Paintings from Home: A Journey Through Northeast Iceland of Last Century
28.112024 – 25.05.2025
Gallery 08
Here educated or self-taught artists have grabbed the paintbrush and created works in a personal conversation with places and memories. Here you will for example find early works of renowned artists as well as works by people of different steps of society, some of whom started to paint in their retirement. Some are beloved artists in their hometowns, others are outsider artists who went their own way. The works show places where these artists were born, raised or had a special connection to.
The paintings tell the story of different individuals from Northeastern part of Iceland. In the twentieth century, people moved from farms to urban areas. This migration is intertwined with changes in the fields of education and culture, commerce and services, employment and economic development as well as social relations. The Paintings from Home
remain as an attempt to slow down this progress, to capture something before it is too late.
Curator: Markús Þór Andrésson.
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Reykjavík Art Museum.
