About Reykjavik Arts Festival

Reykjavík Arts Festival is a festival for all the people of the country, and although it takes place largely in the capital area, we make every effort to share events through radio and television broadcasts and to offer events in rural communities in collaboration with cultural institutions and artists throughout the country.

The Festival encourages collaboration between different art forms, institutions, and independent artists, and promotes outstanding artistic creation.

The Festival invites us to pause and reflect on our perspectives through forward-looking events, both domestic and international. It introduces us to different cultures and sheds a new light on our world. It gives us the opportunity to experience through our own unique lens, each in our own way, and to awaken the senses.

Reykjavík Arts Festival celebrates diversity and prioritizes accessibility and respect for the environment.

Reykjavík Arts Festival is a biennial multidisciplinary festival that presents, to the widest possible audience, exhibitions and performances of contemporary and classical works in major cultural venues and unconventional spaces throughout the city and the country.

Since its inception in 1970, Reykjavík Arts Festival has been a leading force in the Icelandic cultural scene. Through this activity, the festival has helped to create a vast network of connections between national and international artists, been a catalyst for the creation of new works and a major force in the development of cultural diversity in Iceland.

Reykjavik Arts Festival celebrates diversity and has access, inclusion and respect for the environment in the foreground.