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

Gerðarsafn_sýning_2023

Samsýning listamanna frá Íslandi, Mexikó, Pakistan, Bandaríkjunum, Grænlandi, Danmörku, Noregi, Nígeríu, og Finnlandi.

We can talk

Gerðarsafn_sýning

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 […]

Sculpture/Sculpture

SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir Steinunn Önnudóttir Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson & Gerður Helgadóttir Artists Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir, Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir, Steinunn Önnudóttir and Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson participate in this year’s edition of SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE. SCULPTURE / SCULPTURE is an exhibition series seeks to honor sculptor Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975), […]

Lots of tiny people

19.09.2019-05.01.2020 The exhibition project Lots of tiny people explores the spiritual in arts. The title is derived from a blackboard drawing by Austrian anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner, who used to draw images to support his spoken words, while lecturing on man´s nature and spirit. The initiative for the exhibition is credited to artists Guðrún Vera Hjartardóttir and Sigrún […]

Object of Desire

Object of Desire brings together collage, installation, sculpture and film by eightartists from Singapore and Iceland. The exhibition will travel between two institutions, Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore and Gerðarsafn Museum. The works explore the affective agency of images and objects as ‘things’ which are desired, distributed and reproduced. The title of the exhibition […]