THE GENERATION GAP What is peace? Is it something we must actively maintain, and how? Until 2022, many of us who grew up in the Cold War era thought that armed conflicts in Europe were a thing of the past – something we only read about in the history books. Then the unthinkable happened; Russia […]
Fourteen novels and collections of short stories, essays, and poetry have been nominated for the 2023 Nordic Council Literature Prize. This is a strong Nordic field with works from all countries and language areas. The winner will be announced in Oslo on 31 October. This year’s nominated works can all be read as a kind […]
Sunday Story Hour Last story read in connection to Alfons Åberg / Alfie Atkins. The family is welcome to Sunday Story Hour at the Nordic house Children´s Library. Matja Steen reads in Norwegian and Icelandic. Free event and all welcome!
This is the last workshop in relation to our Alfons Åberg exhibition that is now coming to an end. The winner from the letter writing game at the exhibition will be announced and given Alfons Åberg related awards. The workshop is hosted by Berglindi Jóna Hlynsdóttir, visual artist. Berglind has been active in the […]
DISLOCATION in Literature GITI CHANDRA I MAZEN MAAROUF I NATASHA S. Welcome to Author’s Night the 1st of March 19.30 at the Nordic House! On this evening we will dig deeper into immigration literature. What defines what society does a foreign-born writer belong to? Is it a language, nationality, or the text itself? With authors […]
Elham Fakouri, curator in the Nordic House helps families to learn the first steps of Iranian patterns in relation to the Iranian new year that takes place the 20th of March 2023.
Sunday Story Hour – Norwegian The family is welcome to Sunday Story Hour at the Nordic house Children´s Library. The story “Very tricky, Alfie Atkins” will be read. In the story, Alfie Atkins borrows the toolbox from his father and gets permission to build from leftover wood by himself, on the condition that he doesn’t […]
A creative workshop where guests will be taught techniques for designing dreamy buildings and cities from thick paper that can be painted in all the colors of the rainbow with watercolor paints. The workshop takes inspiration from the current art exhibition of the Nordic House -“How did I get to the bomb shelter?” which shows […]
“Járnbrautarmálið / A Railway Case takes as its point of departure an unrealized railway project, and unfolds into an investigation of the poet and entrepreneur Einar Benediktsson (1864-1940). The film examines the historical legacy of his entrepreneurship and its ecological and economic consequences to this day. Járnbrautarmálið / A Railway Case dwells upon Benediktsson’s entrepreneurial […]
Welcome to a guided tour with the curator of the exhibition HOW DID I GET TO THE BOMBSHELTER. On Friday 24th February at 16:30 curator Yuliia Sapiga will guide visitors through the exhibition and tell about its origin and selected works. This day marks one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. In war, it is […]
A week ago, thanks to an additional grant from the Nordic Council of Ministers, we were able to open an exhibition with new works by seven Ukrainian contemporary artists. In the exhibition How did I get to the bomb shelter, we get to see artists Kinder Albums, Mykhaylo Barabash´s, Jaroslav Kostenkos, Sergiy Petlyuks, Elena Subachs, […]
The Nordic Council Environment Prize invites the public to nominate candidates for the prize. This year’s theme is sustainable textile production and consumption. NOMINATE The production and consumption of textiles is associated with a significant adverse effect on both the environment and the climate. With this year’s theme, the adjudication committee wants to focus on […]
Welcome to the opening of HOW DID I GET TO THE BOMBSHELTER Saturday 4th. February at 4pm Program: Sabina Westerholm, director of the Nordic House, welcomes guests Yulia Sapiga, curator gives a speech Dagur B. Eggertsson, mayor of Reykjavik, opens the exhibition The artists will be present. Light refreshments will be offered.
Creative workshop for the whole family, inspired by the works in the new exhibition How did I get to the bomb shelter?
A story about Mikko Mallikas / Alfie Atkins read and families are offered to do craft afterwards.
Workshop during winter break for 7-10 year olds A two-day free workshop where you will work with a variety of materials. In the workshop, the children get to know the building’s exhibitions, Einari Áskeli and Ukrainian art. Tasks include modeling different animals and answering questions such as: Where are the elephants hiding? What about the […]
Can ecocide laws contribute to the economy within earth’s sustainable limit? The European Council has just called on member states to ”criminalise and effectively prosecute ecocide” and to take “concrete steps to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in order to add ecocide as a new crime.” Ecocide means the mass destruction […]
Family Workshop: Meteni – Latvian mask workshop Teachers from the Latvian School in Reykjavík offer families to join them in a mask workshop to celebrate Meteni. Meteni is an ancient spring waiting holiday, marking the end of winter and coming of spring in Latvia and is considered to be the inspiration and origin of […]
Welcome to an ARTIST TALK with the artists of the exhibition HOW DID I GET TO THE BOMBSHELTER -In Ukrainian below- We are very happy to have the Ukrainian artists in the Nordic house and welcome them varmly here in Iceland. On the 7th February we invite guests to an artist talk in Auditorium Elissa […]
R.E.C Arts Reykjavík during Children´s Culture Festival 2023 at the Nordic house Reykjavík. Artist-Activist Collective R.E.C Arts Reykjavík, in collaboration with The Nordic House, proposes a project which seeks to provide an artistic platform for teens of minority backgrounds and communities (as well as other teens interested), ages 13-17. This cumulative program invites a group […]
L I M I N A L I T Y is a seminar and a showcase of the collaborative cross boarder creative project Moving Classics Sonic Flux. The Project received funding from Creative Europe back in 2019 with further funding from Nordic Culture Point and Nordisk Kultufond in 2020. Along with partners in Iceland, UK, […]
In this story hour, the book Alfie Atkins and his Secret Friend will be read in Swedish and Icelandic. After the story hour the children are invited to create collage with their own secret friend. The storyteller is Una Thorlaksdottir, library attendant at the Nordic house. Una studied philosophy and is soon to become a […]
The Nordic Council Literature Prize has been awarded since 1962 and this year celebrates its 60th year of inspiring reading. Over six decades, the Nordic Council Literature Prize has time and again set itself apart as a prize that rewards literature that breaks boundaries and sets new literary horizons. Read more. Sofie Hermansen Eriksdatter, prize […]
NORDIC FILM FOCUS The film days Nordic Film Focus will be held in collaboration with Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival during 13th-15th January. Nordic Film Focus is an annual collaboration between The Nordic House and the Nordic embassies in Iceland. The program in The Nordic House puts focus on Nordic female film directors and darkness and […]
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE How did I get to the bomb shelter is a multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring seven contemporary Ukranian artists curated by Yulia Sapiha and produced by The Nordic House in Reykjavik. In the exhibition artists explore themes related to their personal experience of the war, their longing for a peaceful life, their paths towards survival and their hope for the future. […]
Finnish singer-songwriter Lempi Elo takes you to a world where you can meet your deepest emotions. From steaming morning coffee to rain-drenched evergreen softwood forests, from the break of dawn to dusk, Elo sings about the journey we’re all on, side by side and alone. Listen to her music here.
