Hrafnkell Sigurðsson Freeze Frame / Frosinn Rammi
Freeze Frame by Hrafnkell Sigurðsson debuted in the fall of 2020 at Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, featuring five screens with rotating images of ice formations. These structures formed on a metal frame placed by the artist on Skálafell mountain (774m), where ice naturally accumulated, shaped by the interplay of the artist’s effort and nature’s forces.
The rotating frame brings the frozen shapes to life, accompanied by a soundtrack inspired by wind passing through the metal pipes, later reimagined in the studio.
Freeze Frame / Fæðing Guðanna merges natural ice formation, modernist form, and classical sculptural technique. Rather than clay or plaster, the steel frames become encased in ice. The title reflects both the literal frozen structure and the symbolic—a creative process frozen in time yet still evolving.
Subtitled Fæðing Guðanna ("Birth of the Gods"), the work evokes a parallel to mythology, where gods emerge from a cold, white void.
Hrafnkell Sigurðsson’s art deals with the shock of contrasts between nature and culture, harsh nature and refined culture, human nature and inhuman culture, where symmetry and order confront sublime, disorderly environment with its threatening inventions of virulent, non-disposable waste. His aesthetic vision deals with the ultimate questions of survival, where devastation is often wrapped in irresistible beauty.
In 200,7 Hrafnkell Sigurðsson received the prestigious Icelandic Visual Art Award.
In 2023. Artist of the the year. Resolution -Bilboard exhibition in Reykjavík.
Jan Philip Scheibe Shouldered Streetlight
A man in a suit shoulders a streetlight, a battery in hand. At sunset, he lights the lamp and walks into the blue hour.
When the weight grows heavy, he halts, sets the lamp upright, and rests beneath its glow, a fleeting beacon in the deepening darkness.
Jan Philip Scheibe (*72, D) creates installations and performances in urban spaces and natural landscapes, often using light. His work explores humanity's influence on nature and its romanticization.
Through site-specific interventions with unconventional materials, he reveals hidden aspects of spaces, transforming them into new, unseen environments both physically and conceptually.
Abigail Portner with Ellicott Hooligan and Deakin (Animal Collective)
Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way !
Family, love, and positive energy even in dark times. Coming to Seyðisfjörður has always been a healing and positive break for me. I wanted to create a space that reflects that and shows appreciation for my time here. Family and friends Ellicott Hooligan and Deakin will be playing music each night to accompany interactive video and lighting inside and outside the space.
Abigail Portner is a visual artist and production designer based in Savannah GA. She creates large-scale interactive installations, videos and sculptures. Most of her work involves playful stop motions, printed patterns and illustrations. Abby has spent a lot of her career on the road as a touring lighting and production designer for bands like John Cale and Animal Collective, Her personal work reflects this experience and is often very light driven.
Ellicott Hooligan is the Western North Carolina-based project of David Portner, Mikey Powers, and Shane McCord. The trio utilizes improvisation, experimentation, and acoustic instrumentation. Part trance-inducing sonic exploration, part emotional release, Ellicott Hooligan occupies a space somewhere between wholeness and nothingness.
Brian Weitz, also known by his stage name Geologist, is a musician best known as a member of the experimental pop group Animal Collective. He provides electronic sound manipulations and samples for the band. Solo, he does that and plays a lot of hurdy-gurdy too.
Deakin makes music as a member of Animal Collective and on his own. He also likes to help other people make records. Sometimes, he makes film scores. Mostly, he likes playing music with friends like Walsh Kunkel, who has travelled with him to Iceland. Together, they are exploring a new batch of songs that he has been writing for some time now and hopes to turn into a record of his own sometime this year.
NANNA MØLBAK Sun Rope for Noon Peak (2020)
Made from one kilo of Icelandic wool, the rope was twined in Seyðisfjörður in a collective effort and reflection on “Noon Peak” (Hádegistindur), behind which the sun is hiding during winter months. Rope is fundamental, collective and universal. Rope can tie the Sun to Earth and human life to the cosmos. Tilted axis spinning.
In a dialogue with natural and found material, Nanna Mølbak examines materiality, universal forces, historical technology, labour, site and myth. Her current work is focused on wool, thread and felt and their many layers of meaning. She holds a BA in Textiles and a MA in Culture and Communication.
RARIK & List í Ljósi
Boltaland
Back by popular demand, Boltaland will up for the second year at List í ljósi, thanks to RARIK.
Vikram Pradhan
Visible Signs That Something Isn't Right
Born in India and based in Iceland, Vikram works with various mediums in the field of art and design to create pataphysical works, revolving around photography, psychology and philosophy. His previous works have dealt with topics like the visual experience of Schizophrenia and the practice of Lucid Dreaming through a fictional radio show.
The sculpture's title, "Visible Signs That Something Isn't Right," serves as both a guide and a riddle. At first glance, the piece appears as a harmonious convergence, drawing spectators into a seemingly cohesive structure.
https://vikrampradhan.cargo.site/
Puppet Flower
Spirit of Light
Puppet Flower is a paper puppet show soundtracked with a live collage of vocals and samples from nature. Puppet Flower tells a hope-inspiring tale about finding the balance between playfulness and contemplation. They aim to activate the senses and shine light into the spirit on even the darkest nights.
