Programme of the week
Inuk Silis Høegh, The Green Land, 2021, 1 channel video, 34 min.
Event 17.09.2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Quality Time – The Green Land
Ingibjörg Jóhannsdóttir, Director of the National Gallery of Iceland, warmly welcomes guests to Quality Time on Wednesday, September 17th at 14:00 at the museum on Fríkirkjuvegur, where she will guide visitors through the work The Green Land.
The work, created in 2021, is a 34-minute video installation by Inuk Silis Høegh. Inuk was born in Qaqortoq, South Greenland, in 1972 and is a filmmaker and visual artist who often works at the intersection of these art forms.
The film is accompanied by a soundscape composed by Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard (b. 1975), whose works explore the music found in natural sounds that he captures from the sea, ice, volcanoes, and the atmosphere.
Quality Time events are designed for people in their prime. They consist of tailored guided tours and conversations with museum experts about visual art, current exhibitions, and museum activities. Coffee is always served during Quality Time events at the National Gallery of Iceland.
The tour will be conducted in Icelandic.
Admission fee to the museum applies.
Facebook event: (18) Gæðastundir – The Green Land | Facebook
Inuk Silis Høegh, The Green Land, 2021, 1 channel video, 34 min.
Announcement – National Gallery of Iceland 2025
Final Exhibition Weekend
The Green Land
Time is running out to see The Green Land by Inuk Silis Høegh at the National Gallery of Iceland.
The last day of the exhibition is Sunday, September 21st.
The Green Land is a 34-minute visual meditation on a landscape that is at once pristine and unstable due to human intervention and climate change.
The work is shown in a continuous loop and revolves around the four elements – fire, earth, water, and air – which appear as elusive, green presences in ephemeral landscape performances.
Inuk Silis Høegh, The Green Land, 2021, 1 channel video, 34 min.
Event 20.09.2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Krummi Kids’ Club
Playing with Green Smoke
We warmly welcome you to a creative workshop with the Krummi Kids’ Club on Saturday between 14:00 and 16:00 at the National Gallery of Iceland.
Together, we will explore the color green in Inuk Silis Høegh’s video work featured in the exhibition The Green Land and create our own landscape images.
In the artwork, the color green represents the four elements: fire, earth, water, and air. It appears as green smoke, twisting and winding its way through the landscape like a green serpent.
Facebook event: (18) Krakkalúbburinn Krummi – Leikur að grænum reyk | Facebook
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Pari Stave, head curator at the National Gallery of Iceland
Event 21.09.2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Curator's Tour
The Green Land
Curator Pari Stave will discuss The Green Land by Inuk Silis Høegh. Created in 2021, the work is a 34-minute video installation accompanied by a soundscape by Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard.
The Green Land was filmed in and around Nuuk and Maniitsoq in Greenland. It is a visual meditation on a landscape that is both pristine and unstable, shaped by human intervention and climate change.
The work is shown in a continuous loop and revolves around the four elements – fire, earth, water, and air – which appear as mysterious, green presences in ephemeral landscape performances. In this way, the elements acquire a spiritual dimension. The artist has described the green color as winding its way through the landscape like a green serpent.
The tour will be conducted in English.
Admission fee to the museum applies.
Facebook Event: (18) The Green Land – Leiðsögn sýningarstjóra / Curator-led tour in English | Facebook
Robert Polidori
News 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
A Generous Gift to the Vasulka Chamber
We are delighted to announce a recent gift to the Vasulka Chamber from renowned photographer Robert Polidori.
The donation includes rare and previously unseen film footage featuring interviews with Steina and Woody Vasulka, recorded in several sessions at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
These recordings will be made accessible to scholars studying the artists’ work and will become part of the museum’s research center dedicated to the study of new media.
More: A Generous Gift to the Vasulka Chamber | National Gallery of Iceland
News 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Symposium on Art Forgeries
On September 14th, the National Gallery of Iceland hosted a symposium in connection with the exhibition The Mystery of the Redpoll and Other Stories of Imitations and Forgeries.
The symposium took place at the Culture House on Hverfisgata, where experts and art enthusiasts gathered to explore the many facets of art forgeries.
More: Symposium on Art Forgeries | National Gallery of Iceland
Embroidery Kit - Angel
Museum Shop 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Treasures from the Museum Shop
National Gallery of Iceland
The Museum Shop of the National Gallery of Iceland is filled with a wide selection of high-quality gift items, greeting cards, jewelry, posters, books, and more.
Among the treasures in the shop is this beautiful embroidery kit.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Muggur (Guðmundur Thorsteinsson, b. 1891 – d. 1924), the National Gallery of Iceland commissioned the design of an embroidery kit featuring details from the artwork Adam and Eve in Paradise.
This gives people the opportunity to recreate one of the final works by one of the nation’s most beloved artists.
Buy it here: Embroidery Kit - Angel
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