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Who's going to Venice, what is new?

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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: Interview
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 ...

 

 

Nominees for the new Icelandic Visual Arts Award:

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In the last issue, we told of a new award for art and design being set up the town of Akureyri and two government ministries. The winner will not be announced until autumn, when the nominees will be exhibited in the Akureyri Art Museum and the town will also host a conference and the awards ceremony itself. Those unable to come to Akureyri will be able to watch the ceremony on television. First prize carries a purse of two million kronur. As it turns out, three women artist born in the late 1960s will be competing for the prize.

A committee was appointed to choose three nominees and to select an artist to recieve a special honorary prize. Committee members were Margrét Elísebet Ólafsdóttir, Ingólfur Arnarson and Jón Proppé. The honorary award will not be announced until the final ceremony but the three nominees for the cash prize were: Margrét Blöndal (1970), Katrín Sigurðardóttir (1967) and Hildur Bjarnadóttir (1969).

The three nominated for the design award, carrying the same prize money, are Gudrún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir, designer, Steinunn Sigurdardóttir, fashion designer, and Margrét Hardardóttir and Steve Christer, architects.

More information about the three nominated artists can be had on the Internat: Kartín Sigurðardóttir's website, Margrét H. Blöndal at the i8 website, Hildur Bjarnadóttir's website and our article by Eva Heisler from last year.

 

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As it turns out, three women artist born in the late 1960s will be competing for the prize.

Hildur Bjarnadóttir 2005

Hildur Bjarnadóttir 2005

Kartrín Sigurðardóttir at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2005

Kartrín Sigurðardóttir at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2005

Margét Blöndal 2005

Margrét Blöndal 2005