Sentences with phrase «icelandic art»

«The end - Venice», June 2009, installation, six - month performance at the 2009 Venice Biennale during which 144 paintings were made, commissioned by the Center for Icelandic Art.

Introducing the work of Ásgrímur Jónsson and his role in the history of Icelandic art is an important task for the National Gallery of Iceland, including this exhibition.

Oscar Wilde haunted Reading jail, Helen Marten stormed the Hepworth, Philippe Parreno played invisible football — but nothing beat Ragnar Kjartansson, the wild man of Icelandic art, swinging from the rafters

The National Gallery of Iceland is a national museum and the main emphasis of the collection is on 19th and 20th century Icelandic art, but international art is featured as well.

Degrees North: Six Artists and the Icelandic Landscape Artists: Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson Curator: Nicole Pollentier With international artists increasingly looking to Iceland as a source of inspiration for their work, and Icelandic artists increasingly being shown internationally, Degrees North brings the work of six of the most influential artists in the history of Icelandic art to an American audience.

Oscar Wilde haunted Reading jail, Helen Marten stormed the Hepworth, Philippe Parreno played invisible football — but nothing beat Ragnar Kjartansson, the wild man of Icelandic art, singing and swinging

The Venetian authorities cited health and safety concerns, but the Icelandic Art Center (which commissioned the work) thinks otherwise: a statement released shortly after the closure complained that the biennale «is not a venue for truly free artistic expression».

Not exact matches

Icelandic Glacial water is tested daily in a state of the art laboratory, and it exceeds all of the most stringent international testing criteria.

The water collected by Icelandic Glacial flows directly into our state - of - the - art bottling plant located right at the source, in Hlidarendi, Iceland at the edge of the Ölfus Spring.

Icelandic artist Steinunn Thorarinsdottir created this public art exhibition and titled it «Borders,» a name as open - ended and abstruse as the artwork.

When the art of massage, the calming scent of Tiddley Pom essential oils and the beautiful music of Icelandic composer and guitarist, Fridrik Karlsson are...

Foundations Life in Deep Ellum, Social Venture Partners Dallas, Prokhorov Foundation, Icelandic Literature Center, The French American Cultural Exchange, Korean Literature Translation Institute, Brazilian National Library Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, The Dutch Foundation for Literature

In February, we launched the latest in our series of translations from Icelandic with REPLY TO A LETTER FROM HELGA by Bergsveinn Birgisson, which garnered immediate praise as «a stunning work of art — resonant, earthy, heartbreaking».

She was the recipient of the American - Scandinavian Foundation's Culture Award, the Knight's Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998.

2014 — Residency SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland 2014 — Centre D'Art, Marnay Art Centre, Marnay France 2014 — Banff Centre Residency, Banff Canada 2011 — Alexander Rutsch Award in Painting 2011 — Summer Research and Artistry Grant (Japan), Northern Illinois University 2010 — Summer Research and Artistry Grant (Iceland), Northern Illinois University 2009 — SIM, Residency, Association for Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland 2008 — Jentel Foundation Resident, Banner, Wyoming 2008 — Ragdale Foundation, Artist in Residence, Lake Forest, Illinois 2007 — Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, California 2007 — Merit Award, Biennial 24, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana 2005 — Residency Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 2005 — Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France 2005 — Texas Biennial Award 2001 — Kelly Fearing Endowed Fellowship in Painting 2001 — Elizabeth McGoldrick Endowed Fellowship in Painting 1992 — Castiglione Fine Arts Award

Danish - Icelandic artist and designer Olafur Eliasson, whose installations we have often featured on the site, is opening a solo show at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art entitled «Ri

Eliasson, who has been described as «an ecstasy - inducing Danish - Icelandic artist,» has perfected the concept of smoke and mirror art that consistently wows its audience and draws crowds (including a Michael Bloomberg and numerous body guards).

The Icelandic artist's work gives performance art, and contemporary art in general, a good rep.. His actions, musical scores, films and paintings are reminiscent of the repetitious, contemplative tone of Bill Viola's video work as well as Anselm Kiefer's multimedia, existential reflections on the creative «self» and on cultural inheritance.

Today, following her first major American show at the New Museum in 2009 and accompanying exhibit at Anton Kern Gallery, she's mixing memoir and art - making in this monograph, recounting her famed 1967 «Icelandic Saga» — an odyssey across the Atlantic where she met and fell in love with the Swiss artist Dieter Roth — and her other searches for «ecstatic unity» (her term) as a reborn Buddhist.

Umbrella Arts Gallery is pleased to present H2O, Susan Richman's Ephemeral series and Lynn Savarese's Fossar: Icelandic Falls series.

Essential Arts & Culture: «The Encounter's» circular time, L.A. Phil's Icelandic time, Center Theater Group's anniversary time

The performance marks the tenth anniversary of Sequences, the Icelandic capital's biennial festival of «real time art» (so, mostly performance and video, but, in previous years at least, happily stretching into sculpture and painting).

