National Gallery of Iceland
The National Gallery's buildings houses four exhibition halls on two floors.
Ongoing Exhibitions
Borealis
13.4.2024 — 15.9.2024
Multipolar
13.4.2024 — 15.9.2024
Iron, Flax, Coal, and Chalk: New Works by Þóra Sigurðardóttir
13.4.2024 — 15.9.2024
Coincidentally, We See Abstractly
13.4.2024 — 26.5.2024
The National Gallery of Iceland regularly holds exhibitions reflecting its collection.
Coming up
LONG THURSDAYS, The House of Collections
Drawing in the museum
A drawing workshop for adults inspired by the works of art in the exhibition.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own drawing tools and sketchbooks, but materials will also be available on location. The workshop is suitable for all skill levels.
Workshop supervisor: Anna Cynthia Leplar
Museum entrance fees apply
The National Gallery of Iceland at Fríkirkjuvegur is open until 22 PM on long Thursdays
fim
30. maí
19:30—21:00
We welcome you to an artist-led tour of Loop by Tumi Magnússon at the National Gallery of Iceland.
In connection with the Reykjavík Art Festival the National Gallery of Iceland premieres the video work Loop by Tumi Magnússon. The work brings together all the different working methods that Tumi has adopted over time, in the paintings and photographs from the 1990s and in the video works from the last 20 years. He joins different things together, pulls them apart, turns situations upside down, changes speed and equates something tiny with something huge. He considers how long it takes to go from one place to another and the speed required to reach the destination. And he contemplates how we perceive the interaction of these elements in space – speed and time. In Loop he evokes surprising sides of familiar phenomena that spark off new trains of thought in the viewer's mind.
Man-made, everyday life has been a primary focus of Tumi's work, but in Loop he deals with the natural world in an unexpected way. The piece is a 14-channel video installation that fills the gallery with image and sound.
Attn. The event will be held in Icelandic.
Museum entrance fees apply.
sun
9. júní
16:00—17:00
Iron, Linen, Charcoal and Chalk
An expert-led tour An expert-led tour
The exhibition features three-dimensional works and a video work by Þóra Sigurðardóttir that have never been exhibited before. They are the product of the artist´s observations dating back to 1992. The source is the rhythm of daily life, quotidian subjects and space. Abandoned houses; material memory and its properties; a journey and a process of transformation. Iron, linen, charcoal and chalk. Layering, points of intersection, two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures, framework. Calendar. An awareness of the possibility that a rule might break, the center of gravity might crumble, and chaos might ensue.
The events calendar is aimed at senior citizens and is composed of specially designed tours as well as discussions with the museum´s experts on fine art, ongoing exhibitions and the work of the National Gallery of Iceland.
The events create opportunities for guests to approach art and our national heritage from different perspectives.
The National Gallery´s Quality Time events are always accompanied by coffee and pastries. The pastries are contributed by Bread and Co. which sponsors the project.
Attn. The event will be held in Icelandic
Museum entrance fees apply.
mið
12. júní
14:00—15:00
The National Gallery of Iceland also hosts exhibitions by individual artists, Icelandic as well as foreign ones.