Thursday 25 February

Next week, during winter break in preschools in Reykjavík City, the Reykjavík Art Museum offers workshops and guided tours for children and families in all of our three houses; Kjarvalsstaðir, Hafnarhús and Ásmundarsafn.

The exhibition presents works of Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893–1982), Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975), Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931–1989), and Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908–1982).

At the Museum Night, Friday 5 February, at 6 p.m., an extensive exhibition of the work of Jóhannes S. Kjarval will be opened. The name of the exhibition is Mind and World and consists of both paintings and drawings from the whole of Kjarval´s career.  

Áslaug Guðrúnardóttir has been hired as a PR and Marketing Director for Reykjavik Art Museum. Áslaug was a Journalist at RÚV, the National Icelandic Broadcasting Service 2004-2015.

On Friday January 15th, Michael Joaquin Grey‘s pedagogy performance One Thousand Northern Romantic Citrus took place at Thingvellir.

The artist Michael Joaquin Grey (f. 1961) who participates in the exhibition Back to the Sandbox will commit performance  today at 11.45 a.m. at Thingvellir called  One Thousand Citrus Trees @ Thingvellir. 

Three exhibitions will be opened at Reykjavík Art Museum,  Hafnarhús on Friday 15 January at 8. p.m. were works by more than dozen artists will be on display.

Kjarvalsstaðir will be closed to the public from 4 January to 5 February 2016. The museum will reopen with  Kjarval's exhibition on Museum Night 5 February.