Programme of the week
Event 11 October 2025 – The House of Collections
Krummi Kid's Club
Art Workshop: Glacier Joy
We warmly welcome you to a fun art workshop with the Krummi Kid's Club at the House of Collections on Saturday between 2 PM and 4 PM.
Together we’ll explore glacier-themed artworks on the 4th floor of the House of Collections and create our own glacier sculptures. Glaciers are important — and it’s fascinating to look at them from both an artistic and scientific perspective.
FREE for the whole family!
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Event 12 October 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Steina: Playback
Guided Tour
Halldór Björn Runólfsson, former Director of the National Gallery of Iceland, and Kristín Scheving, artist and Director of the Árnesingar Art Museum, will guide visitors through the exhibition Steina: Playback on Sunday, October 12 at 2 PM at the National Gallery of Iceland.
Steina is one of the leading pioneers of video art and new media worldwide, as well as a trailblazer and influential figure in contemporary art in Iceland. Through her work, she has uniquely connected video art, music, and technology in a creative and imaginative way.
Admission to the museum applies.
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Lullaby Nest in collaboration with Matshidiso. Installation view at The Showroom, London, 2024. Photo: Cesare De Giglio
Event 12 October 2025 – The House of Collections
Sequences Opening
Petri Saarikko & Sasha Huber – Lullaby Nest
You are warmly invited to the opening of Lullaby Nest at Sequences at the House of Collections on Sunday, October 12, between 2 PM and 4 PM.
Lullaby Nest marks a new chapter in the Remedies series, which began in 2010 and explores different healing practices within diverse geographical and cultural contexts. In collaboration with musician Matshidiso, the artists focus on the ancient tradition of the lullaby as a means of creating space and time for rest and sleep.
This intimate act — comforting a child to sleep — is age-old, ancestral knowledge deeply rooted in human experience. Across cultures, lullabies share similar melodies and rhythms: gentle, repetitive, and soothing. They slow the heartbeat and breathing of both children and adults alike. Regardless of language, lullabies always possess calming and almost hypnotic qualities that help lull children to sleep.
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Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko
Event 13 October 2025 – The House of Collections
Artist Talk at Sequences
Petri Saarikko – Lullaby Nest
Sequences XII: Pause invites you to an artist talk with Petri Saarikko, where he will discuss his artistic process and participation in this year’s festival.
Lullaby Nest is the latest chapter in Saarikko’s Remedies series, which has explored healing across cultures since 2010. Created in collaboration with musician Matshidiso, the work reflects on the lullaby as an ancient, universal act of care — one that slows breath and heartbeat, creating space for rest. Gentle, repetitive, and reassuring, lullabies transcend language, carrying shared melodic and rhythmic patterns that soothe both children and adults. This project honors the inherited knowledge of singing comfort into sleep and preserves its timeless, cross-cultural resonance.
The event is part of Sequences, will be conducted in English, and is free and open to all.
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Museum Shop 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Treasures from the Museum Shop
National Gallery of Iceland
The National Gallery of Iceland’s museum shop is filled with a wide selection of high-quality gifts, including greeting cards, jewelry, posters, books, and much more.
Among the many treasures is a black t-shirt with a printed image from the work Violin Power by Steina from 1978.
Buy the t-shirt here
Browse the webstore
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir, Markús Þór Andrésson, Pari Stave
Courses 2025 – National Gallery of Iceland
Adult Education
STEINA: Playback
We draw your attention to the course STEINA: Playback, taking place in November. The course is intended for those who wish to deepen their understanding of time-based media, i.e. art forms that unfold in time, such as film, video, sound, and digital technologies and modes of transmission.
Key concepts and the development of time-based media will be reviewed, and works by contemporary artists examined. The exhibition Steina: Playback will be central to the course, with a focus on the career and works of Steina Vasulka, a pioneer in the field of video art.
Teaching schedule:
▪️ Thursday, November 13, 17:15–19:00
▪️ Thursday, November 20, 17:15–19:00
▪️ Thursday, November 27, 17:15–19:00
The course is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Iceland University of the Arts.