Two exhibitions open at Hafnarborg – All welcome

New exhibitions at Hafnarborg

Hafnarborg warmly welcomes you to the opening of the solo exhibitions by artists Una Björg Magnúsdóttir and Eggert Pétursson on Thursday, 20th October at 6 p.m. Valdimar Víðisson, Mayor of Hafnarfjörður, will open the exhibitions.

Filling of her Una

Una Björg Magnúsdóttir's exhibition, Fyllingu, is housed in a stately building from 1921, which previously housed homes and a pharmacy. The museum's main hall bears the marks of this, as the arched facade of the older building is a prominent feature of the hall.

One of the exhibition's main works plays the same game – a low partition stretches across the space, moulding itself to the hall, yet demarcating a new space within it – an empty space, a new stage, a potential arena.

Other works are created especially for the exhibition: sculptures, paintings and works on paper, which create a subtle narrative that relies on the qualities of the space, its materials and light, its possibilities and limitations. They also weave together the building's timelines, historical and fictional, and explore the relationship between models and copies. The curator is Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir.

Eggert's Red

Eggert Pétursson's exhibition is called Roði. For many years, Eggert has attracted attention for his unique and passionate interest in Icelandic nature, and particularly the country's flora. In Sverris Hall at Hafnarborg, he is exhibiting new works, including paintings created especially for the exhibition, where he continues his exploration of the Icelandic landscape but now turns his gaze upwards – to alpine vegetation and the open sky. The smallest plants become a grand landscape, where vegetation and the earth's surface transform into a refined composition that reflects time, light and change.

Also on show is a series of new graphic works, created in connection with a forthcoming translation of Paradise from Joyfully, divinely by Dante, where a spiritual and symbolic world interacts with the artist's earthly vision. The curator is Aldís Arnardóttir.

Free admission – see you at Hafnarborg.

More about the artists

• Una Björg (b. 1990) studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and ÉCAL in Switzerland, from where she graduated in 2018. She lives and works in Reykjavík and has exhibited widely, including at the Reykjavík Art Museum, the ASÍ Art Collection, Gerðarsafn and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She was nominated for Artist of the Year at the 2025 Icelandic Art Awards and received the Guðmundur Award in 2024.
• Eggert Pétursson (b. 1956) studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. His works have been exhibited, among other places, at Nýlistasafnið, the Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarborg, Nordatlantensbrygge in Copenhagen and the Pori Art Museum in Finland. Furthermore, Eggert received the second prize at the Carnegie Art Award 2006 (Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjavík, Copenhagen and Nice). Eggert also illustrated a popular edition of *Flóra Íslands* by Ágúst H. Bjarnason, first published in 1983. Eggert is represented by the i8 gallery in Reykjavík, where he has exhibited on numerous occasions. Several books dedicated to his work have also been published.