Group exhibition
Creation of Childhood
Galleries 10-11, Ketilhús
07.03.2020 - 17.05.2020
This is the seventh annual exhibition with the title Creation of Childhood. The aim is to stimulate creative
work and creative thinking among school children from the ages of five to sixteen. Participants each time are children and artists who create works according to the theme, which this time is house, home, shelter with a special focus on climate change and its effect on our living conditions.
In addition, a few models of emergency shelters in Iceland will be exhibited – created by the Canadian artists Natalie Lavoie and Steve Nicoll, during their stay in the Gil Association residency in November 2018.
This year 34 preschool children will visit the museum and create artwork under guidance from two female artists, Jonna - Jónborg Sigurðardóttir and Gunnhildur Helgadóttir, who is one of two artists participating in the exhibition. Other participants are Hrafnkell Sigurðsson artist, Akureyri Museum, Akureyri Toy Museum, the elementary schools Brekkuskóli, Lundarskóli and Naustaskóli, along with the preschool Hólmasól.
Creation of Childhood was in 2020 allotted a-three-year honors grant from The Icelandic Museum Fund.
Curator: Guðrún Pálína Guðmundsdóttir.
