About ArtsIceland
ArtsIceland works with artists and producers to commission exceptional projects in a range of different sites and situations using various forms of media. ArtsIceland was founded in 2014 and is based in Ísafjörður but working across Iceland and beyond. ArtsIceland encourages and facilitates an open-ended approach to the artistic process by seeking opportunities to help artists create works which have significant cultural impact.
Residency co-ordinator: Rannveig Jónsdóttir is the new co-ordinator from July 2021 taking over from Heiðrún Viktorsdóttir who has been the helping hand of the artists-in-residence since 2017. Rannveig is well connected in the local community, she is also an artist by profession and can be of assistance on various levels.
Director: Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir has years of experience working with artists and arts projects. She was the director of NKD (a residency center in Norway under the Nordic Council of Ministers) and the founding director of Fogo Island Arts in Canada. In addition to her work for kol&salt and ArtsIceland she is the director of the ASÍ Art Museum in Reykjavík.
Artistic directors of Outvert Art Space: Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir, Rannveig Jónsdóttir and Gunnar Jónsson are the artistic directors of Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space. Rannveig and Gunnar are visual artists based in Ísafjörður. They are both active on the national art scene and have shown their work internationally. Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space is a venue where many of Iceland´s leading contemporary artists have exhibited their work in resent years.
ArtsIceland/Outvert Art Space is supported by the The Visual Arts Fund, Westfjord Fund for Culture and Ísafjörður Municipality.
ArtsIceland works with artists and producers to commission exceptional projects in a range of different sites and situations using various forms of media. ArtsIceland was founded in 2014 and is based in Ísafjörður but working across Iceland and beyond. ArtsIceland encourages and facilitates an open-ended approach to the artistic process by seeking opportunities to help artists create works which have significant cultural impact.
Residency co-ordinator: Rannveig Jónsdóttir is the new co-ordinator from July 2021 taking over from Heiðrún Viktorsdóttir who has been the helping hand of the artists-in-residence since 2017. Rannveig is well connected in the local community, she is also an artist by profession and can be of assistance on various levels.
Director: Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir has years of experience working with artists and arts projects. She was the director of NKD (a residency center in Norway under the Nordic Council of Ministers) and the founding director of Fogo Island Arts in Canada. In addition to her work for kol&salt and ArtsIceland she is the director of the ASÍ Art Museum in Reykjavík.
Artistic directors of Outvert Art Space: Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir, Rannveig Jónsdóttir and Gunnar Jónsson are the artistic directors of Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space. Rannveig and Gunnar are visual artists based in Ísafjörður. They are both active on the national art scene and have shown their work internationally. Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space is a venue where many of Iceland´s leading contemporary artists have exhibited their work in resent years.
ArtsIceland/Outvert Art Space is supported by the The Visual Arts Fund, Westfjord Fund for Culture and Ísafjörður Municipality.
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Open Call // ArtsIceland residency 2022-2024
ArtsIceland in collaboration with Outvert Art Space offers artists and other art professionals a space to live and work for four to twelve weeks in the Westfjords of Iceland. We offer two residencies with a private room and a private studio for visual artists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians and others who may profit from the environment/spaces on offer. Kitchen facilities are shared. During the summer months we also offer 3 residencies with a private room and shared studio and other facilities in a separate building. Artists pay a moderate fee for their stay at the residency.
Application form for residency from June 2022 to December 2024 (we have just a couple of availabilities left for 2022). https://forms.gle/L7UWcozFDn3kJ6PF9
Application deadline: February 28th, 2022
Minimum stay is 4 weeks, maximum stay is 12 weeks. Priority will be given to those who apply for longer periods.
In order to complete your application form, please send us the following in an additional email to artsiceland@kolsalt.is
A - Full name, preferred period and studio
B - Project description/motivation letter (max 400 words)
C - Your CV (pdf-format, max. 3 A4 pages)
D - 3-5 samples of work (texts, images, sound samples or videos), including a brief description of each work (max. 100 words each).
Please keep your information in one PDF and mark it with your name
(example: ArtsIceland_lastname_application.pdf).
Selection process: Applications are reviewed by a panel of professionals and applicants will be notified of the results within 2 months of the application deadline.
Please note that applications not respecting the size and quantity limits as well as applications lacking any of the requested information will not be reviewed. Undergraduate students are not accepted for the program.
