Author: Hannah Jane Cohen
Almar Atlason’s Party Funeral: An Exhibition Of Beauty, Suffering & A Colourful Daze
“The paintings were all done on La Réunion, which is an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just…
Fancies: Hafey Viktoría Hallgrímsdóttir
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Hafey Viktoría Hallgrímsdóttir…
Ask An Expert: How Does One Celebrate Shabbat In The Midnight Sun?
If you celebrate a weekly holiday that’s set to begin at sundown and end at nightfall, how do you do…
PHOTOS! We Visited Geldingadalir And Found A (Beautiful) Inferno
On Friday, our team journeyed to the eruption at Geldingallir at night to capture the newest fissures on camera in…
Horror-Scopes: WHAT VOLCANO ARE YOU?
The Grapevine’s team of amateur astrologists recently read online that people who like astrology also really like personality quizzes. In…
Gods Of Iceland: Jötnar, A Sick af Power Metal Band
Superpowers: Are giants. Ride wolves. Weaknesses: Veins that run with toxic blood which is fatal to their own kind. Modern…
Artist/Curator/Friend: The Undefinable Relationship Of Emilie Dalum And Michael Richardt
“For the past half a year, I’ve been writing a lot about what is going on here, who we are…
The Culmination Of Aeons Of Serendipity: Flying To Geldingadalur, Iceland’s Newest Eruption (feat. Plato)
We really don’t stand a chance, do we? With calm surrender to my fate, these were the words that entered…
The Dawn Of Eydís Evensen: Presenting A Composer And A Whirlwind Emotional Journey
From the northern Icelandic town of Blönduós emerged 27-year-old composer Eydís Evensen, who burst onto the scene this December with…
Track By Track: ‘Hvítir Hrafnar’ By dady
dady—formerly Dadykewl—has been on a three-year hiatus since his last effort ‘Klámstjarna’. But thankfully, Iceland’s resident lovestruck, sullen, smooth af…
Stepping Into The Sun: RAKEL Is Here With A Dreamy, Escapist Debut
“The whole EP is about feeling a little bit unsure of what you’re doing in life,” Rakel Sigurðardóttir says softly….
A Harp, A Human, And A Machine: Úlfur Hansson’s Segulharpa Births A New Sound
“When it worked and I finally got the string sound working correctly, it was pure magic,” Úlfur Hansson says—a big…
1600 Lives: The 1600 Niðurfelld Nauðgunarmál Project Tackles The Failures Of The Law Through Art
TW: Discussions of rape and sexual violence. Counting from 1 to 1,600 would take you 26 minutes and 40 seconds….
We Flew Over The New Volcano At Geldingadalur
Today, we took to the skies with Norðurflug Helicopter Tours to check out the eruption at Geldingadalur from a new…
Hear Ye! The Gospel Of Reykjavík Galleries: Thine Guide To Locale Arte
Jesus Christ (a figure you might know from art history), there are a lot of new galleries in Reykjavík right…
Austurlands Food Coop Sushi Pop-Up: Just Eat It!
Remember that landslide in Seyðisfjörður in December? Austurlands Food Coop, the Seyðisjörður initiave that seeks to bring hitherto unavailable fresh…
Fancies: Diana Breckmann
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Diana Breckmann, a…
Sensory Overload: The Delicious Cacophony Of Susan_creamcheese
Enter the fantasy: You’re on a weirdly positive bath salts trip. It’s the peak of the party and the noise…
Fancies: Anthony Hoang Duy Nguyen
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Anthony Hoang Duy…
Top Five Volcanoes Someone Should Write A Book About: A Symposium By Valur & Hannah Jane
by Hannah Jane Cohen and Valur Grettisson
You would think that a nation that is both as obsessed with literature and as seismically active as Iceland would…
The Reykjavík Tattoo Guide a.k.a. Where To Get Your Grapevine Tattoo
The last few years have seen a boom of tattoo parlours around Reykjavík. In fact, there’s now so many that…
Huginn’s Artist Playlist: A Mixtape To Make You Feel It All
Huginn plays those weirdly special easy-going autotune hip-hop jams that kind of work in every situation. It’s actually kind of…
‘Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and it has a lot to say)’ Serves Up Feminist Queer Insect AI Fantasies
Imagine a utopian world where gender roles are inconceivable, alien life forms live among us, interplanetary travel is dirt cheap…
The Rules Of A New Dimension: Kristín Morthens’ ‘Gegnumtrekkur’ Exists In Another World
‘Gegnumtrekkur’—the title of Kristín Morthens’ newest exhibition at Þula—directly translates to ‘the Bernoulli Principle.’ It’s a physics term that describes…
Falafel For The Soul: Chickpea Brings A Homey Touch To The Downtown Dining Scene
Tucked in next to downtown’s Kronan supermarket lies Chickpea, a new bijoux vegetarian eatery. Walk by too fast and you…