A wheelchair ramp is located by the entrance to Petersen-svítan and provides access for guests of Gamla bíó. A lift will take you to accessible toilets in the basement area.

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (IS), Hamid Khansari (IR), Sigríður Thorlacius (IS), Sara Rezazadeh (IR), Hooman Roomi (IR), Bahar Modiri (IR), Aryan Rezaee (IR)

New and enchanting dimensions open up at the Persian Path concert which features an outstanding lineup of five Iranian and two Icelandic musicians. The repertoire comes from Ásgeir Ásgeirsson and Hamid Khansari‘s acclaimed album of the same name. Their collaboration has been praised as an innovative, daring and powerful encounter between musical vibes across continents. It is not every day that esteemed musicians from Iran and Iceland come together on stage to perform a set of brand new arrangements of folk songs from their regions. Persian instruments, harmonies, rhythm and creation interweave with old Icelandic melodies and Sigríður Thorlacius‘ vibrant voice. From Tehran a group of highly talented musicians will join Hamid, Ásgeir and Sigríður on the stage: Sara Rezazadeh, Hooman Roomi, Bahar Modiri and Aryan Rezaee.

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson has taken Icelandic folk music on a fruitful journey through the Middle East and Southeastern Europe where this music is given new life beyond the Western world.

An enchanting musical journey linking Iceland and Iran

The exhibition is mainly hosted online but can also be experienced at Nýlistasafnið, located in Marshallhúsið which offers good wheelchair access.

Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS), Nora Al-Badri (DE/IQ), Nicole Foreshew (AU), Juliana Cerqueira Leite (BR), 
Jakrawal Nilthamrong (TH), Zohra Opoku (GH), and Charles Stankievech (CA), Petros Moris (GR)

The Last Museum (Reykjavik Edition) blurs the line between cinema and sculpture, while exploring the potential of web-site-specificity. Principally accessed through www.nylo.is (for a limited period from the 11th of June) the exhibition features a major new commission by Egill Sæbjörnsson alongside contributions by artists from seven other countries. For the Reykjavik Arts Festival, the project also materializes in the physical space of Nýló.

The Last Museum is (to borrow a term from computational engineering) a ‘stack’ that encompasses land, sculpture, code, user experience and more. Each participating artist is commissioned to author a sculptural group, to be installed at a physical site of their own choosing — associated with communications infrastructure, technology and/or environment. Each intervention is then videoed and the resulting clips subsequently brought together as an interactive sequence. The outcome is a website experience. Thematically, The Last Museum imagines information transmission across the historical longue durée, dramatizing points of intersection with emerging technologies, (body) politics, and the global economy. As it does so, a leitmotif of displacement, limbo, loss, and undeath plays out.

Curator: Nadim Samman
Artists: Egill Sæbjörnsson, Nora Al-Badri, Nicole Foreshew, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Zohra Opoku, and Charles Stankievech, Petros Moris
Partner: KW Institute for Contemporary Art

From June 11 throughout the summer.
Opening hours: 
Wed.- Sun., 12:00-16:00
Open 24hrs on nylo.is 



(IS) (DE/IQ) (AU) (BR) (TH) (GH) (CA) (GR)

Tjarnarbíó offers good wheelchair access. Neither Tankurinn nor Herðubreið are wheelchair accessible. Svavarssafn, located in Hornafjörður Town Hall, has good wheelchair access.


Inga Huld Hákonardóttir (IS)
Yann Leguay (BE)

Again the Sunset is an experience which occupies the space between concert and performance; a haunted love song that travels through the voice to the body, to raw elements and materials, like an expressive entity without an inherent body.

Two humans put their bodies to work. They work to continue and continue to work, they move what needs to be moved and sing what needs to be sung about deceptive stones, dubious clouds and hopeless histories of love. Words circle around and around like haunting thoughts as the natural elements are met with a sculptural and sonic approach.

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Inga Huld Hákonardóttir is one of Iceland‘s most innovative contemporary choreographers and has worked internationally in the field of dance and performance. Yann Leguay is a cutting edge sound artist. In Again the Sunset, these artists come together to create an audiovisual rambling of thoughts on a night of insomnia.