More information on the residency is in the application form, please contact artsiceland@kolsalt.is if you have any questions.
ArtsIceland in collaboration with Outvert Art Space offers artists and other art professionals a space to live and work for four to twelve weeks in the Westfjords of Iceland. We offer two residencies with a private room and a private studio for visual artists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians and others who may profit from the environment/spaces on offer. Kitchen facilities are shared. During the summer months we also offer 3 residencies with a private room and shared studio and other facilities in a separate building. Artists pay a moderate fee for their stay at the residency.
Application form for residency from June 2022 to December 2024 (we have just a couple of availabilities left for 2022). https://forms.gle/L7UWcozFDn3kJ6PF9
Application deadline: February 28th, 2022
Minimum stay is 4 weeks, maximum stay is 12 weeks. Priority will be given to those who apply for longer periods.
In order to complete your application form, please send us the following in an additional email to artsiceland@kolsalt.is
A - Full name, preferred period and studio
B - Project description/motivation letter (max 400 words)
C - Your CV (pdf-format, max. 3 A4 pages)
D - 3-5 samples of work (texts, images, sound samples or videos), including a brief description of each work (max. 100 words each).
Please keep your information in one PDF and mark it with your name
(example: ArtsIceland_lastname_application.pdf).
Selection process: Applications are reviewed by a panel of professionals and applicants will be notified of the results within 2 months of the application deadline.
Please note that applications not respecting the size and quantity limits as well as applications lacking any of the requested information will not be reviewed. Undergraduate students are not accepted for the program.
More information on the residency is in the application form, please contact artsiceland@kolsalt.is if you have any questions.
Artists in residence 2021:
Anna Katrine Thuesen - https://bellatolafilms.com/
Harry Darkins - https://www.instagram.com/hazmgd/
Sean Russell Hallowell - https://www.seanrussellhallowell.com/bio
Paloma Penarrubia - https://lasfloresnolloranmusic.com/
Anna Szlachta - https://www.instagram.com/annamaria_szlachta/
Julia Blume - https://www.julia-blume-art.com/
Silja Saarepuu & Villu Plink - https://www.instagram.com/villuplink/
Sofia Dragt - www.sofiadragt.com
Therese Eisenmann - https://therese-eisenmann.com
Eric Fraser & Stephanie Patsula - https://www.flexiblehours.ca/
Mai Ane Pil Siedentopp Christensen & Morten Schmidt - www.lydport.dk
Artists in residence 2020:
Britta Benno - http://www.brittabenno.com/
and the overwhelming thought of Covid19
Anna Katrine Thuesen - https://bellatolafilms.com/
Harry Darkins - https://www.instagram.com/hazmgd/
Sean Russell Hallowell - https://www.seanrussellhallowell.com/bio
Paloma Penarrubia - https://lasfloresnolloranmusic.com/
Anna Szlachta - https://www.instagram.com/annamaria_szlachta/
Julia Blume - https://www.julia-blume-art.com/
Silja Saarepuu & Villu Plink - https://www.instagram.com/villuplink/
Sofia Dragt - www.sofiadragt.com
Therese Eisenmann - https://therese-eisenmann.com
Eric Fraser & Stephanie Patsula - https://www.flexiblehours.ca/
Mai Ane Pil Siedentopp Christensen & Morten Schmidt - www.lydport.dk
Artists in residence 2020:
Britta Benno - http://www.brittabenno.com/
and the overwhelming thought of Covid19
Artists in residence 2019:
Kesewa Aboah - https://www.instagram.com/kesewa.aboah/
Sookyung Bae - www.instagram.com/soobook74
Snorri Ásmundsson - http://www.snorriasmundsson.com/
Anna Andrea Winther - https://www.annawinther.com/
Una Gunnarsdóttir - Fine Arts
Imogen Higgins - http://www.wedgewhittleweave.com/
Ingrid Mostrey - https://www.ingridmostrey.com/
Feona Lee Jones - http://feonaleejones.com/
Eunjung Hwang - https://eunjunghwang.blog/
Helen Kirwan - http://helenkirwan.com/
Enriqueta Vendrell - https://enriquetavendrell.wixsite.com/arts
Gabriel Gould - http://www.gabrielgould.com/
Aremy Stewart - https://www.aremystewart.com/
Arngrímur Sigurðsson - https://arngrimur.portfoliobox.net/
Gabriel Esteban Molina - https://www.gabrielestebanmolina.com/
