. . . . .

About Us

Back Issues
Issue #20, #19, #18, #17, #16, #15, #14, #13, #12, #11, #10, #9, #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, #1

Subscribe
We will send you an e-mail about each bimonthly issue ... and nothing else.

. . . . .

News

»» Kling & Bang's transplanted bar at Frieze, London, got a lot of attention
»» Erling Klingenberg in Frankfurt
»» Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson shortlisted for Dutch Prix de Rome
»» Sequences 2008 Time Based Art Festival: We have the videos
»» Helgi Þórsson exhibits at Gelerie van Gelder
»» Dorothée Kirch and Markús Þór Andrésson to curate Venice exhibition
»» Ragnar Kjartansson now represented in New York by Luhring Augustine

. . . . .

Features

Jón Proppé:
Weathering the Storm
Reflections on Iceland's economic crisis and its impact on art.

Shauna Laurel Jones interviews Birta Guðjónsdóttir:
101 Projects in Reykjavík
A new project space opens with a string of exhibitions and other activities.

 

Exhibiting in Amsterdam:

Helgi Þórsson at
Galerie van Gelder

Caes van Gelder, well known gallery owner in Amsterdam, is a friend of Icelandic artists for a long time already. He represents with Kristján and Sigurður Guðmundsson and Hreinn Fríðfinnsson the key artists of Iceland’s first concept generation. Helgi Þórsson, a grandson of that generation, is now having a show at Galerie van Gelder until Christmas entitled “The Male Model”..

Helgi Þórsson, born in. 1975 received his MA from the Sandberg Instituut in Holland in 2004. Music plays an important role in Helgi’s art and life; he is a member of the bands Stilluppsteypa and Evil Madness. His compositions of found objects create unique surroundings in his installations, where he turns his exhibition spaces into psychedelic clubs with joyful decorations and music automats. His innocent approach of invading visual art institutions and his unconventional means of crossing borders between art forms turn an ordinary exhibition visit into a special event.

 

LIST Icelandic Art News. Page last updated 18 December 2008. Texts and images copyright © 2008 by the authors. For inquiries and contact information see about us.

 

 

An istallation from 2003 by Helgi Þórsson.

For more, see the wibsite of Galerie van Gelder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With generous
support from:









Published by: