Sunday, 1st September at 1 p.m. We welcome you to a chat with them. Thorhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir, curator, and the artist Hildur Hákonardóttir, who will tell guests about Unknown devotion, the autumn exhibition of Hafnarborg 2024. Hildur is among the artists with works in the exhibition, and in connection with her piece, she has written an article for the exhibition catalogue published alongside it. To mark the occasion, Þórhildur Tinna and Hildur will discuss the work and the ideas underlying the exhibition, as well as present their texts from the exhibition catalogue.

The exhibition Unknown devotion springing from the need to find magic in a world that seems, in many ways, to be devoid of it, in an age without bright hope. There is a certain magic in allowing things to be what they are without needing to grasp them, with its attendant obsession with definition. A work of art, for example, can be sentimental and sharp at the same time, just as they can capture contradictions that, at first glance, seem to exclude one another but are, when all is said and done, undeniably connected, such as pain and emotional growth, trauma and healing, joy and sorrow.

The title of the exhibition, then, stems from a notion of magic that involves collective healing and the idea of a better world – but this unknown devotion defines the reality we live in in various ways that we cannot quite put into words. This devotion, however, is always present, albeit at varying strengths when faced with adversity, and the participants in the exhibition confront this devotion in their own way.

The artists exhibiting are Björg Þorsteinsdóttir, Sigríður Björnsdóttir, Suzanne Treister, Tabita Rezaire, Kate McMillan, Hildur Hákonardóttir, Ra Tack, Kristín Morthens, Tinna Guðmundsdóttir, Elsa Jónsdóttir, Juliana Irene Smith, Kata Jóhanness, Patty Spyrakos and Edda Karólína. The curator is Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir. Alongside the exhibition, a lavish exhibition catalogue is being published, featuring texts by the curator and illustrations by Edda Karólína, as well as a new article by Hildur Hákonardóttir, as previously mentioned.

Free admission – all are welcome.