Events and education
Education and events All of the events will be held in Icelandic unless otherwise specified.
Entrance is free unless other is stated
Guided tours in English at Kjarvalsstaðir all Thursdays in June, July and August at 12:00
August
Thursday 26 August 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – ArtFart Festival
Performance of the play In the Beginning by Ingi Rafn Hilmarsson and Kane Husbands.
Sunday 29 August 2 p.m.
Ásmundarsafn – “I choose blossoming women …”
Gallery Talk for the family.
September
Wednesday 1 September 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Reykjavík Dance Festival
Soft Target – Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir.
Thursday 2 September 6 & 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Reykjavík Dance Festival
Soft Target - Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir.
Saturday 4 September 5 & 10 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Reykjavík Dance Festival
Unturtled – Isabelle Schad og Laurent Goldring (5 p.m.).
Waterfalls – Muscle and Hate Crew (10 p.m.).
Sunday 5 September 5 & 10 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Reykjavík Dance Festival
Unturtled – Isabelle Schad og Laurent Goldring (5 p.m.).
Waterfalls – Muscle and Hate Crew (10 p.m.).
Sunday 5 September 2 p.m.
Ásmundarsafn – Sleep Light
Artist’s talk with Ráðhildur Ingadóttir.
Friday 10 September 12:15 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – Tríó of Reykjavík
Music by Beethoven, Squire, Jórunn Viðar, Magnús Blöndal Jóhannesson
and Þórarinn Guðmundsson.
Sunday 12 September 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
Curator´s talk with Hrafnhildur Schram.
Thursday 16 September 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Design
Lecture series in collaboration with The Iceland Design Centre.
Sunday 19 September 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – D17
Artist’s talk with Magnús Helgason.
Sunday 19 September 8 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir - Elektra Ensemble
Trios for flute, cello and piano. Musicians are: Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir piano,
Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir flute and Margrét Árnadóttir cello.
Thursday 23 September 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Films
Experimental film screening in collaboration with Kino Club.
Jessie Stead "Foggy Mountains Break Down More Than Non-Foggy Mountains"
Mixed media on DVD, 2006.
25 September - 3 October
Hafnarhús – Reykjavik Film Festival
For more information go to www.riff.is
Sunday 26 September 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Erró - Collage
Gallery talk for the family.
October
Weekend 2 & 3 October 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – International Day of Architecture
Programme on architect Jón Haraldsson.
Moderator artist Haraldur Jónsson.
9 - 25 October
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
Programme organised in collaboration with Skotturnar, organisers of the
Women’s Day Off 2010. This unique platform is an extensive body
formed by all major women movements in Iceland:
Performances, readings, concerts, dance and stand-ups.
Sunday 10 October 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
Lecture Artist Þóra Þórisdóttir talks about women and art.
14 - 16 October
Hafnarhús – Concert
Iceland Airwaves.
Saturday 16 October
Hafnarhús - Kino Club
Moving Images – Festival
Film-workshop for adults. Camera-less films and experimental 16mm hands on workshop, with a screening of the completed works on 24 October.
Sunday 17 October 3. p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
Gallery talk with the participation of artist Hildur Hákonardóttir.
21 to 24 October
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
The festival traces the history of the experimental and avant-garde filmmaking movement from the 1960s to the present. All films will be screened on 16mm film with courtesy of Canyon Cinema.
Thursday 21 October 7 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
Films: Peter Kubelka: Unsere Afrikareise 1961-1966, Gunvor Nelson: My name is Oona 1969, Stan Brackage: Prelude: Dog Star Man 1961, Chick Strand: Angel Blue Sweet Wings 1966, Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos 1965.
Friday 22 October 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
Films: Bruce Conner: COSMIC RAY 1961, Carolee Schneemann: Fuses 1964-1967, Kenneth Anger: Invocation of my Demon Brother 1969, Philip Solomon: The Secret Garden 1988, Peter Hutton: New York Portrait 1978-1979.
Saturday 23 October 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
Films: Dominic Angerame: The Soul of Things 2010, Leighton Pierce: Glass 1998, Peggy Ahwesh: The Color of Love 1994, David Gatten: Hardwood Process 1996, Abigail Child: Dark Dark 2001, Martha Colburn: Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical, 2000.
Saturday 23 October
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
Film-workshop for kids 10 – 16 year old. Camera-less films and experimental 16mm hands on workshop with a screening of the completed works on 24 October.
Sunday 24 October 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Kino Club
Moving Images - Festival
Screening of completed works from the children’s and adult’s film-workshops.
Sunday 24 October
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
35 years from the first Women‘s Day Off.
Thursday 28 October 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Design
Lecture series in collaboration with The Iceland Design Centre.
Sunday 31 October 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – (fe)male – workshop
and The Will as a Weapon Gallery talk for the family.
November
Thursday 4 November 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – New architecture
Kurtogpi architects present new projects in Iceland.
Weekend 5 - 7 November
Hafnarhús – Symposium
ALTERNATIVE NORTH – ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCANDINAVIA.
Symposium on Scandinavian contemporary art organised in collaboration with the
Nordic House, Living Art Museum and Center for Icelandic Art.
The symposium will be in English.
Sunday 7 November 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – The Will as a Weapon
Gallery talk with the participation of artist Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir.
Wednesday 10 November 8 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir - Trio VEI
Musicians are Einar Jóhannesson, Valgerður Guðnadóttir and Ingibjörg Guðjónsdóttir.
Thursday 11 November 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Films
Experimental film screening in collaboration with Kino Club.
Sunday 14 November 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Erró – Collage
Gallery talk.
Thursday 18 November 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Design
Lecture series in collaboration with The Iceland Design Centre.
Sunday 21 November 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – D18
Artist’s talk with Bjarni Þór Sigurbjönsson.
Sunday 28 November 3 p.m
Viðey – Peace and Cross-culture
Imagine Peace tower – Cross-cultural workshop for children and adults.
December
Wednesday 2 December 12:15 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – Christmas Carols
Christmas carols by tenor Garðar Cortes and pianist Robert Sund.
Thursday 2 December 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – New architecture
Vatnavinir practice present new projects in Iceland.
Organised by Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir.
Thursday 3 December 12:15 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – Christmas Carols
Christmas carols by tenor Garðar Cortes and pianist Robert Sund.
Sunday 5 December 3 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – New Acquisitions 2005 - 2010
Symposium New Acquisitions.
Moderator Jón Proppé Philosopher and art critic.
Thursday 9 December 8 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Films
Experimental film screening in collaboration with Kino Club.
Friday 10 December 12:15 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir – Tríó of Reykjavík
Music by Shostakovich, Katsaturian, Mendelsohn and Schumann.
Sunday 12 December 3 p.m.
Hafnarhús – Power has a Fragrance
Gallery talk.
Thursday 30 December 8 p.m.
Kjarvalsstaðir - Elektra Ensemble
For further information about events at the Reykjavik Art Museum
please contact the museums receptions or call:(+354) 590 1200
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