Caroline Rosoff - http://www.carolinerosoff.com/
Juhan Vihterpal - https://soundcloud.com/juhanvihterpal
Lumi Kristin Vihterpal - http://kristino-rav.blogspot.com/
Erika Irmler - http://www.erikairmler.com/
Julia Hechtman - http://www.juliahechtman.com/
Artists in residence 2018:
Isabel Hede - music
https://www.isabelhede.com/
Seulgi Hwang - music
Gavin Morrison - curator
http://www.gavinkmorrison.com/
Daryl Jamieson - music
http://daryljamieson.com/
Ulrike Haage - music
https://www.ulrikehaage.com/
Mary King - music
http://www.maryjkingmusic.com/
Kirsty Palmer - visual art
Jörg Piringer - literature/digital art
https://joerg.piringer.net/
Jennifer Shaw - literature
http://web.sonoma.edu/art/faculty/shaw.html
Cody Kauhl - music/digital artist
http://codykauhl.com/
Katherine Fiveash - literature
Natalie Lavioie - visual art
https://nathalielavoie.ca
Alexandra Armstrong - music
Andrea Ágústa Aðalsteinsdóttir - visual art
Anna Höstman - music
http://www.annahostman.net/
Gunhild Seim - music
https://www.gunhildseim.com/
Megan Arnold - mixed media
https://shhhmeganarnold.wordpress.com/
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov - visual art
http://www.petschatnikov.de/
Artists in residence 2017:
Cale Coduti - visual art
http://calecoduti.com/
Anastasia Lobkovski - film
https://vimeo.com/user2139037
Eunjung Hwang - visual art
http://blog.eunjunghwang.com/
Egle Saladziute – design
Zuzu Knew & Syngja – music & multi media
https://www.facebook.com/syngjamusic/
https://www.facebook.com/ZuzuKnewIt/
Heather Shannon - music
heathergshannon.com
Adam Taylor – graphic design
http://www.adamflint.is/
Amber Vistein - music
http://www.avistein.org
Bára Grímsdóttir - music
https://www.funi-iceland.com/
Katharine Lyons-Burke – visual art & performance
https://vimeo.com/lyonsburkeart
Lorna McRichie – visual art
http://www.lornamacritchie.net/
Han Sungpil – visual art & photography
www.hansungpil.com
Shih Yu Chi - video
https://vimeo.com/user26751286
Jug Marcovich - music
https://soundcloud.com/jugkonstantin
Feona Lee Jones - music
http://feonaleejones.com/
Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir - music
Michael Stirling - music
mickstirling.com
Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir - litterature
Lucas Kloosterboer - music
Liu Xioafang – visual art & photography
http://www.798photogallery.cn/photographer_view.asp?id=25
Maddy Riorda - sculpture
www.behance.com/mriorda
Henriikka Tavi - litterature
Amanda Teixeira – visual art
www.amandateixeira.com
Annie Hamilton – music & fashion design
www.annie-hamilton.com
Femke de Vries – design & theory
http://www.femkedevries.com/
Antón Alcalde - music
http://www.asociaciongalegadecompositores.com/web/compositores.asp?var1=Alcalde,%20Ant%F3n&nar1=179
Eduardo Abrantes – sound & theory
https://pairsofthree.org/www.instagram.com/soobook74
Kesewa Aboah - https://www.instagram.com/kesewa.aboah/
Sookyung Bae - www.instagram.com/soobook74
Snorri Ásmundsson - http://www.snorriasmundsson.com/
Anna Andrea Winther - https://www.annawinther.com/
Una Gunnarsdóttir - Fine Arts
Imogen Higgins - http://www.wedgewhittleweave.com/
Ingrid Mostrey - https://www.ingridmostrey.com/
Feona Lee Jones - http://feonaleejones.com/
Eunjung Hwang - https://eunjunghwang.blog/
Helen Kirwan - http://helenkirwan.com/
Enriqueta Vendrell - https://enriquetavendrell.wixsite.com/arts
Gabriel Gould - http://www.gabrielgould.com/
Aremy Stewart - https://www.aremystewart.com/
Arngrímur Sigurðsson - https://arngrimur.portfoliobox.net/
Gabriel Esteban Molina - https://www.gabrielestebanmolina.com/
Caroline Rosoff - http://www.carolinerosoff.com/
Juhan Vihterpal - https://soundcloud.com/juhanvihterpal
Lumi Kristin Vihterpal - http://kristino-rav.blogspot.com/
Erika Irmler - http://www.erikairmler.com/
Julia Hechtman - http://www.juliahechtman.com/
Artists in residence 2018:
Isabel Hede - music
https://www.isabelhede.com/
Seulgi Hwang - music
Gavin Morrison - curator
http://www.gavinkmorrison.com/
Daryl Jamieson - music
http://daryljamieson.com/
Ulrike Haage - music
https://www.ulrikehaage.com/
Mary King - music
http://www.maryjkingmusic.com/
Kirsty Palmer - visual art
Jörg Piringer - literature/digital art
https://joerg.piringer.net/
Jennifer Shaw - literature
http://web.sonoma.edu/art/faculty/shaw.html
