ArtsIceland

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.

02/04/2026

OPEN CALL 2027 - 2028
We're happy to announce our open call for ArtsIceland Residencies in 2027 and 2028.

ArtsIceland in collaboration with Outvert Art Space offers artists and other art professionals space to live and work for 4-12 weeks 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 impact. We welcome visual artists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, and others who may profit from the environment/spaces on offer.

For more info go to https://resartis.org/open-call/artsiceland-open-call-2027-2028/

26/03/2026

The national tv - RÚV - visited us earlier this year:

Gestavinnustofur Arts Iceland á Ísafirði eru opnar listafólki allt árið.

09/12/2025

Today we say hello and welcome to Eau Pernice and little Pascal!

Artist Eau Pernice is in residence at ArtsIceland during December and January , accompanied by her son Pascal. Here, she works with a local, closed airport as a starting point for exploring how places and stories intertwine. Through graphic prints, film, and sound, she unfolds the airport as both motif and metaphor—a space suspended between departure and stillness, where new narratives can emerge in the tension between the physical and the imagined.

Eau Pernice is a Copenhagen based artist exploring how places and objects become catalysts for new narratives, transforming the everyday into poetic and improbable interpretations of our surroundings.

The residency is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

10/11/2025

Would you like to experience winter in the Westfjords? Due to a cancellation we have availability in Studio A from January 26 - April 5, 2026.
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For more info: www.kolsalt.is or email [email protected]

03/11/2025

It's been a pleasure to have joj - - with us for the last four weeks! joj is a repeat visitor to ArtsIceland and we're looking forward to welcome them back again in the future.

joj (them/them) is a France-based American nonbinary writer of creative nonfiction–memoir, essay, and flash/prose poetry. They are a self-described collector of unused graduate degrees, the most recent (2020) an MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University. Their work explores themes of place, class, queerness, parenthood, infant loss, plant medicine, and the nomadic/peripatetic. Their writing has appeared in Insider, Parents, Yes!, Five Minutes, Your Life is A Trip, and The Matador Network. While at ArtsIceland, they are working on LIKE SHELLIN’ PEAS, a collaborative memoir about being a teen birthmother (written in partnership with the mother who adopted their firstborn child), a work that celebrates choice and alternative family construction. For more information, please visit their website jojthefirst.com

01/11/2025

Welcome to poet Jiyang Yoon who will be with us for four weeks!

"I am a Korean poet who writes across the boundaries of poetry and non-poetry, constantly exploring these borders and seeking to weave non-poetic elements into my work. I was deeply moved by Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water, especially in the way it intertwines human stories with Iceland’s climate and natural landscapes. I hope to create work in environments that carry the memory of water through time and to craft poetry inspired by these landscapes."

30/10/2025

Pop-up exhibition Ortzi Laborde - thank you all for coming!

30/10/2025

This week we're sad to say goodbye to Ortzi - - who has been with us for 8 weeks! It's been great having you and all the best in the future.

Ortzi Laborde is an artist whose practice explores the texture of rocks and the depth of landscapes. Through various mediums, such as photography and Indian ink painting, he translates the images captured during his residency in Iceland.

His work, inspired by mineral nature, is mainly in black and white.

These works offer a new interpretation of the landscape: when faced with his large formats, the eye hesitates between abstraction and figuration.

Initially perceived as minimalist marks, the eye hesitates between abstraction and figuration. Then, on second glance, they appear as landscapes or natural surfaces sublimated by light and matter. It is in this interplay of the visible and the invisible that fragments of relief, materials and rocky textures are gradually revealed.

Ortzi Laborde thus invites the viewer to look at things differently. This artistic project seeks to question our perception of the world around us: a seemingly ordinary landscape, but from another angle, reveals an unsuspected richness.