«I must have bought more than 100 works at Art Basel,» she said, reeling off the names of artists whose pieces she has bought, including the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, the American photographer Cindy Sherman, the American painter Jeff Elrod and the German photographer Andreas Gursky.

ArtReview visits the studio of the Danish - Icelandic artist, where Eliasson's artmaking, technical research and the establishment and operation of a socially and environmentally responsible business continue to offer new ways by which to measure and explain the impact of contemporary art.

By the early 1980s Jonas had begun to create complex, nonlinear narratives premised on literary and historical texts, including science fiction (Double Lunar Dogs, 1984), medieval Icelandic sagas (Volcano Saga, 1989), and, more recently, the writings and biography of the art historian Aby Warburg (The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004).

Danish / Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will speak about his The Parliament of Reality, a new, permanent outdoor installation sited near the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

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Informed by Abstract Expressionism, Japanese aesthetics, and the Icelandic landscape, his art evokes the ephemeral quality of nature and memory — like the night ocean in Northern Sea, the fading tones in Echo, or the slow ebb of a river current in Drifting.

In addition to the two ongoing exhibitions dedicated to major figures of twentieth - century painting, Emil Nolde (1867 — 1956) and Philip Guston (1913 — 80), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is opening a solo show by Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.

The work of Icelandic artist Thor Vigfússon explores the intersection between art and surrounding space through various unusual materials and structures, including Perspex, Formica, plastic, glass and mirror.

Concurrently, the Reykjavík Art Museum presents an exhibition curated by Eriksson of the works of Icelandic painter Jóhannes S. Kjarval (1885 - 1972).

The exhibition includes selected works of a number of Icelandic contemporary artists, as well as several foreign ones, that reflect the narrative part of Icelandic visual art.

Time - sensitive activity, a new exhibition by the Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will be opening at the Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26 February.

She is one of four Icelandic artists whose works are in the collection of MoMA; Museum of Modern Art in New York, and her works are in the collections of many other art museums and individuals around the worArt in New York, and her works are in the collections of many other art museums and individuals around the worart museums and individuals around the world.

He studied at the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts and AKI — Academie voor Beeldende Kunst in the Netherlands.

Hanson is a Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art fellow and has been artist in residence at Real Time and Space in Oakland CA, The Icelandic Textile Center in Blonduos, IS, and The Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, AK.

The first major solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located on the outskirts of Copenhagen will open on the 20 August.

Olafur Eliasson Reality projector Marciano Art Foundation March 1 - August 22, 2018 With his Reality projector, the Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson transforms the Theater Gallery at the Marciano Art Foundation into a constantly moving kaleidoscope...

In 2014 she participated in exhibitions at the Hanoi (Vietnam) Contemporary Arts Center, the Q'orikancha Museum in Cusco, Peru, the Icelandic Printmakers Gallery in Reykjanik.

The phrase would come back to haunt us as Andrésson's Icelandic countryman Ragnar Kjartansson unveiled the painted white «art goddess» beneath the cloth — a dead ringer for CCS cofounder Marieluise Hessel, cuddling said «beast.»

«Erró's gift to the Reykjavik Art Museum is one of the largest ever given to an Icelandic museum,» notes Eirikur Thorlaksson, director of the museum and co-organizer of the exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery.

He attended the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland (1992, BFA in Mixed Media) and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1997, MFA).

After a successful London show with Lazarides (covered), being included in a big The 20th Century Masterpieces exhibition in Seoul, and taking part at recent Istanbul, Vienna and Paris art fairs, the Icelandic artist is back in Berlin for her first solo there in three years.

Crown of the Lost May 16 - July 16, 2009 Sigurdur Gudjonsson - Breed July 16 - Aug 16, 2009 After its debut in the New York art scene with «Crown Of The Lost» (May 16 - July 16), FIFI projects will be presenting Breed, a video by the young Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson (July 16 - Aug 16).

About the exhibition catalogue: Published on the occasion of the long overdue first retrospective of the Icelandic - born, Santa Fe - based New Media art pioneer, Steina, this monograph is one of the only substantial publications to recognize a female artist's contribution to the field.

Published on the occasion of the long overdue first retrospective of the Icelandic - born, Santa Fe - based New Media art pioneer, Steina, this monograph is one of the only substantial publications to recognize a female artist's contribution to the field.

As a classically - trained violinist and Icelandic woman living in New York City in the avant - garde days of the late 1960s, Steina initiated an utterly singular trajectory through art, technology, and video that she has maintained ever since, but her singular body of work has suffered from the Balkanization of the art world.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

Examining distance and memory and their embodiment in and through architecture, urbanism and cartography, her work has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, the Icelandic National Gallery of Art, Iceland, the Victoria Miro Warehouse, London, the Centre d'Art Contemporaine á Séte, France, and the Hannover Kunstverein, Germany.

The artistic practice of Icelandic based artist Ragnar Kjartansson is characterized by experiments in visual art, music, and theatre.