Cody Kauhl - music/digital artist
http://codykauhl.com/
Katherine Fiveash - literature
Natalie Lavioie - visual art
https://nathalielavoie.ca
Alexandra Armstrong - music
Andrea Ágústa Aðalsteinsdóttir - visual art
Anna Höstman - music
http://www.annahostman.net/
Gunhild Seim - music
https://www.gunhildseim.com/
Megan Arnold - mixed media
https://shhhmeganarnold.wordpress.com/
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov - visual art
http://www.petschatnikov.de/
Artists in residence 2017:
Cale Coduti - visual art
http://calecoduti.com/
Anastasia Lobkovski - film
https://vimeo.com/user2139037
Eunjung Hwang - visual art
http://blog.eunjunghwang.com/
Egle Saladziute – design
Zuzu Knew & Syngja – music & multi media
https://www.facebook.com/syngjamusic/
https://www.facebook.com/ZuzuKnewIt/
Heather Shannon - music
heathergshannon.com
Adam Taylor – graphic design
http://www.adamflint.is/
Amber Vistein - music
http://www.avistein.org
Bára Grímsdóttir - music
https://www.funi-iceland.com/
Katharine Lyons-Burke – visual art & performance
https://vimeo.com/lyonsburkeart
Lorna McRichie – visual art
http://www.lornamacritchie.net/
Han Sungpil – visual art & photography
www.hansungpil.com
Shih Yu Chi - video
https://vimeo.com/user26751286
Jug Marcovich - music
https://soundcloud.com/jugkonstantin
Feona Lee Jones - music
http://feonaleejones.com/
Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir - music
Michael Stirling - music
mickstirling.com
Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir - litterature
Lucas Kloosterboer - music
Liu Xioafang – visual art & photography
http://www.798photogallery.cn/photographer_view.asp?id=25
Maddy Riorda - sculpture
www.behance.com/mriorda
Henriikka Tavi - litterature
Amanda Teixeira – visual art
www.amandateixeira.com
Annie Hamilton – music & fashion design
www.annie-hamilton.com
Femke de Vries – design & theory
http://www.femkedevries.com/
Antón Alcalde - music
http://www.asociaciongalegadecompositores.com/web/compositores.asp?var1=Alcalde,%20Ant%F3n&nar1=179
Eduardo Abrantes – sound & theory
https://pairsofthree.org/www.instagram.com/soobook74
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Eduardo Abrantes artistic researcher/sound artist/filmmaker
ArtsIceland 30.1 – 26.2 2017 Eduardo Abrantes (b. 1979 in Lisbon, Portugal) is an artistic researcher, sound artist, and filmmaker. Based between Stockholm and Copenhagen since 2009, his recent practice has focused on how everyday experience can be met with heightened awareness through performative practice and sound strategies. Fur further info: www.pairsofthree.or |
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Natalie Saccu de Franchi architect film-maker/editor
ArtsIceland 17.9 – 23.10 2016 Natalie aka ML is an architect and film maker/editor. She lives and works in Paris. Her first short film Diatomée (2005) was swiftly turned into a ‘corps-métrage’ concept, which is how she defines her work. After that she moved on to the triptych titled Claire Obscure (2009) and Malojá (2010) thanks to various collaborations. One being with Steven Severin for Malojá during the Nouveau Cinéma Festival of Montreal in October 2010 and at the London Tate Britain in December 2010. ML was at the ArtsIceland residency in Ísafjörður in september 2016 to work on an experimental video called Hollie, an ever-drifting woman to an eruptive birth. Facebook: Monade Li / ML Roosmarijn Tuenter musician ArtsIceland 15.8 – 2.10 2016 Roosmarijn Tuenter is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. Inspired by nature's vastness and its detail, she captures these elements in intimate songs, with explosive passages and an expressive performance. In 2013 she started studying ‘Musician 3.0’ (Creating, Performing, Communicating) at the Conservatory in Utrecht, Holland. Since then she’s been doing research on how to play her viola in a non-conventional way, by adding pedals and looking for new sounds and ways of song writing. Another big interest is improvisation and she’s been giving various workshops about this subject. www.roosmarijnmusic.com |
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Natalie Wood digital/multimedia artist
