New exhibitions at Hafnarborg

Friday evening, 26th August at 8 p.m. will become two
Exhibitions opened at Hafnarborg. The Hafnarborg Autumn Exhibition 2016, the exhibition Attempt
– clay and more, in the museum's main hall and then the exhibition of the Swedish designer
Jenny Nordberg, 3–5 seconds – Fast, handmade production,
in Sverris Hall at Hafnarborg, where she will perform a performance piece at the opening.

Experiment – clay and more

The exhibition is a dialogue between visual art and clay, referencing the diverse worlds of industry, art, applied arts and design.
The participants in the exhibition come from different professions in the visual arts. They all use clay in their work but were given
different words to work out from them. The outcome is, on the one hand, fully-finished works on
while others show a study or a working method. Exhibitors
are: Aldís Bára Einarsdóttir, Anna Hallin, Bjarnheiður Jóhannsdóttir, Brynjar
Sigurðarson, Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson, Erna Elínbjörg Skúladóttir, Hanna Dís
Whitehead, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Daniel Durnin, Garðar Eyjólfsson,
Gunnhildur Helgadóttir, Olga Bergmann, Páll Einarsson, Ragnheiður Ingunn
Ágústsdóttir, Sigga Heimis, Sigrún Jóna Norðdahl, Sigurður Guðmundsson,
Sigurður Hauksson, Sigurlína Margrét Osuala, Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir and Veronika
Sedlmair.

Curator
is in the hands of the design duo Terms of Service which they are ordered Hild
Steinþórsdóttir architect and Rúnu Thors product designer but their idea
that the exhibition was selected from submissions last autumn when a call was issued
was looking for proposals for the autumn exhibition at the museum in 2016.

The curators will be holding a curatorial talk for visitors on Saturday, 27 August.
at 2 p.m.

Experiment – clay and more is the sixth show
in Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition series where the curator's idea is selected from
submitted proposals. Previously, as part of the same project,
Exhibitions by anthropologist Ólafur Gerður Sigfúsdóttir, For now, autumn
2011, exhibition by Guðni Tómasson, art historian, Ski Area, autumn 2012,
An exhibition by Anna María Bogadóttir, architect, The index houses in the house,
Autumn 2013, Channel, Exhibition by Helga Thorsdottir,  Autumn 2014 and
The World, an exhibition by art historians Aðalheiður Valgeirsdóttir and Aldís Arnardóttir
without our Autumn 2015. With the autumn exhibition series, Hafnarborg wishes to
to create a channel for interesting ideas and to be a platform where visual art
Enjoys being shaped by diverse perspectives and challenges. Harbour city
is now calling for proposals for the autumn exhibition in 2017. Further information may be
Available on the Hafnarborg website: www.hafnarborg.is

3–5 seconds – Fast, handmade production

Exhibition
and the performance of the Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg, 3 – 5 seconds –
Fast, handmade production addresses how consumption and production are
achieved today and how it can be improved in the future. In their performance in
The port city sets up a production process where it tests how
Different elements of the handmade and the mass-produced can go hand in hand.

Jenny
Nordberg is an industrial designer based in Sweden who has received
Recognition and praise as a progressive designer on the international stage. Jenny
positions itself between art and design and seeks to expand
Contemporary ideas about design and designers. The project is funded by the Swedish
the embassy in Iceland.