🎨 RIGA – ARTS & NATIONAL COSTUMES

🕒 12:00–17:00
📍 34 Strandgata
You are most welcome to Hafnarborg on 17th June.

Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson: Big World

The exhibition features new and recent works by Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson, created over the past five years. For decades, Helgi Þorgils has been one of the country's most prolific visual artists. From the outset of his career in the mid-1970s, he attracted attention for an innovative and personal narrative style, which has earned him a unique position in the Icelandic art scene and recognition on the international stage.

May show signs of minor defects

Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson has long worked with found photographs and other material that has been removed from its original context. We see pictures of couples, of a coastline, of an undecorated Christmas tree. The categories are familiar, but the coordinates are lost. What is so compelling, however, is not only the melancholy these lost pictures carry with them, but also what they bring to light in the process. Their meaning, then, depends on some kind of framing, that is to say, on someone giving them context.

Italy Multilingual flag workshop at the Pharmacy from 12-2 pm. Materials will be provided on site to make your own Icelandic national flag from white, blue and red paper, but there will also be colours for those who want to let their imagination run wild and design their own flag.

📷 National costume photoshoot at 15:00
A national costume photoshoot will be held at Hafnarborg – we encourage everyone to come in costume and take part in preserving the beauty and diversity of our national costume heritage 👘🇮🇸📸

🆓 Free entry – everyone is very welcome!🧡🎉