All are welcome to join an artist talk with Michael Richardt and Kristinn G. Harðarson in connection to their work in the exhibition Stare, Sunday 23rd March at 2 p.m. in Gerðarsafn.
Michael Richardt (b.1980) is a performance artist specializing in time-based and long duration performance. The documentary My Mother Is Pink about his mother was nominated for Best Art Documentary at the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival and won the Outstanding Excellence Award at the Desert Edge Global Film Festival in India. Richardt worked for Marina Abramović performing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Henie Onstad Art Centre and has shown at Nikolaj Art Gallery, Vraa Exhibition, Reykjanes Art Museum, Nordic House and Nitja center for contemporary art. This summer he will appear as Raphael in the TV-show Felix and Klara on Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RÚV.
Kristinn Guðbrandur Harðarson (b. 1955) began his art studies at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts in 1972 and graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. The following winter, he pursued further studies in the Netherlands. Kristinn’s artwork is diverse regarding materials and methods, subjects, and forms, he has engaged in everything from embroidery to performance art. He is very open to influences from his surroundings in general; from other artists, art movements, advertisements, comic books and handycrafts. His works however stem largely from a diaristic documentation in the form of text, photographs and drawings.
Kristinn has exhibited widely, both in Iceland and across Europe and somewhat in the United States. He has also enjoyed a long and varied teaching career, at institutions such as at the Iceland University of the Arts, Kópavogur School of Visual Arts, and for the longest time at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, where he has taught painting to enthusiasts. Kristinn was a founding member of the Suðurgata 7 association and the Living Art Museum and has also curated exhibitions.
Entrance ticket to the museum is valdi, free for yearly members.
