#1 [May 2005]

11 Artists at CIA.IS and Guests

On May 4, 2005 the CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art opened its doors for the public. The institution at Hafnarstraeti 16, 101 Reykjavík – in cooperation with CIA.IS and SÍM – is the first location in Iceland, where the visitor can gather all relevant and up-to-date information on Icelandic artists and art institutions.

Visitors can use the library or get basic information on current exhibitions. A selective videoarchive provides additional insight into the wide spectrum of the Icelandic art scene. In a four-monthly altering presentation 11 artists who work in all different kind of media are introduced in this DVD-archive. The first presented artists are:

Erling Þ.V. Klingenberg (b.1970), Finnbogi Pétursson (b.1959), Finnur Arnar Arnarson (b. 1965), Hannes Lárusson (1955), Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson (b. 1953) and Kristinn Guðbrandur Hardarson (b. 1955), Hulda Hákon (b.1956), The Icelandic Love Corporation (Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir [b. 1973], Jóní Jónsdóttir [b. 1972] and Eirún Sigurðardóttir [b. 1971]), Kristín Helga Káradóttir (b. 1968), Magnus Arnason (b. 1973), Markmið (Helgi Hjaltalín Eyjólfsson [b. 1968] and Pétur Örn Friðriksson [b. 1967], Rúrí (b.1951).

Erling Þ.V. Klingenberg

Finnbogi Pétursson

Finnur Arnar Arnarson

Hannes Lárusson

Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson and
Kristinn Guðbrandur Hardarson

Hulda Hákon

The Icelandic Love Corporation

Kristín Helga Káradóttir

Magnus Arnason

Markmið

Rúrí

In addition to that the CIA.IS introduces foreign guest institutions to the local scene, for this first term it is lothringer13/spiegel. It is one part of three institutions of the cultural center lothringer13.

spiegel is the Munich City Cultural Council’s Mediatheque. It is basically an artist- and videoarchive for local artists. spiegel presents four videoworks of Munich artists on the FLATscreen at CIA.IS:

Stefanie Maier, Copyright, 2003
Silke Witzsch, Wigcontest, 2001
Evil Knievel, I love America, 2004
Wolfgang Stehle, Headbanging, 2004

CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art
Hafnarstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík
May 5 – September 9, 2005
Mon – Fri, 10.00 – 16.00

In addition to that, we regularly invite foreign institutions to introduce themselves and their work on our FLAT.