Choreography: Inga Huld Hákonardóttir
Soundscape: Yann Leguay
Scenography: Inga Hákonardóttir, Yann Leguay
Lights: Gregory Rivoux
Artistic Advisor: Gaëtan Rusquet
Production: Kunstenwerkplaz Pianofabriek og Kosmonaut production
Photography: Stanislav Dobak

One of Iceland‘s most innovative contemporary choreographers. A performance blurring the line between dance and concert .

Harpa is very accessible for wheelchair users, with three lifts going straight from the basement car park up to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. Special wheelchair seating areas must be pre-booked at Harpa. Hearing loops are available in reception. Seats for guests accompanied by assistance dogs must be pre-booked at Harpa.

BUS: 1, 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 55

Carmen Staaf (US)
Julia Hülsmann (DE)
Rita Marcotulli (IT)
Sunna Gunnlaugs (IS)

They sit down, two at each piano, and a fascinating conversation begins. At a rendezvous like this, anything can happen…

Four jazz musicians from four countries, each a leading player on their national jazz scene, perform their own compositions, balancing the atmospheric with the melodic and the unexpected.

Carmen Staaf swings freely from her straight ahead roots into the unknown, while Julia Hülsmann seeks inspiration in poetry, fascinated by dissonance and new discoveries. Raised on Italian film scores, Rita Marcotulli brings to the keyboard her rich experience of performing American jazz, while Sunna Gunnlaugs adds her contemplative lyricism and Nordic melancholy to this outstanding lineup.

Eight hands, two pianos and an evening of captivating jazz - Leading jazz pianists from four countries.

Disabled parking can be found by Hallgrímskirkja square and the square is wheelchair accessible.

BUS: 1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 55

In Hallgrímskirkja square, three pairs of quiet figures appear. Armored, provocative beings confront vulnerable, androgynous figures who despite their apparent vulnerability stand strong against aggression. The interplay of opposites and antagonistic forces also sparks notions of fusion – of a possible dialogue, relations despite differences.

The roots of Armors, Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir‘s stunning exhibition, go back to the artist‘s time in NYC almost a decade ago. At the Metropolitan Museum, the artist became fascinated with its extensive armors collection and of armors as a symbol of power and aggression. A collaboration between the artist and the museum ensued and the figures displayed outside Hallgrímskirkja are based on three precious medieval armors from Germany, England and Italy that were 3D scanned with great precision by museum staff and turned into cast metal sculptures.

Information on the creative process behind the exhibition will be displayed in the Hallgrímskirkja foyer while the sculptures stand in the square.

Harpa is very accessible for wheelchair users, with three lifts going straight from the basement car park up to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. Special wheelchair seating areas must be pre-booked at Harpa. Hearing loops are available in reception. Seats for guests accompanied by assistance dogs must be pre-booked at Harpa.

Hilmar Thordarson (IS)
Halldis Rønning (NO)
Thorbjorg Jonsdottir (IS)

Black Obsidian is a unique performance that invites the audience to take an immersive journey into an imaginary natural landscape. Crossing boundaries and intertwining music, audio, dance, performance, theatre, visual art and light, the artists create a vibrant palette that is a true ode to nature. Contrasting atmospheres, energies and movements performed by singers and musicians are enhanced by the use of an electronic conductor‘s glove that can create and manipulate sound in real time. Music and movements emerge from performers through improvisation and intuition. Moving beyond a traditional understanding of opera, the artists use abstracted natural elements to create a flow from the deep dark unknown into unexpected places of vulnerability and beauty.

Guests are invited to move around during the performance and allow their own imagination to influence their experience of the performance. Created by a visionary and critically lauded team of artists, Hrafntinna/Sort Glimmer offers festival guests an experience unlike any other.

