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Days And Nights At The Museum: Finnur Arnar Concludes His Fully Immersive Stay At Ásmundarsafn
For nearly two months, the Icelandic multidisciplinary artist Finnur Arnar Arnarson has been living and working inside Ásmundarsafn — the former home and studio of pioneering sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson, now one of three locations of the Reykjavík Art Museum. He sleeps there,…
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Grapevine Events: Glacier Generations, Spacestation Release Show & More
If you’re ready to hit the weekend running, we’ve got some suggestions for you: The University of Iceland’s Intelligent Instruments Lab will be celebrating its 100th Open Lab at 12 Tónar at 18:00. La Dimensión at RVK Tónabíó will bring a night…
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The Ever-Changing Wonderland: New Exhibition Opens At Ásmundarsafn
In an unassuming corner of Laugardalur sits Ásmundarsafn — one of the Reykjavík Art Museum’s three locations for the past four decades and, before that, the home and studio of pioneering Icelandic sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982). The building itself is a quirky…
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Mutual Core: Elín Hansdóttir Disrupts Ásmundarsafn
“Come with me. To the beginning, to the chaos, where everything is, but also nothing,” proclaims sculptor Elín Hansdóttir, faux-dramatically, her voice bouncing around the Ásmundursafn sculpture museum. She cuts a diminutive, elegant figure in the pristine white space as she reads…
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Ongoing Now: ‘Yearning For Space’
This exhibition features works by the late sculptors Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975), Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931-1989), and Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908-1982), and posits modernist art as a reflection of technological and scientific explorations during the Space Race of the 1950s and…
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Dark Music, Reality-TV Art Shows And Punk Rock!
Have you checked out our fancy new listings website yet? It’s so fancy! Take a moment to browse and see if you can’t spot any cool events you’d like to partake in this weekend. If you don’t have the time or whatever, here’s a…