Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018

1 - 18 June 2018

Festival theme „HOME“

The wide selection of events at Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018  evolved around the theme of ‘Home’.  The theme gives a layer of meaningful context and depth to the selection of the festival and connects and mirrors otherwise unrelated events in new and exciting ways.

Home as political / sociopolitical phenomenon

One way to look at the concept of Home is in the light of increasing migration and mobility of people around the globe, both for political and economical reasons. What is the meaning of ‘home’ to the one who has lost everything? To what extent has increased tourism, the internet and globalisation affected our concept of ‘home’?

Home from a historical perspective

‘Home’ can also be viewed from a cultural and historical perspective. The year 2018 marks the centenary of the Danish-Icelandic Act of Union, which recognised Iceland as a fully sovereign state. What is a ‘home country’? How does the idea of ‘home’ relate to personal and national identity?

Home from a personal / artistic perspective

When do we truly feel ‘at home’? What connects us to places and other people in a way which makes us feel as we have ‘come home’? Are the Arts maybe a continuous search for this connection?

Programme 2018

Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018 offered 34 events which can be seen in the Festival Archive here.

34 events were on the main programme and 36 events were on Festival Hub programme. In total there were 183 events over the course of 18 days.
1000 participants from 22 countries took part in the festival this year.
Events took place in 48 venues around the country.
35 thousand people were in the festival's audiences.

Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018 Team

Artistic Director: Vigdís Jakobsdóttir
Executive Director: Fjóla Dögg Sverrisdóttir
PR: Alexía Björg Jóhannsdóttir
Project Managers: Anna Rut Bjarnadóttir, Friðrik Agni Árnason, Renaud Durville
Hub Manager: Elísabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir
Editor: Björg Björnsdóttir
Translator: Salka Guðmundsdóttir
Festival Design: Döðlur

Festival Hub 2018

Reykjavik Art Museum (The old harbour warehouse – Hafnarhús) hosted the hub for Reykjavik Arts Festival in 2018. The hub was a pop-up bar, especially designed for the festival by a local artist/designer. 

The hub was open until midnight each night of the festival from 2nd to 17th of June 2018. All events at the Festival Hub were free of charge.