Sunday, 11 August at 2 pm We welcome you to a curator's talk about the museum's exhibition, At times and at all times, which focuses on the various manifestations of time in the works of the women artists Arna Ottarsdottir, Leslie Roberts and Amy Brener. Then the curator will Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir to welcome visitors and talk about the works and working methods of the artists, as well as to shed light on the context of the works within the exhibition.

Concepts of time are woven into the works of the three artists in different ways, where one could say they collect traces of our contemporary era and transfer them into a tangible form through personal interpretation and various methods. There is also a certain lightness and humour to the works – something akin to nonchalance – which could be interpreted as an attempt to acknowledge the absurdity of the contemporary moment. Perhaps their works could be read as an attempt to stop time or even to step outside of the contemporary moment.

Arna Óttarsdóttir (b. 1986, Iceland) graduated with a BFA from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2009 and has held regular exhibitions since, both solo and with others, at home and abroad. In recent years, she has held notable solo exhibitions at Nýlistasafnið, i8 Gallery and Harbinger. In 2021, her work was featured in the exhibition Iðavöllur: Icelandic Art in the 21st Century at the Reykjavík Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited, for example, at Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen; Turner Contemporary in Margate; Åplus in Berlin; Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm and Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York. Arna lives and works in Reykjavík.

Leslie Roberts (b. 1957, United States) creates works driven by colour, language and self-imposed rules. She has exhibited in New York City and throughout the United States, for example at Minus Space, Marlborough Gallery, McKenzie Fine Art, 57W57 Arts, Pierogi, Kathryn Markel, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, PPOW, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC); and the Wellin Museum (Clinton, NY). In 2024, she received grants from the Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Ucross, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Skowhegan, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Yale and an MFA from Queens College. Leslie has lived in Brooklyn for over three decades and is Professor Emerita at the Pratt Institute.

Amy Brener (b. 1982, Canada) lives and works in New York. She graduated with an MFA from Hunter College in 2010 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe and China. Notable exhibitions include those at MoMA PS1 in New York, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, Galerie Pact in Paris, Wentrup Gallery in Berlin, the MacLaren Art Centre in Ontario, and the Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Her work has also been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, Vogue, CURA, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and The Brooklyn Rail. She is an Assistant Professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.

Free admission – see you at Hafnarborg.