Puppet Flower is a collaboration effort between Madeleine Sis and Zoie Reamer. Sis weaves wistful and whimsical stories using stunning paper puppetry, while Reamer provides an improvised soundtrack with affected found sound, chordal melodies, and haunting vocals.
Agnieszka Rowinska John 10:11, 2024, Dream, 2024, Coexistence, 2024.
During a residency at the home of writer Gunnar Gunnarsson in Iceland, Agnieszka Rowinska created three lightboxes inspired by dreams and a profound sense of being surrounded by something greater. These motion-activated works, combining shadows and pulsating light, explore the interplay of reality, memory, and universal archetypes.
Polish artist Agnieszka Rowinska explores the unconscious, memory, and dreams in her creative practice. Her work investigates universal symbols and archetypes, creating spaces for introspection. She specializes in large-scale oil paintings and lightboxes that reveal hidden layers of reality. Rowinska has participated in international residencies and exhibitions across Europe and Asia.
oceanfloor.group QOPEI_In: the house of water
Concert in the pool !!
The QOPEI choir & ensemble will perform the composition ‘Hvorfor ikke kalde dem øjne'…
Remembering, a secret life of long notes & deep ends. A decade !!
Some kind of memorial service… Dripping fanfare, a flag leaking (in) light (in) the house of water.
oceanfloor.group subsists from a local and interlocal group dedicated to initiate, maintain care for and give attention to objects, images, text - - performance - - radio & sound
Lotte Rose Kjær Skau Calibrating
An attempt to go up in smoke through movement and digital manipulation
Skau relies on a sensitivity to her immediate environment in her practice. It evolve around institutionalised behavior and from that freeing objects and materiality from their given functionality. The work manifests in sculpture, installation and drawings, always with a notion to non-hierarchical situations. Her images, objects and installations often appear in moments of growth or slow transformation, creating new relations between seemingly distinct things.
Ra Tack & Sarah Ann Banks Grow on Me
‘Grow on Me’ is a collaboration between animator Sarah Ann Banks and painter RaTack.
Ra Tack (they/them) is a Belgian painter living in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Tack’s work invites the viewer into a lush, timeless world that is at the same time familiar and fantastic - a utopia full of longing.
Sarah Ann Banks( she/her) Brooklyn, NY- is a digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY, working primarily with 3D animation software. She uses her work to storytell and explore fixations in her daily life, building a universe that operates as a visual diary.
‘Grow on Me’ carries the intensity and romanticism of impressionism and is an ode to parenthood, kinship and love.
Flowers, as tradition, are an acceptable response to loss and pain. Flowers symbolise the most temporal and temporary beauty.
Boris Vitazek Second Litany
Second Litany features polygonal figures set in poses inspired by traditional paintings. Worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults have been part of society from its beginnings. Nowadays, people might find their counterparts in secular culture - for example, the rave scene. This might seem like an unlikely place for a communal and spiritual setting, but it might offer some form of reflection and unwinding for people. Dancing fuses together with the suffering and praying of ancient figures to the slow beat that gives the whole experience a meditative quality. Work was originally made with large paintings from Zuzana Sabova, however in Seydisfjordur the work is presented as projection mapping working with local architecture.
Boris Vitazek studied intermedia art at AFAD Bratislava - his work spans many different media - visual arts, 3d mapping, interactive art, sound art, game art, video and photography work and extensive work with theatre. The experimental music scene could be considered his natural environment - working with music festivals, preparing events, DJing, and working on live A/V performances.
Tækniminjasafn Austurlands ásamt nemendum Seyðisfjarðarskóla // Technical Museum with students of Seyðisfjörður´s elementary school
Töfraljós // Magic Lantern
Light is essential to our existence, whether it comes from the sun or another source. In its absence, we explore the features of light to create imaginative worlds with students from the elementary school of Seyðisfjörður.
The Technical Museum of East Iceland has been operating in Seyðisfjörður for the past 40 years. Its focus has been to communicate technological developments and their social impact. In addition to exhibitions, the museum has placed great emphasis on being a living museum where people can test technology and technical knowledge for themselves. This is the third time that the museum has participated in List í ljósi.
Delainy Kennedy
Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen is an exploration of latent space and non-visible light. The work combines a photographic dataset of 4000 infrared images captured by Delainy and machine learning to create captivating moving imagery.
Delainy works at the intersection of art and technology, focusing on data as the central narrative. Creating immersive and interactive installations that explore and visualize data, transforming complex information into engaging visual experiences.
