Artist talk
Rósa Gísladóttir will have an artist talk on Sunday 9th July at 2 p.m. All are warmly welcome. Please note the talk will be in Icelandic. Entering Rósa Gísladóttir’s exhibition, we seem to be experiencing an ancient meeting place and in the ruins of the future at the same time. The galleries are calm. The […]
FORA
Exhibition of the work of Icelandic artist Rósa Gísladóttir.
Curator talk with Daría Sól Andrews
Welcome to a curator talk with Daría Sól Andrews Thursday 18th May (International Museum Day) at 2 p.m. Admission is free to the event and to the museum on International Museum Day.All are welcome! The artists of Tracing Fragments, who here trace their fragments are all telling stories that once would have been silenced. The […]
GERÐUR permanent exhibition
A permanent exhibition on the works of sculptor Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975) which Gerðarsafn is founded in honour of. The exhibition sheds light on the creativity, avant-garde and experimentalism of the artist, the complexity of the works and a wide range of materials. Gerður Helgadóttir was a prolific artist and a pioneer in three-dimensional abstract art in […]
ÞYKJÓ
Ævintýraheimur, íhugull og vakandi, forvitinn og frjór.
Geometry
Sýning á verkum íslenskra listamanna sem voru í forystu geómetrískrar abstraktlistar á 6. áratugnum. Var þetta í fyrsta sinn í íslenskri listasögu sem hópur íslenskra listamanna var samstíga því sem var að gerast á alþjóðavettvangi.
Tracing Fragments
Samsýning listamanna frá Íslandi, Mexikó, Pakistan, Bandaríkjunum, Grænlandi, Danmörku, Noregi, Nígeríu, og Finnlandi.
We can talk
Platform GÁTT er samstarfsverkefni fimm stórra þverfaglegra listahátíða og stofnana á Norðurlöndum sem hefur verið starfrækt frá árinu 2019.
Normality is the new avant-garde
13.01.2017 – 12.03.2017 The exhibition NORMALITY IS THE NEW AVANT-GARDE considers manifestations of the everyday in Icelandic contemporary art. The objective of the show is to establish conceptual and visual connections between works by artists of different generations – who nonetheless share the attribute of alluding to and working with the broad semiotics of the […]
Líkamleiki
The exhibition Embody is a meditation on the human body as manifested in contemporary art. The exhibition presents selected works by artists who share the common factor of referencing the body and embodiment in various ways. The guiding principle of the exhibition is the human being as a physical body that experiences, responds to and interacts with […]
MA degree showing
28.04.2018 – 18.05.2018 The MA Degree Show in Design and MA Fine Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts will be opened in Gerðarsafn, Saturday 28. April at 15:00. The exhibition allows an outlook on the results of two years of Master level’s studies where five designers and five artists in the field of fine […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A retrospective of Icelandic sculptor, Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975). A seminal artist of the twentieth century, Gerður was a pioneer of abstract sculpture in Iceland and created works in stained glass and mosaic. She passed away beyond her years at only 47 years of age. The exhibition is set up by selected themes, each of which […]
