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Past Exhibitions

Woody Vasulka

Whaling Station

24.4.2026 — 10.5.2026

National Gallery of Iceland

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson

Seas' Blue Yonder

Whale

25.1.2026 — 10.5.2026

National Gallery of Iceland

Group Exhibition

Affinities of Form

31.1.2026 — 10.5.2026

National Gallery of Iceland

Steina Vasulka

Playback

4.10.2025 — 11.1.2026

National Gallery of Iceland

Alicja Kwade

Big Be–Hide

1.6.2025 — 1.5.2026

National Gallery of Iceland

2025

The Lullaby Nest

12.10.2025 —
2.11.2025

The House of Collections

The Green Land

5.7.2025 —
21.9.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

Kjarval á Austurlandi

17.6.2025 —
4.10.2025

Skaftfell Art Center

Revisited

24.5.2025 —
14.9.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

Christian Marclay, The Clock

2.5.2025 —
22.6.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

The Mystery of the Lumpfish and Other Stories of Fakes and Forgeries

12.4.2025 —
14.9.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

That’s a Very Large Number – A Commerzbau

22.2.2025 —
7.9.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

Intimacies of the Everyday

25.1.2025 —
4.5.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

Stay and Turn to Stone!

18.10.2024 —
5.10.2025

The House of Collections

Looking Inward, Looking Outward: 140 years of the National Gallery of Iceland

12.10.2024 —
6.4.2025

National Gallery of Iceland

2024

FuturePast

17.6.2024 —
19.10.2024

Opaque Shadow, Flags in Icelandic Art

17.6.2024 —
13.10.2024

The House of Collections

Loop

8.6.2024 —
22.9.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Going for Gold

24.4.2024 —
9.6.2024

The House of Collections

Multipolar

13.4.2024 —
22.9.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Iron, Flax, Coal, and Chalk: New Works by Þóra Sigurðardóttir

13.4.2024 —
22.9.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Coincidentally, We See Abstractly

13.4.2024 —
26.5.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Borealis

13.4.2024 —
8.9.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Flight from volcanic eruptions – sketches and paintings by Ásgrímur Jónsson

13.1.2024 —
14.4.2024

The House of Collections

The Jóla-Sisters

30.11.2023 —
7.1.2024

The House of Collections

Egill Sæbjörnsson and Infinite Friends of the Universe

14.10.2023 —
25.2.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

Some Recent Works - new acquistions

9.9.2023 —
18.2.2024

National Gallery of Iceland

2023

Sequences Can't See - The Metaphysical Realm

15.10.2023 —
26.11.2023

The House of Collections

The Thought of Drawing

Kjarval, Jóhannes S. Kjarval (1885–1972),
Hugsun um teikninguna / The Thought of the Drawing, 1944,
Túsk á pappír / Tusch on paper,
Listasafn Íslands / National Gallery of Iceland
Listaverkasjóður Þorvaldar Guðmundssonar og Ingibjargar Guðmundsdóttur,
LÍ-ÞGIG 71

17.6.2023 —
1.10.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

Into the Valley in Late Autumn

20.5.2023 —
27.8.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

Glassrain

4.3.2023 —
1.10.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

The Private Collection

4.3.2023 —
24.9.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

Forty Years of The Corridor

3.2.2023 —
4.6.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

Zanele Muholi

15.10.2022 —
12.2.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

The Ocean

20.8.2022 —
2.2.2023

The House of Collections

Jewellery by Dieter Roth

5.6.2022 —
22.1.2023

National Gallery of Iceland

Resistance, Interplay of art and physics

28.4.2022 —
2.2.2023

The House of Collections

Treasures of a Nation

5.6.2021 —
2.2.2023

The House of Collections

2022

Some New Works

2.7.2022 —
2.10.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

The Only Constant is Change

28.5.2022 —
2.10.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Ode to Join

28.5.2022 —
2.10.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

DesignMarch — Upscale

Auglýsing fyrir sýninguna Uppskölun á Hönnunarmars

5.5.2022 —
15.5.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Careless Whispers

26.2.2022 —
19.6.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Staged Moments

22.1.2022 —
8.5.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Muggur

2.10.2021 —
14.2.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Hello Universe

5.2.2021 —
9.1.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Of the North

5.2.2021 —
9.1.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

Electromagnetic Objects

28.12.2020 —
21.3.2022

National Gallery of Iceland

2021

2020

2019

2018

Blossoming

17.7.2018 —
16.12.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

Other Hats

11.5.2018 —
23.9.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

Rules of the game

A photograph by Elina Brotherus showing two people looking at three oranges

16.2.2018 —
24.6.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

La Mer

11.12.2017 —
2.4.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

Orka

14.9.2017 —
22.4.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

Comparative Vandalism

26.8.2017 —
21.1.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

Frightening nature

Flótti undan eldgosi, Ásgrímur Jónsson, LÍÁJ 312, Flight from Volcanic Eruption, Kötluhlaup, Landslagsmyndir, vatnslitur

