Reykjavik Arts Festival will take place 1-16 June 2024.

Our programme is brimming with exciting and diverse events, with the festival reaching far beyond the city limits. Do you want to enter an immersive visual arts exhibition, chase sea monsters around the harbour, experience new music, watch a fascinating dance performance, take an audio walk in nature, listen to world famous musicians - maybe all of this? You are sure to find something to tickle your fancy on this year's festival programme.

Click here to browse through an electronic copy of our printed programme which will also be available around the city.

We are proud to introduce the visual arts programme of our 2024 festival! From June 1 to 16 we will offer a diverse flora of events for art enthusiasts. Featuring a large number of artists, there are installations, sculptures, photography, audio works and festivals set to open in galleries and museums in the capital area and around the country.

Reykjavík Art Museum hosts Jónsi's first solo exhibition in Europe, Flood, where his immersive audio installations will reveal new worlds, starting from the opening day of the festival. By Reykjavík Pond, artists Anna Andrea Winther and Agnes Ársæls will exhibit art for birds and people under the title Inter-bite: Feathers, fingers, antennas. Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir's delightful sculpture exhibition, In Mid-Air, will open in Outvert Art Space in Ísafjörður. At Sláturhúsið in Egilsstaðir, photographer Agnieszka Sosnowska and Ingunn Snædal engage in a creative dialogue in their exhibition Rask. Akureyri Art Museum presents Is This North? a major group exhibition exploring the Arctic. The thriving cultural activities of Alþýðuhúsið in Siglufjörður received the Eyrarrósin Award 2023-24 and the venue will host a three day international festival, INTO. In a transformed captain's bridge in Seyðisfjörður, Kiosk 108, a music and performance art festival will take place, curated by Captain Monika Fryčová. Ásmundarsalur-on-the-go travels the city with a container where guests can experience an installation by artists Shu Yi and Þórdís Erla Zoëga. Tumi Magnússon presents Loop, a new video and audio installation, at the National Gallery of Iceland. Kling & Bang hosts two solo exhibitions: Magnús Sigurðarson's HAPPY TALES of DEATH and MELANCHOLY or THE GREAT AMERICAN FAILURE, and Guðrún Marta Jónsdóttir's Silfurgjá. The Living Art Museum presents a group exhibition, Course, which addresses the paradox of "exhibiting sound". Artist Yuliana Palacios will exhibit new video work, Here is my home, in Gerðarsafn. The Nordic House invites guests to experience an international group exhibition, (Post), tackling the anthropocene. Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir's solo exhibition, Future Fragments, will be held by the National Museum of Iceland.

The festival programme will be announced in its entirety in April - stay tuned!

Sea Monsters - New Icelandic Street Theater Touring the Country This Summer!

What's happening at the harbour? On the opening day of the Reykjavik Arts Festival on June 1, incredible creatures will appear around Reykjavik harbour when circus group Hringleikur and Pilkington Props come together in a new and large-scale Icelandic street theatre production for the whole family.

The Sea Monsters will go on the move after the opening ceremony, continuing their journey around the country and visiting four additional locations.

June 1 at 3:00 PM - Reykjavik (Miðbakki)

June 4 at 5:15 PM - Akranes (Small Boat Harbor v/Faxabraut)

June 8 at 3:00 PM - Ísafjörður (Westfjords Heritage Museum)

June 12 at 5:15 PM - Húsavík (Naustagarður, Húsavík Harbor)

June 15 at 3:00 PM - Neskaupstaður (Norðfjarðarkirkja)

Salka Guðmundsdóttir, editor of the Reykjavik Arts Festival, recently interviewed Eyrún Ævarsdóttir from Hringleikur and playwright Hildur Knútsdóttir. The podcast is in Icelandic.

Eyrarrósin, a recognition for outstanding cultural projects outside the capital area, was presented for the seventeenth time on Sunday 16 May.

Handbendi receives the Eyrarrósin Award 2021

Handbendi receives the Eyrarrósin Award 2021

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2024 Programme Launch!

A diverse flora of visual arts

Warning: Sea Monsters!