Icelandic Art Center — Out There

Icelandic Art Center — Out There


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The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Museum: Summer exhibition & rethinking art outside of the cultural mainstream
June 14, 2024

In this episode of Icelandic Art Center’s Out there podcast we speak with artists Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and Unnar Örn, who are board members at Safnasafnið, The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum. The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum was founde

HK Rannversson: Queen of Hearts, Numbers, Places and Art Theory in Iceland
April 30, 2024

In this episode of Icelandic Art Centers Out there podcast we spoke to the curator Heiar Kri Rannversson who has been keeping busy with a few exhibitions recently opened locally in Iceland. We discuss the exhibition spring that has sprung in Iceland wi

Amanda Riffo: On Elastic Stress, House of Purkinje, Chromatography & Rather Expansive
March 27, 2024

Artist Amanda Riffo joins us to discuss newly receiving the 2024 Icelandic Art Prize Artist of the Year award, exhibitions, projects, residencies and creative coincidences. Amanda received the award based on her exhibition House of Purkinje, her first maj

Icelandic Art Prize 2024 Nominations: Artist of the Year & Motivational Award review with Tinna Guðmundsdóttir
February 29, 2024

Artist and project manager of the Icelandic Art Prize Tinna Gumundsdttir joins us to discuss the nominations for the 2024 Icelandic Art Prize. In this overview episode, we detour from our usual format, and take some time to review the artists, and the e

Egill Sæbjörnsson: On Magma, Mankind, Object Species, his Infinite Friends of the Universe and current solo exhibit at the National Gallery of Iceland.
January 31, 2024

Artist Egill Sbjrnsson joins Becky & Tinna to discuss his solo exhibit at the National Gallery of Iceland titled Egill Sbjrnsson and Infinite Friends of the Universe. In the exhibition, Egill invites an infinite number of friends to join in an ins

Null Island: Artist Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir on her art in current mid-career retrospective at Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík Art Museum
November 29, 2023

In this episode we meet artist Hekla Dgg Jnsdttir @hekladoggjonsdottir to discuss her current mid-career retrospective at Reykjavk Art Museum Kjarvalsstair @reykjavikartmuseum, an ongoing series of exhibitions that aims to draw attention to and cel

Sequences live programme with Tereza Eyrún Hofová
October 25, 2023

In this episode of Icelandic Art Centers podcast Out There Tereza Eyrn Hofov does a take over of the podcast and talks to Teo Ala-Ruona, Johhan Rosenberg and Netti Nganen. Tera was assisting Sequences Art Festival production being a part of an inter

Art, the world and power with artist Ragnar Kjartansson
September 26, 2023

Artist Ragnar Kjartansson joins us in this episode and we travel along the spectrum of emotions including love and understanding, fear satire and fakery. Ragnar shares stories about art for theater, the role of fiction, feminism and pushing things to the

For Those Who Couldn’t Cross the Sea: Curator Elham Fakouri and Sabina Westerholm, Director at the Nordic House.
August 29, 2023

In this episode we critically unpack For Those Who Couldnt Cross the Sea with curator Elham Fakouri and Sabina Westerholm, Director of the Nordic House. We discuss exhibition themes, the unique position of the Nordic House within the Icelandic art world

Sigurður Guðmundsson - From ARS LONGA contemporary art museum (est. 2021) to influential SÚM group (est. 1969)
June 27, 2023

In this episode we speak with Sigurur Gumundsson, Artist and co-founder of the international contemporary art museum ARS LONGA, initiated with r Vigfsson & Ineke Gumundsson in 2021 and based in Djpivogur. We talk about the upcoming summer show