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The Space For Everyone, Maybe
Artists-run Gallery Kannski is on a mission to amplify underrepresented voices of the local arts scene On an unusually bright afternoon following Verslunarmannahelgi, I find myself navigating a labyrinth of yellow apartments on Lindargata. The apartments belong to the city of Reykjavík…
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Beyond Logic: Sara Riel’s ‘Automatic’ Brings Emotion Into Motion
Sara Riel sits casually on a blue leather couch in her ‘almost New York Loft’ with her excited dog on her lap. An espresso in one hand and a laptop in the other, she talks through a slideshow of her current work.…
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PHOTOS: DesignMarch 2018
This weekend, DesignMarch hit Reykjavík with a bang, rounding up the most exciting, innovative, and relevant design projects in the country for a weekend of surefire inspiration. With a program chock full of everything from an exhibit about eggs to dialogues about design…
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The Marshall House Opens!
Grandagarður 20 is a stunning building. On sunny days it stands stark against the blue sky, four stories of chipped paint and glass. On overcast days its white shades and translucent windows blend into the clouds. The building was originally used as…
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Virgin Mary vs. Björk: Helga Thoroddsen Explores Female Sexuality In Her ‘Fabularum’ Exhibition
Helga Thoroddsen’s first solo exhibition, ‘Fabularum’, is certainly one to see. It will be hosted by Listastofan, a gallery that has recently received a grant from the Department of Culture and Tourism and aims to work with up-and-coming artists like Helga, fresh…
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Be Young And Shut Up!: Listastofan Moves Into 2017 With New Funding And Endless Enthusiasm
Listastofan, an art space founded by Emma Sanderson and Martyna Daniel in 2015, has an exciting year ahead of it. The city of Reykjavík is now an official sponsor after selecting the art space to receive a cultural grant for 2017. The…
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Starting Today: ‘Slices Of Life’ At Icelandic Printmakers Association
Anita Jensen crosses geographical and artistic boundaries in her latest exhibition at the Icelandic Printmakers Association. In ‘物の哀れ (mono no aware) / Slices of Life,’ Anita uses borrowed images from Japanese family photo albums and creates photomontages by incorporating prints of natural…
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This Year’s Réttir In Photos (Pt. 1): The Guidance Of The Lambs
Grapevine’s hardest working photojournalist, Art Bicnick, was out in the countryside this fall to witness réttir, the annual sheep round-up. Every spring, sheep are tagged and released into the open pastures, only to be collected and organized in the fall. It’s a…
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Aurora, Waterfalls, Eruptions… Heild Has Everything
Out now on DVD and on-demand, Heild offers some amazing visions of Iceland unlike most of what you’ve seen before, all set to a fairly stunning soundtrack. The film was shot over a grueling thirty month period by filmmaker Pétur Kristján Guðmundsson, who set…
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Christmas: Already In Ísafjörður
According to Ísafjörður locals, the month of November was “rather tropical,” in terms of the climate, with unusually high temperatures and a notable lack of unpleasant windstorms. Indeed, the Icelandic Met Office reports the average area temperature for last month at a whopping…
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Art Love-In
In July, the art world will come to Reykjavík, and some musicians too. Commercial galleries from all over Europe are uprooting their shows and transplanting them around the city. The event, Villa Reykjavík, will be free to the public from July 9…
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NO, NAY, NEVER
The museum itself has primarily been a venue for exhibitions and various creative events, but it is becoming increasingly focused on its position as a setting for both domestic and foreign artists to exchange opinions and ideas. This exhibition covers three cities…
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SÆVAR KARL´S GALLERY: THE SUITS WON’T SPOIL IT
The exhibition space is simple and serene. Its discrete ambiance makes it feel like a peculiar haven, distinctly sans-fashion. But there’s no getting around it: it’s weird for me, Joe Art-Enthusiast, to walk through a zone of thousand-dollar suits to get there.…