the conclusion of a European concert tour, Nam-June Paik and Charlotte Moorman came to Reykjavik for a Fluxus performance the likes of which Iceland had never seen.

FEATURED ARTIST

Jon Proppe
Jon Oskar Hafsteinsson Crosses the Delaware
Already one of Iceland's best known painters, Jon Oskar took a new turn in his latest exhibition in Iceland.

 

IN THIS ISSUE

NEWS PAGE
Who's going to Venice, what is new?

From CIA.IS
CIA.IS DVD Archive Expands
Though ominously named, the archive has become a unique and diverse resource on Icelandic contemporary art.

Homesick:
Center for Icelandic Art in New Exhibition Project
Homesick is a project with three other partners in Turkey (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Israel (Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv) and Switzerland (venue to be decided).

Nominees for New Art Award
Three Women Nominated for High-Purse Award ...

Christian Schoen
Sigurður Guðjónsson: Dark Places
"Bleak", 2006: Two grotesque people in two different rooms are at the center of the grotesque situation.

Jon Proppe
A Quiet Corner in Reykjavík
An artist-run exhibition space in an old coner house in downtown Reykjavík was central to a generation of Icelandic artists and a stop for many promonent fluxus and performance artists in the late 1970s.

Jon Proppe
Steingrímur Eyfjörð
For thirty years, Steingrímur Eyfjörð has been a strong and often critical participant on the Icelandic art scene. Now he is represented in the Carnegie Art Show and is going to Venice next year ...

Jon Proppe
Environment and Art: An Interview with Patrick Huse
Since 1995, Norvegian Artist Patrick Huse has brough all five of his large-scale museum shows to Iceland: Iceland has also been an important subject in his exploration of the landscape and cultures of the Arcitc. Increasingly, his paitnings and photographs have a political edge to them ...

 

 

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News of Icleandic Art and Artists, at home and abroad

Venice Biennale 2007

Steingrímur Eyfjörð represents Iceland

The decision has been made that Steingrímur Eyfjörð will repesent Iceland in the next Venice Biennale in 2007, though negotiations are not quite finished yet on where he will be exhibiting. Steingrímur's career in art began in the mid-1970s and he was an active member of the group of artists that formed Gallery Suðurgata 7 in the late 1970s and has exhibited persistently since, honing his hypercritical approach to produce shows of surprising delicacy. More on Steingrímur

 

Carnegie Art Show

Eggert Pétursson brings Home the Prize

The Carnegie Art Award Show is now in the Reykjavík Art Museum and features four Icelandic Artists: Steingrímur Eyfjörð, Eggert Pétursson, Finnbogi Pétursson and Jón Óskar. Eggert Pétursson, moreover, won second prize in this high-profile show.

Portraits on the Edge:

Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson in Pittsfield, MA

In 2002 Reykjavík artist Birgir Snaebjörn Birgisson discovered a book of photographs.  It contained portraits of people who were selected for a particular beauty and perfection.

The artist was moved to paint six large portraits from images taken from this chilling reminder of a deranged society's obsession with pedigree.  These paintings comprise the first part of Gallery Boreas' inaugural gallery exhibit at 439 North Street in Pittsfield.  The National Gallery of Iceland exhibited these paintings 18 months ago in an exhibit dedicated to new Icelandic art.

The artist will be in residence in the Berkshires during the month of July and will be present for the opening reception.

 

Icelandic Artists in Suggestive Swedish Industrial Environment

Forsbacka Works

  

Five Icelandic artists are taking part in an exhibition project currently in Forsbacka Works in Sweden. The full list of participants runs:

Anna Zwingl (AUT)
Bartholomäus Kinner (AUT)
Dodda Maggý ( ISL)
Elin Anna Þórisdóttir (ISL)
Elke Zauner (GER)
Erwin van der Werve (NED)
Eva Beierheimer (AUT)
Gudrun Gruber (AUT)
Hannes Zebedin (AUT)
Judith Gruber (AUT)
Kristín Helga Káradóttir (ISL)
Kristin Vestrin (SWE)
Lene Barnkob Kaas (DEN)
Marcus Coates (GBR)
Miriam Laussegger (AUT)
Nadim Vardag (GER)
Sabrina Peer (ITA)
Steinar Haga Kristensen (NOR)
Þóra Gunnarsdóttir (ISL)
Þóra Sólveig Bergsteinsdóttir (ISL)

From the project's website:

Few places in Sweden offer such a suggestive industrial environment as the Forsbacka Works in Gästrikland. Among other things, four roast furnaces, three blast furnaces and remainders of several rolling mills are preserved in the old steelworks. The factory is surrounded by an idyllic park landscape and a junkyard.

This summer, Forsbacka is presenting an international contemporary art exhibition in the works. The invited artists have been working space-specific and we can se the result in the exhibition called VERK (WORKS).

By emphasising on a local context and a contemporary perception we hope to find a new way to see history and social discourses, local peculiarities and global matters. The exhibition is opening June 17 at 6 PM. The music theatre band D.O.R from Norway will present an opening performance and later in the evening the opening party continues with a concert at the Café Labbis with Austrian duo NILI.

Initiator and curator: Kristin Vestrin

Project Manager: Peter Sundquist

VERK

18 June – 20 August

tue-fri: 10:00 – 16:00
sat-sun: 12:00 – 16:00

Opening: June 17th 18:00

Forsbacka Bruk

Performance D.O.R (NOR) 19.00
NILI (AUT) concert at café Labbis 21.00
DJ: Jonas Frykman

Project website

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