Top 25 Tourist Attractions in Reykjavik - Travel Iceland
Top 25 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Reykjavik - Travel Iceland:
Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Hallgrimskirkja, Solfar Sculpture, National Museum of Iceland, Arbaer Open Air Museum, Reykjavik 871 +/- 2 The Settlement Exhibition, Laugavegur, The Pearl, Volcano House, Vikin Maritime Museum, Saga Museum, Reykjavik City Hall, Einar Jonsson Museum, Whales of Iceland, Videy Island, Laugardalur Park, Icelandic Opera, Icelandic Phallological Museum, Imagine Peace Tower, Nautholsvik Geothermal Beach, Hofdi House, Reykjavik Art Museum Listasafn Reykjavikur, Domkirkjan, Culture House, Reykjavik Art Museum Asmundarsafn
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A visit to Listasafn Íslands - the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik - with permanent & temporary exhibitions
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Ólöglegi innflytjandinn - var Nína Tryggvadóttir kommúnisti og hættuleg Bandaríkjunum?
ÓLÖGLEGI INNFLYTJANDINN - VAR NÍNA TRYGGVADÓTTIR KOMMÚNISTI OG HÆTTULEG BANDARÍKJUNUM?
Fyrirlestur Hallgríms Oddssonar í Listasafni Íslands 3. janúar 2016
Á 5. áratug síðustu aldar flutti Nína Tryggvadóttir til New York borgar í Bandaríkjunum þar sem hún skapaði sér nafn sem myndlistarkona. Þar í borg kynntist hún þýsk-ættaða vísindamanninum og listamanninum Al Copley. Þau giftu sig árið 1949 og allt leit út fyrir að ungu hjónin kæmu sér fyrir á Manhattan, umkringd skapandi vinum í hringiðu listasenunnar. En það sem þau héldu að yrði praktísk afgreiðsla á formsatriðum, þegar Nína ætlaði að snúa til baka til New York eftir dvöl hér heima, varð fljótt að eldvegg sem aðskildi þau Al um árabil. Á Íslandi töldu ákveðnir aðilar að Nína væri kommúnisti. „Barnabók eftir þig er kommúnískur áróður,“ sögðu þeir og bentu máli sínu til stuðnings á vini Nínu í Unuhúsi.
Hallgrímur Oddsson, blaðamaður og hagfræðingur, hefur farið í gegnum bréfasafn Nínu frá þessum árum. Í fyrirlestrinum Ólöglegi innflytjandinn rekur hann baráttu Nínu fyrir landvistarleyfi í Bandaríkjunum. Ósk þeirra Al og Nínu mætti mikilli andstöðu bandaríska konsúlsins á Íslandi, í anda hræðsluáróðurs McCarty-isma þess tíma. Konsúllinn byggði afstöðu sína fyrst og fremst á upplýsingum frá óvildarmönnum Nínu í Reykjavík. Áður en yfir lauk teygði málið anga sína djúpt inn í bæði íslenskt og bandarískt stjórnmálakerfi og átti Nína eftir að dúsa með öðrum ólöglegum innflytjendum á Ellis Island. Skissur hennar og skeyti frá þeim tíma varpa ljósi á líðan hennar: „Elskan ég er á Ellis Island komdu og bjargaðu mér,“ sendi hún Al.
Hverjir voru þessir óvildarmenn Nínu? Er barnabókin Fljúgandi fiskisaga kommúnískur áróður sem beint er gegn bandarískum stjórnvöldum? Var Nína kommúnisti? Hvernig hafði álagið vegna aðskilnaðarins og langvarandi baráttu áhrif á líf og listamannsferil Nínu? Hallgrímur mun reifa þessar og fleiri spurningar og rekja einstaka baráttu Nínu og Al fyrir sameiningu fjölskyldunnar í Bandaríkjunum.
