with Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir & Hanna Dís Whitehead
Ásmundarsalur
2022
Ásmundarsalur
2022
In another house
‘In another house’ is a collaborative exhibition by Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Hanna Dís Whitehead & Steinunn Önnudóttir
The exhibition takes the shape of a home. The authors delineate personal quarters, external boundaries and internal spaces, but expose only limited areas. The authors’ works come together in these scenes and form an unusual material language in familiar settings. In the works of Hanna Dís, Guðlaug and Steinunn there are common themes. They all work in the intersection of art and design but in this project they meet on the borders of these worlds and present an exhibition which belongs to neither but instead intently defies such definitions.
‘In another house’ is a collaborative exhibition by Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Hanna Dís Whitehead & Steinunn Önnudóttir
The exhibition takes the shape of a home. The authors delineate personal quarters, external boundaries and internal spaces, but expose only limited areas. The authors’ works come together in these scenes and form an unusual material language in familiar settings. In the works of Hanna Dís, Guðlaug and Steinunn there are common themes. They all work in the intersection of art and design but in this project they meet on the borders of these worlds and present an exhibition which belongs to neither but instead intently defies such definitions.
with Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir & Hanna Dís Whitehead
Ásmundarsalur
2022
Ásmundarsalur
2022
In another house
‘In another house’ is a collaborative exhibition by Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Hanna Dís Whitehead & Steinunn Önnudóttir
The exhibition takes the shape of a home. The authors delineate personal quarters, external boundaries and internal spaces, but expose only limited areas. The authors’ works come together in these scenes and form an unusual material language in familiar settings. In the works of Hanna Dís, Guðlaug and Steinunn there are common themes. They all work in the intersection of art and design but in this project they meet on the borders of these worlds and present an exhibition which belongs to neither but instead intently defies such definitions.
‘In another house’ is a collaborative exhibition by Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Hanna Dís Whitehead & Steinunn Önnudóttir
The exhibition takes the shape of a home. The authors delineate personal quarters, external boundaries and internal spaces, but expose only limited areas. The authors’ works come together in these scenes and form an unusual material language in familiar settings. In the works of Hanna Dís, Guðlaug and Steinunn there are common themes. They all work in the intersection of art and design but in this project they meet on the borders of these worlds and present an exhibition which belongs to neither but instead intently defies such definitions.
collaboration with Anna Hrund Másdóttir
and Ragnheiður Káradóttir
Kling & Bang Gallery, Marshall House
2021
and Ragnheiður Káradóttir
Kling & Bang Gallery, Marshall House
2021
feigðarós — dreamfields
feigðarós — dreamfields is a collaborative artwork, a show where the artists’ individual ideas and artistic palettes have blended and transformed as they got to know each other’s work and thought processes.
The installation is an immersive environment where viewers can walk around sculptures that render an otherworldly vista. It offers a journey of organic, simulated, abstract and invented textures in a landscape implying desolation while drawing up scenes both in miniature and monumental scale.
The artists received a nomination for the Icelandic Art Prize for the exhibition.
feigðarós — dreamfields is a collaborative artwork, a show where the artists’ individual ideas and artistic palettes have blended and transformed as they got to know each other’s work and thought processes.
The installation is an immersive environment where viewers can walk around sculptures that render an otherworldly vista. It offers a journey of organic, simulated, abstract and invented textures in a landscape implying desolation while drawing up scenes both in miniature and monumental scale.
The artists received a nomination for the Icelandic Art Prize for the exhibition.
photos: Lilja Birgisdóttir & Steinunn Önnudóttir
in collaboration with Anna Hrund Másdóttir and Ragnheiður Káradóttir
at Kling & Bang Gallery, Marshall House
2021
at Kling & Bang Gallery, Marshall House
2021
feigðarós — dreamfields
feigðarós — dreamfields is not a traditional group exhibition but a collaborative artwork, a show where the artists’ individual ideas and artistic palettes have blended and transformed as they got to know each other’s work and thought processes.
The installation is an immersive environment where viewers can walk around sculptures that render an otherworldly vista. It offers a journey of organic, simulated, abstract and invented textures in a landscape implying desolation while drawing up scenes both in miniature and monumental scale.
Parallel to the installation the artists photographed textural experiments placed in odd but familiar surroundings, and exhibited both in the show and catalogue. The catalogue also has new texts written by four Icelandic authors; Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Gunnar Theodór Eggertsson and Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson who thoughtfully shared their ideas and input, giving different frameworks for the artwork.
feigðarós — dreamfields is not a traditional group exhibition but a collaborative artwork, a show where the artists’ individual ideas and artistic palettes have blended and transformed as they got to know each other’s work and thought processes.
The installation is an immersive environment where viewers can walk around sculptures that render an otherworldly vista. It offers a journey of organic, simulated, abstract and invented textures in a landscape implying desolation while drawing up scenes both in miniature and monumental scale.
Parallel to the installation the artists photographed textural experiments placed in odd but familiar surroundings, and exhibited both in the show and catalogue. The catalogue also has new texts written by four Icelandic authors; Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Gunnar Theodór Eggertsson and Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson who thoughtfully shared their ideas and input, giving different frameworks for the artwork.
Hafnarhús D-36
Reykjavík Art Museum
14.03. — 12.05.2019
Reykjavík Art Museum
14.03. — 12.05.2019
curated by Aldís Snorradóttir
Non Plus Ultra
Ever since in classical antiquity, the painting has, among other things, been used to imitate the real world and deceive the eye. It has been referred to as a window to another dimension. Steinunn Önnudóttir’s exhibition is a still life of sorts, simultaneously a painting and an installation. In chasing the real world, we get a glimpse of a struggle between the material and the intention. Steinunn approaches the work on the terms of the painting and stretches the concept’s form, material and texture.
Steinunn deals with painting tradition in a wide sense, exploring the characteristics of the material and its manifestation through history and into the present. She reflects on reality and mimesis, what it and what pretends to be. Can something exist without existing in reality? How true to the original does the copy have to be? Is it enough to present a substitute, for a concept to take off? As well as pondering these questions, Steinunn invites the viewer to become a subject in the painting as soon as they enter the space.
The title of the exhibition is a reference to the ancient view of the Greeks and Romans, who believed that the world’s end lay beyond the Strait of Gibraltar. “Non plus ultra” is Latin for “No more beyond”. By using this title, Steinunn refers to that which we do not see. What lies beyond the visible world?
Ever since in classical antiquity, the painting has, among other things, been used to imitate the real world and deceive the eye. It has been referred to as a window to another dimension. Steinunn Önnudóttir’s exhibition is a still life of sorts, simultaneously a painting and an installation. In chasing the real world, we get a glimpse of a struggle between the material and the intention. Steinunn approaches the work on the terms of the painting and stretches the concept’s form, material and texture.
Steinunn deals with painting tradition in a wide sense, exploring the characteristics of the material and its manifestation through history and into the present. She reflects on reality and mimesis, what it and what pretends to be. Can something exist without existing in reality? How true to the original does the copy have to be? Is it enough to present a substitute, for a concept to take off? As well as pondering these questions, Steinunn invites the viewer to become a subject in the painting as soon as they enter the space.
The title of the exhibition is a reference to the ancient view of the Greeks and Romans, who believed that the world’s end lay beyond the Strait of Gibraltar. “Non plus ultra” is Latin for “No more beyond”. By using this title, Steinunn refers to that which we do not see. What lies beyond the visible world?
Text by Aldís Snorradóttir