LungA School
Fragments of a spirit called shadow
Through play and collaboration, the LungA School has awakened a spirit. A spirit that can only be summoned by light, bodies and music in the night. Performed Friday and Saturday at 21:30
Solveig stjarna Thoroddsen
Bjarna-Dísa
The work is dedicated to Þórdís, a young maid who died in a tragic way in Stafdalur in 1797. Based on that tragic event, legends arose about the atrocities of the ghost Bjarna-Dísa. In the work, I see Dísa as a cheerful girl who faces a terrible fate and fights for her life. Despite this, all rescues are forbidden to her. The route is closed. The work also refers to the present day, as those who travel through Fjarðarheiði often encounter this sign in bad weather: IMPASSABLE-CLOSED
Solveig is based in Reykjavík. She graduated with a master's degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2015 and has been an active artist ever since. Solveig works across media, and her main issues are the person vs nature, the person in society and not least with feminist references.
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Katla Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir & Olga Gry Becker HÆNUR - where are the grown ups?
HÆNUR is an iteration of the piece HÆNA from 2018: a glowing hen, a stand-in for a mother and a container of eggs. A reaction to loss and love, grief and darkness. 7 years later, the work takes on a different shape when the artists ask new questions while reminiscing about the earlier version of HÆNA and the emotions that gave birth to the work.
Katla and Olga started working together in 2016 and have had several collective outputs, including two performative sculptures at List I Ljosi (2018, 2019). After working separately in the field of art, activism and curation, they are excited to take up the collaboration again for this occasion that has brought them into a funny and honest process of revisiting, dreaming and playing with what was and what is yet to come. Something is about to happen.
Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir While we look for a place to park
While We Look For a Place to Park is a sonic light performance in which cars move together in a certain dance, unfolding the moment of the car's journey to its parking place.
Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir graduated with a Bachelor's in visual arts from the Academy of the Arts in Iceland in 2020. Her works reflect a fascination with man-made sounds, their sincerity, and their differences and variations. Silfrún's artistic process revolves around the interaction of sounds, objects, and participation, drawing inspiration from sound poetry. Her works usually appear as a sonic participatory performance or a sound installation.
List í ljósi
Bridge the light
Bridge the light pays tribute to Fjóla Heiðal's 2022 piece at List í ljósi, reimagining its materials in a new form.
Seyðisfjörður Music School and Ljósagaldrar
Get ready to light up your imagination through original songs from bands from the Music School and lanterns from the Art Department from Seyðisfjarðarskóli.
The Seyðisfjörður Music School performs at 18:00 o’clock Friday night with a concert of original compositions by students from 3rd-8th grade at Skaftfell bistro.
Björt Sigfinnsdóttir
Enchanted Harmony, Fragments of Time
'Enchanted Harmony, Fragments of Time' extends an invitation to a meditative ritual, where the audience may explore the prospect of re-discovering their childhood memories of the northern lights while, perhaps, simultaneously calling forth the supernatural spectacle into the current evening sky.
Hanging from a bridge, the fragment of time captures the vibrant childhood
memories of the artist while also serving as a sanctuary for hidden folk and other
spirits. From the perspective of her younger self, she observes the wonders of
the forces of nature – wild winds, a symphony of colors – where captivating
beauty and the overwhelming power coexist in a delicate dance, almost in
defiance of one another.
Beyond the canvas of visual aesthetics, this installation transcends into a meditative ritual. It serves as an invocation, a calling upon Mother Earth and its celestial forces to safeguard the life nestled within the embrace of Seyðisfjörður. This artwork stands as an ode to the formidable nature of the fjord, a love letter to its beauty that acknowledges its inherent threats.
The visuals find their canvas on old window glass from the artist's childhood home, adding an additional layer of depth to the narrative.
Katla og Módís Lyst í ljósi - dóttir, móðir, frænka
“ A real housewife knows how to spring the cucumber“.
“ And the tinsmith, he knows how to star the tomatoes“.
Anyhow, I like shrimp bread tarts the best, like scone bread tarts.
What unites generations? Families?
What can a whole town talk about in parties?
The answer is Bread-majones-cake?
Everybody has their opinion on it.
Katla is an artist and her daughter is even a better one.
Together, they are embracing their love for food and the community.
They are combining it all together with the elements of music, poetry, spoken word, interviews with the locals of Seyðisfjörður and visual art through painting and drawing.
Embrace your artistic weirdness with us and let's go on a majones journey together.
Pétur Kristjánsson
Analog Reflections of Digital Storage
What could be the use of discarded DVD and CD discs that might have artistic value?
Pétur is 73 years old. He lives and works in Seyðisfjörður and has exhibited his art in numerous shows.
Vikram Pradhan Spaces Between Seconds
"Spaces Between Seconds" is a projection mapping project exploring time’s fluidity through visual pulses and shifting imagery. A countdown timer perpetually tracks each second of the day, creating a dynamic interplay between fleeting moments and cyclical rhythms. The projections transform the wall into a living canvas, revealing time’s intangible yet ever-present flow.
Vikram is an artist from India who lives and works in Iceland. He works across design media to create pataphysical artworks that are fundamentally psychological and relate to absurdism. He is a visual artist and filmmaker who has exhibited in museums and festivals in Iceland, the V&A Museum, London and India. His work is centered around research into speculative design and pataphysics, and draws heavily on experiments in filmmaking and photography, emotion and behavior.