ArtsIceland 25.7 – 7.8 2016 Natalie Wood is an artist who creates room-filled projections, miniature dioramas, and holograms. She is interested in incorporating video into sculpture, making ordinary objects seem extraordinary, and evoking ideas of magic and discovery for viewers. Natalie was raised in southern California, received her BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University in 2014 and is currently working on her MFA in Digital Art at the University of Oregon. She lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. |
Photo: ArtsIceland
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Jenifer Wightman artist and biologist
ArtsIceland 19.8 – 26.8 2015 Jenifer Wightman is a scientist specializing in greenhouse gas inventories and life cycle analysis of agronomic systems at Cornell University. She teaches Sustainable Systems at Parsons. Her art practice began in 2002 and employs scientific tropes to incite curiosity of ecological phenomena. Informed by her scientific inquiry, her art poetically articulates the incongruities between our current economic growth paradigm (conceptually unlimited) and our emerging notion of sustainability (limited by finite resources). Jenifer Wightman´s work captures a visual language of embodied form moving through cycles of destruction and creation within a finite landscape. She is interested in forming an ecological rationality by reflecting on the co-evolution of a culture and its supporting ecosystem. http://www.audiblewink.com/ |
Photo: bb.is
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Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström artists and researchers
ArtsIceland 3.8 – 10.8 2015 Kristina Lindström, PhD in interaction design, and Åsa Ståhl, PhD in media and communication studies, are artists and researchers. They are currently postdocs at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University and senior lecturers at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University. They have collaborated since 2003 in a joint artistic as well as academic practice. In 2014 they defended a collaborative and practice-based thesis across disciplines, which was based on a travelling sewing circle www.misplay.se. Lindström and Ståhl have explored how hands-on making can facilitate collaborative co-articulations of emergent issues of living with mundane technologies. They have exhibited and presented their work internationally in contexts spanning hacking, e-waste, cultural heritage, participatory design, feminist technoscience and media archaeology. Lindström and Ståhl are currently partners in the artistic research project HYBRID MATTERs where they host public engagement events and work towards an exhibition that will travel to the Nordic countries in 2016. www.hybridmatters.net. |
Photo: Perlur Fjarðarins
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Project in collaboration with ArtsIceland:
Plastiglomerate walks in Iceland August 4 – 9 2015 This is part of the artistic research project HYBRID MATTERs: www.hybridmatters.net. HYBRID MATTERS is a digital art project that explores the fusion of the digital, the technological and the organic. The artists behind the project offer their take on what happens to everyday life at a time when smartphones, social networks, robots, GPS navigation and surveillance increasingly encroach on the environment, nature and human beings. They approach digital technology via bioart. The Finnish Society of Bioart, the artist co-operative Forum Box, the IT University of Copenhagen, the Swedish artists/researchers Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström and Kunsthall Grenland in Telemark were selected as recipients of the NORDIC CULTURAL EVENT OF THE YEAR – DIGITAL 2015–16. |
Photo: Anna Mika
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Weronika Murek writer
ArtsIceland 25.7 – 4.8 2015 Weronika Murek (b. 1989 in Bytom) – graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia. She’s currently a legal trainee. Selected as one of the 5 best Polish authors for the flash fiction project “Flash Europa”. Her first book, “Growing Southern Plants by the Michurin Method” was published by Czarne in 2015. Also in 2015 Murek was awarded the Gdynia Prize for the Best Theatre Play (for “Feinweinblein”). http://opowiadanie.org/2015/07/weronika-murek-gosc-11-mfo/ |