Well received Festival
The final event of the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2009 was a recital by soprano Deborah Voigt. The festival was highly successful this year and remarkably well received by audience and critics alike. Almost all events were sold out.
This year's festival consisted of 70 events hosted by over 500 Icelandic and international artists. Although the Reykjavik Arts Festival is formally over, several visual arts exhibitions will continue throughout the summer. Furthermore, Stray Beacons, unconventional art exhibitions in four separate lighthouses throughout Iceland, will stay open until 3 August.
Summer openings:
Vanity Disorder by Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter at gallery i8, to 14 June.
Hrafnkell Sigurðsson and Kristján Guðmundsson at the National Gallery of Iceland, to 28 June.
Hulda Hákon at the Akureyri Art Museum, to 5 July.
From Unuhús to West 8th Street and Icelandic Design 2009 at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, to 9 August.
Possibilities, The Guðmunda Kristinsdóttir Art Prize, at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Harbour House, to 23 August.
Life isn't just a game – it's also a bed of roses at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography, to 30 August.
Olga Bergmann's The House of Pain at The Reykjanesbær Art Museum, to 17 August.
Pulp Machineries by Klaas Kloosterboer at Gallery Suðsuðvestur, to 14 June.