Summer Exhibitions of 2022

07.07.2022
Summer Exhibitions of 2022

Art festivals and seasonal art venues open all around
the country with the arrival of the sunshine. When traveling around Iceland this
summer you’ll find plenty to see and do, whether it is visiting museums and exhibition
spaces like Safnasafnið (open from May – September) and Gletta (open during summer),
or art festivals like LungA (10 – 17 July) and Rolling Snowball (opens 9 July).

The summer exhibition series Umhverfing (english link) is also back for its 4th
edition after a two year hiatus. This time it takes place in the Westfjords and
has grown to a monumental scale. 126 artists from around the world exhibit their
work at 126 locations along the entire Westfjords Way at a variety of venues in
nature, villages, churches, town halls, and others.

Umhverfing is organised by non profit
artist-run organisation
Academy of the Senses which will publish
a book about the exhibition. Find an interactive map of the artworks and artists
via the QR below:

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

The summer exhibition series Umhverfing

Museums and exhibition spaces

Safnasafnið, The Icelandic Museum of Folk and Outsider
Art, reopened their doors this May with 12 new shows, including the exhibition ‘Influencers’
with works by seven pioneer women artists. The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum
was founded in 1995 by Níels Hafstein and Magnhildur Sigurðardóttir in the outskirts
of Akureyri. The core collection consists today of thousands of artworks and sketches
by over 300 artists, dating from the mid-19th century to the present, and focusing
on artworks by artists who have hitherto been seen as outside the cultural mainstream.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

From the exhibition Influencers at Safnasafnið. Photo: Daníel Starrason

Gletta, located on the third floor of Borgarfjörður
Eystri’s harbour house, is currently showing the exhibition
Filling the Void with works by Agata Mickiewicz and
Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, presenting an installation of oil paintings, ink drawings
and wool tapestries that are made from both artist’s fascination of crystals.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

From Filling the Void at Gletta.

The Factory in Hjalteyri is showing the group exhibition
Jarðtengingar/Grounded
Currents
where, in the words of art historian and environmental
writer Shauna Laurel Jones, These artists brought together in Hjalteyri invite us
to witness their acts of well-meaning witnessing. Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri is located
in an old Factory building by the ocean in Hjalteyri, and won this year’s Icelandic
Art Prize for Group Show of the Year for last year’s exhibition Resonance.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

Zinnia Naqvi, The Translation Is Approximate, at Grounded Currents at Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri.

Nýp Project Space in Breiðafjörður holds an annual
site specific exhibition in the summer. The exhibiting artist is invited to stay
at the venue the year before, to create work focusing on the surrounding nature
and culture. This year’s artist is Brák Jónsdóttir, who’s installation
Sé (að Nýp)
contemplates the very human act of displaying objects of intrigue and beauty, referencing
the history of cabinets of curiosity and their amalgamation of science and art.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

Brák Jónsdóttir, Sé (að Nýp), 2022.

Festivals

Rolling Snowball is a joint project
of ARS LONGA and the Chinese-European Art Center (CEAC) in Xiamen, China. They host
a yearly festival in Djúpivogur showcasing works by artists of both countries. This
year’s Rolling Snowball 15 opens on the 9th of July, together with the exhibition
‘Turning Point’ at the brand new
ARS LONGA Museum. Find out more here.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

Yang Jian, Internet of Things, 2018. From Rolling Snowball 15.

The next day, 10th of July, LungA
art festival opens in Seyðisfjörður. Join a local and international crowd to celebrate
arts and culture through workshops, lectures and events throughout the week, and
ending with a final weekend of exciting exhibitions and concerts. LungA has been
held yearly since its first edition in 2000, attracting an ever-growing number of
creatives to the picturesque fjord. Find this year’s program
here.

Summer Exhibitions of 2022

From the workshop Dying Mountain, Moving Mountain with Julie Læknholm at LungA 2022.

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