Programme | Reykjavik Arts Festival

1-16 june 2024

Programme

Inter-bite: feathers, fingers, antennas

REYKJAVÍKURTJÖRN

Flood

REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM, HAFNARHÚS

Arkív

Sea Monsters

MIDBAKKI, REYKJAVÍK

METAXIS

HARPA CONCERT HALL

Lise Davidsen

Yes Yes Yes

Here is My Home

DAGADANA

NORÐURLJÓS, HARPA

Óþekktur hlutur á pokasvæði sálar minnar

FURULUNDUR, HEIÐMÖRK

Ásmundarsalur on the go

VARIOUS LOCATIONS

Materize

NASSIM

Is this North?

AKUREYRI ART MUSEUM

Rask

SLÁTURHÚSIÐ, EGILSSTAÐIR

Mahler 3

(Post)

NORRÆNA HÚSIÐ

While in battle I'm free, never free to rest

BORGARLEIKHÚSIÐ

Kiosk 108

KIOSK 108, SEYÐISFJÖRÐUR

INTO Festival

ALÞÝÐUHÚSIÐ Á SIGLUFIRÐI

Loop

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND

Future Fragments

ÞJÓÐMINJASAFN ÍSLANDS

Scoooootch!

BORGARLEIKHÚSIÐ, SMALL STAGE

In Mid-Air

GALLERÍ ÚTHVERFA, ÍSAFIRÐI

Future Forecast

SILFURBERG, HARPA

Duets

BORGARLEIKHÚSIÐ

Niður - an Icelandic Circus on Ljósagangur

THE NORDIC HOUSE

Flökt

BORGARLEIKHÚSIÐ

Voices Away

BREIÐHOLTSKIRKJA

Silfurgjá

13 JUN - 21 JUL

Óþægileg blæbrigði

13 JUN - 21 JUL

Las Vegan

Course

THE LIVING ART MUSEUM

Eden

12 Last Songs

NORÐURLJÓS, HARPA

Rótarskot

EDDA - HÚS ÍSLENSKUNNAR

Junction

Jacob Collier

Festival Hub

Klúbbur Listahátíðar

Hand gives two swans a piece of food

Inter- bite: Banquet on the Bank

Old map of Iceland showing the southwest coast and sea monsters.

Kids' Longtable: Are monsters real?

Sóley Stefánsdóttirsits in front of a piano. She looks at the camera. In the background there are two colorful sculptures resembling eggs.

Bird Symphony

There is a swimming pool in the foreground and windows in the background. In the background there are 3 people in white T-shirts and swimming trunks. They are. with guitar, bass and drum kit. There are plants on the windows and pool deck. In the pool there are yellow swimming noodles, one big red buoy and one inflated pink flamingo. On it sits a person in a red swimsuit and high heels holding a tambourine.

Opening Night Party: Superserious

Takeover: Vökufélagið

TrashFeast — Foraging Walk & Community Kitchen

Guests sit at a long table. They hold cookies in open arms in front of them and close their eyes. On the table are blue bottles, glasses and cups.

Trash Feast - Dinner Party

Materize

Materize

Anatomy of a process: Korda Samfónía

Back of a person holding a golden Tibetan singing bowl. There are drums in the background.

Here & Now: Art and Wellbeing

Drengurinn fengurinn / Apex Anima & FRZNTE

White wall with a balcony. All over the wall are hanging materials with different texts painted on them: 2012 / Skrána / Gdzie jest nowa konstytucja? / Töfrakrórinn / Loftlags aðgerðir strax. Down in the foreground are masked people sitting or standing and seeming to be waiting. There are movie cameras and lights.

Longtable: The Footprint of the Arts

Cheick Bangoura stands in front of a blue wall. He holds a djumbe and opens his arms. He wears African styled shirt and hat. In the background there are three people and instruments.

FAR fest Happy hour

Close-up of right and left hand with palm up. The fingers of the right hand come slightly over the other fingers. The fingers have green and red paint.

Longtable: Art in the Time of War

POPera

Takeover: Happy Pinoy

Several photos layered on top of each other of hands doing sign language.

Takeover: (H)ANDAFLUG

Workshop: John Cage’s Mesostics method

Ingibjörg Turchi & band / Djasskrakkar

Voice estuary

Smokey Quartz stands with a stick in his hand and looks in front of him. He is wearing a long pink jacket, a black net top and black pants. He has very short hair and strong black lines around his eyes, along with a palette. He wears white eye lenses.

Drag Youth Night

The photo was taken on Laugarvegurinn in front of an old pharmacy door. On the left side of the picture are a man and a woman dressed in old-fashioned clothes, sweaters and woolen jackets and trousers. They look at a child who is wearing a unicorn cap, gold and pink and wears a cap dress.

Longtable: Whose cultural inheritance?

Image of a person dancing, one hand above their head and one hand in front of them. The person has gray hair. and closes his eyes, is wearing black pants and a blue top.

Here & Now- The Dance Scene

Six dancers in everyday clothes, dancing dynamically on a wooden floor. Audience members standing on the sides.

Dance at the Hub

Picture of two persons in the foreground. They are looking at each other in a mirror. The person in front wears green dress and glasses and red lipstick. The person takes a hair roll from its grey hair. The second person right behind is wearing a Turkish blue sweater and had hair rolls in brown hair. That persons holds a telephone and take the picture. In the background one can see two persons sitting. One in a Turkish blue dress and another one holding a news paper.

Wedding of the Century

Crowd of people dancing rock and roll

Dance of the Century

Plastic animal figurines of all colours and shapes are aligned on the edge of a container

Here & Now: Safer Spaces

DRIF

A pair of burlesque beauties pose before an orange background. They are both dark haired, light skinned and wearing white burlesque outfits with pearls, beads and fringe. They are both holding white boas which they wrap around themselves in a playful manner.

Takeover: Burlesque

Picture of a band with 5 people. One person in the foreground sits down and sings into a microphone. It is dressed in black, with black gloves and sunglasses. To the left of the person are 2 band members standing, one holding a guitar. They look at each other. In the background there is a drummer with a cap on his head and a bass player. Behind them they can be seen in a screen with a projection on.

Family punk

Picture of a young DJ looking in front of a computer screen with headphones on his head. The back of the computer is covered with stickers and the front has a mixer and a lamp. The image is illuminated with blue-green light.

Not Your Everyday DJs

Connected events

Learn Polish and Ukranian games!

Panel Talk: Artist and Curator

REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS

Meet the Artists: Is This North?

AKUREYRI ART MUSEUM

Guided Tour: (Post)

THE NORDIC HOUSE

Artist Talk in Spanish: Here is My Home

Curator Tour: Is This North?

AKUREYRI ART MUSEUM

Meet the Artist: In Mid-Air

GALLERÍ ÚTHVERFA, ÍSAFJÖRÐUR

Meet the Artist: Loop

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND

Listamannaspjall: Hringrás

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ICELAND

Guided Tour: (Post)

THE NORDIC HOUSE

Guided Tour for Families: (Post)

THE NORDIC HOUSE

Guided Tour: Rás

THE LIVING ART MUSEUM

Meet the Artist: Magnús Sigurðarson

Happening: Guðrún Marta Jónsdóttir