Leiðsögn um sýninguna „Lífsblómið Fullveldi Íslands í 100 ár“ í Listasafni Íslands
Sýningin Lífsblómið fjallar um fullveldi Íslands í 100 ár. Titillinn er sóttur í skáldsögu Halldórs Laxness Sjálfstætt fólk, sem gerist á þeim tíma er Ísland varð fullvalda ríki. Rétt eins og þetta þekkta bókmenntaverk fjallar Lífsblómið um hina djúpu þrá eftir sjálfstæði. Hún fjallar einnig um það hversu dýrmætt en um leið viðkvæmt fullveldið er. Í hundrað ára sögu fullveldisins hafa ýmsar ógnir steðjað að og varða þær bæði fjárhagslegt sjálfstæði þjóðarinnar, verndun náttúrunnar og þátttöku og ábyrgð í alþjóðlegu samstarfi. Fullveldið er ekki sjálfgefið og því þurfum við að hlúa vel að því. Rétt eins og lítil en harðgerð jurt þarf fullveldið á næringu að halda og þessi næring felst meðal annars í því að skiptast á skoðunum og deila heiminum með öðrum.
Í ljóðinu „Þjóðin og ég“ yrkir Steinn Steinarr um „hina þjóðfrægu menn og hinn þungbúna nafnlausa skara,” og minnir okkur þannig á að saga þjóðarinnar er ekki aðeins saga hinna þjóðfrægu manna, heldur ekki síður fólksins í landinu; fólks af ólíkum uppruna, stétt og stöðu sem hefur átt sinn þátt í að móta sögu fullvalda þjóðar síðustu 100 árin. Á sýningunni Lífsblómið er því lögð áhersla á að tefla saman hinu stóra og smáa, opinberu lífi og einkalífi.
Að sýningunni standa Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Þjóðskjalasafn Íslands og Listasafn Íslands. Handrit, skjöl og myndlistaverk frá þessum stofnunum mynda kjarnann í sýningunni. Auk þess hafa önnur söfn og stofnanir, sem og einkaaðilar, bæði hér á landi og í Danmörku, lánað verk á sýninguna. Myndlistin ljær umræðunni um ýmis átakamál á fullveldistímanum rödd og ýmsar sögulegar heimildir veita okkur aðgang að hugsun og lífi þeirra sem horfin eru á braut. Í hjarta sýningarinnar er að finna handrit og mikilvæg skjöl er varða íslenska menningu og snerta sjálfsmynd þjóðarinnar, sjálfstæðisbaráttuna og fullveldi Íslands.
Sýningarstjóri er Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir.
Hönnuðir sýningarinnar eru Snæfríð Þorsteins, Hrefna Björg Þorsteinsdóttir og Hólmfríður Ósmann Jónsdóttir.
Reykjavik Art Museum: Hafnarhus
Reykjavík Art Museum (RAM) is the largest visual art institution in Iceland. The museum is situated at three different locations in the city: the Kjarvalsstadir exhibition hall at Miklatún, Hafnarhus, located in downtown Reykjavik, and the Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum and Park at Sigtún.
Attention: Admission to the museum is no longer free.
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Listasafn Reykjavíkur er til húsa á þremur stöðum í bænum. Í Hafnarhúsi við Tryggvagötu, á Kjarvalsstöðum við Flókagötu og í Ásmundarsafni við Sigtún.
Reykjavik Art Museum: Kjarvalsstadir
Reykjavík Art Museum (RAM) is the largest visual art institution in Iceland. The museum is situated at three different locations in the city: the Kjarvalsstadir exhibition hall at Miklatún, Hafnarhus, located in downtown Reykjavik, and the Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum and Park at Sigtún.
Attention: Admission to the museum is no longer free.
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Listasafn Reykjavíkur er til húsa á þremur stöðum í bænum. Í Hafnarhúsi við Tryggvagötu, á Kjarvalsstöðum við Flókagötu og í Ásmundarsafni við Sigtún.
