All are welcome to attend artists talks with Jenny Rova and Jói Kjartans Sunday 26th January at 2 p.m. in Gerðarsafn. Jenny and Jói both have works in the exhibition Stare in Gerðarsafn, which is a part of Icelandic Photo Festival 2025. The talks will be in English.
Jenny Rova (b. 1972) is a Swedish artist who lives and works between Sweden and Switzerland. She has studied photography at FAMU, Academy of Preforming Arts, Prague, ZHdK, University of Art and Design in Zürich, and HDK Valand in Gothenburg.
Developing an artistic practice on photography and intimacy, Rova raises questions about the image as an object of precious memory and as seen as evidence.
Rova‘s photobook ÄLSKLING – A self-portrait through the eyes of my lovers published by b.frank books in Zürich received the Swedish Photo Book Award in 2018. She has exhibited around the world and published further books, such as I would also like to be – a work on jealousy, in 2015 and Letters I didn‘t send, in 2019 with b.frank books and Prove Your Love, with Éditions Images Vevey in 2024.
Jói Kjartans (f. 1983) is a photographer from Reykjavik, Iceland. He has lived and worked in Oslo, Norway since 2011. He has shown his work in galleries such as Shoot Gallery, Fotogalleriet and Fotografiens Hus in Norway and at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography (Skotið) in Iceland. He has also shown his work at The Nordic Light Festival of Photography in Kristiansund in Norway, The Landskrona Foto Festival in Sweden and The New York Photo Festival in USA.
He has had his photos published in magazines such as Dazed, VICE Magazine, Men’s Health USA, Bloomberg Business News, Nylon Magazine and Neon Magazine. He has self-published two photobooks, Sirkusár (2008) og Jói de Vivre (2010). He has also been nominated for The Nordic Dummy Award for his book Rånebiler in 2015 og Magasinet Fotografi Portfoliopris in 2016. In 2024 he was selected to be a part of Norwegian Journal of Photography #7 with his long-term project about the Icelandic folklore, Huldufólk, which is due to be published in 2025.
Photo credit: Jenny Rova, Jói Kjartans.
More information:
https://gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is/en/event/stare/
