Reykjavik Arts Festival will take place 30 May-14 June 2026.

“This partnership with Landsbankinn is very important to us. We enjoy working with such a robust backer who has an exemplary history of support for arts and culture in Iceland. The support opens new opportunities to expand the Festival even further and invite all Icelanders, as well as international guests, to enjoy a first-rate and diverse programme. Our aim is for the Festival to reach as broad an audience as possible and we have created a programme that attempts to ensure that everyone can find something to enjoy,” says Lára Sóley.

“We are excited to participate in this fantastic project and look forward to attending the events. Landsbankinn has been a strong supporter of arts and culture throughout the years. Recently, we have worked with DesignMarch, hosted art tours on Reykjavík Culture Night and supported various smaller cultural events around the country, both financially and with direct participation. I would also like to mention the Bank’s gallery website which provides general access to our art collection. Landsbankinn’s headquarters at Reykjastræti 6 are located at the cultural heart of the city. It is very important for us to be an active participant in the arts scene - and to enjoy,” says Sara.

Reykjavík Arts Festival will be held 30 May to 14 June. Events are hosted in various locations around the city and in rural Iceland. The full programme of the Festival will be presented at a dedicated event in Iðnó, Thursday 26 March. Hildur Guðnadóttir is artist-in-residence at Reykjavík Arts Festival 2026 and features in four dedicated events. Among other events are the concert of soprano Angel Blue, exhibitions by Björk Guðmundsdóttir and James Merry at the National Gallery of Iceland, a James Grant concert, an exhibition by Zimoun in the Akureyri Art Museum and the performance of Mahler's 8th Symphony by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

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Project managers Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir and Jón Haukur Unnarsson joined the Reykjavík Arts Festival team this January.

Ragnheiður Maísól holds a BA degree in Fine Art and an MA in Applied Ethnology. Since 2013, she has worked in diverse cultural production alongside her own artistic practice and is one of the founders of MurMur Productions. She was Artistic Director of List án landamæra from 2017 to 2019, Managing Director of Dark Music Days in 2021 and Flipp Festival in 2022, and worked in marketing for DesignMarch in 2022 and 2023. She has mostly worked within the performing art field, having produced over 20 independent theatre works, including Club Romantica, the opera KOK, Sæskrímslin, the opening piece of the 2024 Reykjavík Arts Festival, and Innkaupapokinn.

Jón Haukur is an artist and cultural manager from Akureyri who has been active in the arts since 2010. He studied percussion and sound engineering in Iceland, at the University of the Arts in Havana, and at SAE Institute in Berlin, and is currently completing an MA in Cultural Management at Bifröst University. He is the founder of the festival Mannfólkið breytist í slím, one of the organizers of the Boreal Screendance Festival, and has worked as a project manager for summer festivals for the municipality of Akureyri. In his creative career, Jón Haukur has focused on drumming and percussion, as well as composition, recording and music production, sound design, and event organization. He has also performed contemporary dance and live art.

The festival warmly welcomes them to the team and looks forward to the collaboration.

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