ArtsIceland

16/10/2026

Join us on Friday!

where the light enters: isafjarðardjúp’s angels of the sea 🐋🪽🌊

my heart is bursting with joy seeing my new exhibit come together. it’s been a dream of mine to have an exhibit in iceland on cetacean research, and to help contribute to research through my passions in scientific communication.

i always enjoy seeing the pieces in my printmaking project come together, from the beginning to the end in my process. from the personal research and journal entries in noting the resident whales, to making reference of the ones unfortunately involved in fishing entanglements, and to learning the migration patterns and occurrences of the whales. each step leads to the final creation in my work, while i learn new research along the way. my passion is to use artwork as a means to communicate valuable research and studies, and it brings me immense happiness to help Whale Wise visually communicate years of research.

this exhibition is essentially acknowledging Whale Wise’s many years of research on photo-identification and scar analysis, unveiling and bringing to light the humpback whale communities. humpback whales have a long-lasting relationship with the fjords in iceland, returning year after year. their identity and presence also contribute to fighting climate change, absorbing carbon and fertilizing the ocean to boost plant-based carbon capture. through my new prints, i hope the prints can bring forth educational dialogue, inspire activism efforts, and connect researchers and locals in the community. supporting and listening to researchers, the local community, + advocates will help lead us to a cleaner and brighter future.

I would like to send a big thank you to Whale Wise for supporting my artwork and passions, and for all their guidance over the years; for accepting my artwork and supporting my studies; Roslyn Dinburg Lurye house for hosting my exhibition and space.

27/09/2026

15/09/2026

Welcome Katia!
At the core of Katia Klose’s photographic work lies an exploration of reality, focusing on its sensual and poetic qualities. The documentary aspect intertwines with an inquiry into the hidden interconnections of human existence in dialogue with the environment and nature. In her photographic stagings, notions of the primordial are set in contrast to the contradictions of contemporary ways of life.

In her current project Between Visibility and Disappearance – Photographic Studies of the Ocean’s Dysphotic Zone she undertakes an artistic investigation of the ocean’s low-light region, where visibility becomes unstable and speculative. The residency in Ísafjördur – a place of shifting boundaries between land and sea, light and fog – provides an ideal setting for this exploration.

Katia Klose, born in 1972 in Berlin East, lives and works as a freelance artist, lecturer, image editor, and photographer in Leipzig/Germany.
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17/08/2026

A few weeks ago, at the end of her residency, Polish artists buried some treasure in the garden at Engi 🤫 We're looking forward to welcome Iza back in the future for the next step in this project!

21/07/2026

Recent studio visits with ArtsIceland artists in residence - June and July 2026.

21/07/2026

Due to a last minute cancellation we have two spots available this summer:
1. August 3 - 30 in Studio C (Engi)
2. September 21 0 October 18 in Studio B

All information and how to apply in the link!

ArtsIceland offers artists and other art professionals space to live and work in Ísafjörður, in the Westfjords of Iceland. ArtsIceland encourages and facilitates an open-ended approach to the artistic process by seeking opportunities to help artists create works that have significant cultural imp...

18/07/2026

An ArtsIceland studio with a view ..

14/07/2026

We want your shopping lists!

Artist in residence Iza Jadach is working on a project where she turns used shopping and to-do lists into clay tablets. Once fired, the clay tablet will become a ceramic artifact—a permanent record of an everyday moment, preserved for future generations.

Iza will be at Netto today (Tuesday 14.07 from 10 am till 6 pm) collecting the lists. If you make your lists on your phone, you can rewrite it on paper provided. No translations, just write in your own language as you normally would!

Iza is a sculptor, ceramist, born in Szczecin, Poland, received BFA degree in ceramics from Department of Art at University of Washington in Seattle in 1999, MFA in ceramics at the University of California Los Angeles in 2002. She moved back to Szczecin in 2008 where she has been living since. She participated in art exhibitions in Poland and abroad, in artist residencies in Japan, Germany and
India. She makes sculptures, mostly figurative, often using her own body as a model, to record memory of a body and memory of a space.

09/06/2026

A warm welcome to Ráðhildur!
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Ráðhildur works on the margins of the real and imagined. She works through storytelling, poetry, installations and performance.
Currently, she is investigating childish imagination and play. Inspired by her work in a playschool, she is connecting to her childish curiosity through toys, both man-made and nature-made.
Her work routine right now consists of making up stories in her head, playing with jumping rope, plastic buckets, stones, shells and spinning words around it all.

21/04/2026

EN:
Peruvian artist Luz María Bedoya, currently in residence at ArtsIceland, will present her work All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast to the public of Ísafjörður. This is a collaborative project with sound artists, weaving together music and navigation. In a multimedia format, Luz María will speak about her graphic score, developed based on the lighthouses along the Peruvian coast on the Pacific Ocean, and will share a listening session of sound pieces created by Peruvian experimental musicians. Furthermore, Polish musician Piotr Karczmarek, based in Ísafjörður, will perform his own version of Luz Maria’s score to close the evening.
IS:
Luz María Bedoya, listakona frá Perú sem dvelur um þessar mundir í gestavinnustofum ArtsIceland, mun kynna verk sitt „All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast“ fyrir almenningi á Ísafirði. Þetta er samstarfsverkefni með hljóðlistamönnum þar sem tónlist og siglingar eru fléttaðar saman. Luz María notast við margmiðlun til að ræða grafíska tónlist sína, sem þróuð er út frá vitunum við Kyrrahafsströnd Perú, og jafnframt spila tilrunakennd hljóðverk eftir perúska tónlistarmenn. Ennfremur mun pólski tónlistarmaðurinn Piotr Karczmarek, sem býr á Ísafirði, flytja sína eigin útgáfu af tónlist Luz Maria til að ljúka kvöldinu.