Halldis Rønning - Composer & conductor
Hilmar Thordarson - Composer & electronics
Thorbjörg Jónsdottir - Video design

In creative collaboration with:

Karen Eide Bøen - Choreography
Niels Thibaud Girerd - Staging
Anton Kroyer - Lights
Aron Þór Arnarsson - Sounds
Helga Lúðvíksdóttir - Costumes
Ísak Freyr Helgason - Visual designer

Oddur A. Jónsson - baritone
Ragnheiður Ingunn Jóhannsdóttir - soprano

Guðni Franzson - clarinets
Þuríður Jónsdóttir - flutes
Sigurður Halldórsson - cello
Hrafnkell Örn Guðjónsson (Keli) - percussion


Jostein Stalheim - accordion
Guro Skumsnes Moe - doublebass & voice
Else Olsen Storesund - piano


Tabula Rasa Vocal Ensemble:
Sigrun Jørdre - soprano
Zsuzsa Zseni - mezzosoprano
Tord Kalvenes - tenor
Arild Rohde - tenor


William Hjort-Johansen- Electronic sound assistant 
Egill Kristbjörnsson - Video assistant
Óli Starri - Video assistant
Friðfinnur Sigurðsson - sound assistant

Hair and make-up:
Lilja Dís Smáradóttir
Lísa María Markúsdóttir
Kolbrún Vignisdóttir
Maren Anna
Hera Hlín

Stage:
Ólafur Haukur Matthíasson, Snorri Arnarson, Hugi Guðmundsson


Production:
Gunnbjørg Johannessen - Producer
Kristinn Brynjar Pálsson - Event manager Harpa
Dýri Jónsson - Producer

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The exhibition is located in Pósthússtræti by Austurvöllur, with good access to the exhibits.

BUS: 1, 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 55

Hrafn Hólmfríðarson Jónsson (Krummi) (IS)

Bene Fits is a compelling and intimate work of photography by Krummi, dealing with the reality of being disabled and living in poverty in the 21st century Icelandic welfare state – of a deprived existence in one of the world‘s wealthiest countries. Bene Fits places the personal alongside the socio-economic, creating an experience that stirs us, sparks reflection and offers a new vision. The work starkly underlines the interplay between market and welfare system in a society where happiness is said to lie in increased purchasing power. Where does that leave those of us who cannot take part in the consumer frenzy?

Krummi was born in Reykjavík in 1990. He graduated from the School of Photography in early 2021 and has since gained praise for his atmospheric and sensitive photography. His work has been exhibited at Gallerí Port, Ásmundarsalur, the Reykjavík Museum of Photography and at the Copenhagen Photo Festival.

Krummi‘s photographs will be displayed in Pósthússtræti by Austurvöllur throughout the summer.

The exhibition is in collaboration with the City of Reykjavik.

The caravan has room for one wheelchair at the time.

Opening 9 June, 17:00 at The Nordic House.

Outdoors sculptures by a group of eight different artists will appear in several Reykjavík neighbourhoods during the festival. The Wheel is a series of outdoors exhibitions held around the city since 2018 by the Reykjavík Association of Sculptors to honour the 50th anniversary of the association. The first exhibition was part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival in 2018 and now the circle will close with the fifth and final installment. This time, The Wheel will weave its way through areas 101, 102 and 107, as artists shed new light on our everyday surroundings. The works displayed are of a varied nature, provoking a deep study of both area and history while simultaneously examining the more complex social stratification of the cityscape.

The Wheel V is a fascinating opportunity to experience the familiar in new ways, to get to know the works of a truly diverse group of artists and ponder the time and space of the city, in your own time.

Artists: Emma Heiðarsdóttir, Finnur Arnar Arnarson, Geirþrúður Finnbogadóttir Hjörvar, Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Sean Patrick O’Brien, Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir, Ulrika Sparre & Wiola Ujazdowska.
Curator: Kristín Dagmar Jóhannesdóttir
Reykjavik Association of Sculptors, exhibition committee: Eygló Harðardóttir, Haraldur Jónsson, Una Björg Magnúsdóttir, Örn Alexander Ámundason
Partners: Reykjavíkurborg, Norræna húsið í Reykjavík, Myndlistarsjóður

Reykjavík Arts Festival will next take place 1-19 June 2022.

The Art Festival Club is located in Iðnó and plays an extremely important role.

Reykjavík Arts Festival hosts outstanding artistic creations from all corners of the world while also nurturing a powerful and vibrant relationship with its audiences, widening the circle to include as many as possible so that they may enjoy the arts on their own terms.

Reykjavík Arts Festival celebrates diversity and prioritises accessibility and respect for the environment in all decision making. Programming is driven by courage, professionalism, joy and big thinking.

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