Asmundarsafn - The Reykjavik Art Museum
Asmundur Sveinsson
About the artist
Asmundur Sveinsson was one of the pioneers of sculpture in Iceland. He studied at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, under the guidance of the sculptor Carl Milles. Early on he was exposed to the traditional view that sculpture should be part of the urban environment. After completing his studies in 1926 he moved to Paris where he lived for three years. The city was then the uncontested centre of contemporary art in Europe and his stay there influenced him no less than his formal education.
Throughout his life, Sveinsson remained loyal to his belief that art should be for the people and have its place among them. He was called the poet of the people in the field of art and undoubtedly this ideal was rooted in his philosophy of life no less than in the traditions of sculpture. Most of his sculptures were conceived as works for public spaces, an integral part of their environment or designed for utility.
Asmundur Sveinsson
The Asmundur Sveinsson Collection
Asmundur Sveinsson was one of the pioneers of Icelandic sculpture.
The Asmundur Sveinsson collection contains works that span the whole career of the artist and clearly show how his artistic vision developed throughout his life. Among the oldest are sculptures that he created as a student at the State Academy in Sweden. Later came the grand masterpieces that praise the Icelandic common people, folk-tales and nature. Finally the collection has a number of abstract works, that the artist created in the last decades of his life.
Asmundur Sveinsson donated his house and his collection to the City of Reykjavik after his day.
Books about Asmund Sveinsson
All the museum stores at the Reykjavik Art Museum, -Kjarvalsstadir, -Asmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum
and the Hafnarhus, have books about Asmundur Sveinsson, his artwoorks and his career.
Exhibitions
Exhibition of works by Asmundur Sveinsson are put on display at the Asmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum.
The Reykjavik Art Museum
Tel 590-1200 Fax 590-1201
listasafn@reykjavik.is
artmuseum.is
parkour laugavegur reykjavik
august 2011
Árbær Museum
Árbær Museum is an Open-Air Folk Museum in Reykjavík Iceland.
Listamannaspjall við Steinu / Artist talk with Steina
Í tilefni af alþjóðlega safnadeginum 2017, og yfirskrift hans, bauð Listasafn Íslands gestum sínum að njóta frásagnar eins fremsta listamanns landsins; Steinu (Steinunn Briem Bjarnadóttir Vasulka, f.1940), um vídeóinnsetningu hennar Eldrúnir sem sýnd er í safninu til 20. ágúst 2017.
Hildur og Kristín Bjarnadætur, systur Steinu og Kristín Scheving, deildarstjóri Vasulka-stofu ræddu við Steinu um verk hennar og um Vasulka-stofu; sérdeild innan Listasafns Íslands, sem stofnuð var árið 2014 og er starfrækt sem sýninga- og rannsóknarými á neðri hæð safnbyggingar Listasafns Íslands.
The Einar Jónsson Museum
In 1909, Einar Jónsson offered all of his works as a gift to the Icelandic people on the condition that a museum be built to house them. This gift was not accepted by the Icelandic Parliament until 1914, however. The Parliament contributed 10,000 crowns to the construction of the museum, while a national collection yielded 20,000 crowns in private donations. It can be safely said that the Icelanders had from the very beginning shown a special appreciation for the art of their country's first sculptor and had fully realized the value of his gift to the nation.
Jónsson chose to locate the museum on the top of Skolavorduhaed, a desolate hill on the outskirts of town, as he puts it in his autobiography. The museum was the first building to be constructed on the top of the hill and Jónsson realized what possibilities this location, the highest in town, offered. Like some of his contemporaries, he dreamt of Skolavorduhaed becoming the political and cultural Acropolis of an independent Iceland. The museum was built according to a plan by the artist and it may thus be said that the museum building constitutes his biggest sculpture. The building served as his studio, as a gallery for his works and even as his home. The museum building is indisputably the work of Jónsson, although it was the architect Einar Erlendsson who officially signed the plans for the museum in June 1916, the same year the foundation of the museum was laid.
