Saturday, 27th April at 2 p.m. We welcome you to a talk with the artist and curator about the exhibition. Flow measurement, which runs its course that same weekend. Then they will Jonina Gudnadottir, artist, and Adalheidur Valgeirsdottir, The curator will guide visitors around the exhibition and talk about the artist's works and working process.

Jónína Guðnadóttir (b. 1943) has for many years been at the forefront of Icelandic ceramic artists and early on attracted attention for her unique functional pieces. She has also developed an independent visual language in her artworks, which bear witness to her knowledge of clay, while her unique sense of form and wealth of ideas are also prominent. Jónina's career began in the mid-1960s, after she had studied fine art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Reykjavík School of Art, and undertaken further studies in ceramics at Konstfack in Stockholm.

Since Jónína held her first solo exhibition at Unuhús in 1968, her works have been exhibited widely both at home and abroad. Her works have also been regularly exhibited at Hafnarborg over the past few decades. The retrospective exhibition also spans Flow measurement A career retrospective of Jónína's work, showcasing a selection of the artist's pieces, from functional objects created in her early years after graduating to works from the past year. Alongside the exhibition, the museum has published a hardback, richly illustrated catalogue with an essay by Aðalheiður.

Free admission – see you at Hafnarborg.

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