Past exhibitions
OUT / INSIDE - HLYNUR HALLSSON
06. NOV 2008 - 11. JAN 2009
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Parallel Universes - Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
18. Sep 08 - 18. jan 09
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Erró - Point to the east, point to the west
18. september 2008 – 13 may 2009
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Asmundur Asmundsson
22 January - 8 March 2009
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Shadow Boy - The World of Alfred Flóki
5 February – 10 May 2009
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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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POSSIBILITIES - The Guðmunda Kristinsdóttir Art Prize
28 MAY – 23 AUGUST 2009
Artists participating in this exhibition have won recognition from the Guðmunda Kristinsdóttir Fund for the Arts.
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REVISTED FRAMES
3 SEPTEMBER 2009 – 18 OCTOBER 2009
A ninety minute film has 129 600 frames and each of them is seen for only a fragment of a second. It is therefore obvious that our experience of film must be different from how we perceive paintings where we can decide for ourselves how long we take to scrutinize the image.
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The Crated Rooms in Iceland - Yoshitomo Nara + Yng
17. September 2009 – 3. January 2010
World-renowned artist Yoshitomo Nara has created a new installation for the Reykjavík Art Museum in collaboration with Hideki Toyoshima, one of the founders of the design collaborative graf. The room-sized installation, consisting of shipping crates and billboards, places Nara’s iconic images in a new and unexpected context.
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Egill Sæbjörnsson - Spirit of Place and Narrative
29 October 2009 – 3. January 2010
The narrative side of Egill Sæbjörnsson’s work comes to the fore in this exhibition at Hafnarhús. On display are works dating from 2005
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Erró - Japanese Love Letters (1979–1980)
3. September - 3. January 2010
The series Japanese Love Letters is not typical of Erró’s art. The unique place of the series in his oeuvre is established by the visual content, in which the written word competes with other pictorial material, and still more by the palette, as these works are all in shades of gray and brown, highly unusual for this color-happy artist.
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D14 Ryan Parteka
29 October 2009 – 3 January 2010
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Johannes S. Kjarval: Definitive Works
18 May 2008 – January 4 2009
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Visual Symphony – The art of Bragi Ásgeirsson for 60 years
sept 13 2008 - January 4 2009
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Bragi Upside Down
13 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
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Kjarval Complete
10. january - 13. april 2009
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The Art of Chess
24. january – 13. april 2009
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Iceland Academy of the Arts – Final Thesis Exhibitions 2009
23 april – 3 may 2009
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FROM UNUHÚS TO WEST 8th STREET
15 MAY– 30 AUGUST 2009
At the beginning of the 1940’s, Icelandic artists Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917–2000) and Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913–1968) studied under Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), a German painter regarded as one of Modernism’s leading pioneers.
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ICELANDIC DESIGN 2009 - furniture, product design and architecture
15 MAY – 09 AUGUST 2009
The aim is to look into three related fields that largely shape our manmade environment and see their interaction. This includes experimenting with context and how design becomes intertwined with human behaviour, from its involvement in how we organize time or quench our thirst, to defending us from natural disasters.
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Kjarval – Key Works
27 January – 16 December
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BLINK
12. SEPTEMBER 2009 - 8. NOVEMBER 2009
The exhibition explores the role of visual illusion in Icelandic art from the middle of the 1960s until today. Included are paintings and sculptures by the artists Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ólafur Elíasson, JBK Ransu and others. The way artists use colors, lights and shapes in a variety of media to create a feeling of disorientation examined. Curated by Helgi Már Kristinsson.
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TRIBUTE TO THE JAZZ MUSE
16. August 2009 – 31. August 2009
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Reykjavik Jazz Festival. For the two-week duration of the festival, one of the exhibition halls at Kjarvalsstaðir will be entirely dedicated to jazz, with paintings by five Icelandic painters, as well as a series of small jazz concerts and improvising sessions.
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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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BLINKWORKS
12 SEPTEMBER – 8 NOVEMBER
Blinkworks is an educational, family-oriented workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Blink
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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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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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