The Einar Jónsson Museum was officially opened on Midsummer's Day in 1923. This was a watershed event for Icelandic art, as the building was the country's first art museum. The building rises from a high and heavy pedestal, as if it were a sculpture, and its architectural style mirrors the stylistic upheaval of the turn of the century, a time during which people were searching for new forms of expression. It is not possible to place the building under any one stylistic heading. Far from being an expression of classicism, the building is a typical example of eclecticism; in other words, ideas from a variety of different sources were utilized in its design. A similar attitude is prevalent today as we near the end of the century; no single style is dominant and everything is permitted.
The museum's penthouse apartment, probably the first in Iceland, is unique, and the view from the apartment one of the most beautiful in Reykjavik. Jónsson and his Danish-born wife, Anna Jorgensen, established a modest yet cosmopolitan artist's home there, furnishing it with uncommon furniture and art. The Jónsson home is part of the museum and is preserved in its original condition.
The museum contains close to 300 art works spanning a 60 year career: carvings from the artist's youth, sculptures, paintings and drawings. A beautiful tree-clad garden adorned with 26 bronze casts of the artist's works is located behind the museum. The task of the museum is to collect, preserve and display the work of Einar Jónsson and conduct research on his life and art. The museum is a private institution funded by the Icelandic government. The statutes of the museum are set forth in the artist's testament of September 11th, 1954.
The director of the museum is art historian Júlíana Gottskálksdóttir. The museum's Board of Trustees is comprised of: Sesselja Snaevarr, who is also the chairman, Hjalti Hugason, Gudrún Erlendsdóttir, Sigurður Helgason and Laufey Gudjónsdottir.
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Íslands lag (Þú álfu vorrar yngsta land)
Drengjakór Reykjavíkur syngur Íslands lag, ljóð Hannes Hafstein, lag e. Sigfús Einarsson. Friðrik S. Kristinsson stjórnar. Tekið upp á tónleikum í Mountain, N.- Dakota 23. júní, 2010.
Alternative North / Birta Guðjónsdóttir Panel at NYLO-Alternative spaces, alternative to what?
Birta Guðjónsdóttir
Director, The Living Art Museum,
Reykjavík, Iceland
ALTERNATIVE NORTH -- ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCANDINAVIA.
Virtir safnstjórar, listgagnrýnendur og sýningarstjórar frá Norðurlöndum komu saman á málþingi í Listasafni Reykjavíkur -- Hafnarhúsi helgina 5. -- 7. nóvember til að ræða stöðu samtímalistar á Norðurlöndum. Yfirskrift málþingsins var Alternative North - A Symposium on Contemporary Nordic Art.
Á þinginu var sjónum beint að nýjum straumum í myndlist, gagnrýnni umræðu og sýningarrýmum fyrir tilraunalist. Dagskráin samanstóð af kynningum og málstofum um mismunandi efni, meðal annars nýþróun í hverju landi fyrir sig, samanburði á stöðu landanna, mismunandi áherslum, sameiginlegum tækifærum og átthagatryggð. Ráðstefnan fór fram á ensku.
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ALTERNATIVE NORTH - A Symposium on Contemporary Nordic Art
The two-day symposium brought together an international group of curators, art writers and programme directors to discuss and debate the state of contemporary art in the Nordic countries.
The symposium concentrated on the emerging and alternative art scene, with special attention to venues for experimental art and critical discussion. The weekend program did consist of presentations and panel discussions on specific topics, such as new developments in each country, similarities and differences, common opportunities and separate emphasises, unity and disparate regionalisms.
The symposium was organized by the Reykjavik Art Museum (artmuseum.is) in cooperation with the Living Art Museum (nylo.is), the Centre for Icelandic Art (cia.is), and the Nordic House in Reykjavik (nordice.is) and is presented in conjunction with Ting, The Nordic Arts Festival of the Nordic Council's 62nd Session.