Exhibitions
HELLO UNIVERSE
The far-distant spaces of the boundless universe have had a hold on the human mind from primeval times, and over the centuries artists have grappled with notions about space, and expressed and mediated them in diverse ways. The exhibition Hello Universe explores the fantastical world of outer space through the lens of works of art in the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland.
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OF THE NORTH
Of the North (2001) is created from Steina’s archive of video recordings, mostly of Icelandic nature – either the surface of the earth, or microscopic views: microbes, as well as crashing waves and melting ice, landslips and an array of natural phenomena relating to geological formation and destruction of our planet.
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Barren Land
The National Gallery of Iceland presents an exhibition of the art of Georg Guðni (1961 – 2011), comprising a selection of the artist’s landscape paintings from the last years of his career.
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