Hafnarhús
D15 - Dodda Maggý
15 January - 21 February 2010
Lucy is a video and music installation by Dodda Maggý (1981), the 15th artist to exhibit in the D-gallery project. In Lucy the artist explores the idea of the “acousmetre,” a film character portrayed only by voice, never in body, omniscient and ubiquitous.
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Erró – Astronauts
15 January - 14 March 2010
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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Coloursynthesis
15 January – 11 April
Vivid colours and spontaneous structure characterize the paintings of the young Icelandic artists exhibited here.
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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 – Portrett - Women from North Africa
18 March – 23 May
In the early 1980s Erró created many series of collages and paintings presenting gorgeous young women from North Africa in the nude or lightly swathed. These images derive from a large collection of postcards found by Erró and his friend Jean-Jacques Lebel at a Paris fleamarket.
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Iceland Academy of the Arts – Final Thesis Exhibitions 2010
24 April - 9 May
A cooperative project of the Reykjavik Art Museum and the Iceland Academy of the Arts: students from the visual arts and design departments show their final projects.
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Nudes – Gary Schneider
15 May - 27 August
Photographer Gary Schneider, born in South Africa in 1954, lives and works in New York. The exhibition consists of 30 life-size portraits of nude men and women that Schneider has photographed using an unusual technique.
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Vanitas, Still-life in Contemporary Icelandic Art
20 May – 29 August
An exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculptures that count as still-life but were not originally presented as such.
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In the Collection of Imperfection - Unnar Örn J. Auðarson
20 May - 29 August
Unnar Örn’s installation is constructed around a collection of artefacts borrowed from the storage rooms of the Reykjavik City Museum, Museum of Photography and Municipal Archives.
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Erró - Portrett - Dolls
28 May - 29 August
Dolls are not a common theme in the history of art. Thus Erró took a surprising turn at the end of the 1980s when he started making collages, and later paintings, focussing on pictures of old dolls of the pre-war era.
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Kjarvalsstaðir
Högna Sigurðardóttir – Matter and Spirit in Architecture
7 November 2009 – 28 February 2010
This first retrospective of the works of architect Högna Sigurðardóttir is prompted by the occasion of her eightieth birthday and the precious donation of her works to the Museum. The first woman to practice architecture in Iceland, Högna Sigurðardóttir has not been shy to try innovations in her work.
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Steinunn
21 November 2009 – 31 January 2010
With timeless design and discerning professional sense, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir has established her place as a world-class designer. Her artistic creation builds on years of collaboration with many renowned contemporary designers and a rare knowledge of material texture and three-dimensional shaping.
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Stoneworks
21 November 2009 – 31 January 2010
Stoneworks is an educational and family oriented workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with Steinunn Sigurðardóttir‘s exhibition.
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Kjarval – Insights: Warrior Maidens and Ships of Fancy
30 January – 9 May
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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Water and Colour
12 February – 2 May
An educational, family-oriented and open workshop in the North Gallery
in conjunction with the exhibition Watery Hues.
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Watery Hues: A Survey of Icelandic Watercolours
12 February - 2 May
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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Photo&graph family workshop
14 May — 22 August
What's behind a photograph? An educational, family-oriented and on-going workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Alternative Eye.
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Alternative Eye - Selected photographic works from the collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir
14 May - 22 August
The exhibition looks at how photographs are used in Icelandic and international contemporary art, through over 60 photographic works from the collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir.
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Camera Obscura in northgallery
4 July - 22 August
Camera Obscura (darkened room) is a certain illusion or an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings through a hole on one side of the room. Light from an external scene passes throuhg the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with colour and perspective preserved.
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Ásmundarsafn
Rhyme - Works by Ásmundur Sveinsson and contemporary artists
2 May 2009 – 18 April 2010
The sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson was a 20th century man shaped by the 19th century.
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