Opening Today: Reykjavík International Literary Festival
This year’s Reykjavík International Literary Festival is loaded with readings, conversations, discussions, booze, and writing prompts, with many well-known Icelandic and int
Ongoing Now: ‘Botany’ by Þórgunnur Oddsdóttir
The collective works of Þórgunnur Oddsdóttir cover such a wide range of media that it’s impossible to categorise what she does, or to predict what she’ll come up with ne
The Iceland Tattoo Expo: Back In Black (And Grey)
“There are already a hundred people waiting to get in,” organiser Andrés Hallgrímsson tells me excitedly, as we sit down to talk. “We’re already booked out for next year.
Ongoing Now: Selected Works By Davíð Örn Halldórsson
Hverfisgallerí will be opening an exhibition of works by painter/sculptor/colour-wizard Davíð Örn Halldórsson. His work combines various materials and forms such as ship varni
What Is A Milkywhale And Why Should You Care?
One might not normally associate love, trampoline exercises, and whales with pop music. Still, that is exactly what you’re going to get from ‘Milkywhale’, a modern dance-thea
Being HERE: Using Art To Revitalise Their Town
As the road winds its way around one particularly dramatic section of the Eastfjords towards the remote village of Stöðvarfjörður, one building leaps out from across the narrow
Today At The Reykjavík Dance Festival!
Much to the delight of Reykjavík’s dance enthusiasts, the August 2015 Reykjavík Dance Festival (RDF) kicks off today. This past November, February and May, RDF created a plat
A Brief History Of The Traveller’s Tattoo (In Iceland, At Least)
With the burgeoning population of Icelandophiles and ever-increasing popularity of tattoos, it should come as no surprise that souvenir tattoos are becoming trendy among tourists t
Kunstschlager: Young And Playfully Creative
These days, it’s not uncommon to see recent art school graduates finding strength in numbers and opening a studio together—it is unusual, however, to find them still running ye
Ongoing Now: Höfuðverk
The pentagram, a symbol often used in Satanism, is said to be inspired by the head of a ram. In ‘Höfuðverk’, twelve Icelandic artists go even deeper than Satan, presenting [&
Ongoing Now: ‘Hreintjarnir’ By Harpa Árnadóttir
“Icelandic summer,” with its 11-degree days and unbudging cloud covers, is almost an oxymoron to those from countries that actually experience legitimate summers (i.e. most of
More From Nowhere
It may seem absurd, passing by Iceland’s largest aluminium smelter in the mountainous Eastfjords landscape to visit an exhibition that celebrates creative thinking, small-scale p
Cycle Music & Art Festival: Conceptual Art Comes To The Suburbs
This August, an exciting new festival comes to Kópavogur. Cycle Festival, a four-day interdisciplinary arts extravaganza, will showcase unconventional works and collaborations in
The Museum Of Hidden Beings
One night in 1846, a trader named Sigtryggur Sigurðsson was walking his usual route home along the beach from Húsavík, when he saw something strange approaching. A large humanoi
Opening Today: ‘Lust For Life’ By Georg Óskar
Life gets a little more interesting when you pay attention. Take a tip from contemporary artist Georg Óskar, who spends his days collecting “information” about the world aroun
Scenes From The LungA Arts Festival Blowout Concert
The harbour-side artistic cluster of Seyðisfjörður feels simultaneously alien and cosy to me. Like many who descend on Iceland in July, my real home is a few thousand kilometre
Take A Look At ‘New Iceland’
On an exceptionally warm and sunny summer day, I met Bjarni Þórarinsson at Spark Design Space where his work, New Iceland, is currently on view. New Iceland is made up […]
Opening Today: ‘Still Life’
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So says Ferris Bueller, fictional protoyuppy and sociopath. One good thing [&h
Art: Ongoing Now: ‘Melancholy’ by Dominik Smialowski
Photographer Dominik Smialowski’s new exhibit presents a series of staged scenes revolving around a pilot who unexpectedly crash lands in an unforgiving foreign land. But this is
Now Ongoing: ‘Nowhere Else’ curated by Sirra Sigrún
Earth is a tiny speck of dust basking in the midnight sun of the endless cosmic night. Fancy that, huh? Inspired by ‘The pale blue dot’ photograph taken by Voyager 1 in [&hel
Now Ongoing: ‘In Passing’ By Dagur Gunnarsson
Making eye contact on the street is weird. Do you smile and nod? Look away quickly? Zone out with your headphones and stare blankly ahead? Keep your head down and […]