{"id":12755,"date":"2015-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/listamannaspjall-og-syningarlok\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:58:41","slug":"artists-talk-and-exhibition-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/listamannaspjall-og-syningarlok\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist's Talk and Exhibition Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 23rd August at 3 p.m., Bj\u00f6rn \u00c1rnason, Daniel Reuter and Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir will come together in the main hall of Hafnarborg to discuss their work in the exhibition.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>No place<\/em>\u00a0to visitors. This is also the final day of the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features works by eight photographers, all of whom are based in Iceland and focus on the Icelandic landscape. Alongside Bj\u00f6rn, Daniel and Katr\u00edn, the exhibition includes works by Claudia Hausfeld, Edda Fransiska Kjarval, Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson, P\u00e9tur Thomsen and Stuart Richardson. The works were all created between 2008 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The works in the exhibition reflect the artists' inner and outer landscapes as they observe nature through their own eyes, evoking in each viewer a consciousness of places that appear familiar. This is the landscape that is so familiar to us all, the view we see when we look out of the car window on our journey across the country, the places that bear no names, the surroundings we see between the notable destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The curators are \u00c1slaug \u00cdris Fri\u00f0j\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir and Unnur Mj\u00f6ll S. Leifsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rn \u00c1rnason was born in 1980 and graduated from the School of Photography in the spring of 2012. He has held several solo exhibitions, as well as having held and taken part in numerous group exhibitions in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Reuter was born in Germany in 1976. He graduated from the Limited-residency MFA in Photography from Hartford University in Connecticut in 2013. His first book, Saga heims\u00f3knarinnar, was nominated for the 2013 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photobook of the Year award and also for the German Photobook Award in 2015. His work has been exhibited in Europe, the United States and Japan. Daniel lives and works in Reykjav\u00edk.<\/p>\n<p>Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir graduated with a BFA degree from the Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1993. Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions worldwide. The book M\u00f3rar\/n\u00e6rv\u00eddd, which she made in collaboration with Matth\u00edas Hemstock, was published by 12 t\u00f3num in 2005, and her books Equivocal and Vanished Summer were published by Crymogeu in 2011 and 2013. Katr\u00edn was nominated for the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Prize in 2009 and for the Myndstef Honour Award in 2007. Katr\u00edn's work can be found in numerous public and private collections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunnudaginn 23. \u00e1g\u00fast kl. 15 munu Bj\u00f6rn \u00c1rnason, Daniel Reuter og Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir koma saman \u00ed a\u00f0alsal Hafnarborgar og r\u00e6\u00f0a verk s\u00edn \u00e1 s\u00fdningunni\u00a0\u00a0 Enginn sta\u00f0ur\u00a0vi\u00f0 s\u00fdningargesti. \u00deetta er jafnframt s\u00ed\u00f0asti s\u00fdningardagur s\u00fdningarinnar. \u00c1 s\u00fdningunni eru verk \u00e1tta lj\u00f3smyndara sem allir eru b\u00fasettir \u00e1 \u00cdslandi og beina sj\u00f3num s\u00ednum a\u00f0 \u00edslenskri n\u00e1tt\u00faru. \u00c1samt \u00feeim Birni, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12755"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}