Design March in Hafnarfjörður 2022
A special emphasis will be placed on the design of Hafnarfjörður's museums and cultural venues over the coming days. Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Library and Bæjarbíó are among the more than 100 exhibitions, 400 participants and 250 events taking part in Design March 2022, the country's largest design festival. Through its participation, the City of Hafnarfjörður aims to draw special attention to the thriving design scene in the town.
Special attention is drawn to lush design in Hafnarfjörður.
A special emphasis will be placed on the design of Hafnarfjörður's museums and cultural venues over the coming days. Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjörður Library and Bæjarbíó are among the more than 100 exhibitions, 400 participants and 250 events taking part in Design March 2022, the country's largest design festival. Through its participation, the City of Hafnarfjörður aims to draw special attention to the thriving design scene in the town.
From time to time, artists' studios, galleries and shops in Hafnarfjörður hold extended opening events, such as 'Gakktu í bæinn'. The most recent one was on the evening of Friday, 22nd April. Photo: Hulda Margrét.
Design March extends its reach to Hafnarfjörður
Design March, Iceland's largest design festival, takes place from 4-8 May and extends to Hafnarfjörður, where progressive design and innovation bring together exhibitors and visitors. Many hundreds of events, exhibitions, lectures, happenings and installations are on the programme each year, organised by Icelandic designers and architects, companies and institutions.
Hafnarfjörður Library
Author of the month at Hafnarfjörður Library is the artist and writer Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir who opens a comic exhibition On the occasion of Design March, on their latest works from the book Space Mama Piggy on the 5th of May and will also be reading from the work at the opening from 4-6 pm. The graphic novel has previously been presented at Stockholm Fringe, Pittsburgh Fringe, and Reykjavík Fringe, and has received a grant from Myndstef and the Visual Arts Fund. A 30-page edition sold out in the United States, and the author is now working on a 200-page edition of the work. Sólveig will also be running a summer course in graphic storytelling and comic writing at Hafnarfjörður Library this summer for young artists and teenagers who want to try their hand at this literary form.
Town Cinema
ID Reykjavik is a new Icelandic brand with furniture and designer products for the home. The product lines are inspired by the architecture and nature of Iceland, but the use of Icelandic lava, combined with other raw materials such as steel, wood, leather and porcelain, gives the products a special elegance and well-deserved attention. Bæjarbíó Hafnarfirði opens its doors to visitors and passers-by on ID Reykjavik exhibition, 4th-8th May. A piece from the line will also be shown at the Epal exhibition, 'Icelandic Design at its Most Colourful'.
The opening hours for the exhibition at the Bæjarbíó are as follows:
- Wednesday 16-21
- Thursday 4-9 pm
- Friday 12-21
- Saturday 12-5
- Sunday 1-5 pm
Port city
An exhibition by Fléttan and Kristín Sigurðardóttir, The material world of rock wool, is currently on display in Sverris Hall at Hafnarborg as part of Design March 2022. The exhibition offers an insight into their ongoing material research on Icelandic rock wool, where they explore different methods of transforming it into a new material. Opening of the exhibition 'The Material World of Rockwool' will be formally celebrated with an evening opening at the museum on Thursday 5th May from 6-8 pm. A guided tour of the exhibition with the designers will also be offered on Saturday 7th May at 2 pm.
Touch on the landscape is the working title of an ongoing doctoral thesis by product designer Tinna Gunnarsdóttir, which focuses on harnessing the aesthetic experience in the landscape as a force for change. A namesake exhibition in the main hall of Hafnarborg features works from throughout Tinna's career, but the exhibition's centrepiece is based on her years-long research in Héðinsfjörður in the northern part of the Tröllaskagi peninsula.
Seminar on the project will take place at Hafnarborg on Saturday 7 May from 11 am to 1 pm. The participants in the symposium are Tinna Gunnarsdóttir, product designer; Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir, lecturer at the Iceland Academy of the Arts; and Aldís Arnardóttir, curator and director of Hafnarborg. The exhibitions at Hafnarborg are open daily, except Tuesdays, from 12-17 and run until 15 May.
See you at Design March in Hafnarfjörður!
Free admission – everyone is very welcome!