2.10.2016 —
29.4.2018

Home of an Artist

Pablo Picasso in the collection of The National Gallery of Iceland; Jacqueline with a yellow ribbon / Jacqueline au ruban jaune (1962)

Picture of the sculpture Jacqueline au ruban jaune by Pablo Picasso. The Picture shows two sides of the sculpture which portrays a woman's face on one side with a yellow ribbon.

22.7.2015 —
14.1.2018

National Gallery of Iceland

2017

Dr. Selma Jónsdóttir – Centennial

Photograph of Dr. Selma Jónsdóttir

22.8.2017 —
22.10.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Nervescape VII

Installation in the National Gallery of Iceland that shows colourful rows of hair of varied lengths. The installation is by Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter.

26.5.2017 —
22.10.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Pyroglyphs

Picture: Steina, Pyroglyphs, 1994. Video -still

13.4.2017 —
20.8.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Art of memory

Woody Vasulka - Art of memory

20.1.2017 —
12.9.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Reanimation Detail

Video still from work by Joan Jonas, shows three figures and a hand in glove

26.10.2016 —
26.2.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Retrospective

Picture of Valtýr Pétursson in his studio

24.9.2016 —
26.3.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

T E X T

Picture of The National Gallery of Iceland at Fríkirkjuvegur where bands of text by Lawrence Weiner have been placed on the building.

15.9.2016 —
14.5.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

Assemblage

Picture of a sculpture by Sigurjón Ólafsson

3.9.2016 —
15.10.2017

Sound work and installation in the corridor of the museum building

Photograph that shows the stairwell at the National Gallery of Iceland where large works that show ear and a nose have been hung up.

1.1.2016 —
8.1.2017

National Gallery of Iceland

2016

Let us keep our own noon, 2013

Picture of bronze bells, artwork by David Horvitz

19.11.2016 —
21.12.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

The Rhythm of geysers

Picture of people looking at video art

17.6.2016 —
11.9.2016

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Work by Berlinde de Bruyckere , figure sits on a high stool with long hair

21.5.2016 —
4.9.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

Lightpaint

Cul de sac II , Ólafur Lárusson 1980

21.5.2016 —
9.10.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

Female Idols

Picture of a sculpture by Sigurjón Ólafsson

5.2.2016 —
28.8.2016

En Plain Air - Along the South Coast

Painting by Ásgrímur Jónsson from 1915. The painting is called Múlakot in Fljótshlóð and shows a woman by a house and the surrounding landscape

5.2.2016 —
16.9.2016

Home of an Artist

Udstilling af islandsk kunst

Picture by Jón Stefánsson, Frá Höfninni. Shows two ships in a harbour

21.1.2016 —
11.9.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

Quartet

Photograph that shows stairwell at The National Gallery of Iceland, where two large pictures of a nose and an ear have been hung.

15.1.2016 —
1.5.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

Art in a changing world

Picture shows a sculpture by Nína Sæmundsson, called Rökkur. The sculpture shows a naked woman kneeling.

6.11.2015 —
17.1.2016

National Gallery of Iceland

2015

Reflection

Self-portrait by Ásgrímur Jónsson from 1947, watercolours

11.10.2015 —
29.11.2015

Home of an Artist

Selected Portraits from the collection of The National Gallery of Iceland - From the rustic to the selfie

Portrait of a girl

21.7.2015 —
1.11.2015

Saga - Narrative art

Painting by Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson, Blue Music, year 2005

22.5.2015 —
6.9.2015

National Gallery of Iceland

Interplay- Sigurjón Ólafsson & Finn Juhl

Photograph of furniture by Finn Juhl and artwork by Sigurjón Ólafsson

23.4.2015 —
20.9.2015

Sequences Art Festival

13.4.2015 —
19.4.2015

Home of an Artist

Women Step Forward - Portraits of 30 Women in Icelandic Art

Þóra P. Thoroddsen

13.2.2015 —
10.5.2015

National Gallery of Iceland

Substance

4.12.2014 —
31.1.2015

National Gallery of Iceland

The National Gallery of Iceland 1884-2014

7.11.2014 —
5.2.2015

National Gallery of Iceland

New Work

7.11.2014 —
8.2.2015

National Gallery of Iceland

Treasures of Icelandic Art

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National Gallery of Iceland

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101 Reykjavík

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