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Current exhibitions

Hafnarhús

Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Nowhere Land, 2009

D16 Katrín Elvarsdóttir

25 February - 11 April 2010

Katrín has been using camera as her main tool to communicate her artistic viewpoints.

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Erró, La Maya Experimentale, 1974

Erró – Astronauts

15 January - 14 March

In the 1970s, intrigued by man’s excursions into outer space, Erró turned his attention to space voyages and astronauts. After some experimentation with astronauts as pictorial subjects, he had an opportunity to visit NASA’s base in Houston, Texas.

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Helgi Þórsson

Coloursynthesis

15 January – 11 April

Vivid colours and spontaneous structure characterize the paintings of the young Icelandic artists exhibited here.

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Erró, Portett of Halldor Laxness, 1984 - 85.

Erró – Portrett

28 May 2009 – 29 August 2010

The year 2009 will be dedicated to the Erró Collection, an invaluable gift presented to Reykjavik City in 1989 by the artist himself. Hafnarhús will host special exhibitions and various happenings over the year.

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Kjarvalsstaðir

Water and Colour

Water and Colour

12 February – 25 April

An educational, family-oriented and open workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Watery Hues.

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Jóhannes S. Kjarval. Amazone II, 1955-56

Kjarval – Insights: Warrior Maidens and Ships of Fancy

30 January – 25 April

The drawings and sketches in the Reykjavík Art Museum’s Kjarval collection number in the thousands. In recent months Reykjavík Art Museum has been making these works available in digital form to facilitate research on Kjarval’s oeuvre and a closer examination of specific subjects in his work.

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Gunnlaugur Blöndal (1893-1962) – From Barcelona, 1954. Private collection

Watery Hues: A Survey of Icelandic Watercolours

12 February - 25 April 2010

More than fifty artists display nearly two hundred works in water colour in the exhibition Watery Hues. The exhibition is the first of its kind, spanning the 130 year history of water colour painting in Iceland, from 1880 – 2009.

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Ásmundarsafn

RHYME - Works by Ásmundur Sveinsson and contemporary artists, from the exhibition.

Rhyme - Works by Ásmundur Sveinsson and contemporary artists

2 May 2009 – 30 April 2010

The sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson was a 20th century man shaped by the 19th century.

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Hafnarhus

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Kjarvalsstadir

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Asmundarsafn

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Open Saturdays and Sundays: 13:00-16:00