Reykjavik Arts Festival 2022

1 - 19 June 2022

The theme of the 2022 festival is “ON THE OTHER SIDE”

Mankind will not have seen the last of the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer of 2022. We are however already ‘on the other side’ of it in the sense that the world will never be the same again. At the same time, climate change is having devastating effects on all of our lives, and there is no way for us to continue down the same path as before.

The theme is left open for interpretation, as it is multifaceted in its simplicity. Some ways to look at it might include: 

• Seeing things from the other side: new perspectives, new approaches.
• This side / The other side: Dichotomy (where everything is either/or) and its impact on society - us/them, truth/lie, mind/matter, male/female ...
• On the other side of the mainstream: Queer culture, fringe culture, etc.
• On the other side: beyond reality, the future.
  

Reykjavik Arts Festival 2022 Team

Artistic Director: Vigdís Jakobsdóttir
Executive Director: Fjóla Dögg Sverrisdóttir
PR: Kara Hergils
Project Managers: Ása Dýradóttir, Matthias Engler, Gunnar Karel Másson, Guja Sandholt, Sigurður Starr, Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir
Editor: Salka Guðmundsdóttir
Festival Design: Brandenburg

Programme 2022

The Festival programme of 2022 can be found in the Festival Archive here.

30 events were on the main programme and 9 of them had been postponed from 2020.
Connected events were 17 and Festival Hub events were 57. In total were 104 events.
631 artists participated in the Festival 2022 at 40 venues in 17 postal codes.
40 thousand guests attended Festival events. 3000 people attended events at the Festival Hub in Iðnó.

Festival Hub

The Festival Hub plays a vital role at the Reykjavík Arts Festival and is an inseperable part of the experience. At the Hub we encourage democratic engagement and participation in the arts and all events are free to attend. As well as hosting a diverse array of events, takeovers by various art collectives and exciting experiments, the Hub is a venue for dialogue and more informal opportunities to connect and get to know new people and ideas. In these strangest of times in an erratic world it is a sanctuary where all are welcome.

The 2022 Festival Hub was located in IÐNÓ, at the heart of the city.