Let’s shake up the advent with a punkfestive mood! Punk Christmas concert in The Nordic House with Fræbbblarnir, Sunday 11 December at 17:00. Fræbbblarnir, band members: Arnór Snorrason, gítar, söngur Guðmundur Þór Gunnarsson, trommur Helgi Briem, bassi Iðunn Magnúsdóttir, söngur Ríkharður Friðriksson, gítar Valgarður Guðjónsson, söngur, gítar
The whole family is invited to craft Christmas decorations for Christmas trees, gifts or for your home. Bethina Elverdam is a textile artist. She was born and raised in Denmark but moved to Iceland almost 15 years ago. She has a bachelor’s degree in fashion and textile design and is about to complete her candidate […]
Christmas is not only for children with elves and presents, sugar cookies and jingle bells, it is also the time when darkness comes rolling in with winter storms and freezing cold, and we adults must do our part in the fight against the forces of darkness. And how do we best do that it if […]
LISTAPÚKINN – Art Exhibition by Þórir Gunnarsson Welcome to the opening at 15:00 on the 4th December in the atrium of The Nordic House. Honesty, purity and sincerity are key features in Þórir´s works. His works are adventurous and full of magic and his unique narrative. Bright and non-naturalistic colors, crude designs, skewed perspectives and simplicity in motifs […]
Gift yourself and your dear ones The library sells newer, discarded nonfiction and fiction books in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Faroese for children, youngsters and adults
Woven into is a textile installation and dance performance at the Nordic House Greenhouse that reflects on interdependency, care, and the greenhouse as a place of shelter and exposure alike. Visitors are invited to stop by and experience the work from inside and outside the Greenhouse. TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY: Saturday 3rd. December 4pm- 7pm Sunday […]
Our advent program this year is characterized by togetherness, reuse and warm celebrations. We offer fun events of various kinds every weekend until Christmas. These include family workshops with crafts and games, classical concert, punk concert, a Christmas story evening for adults and more! 1. ADVENT SUNDAY 27th. November CIRCULAR CHRISTMAS Silkscreen printing with Prent&Vinir […]
Current environmental and societal challenges require our societies to negotiate untrodden paths. But how can we imagine the new, more sustainable world we are heading for? In order to embark on this journey together, we need to combine facts with emotive matter, make the abstract personal and foster forward-thinking, empathetic discourse. The exhibition Brave New […]
For many, living in a time where graphs and statistics on the impending ecological crisis are ever-present, has led to either climate anxiety or climate agnosticism. In recent years, both art and academia has interrogated the notion, that an alternative methodology is necessary, to provide a more tangible understanding of the complex issues of the […]
The exhibition “Growing Body of Evidence” will be open longer than usual on Thursday. Guests can visit Hvelfing from 10 am to 9 pm. There will also be a guided tour of the exhibition in Icelandic at 6 pm – 6:30 pm.
Have a circular Christmas this year! Silk-screen printing with Prent og vinir: Bring your old clothes, t-shirts or any kind of textiles, and give them a new life with Prent og vinir – who will offer guests to make their own silk-screen prints. Participants can also bring scraps of paper or old paper bags and […]
Karen Ellemann new Secretary General of Nordic Council of Ministers Karen Ellemann has been a member of the Danish parliament, the Folketing, since 2007 and has held a number of ministerial posts in the Danish government. She will take up the role of Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers on 1 January 2023. […]
On Saturday 19 November a group of artists, musicians, designers, architects and scholars will gather at the Nordic House to offer a varied program throughout the day. Participation is open to all. The program starts with a walk at 11:00 AM from the clearing by the entrance to the Nordic House and visitors are encouraged […]
* The discussion will be in Icelandic. Too often the challenge with mitigating the ecological crisis is not a lack of solutions, but a lack of political will. Moreover, the discussion around the crisis often focuses on the responsibility of individuals and their choices, instead of the political-, economic- and social structures behind the issue. […]
If You Meet a Bear and the Nordic Bookworm Sunday Story Hour – Swedish – Icelandic The whole family is welcome to listen to stories of an unpredictable bear from the humorous book If You Meet a Bear by Martin Glaz Serup, Malin Kivelä and Linda Bondestam, in the Children’s Library at the Nordic house. […]
Entering a museum, attending an art event, submitting an art proposal or job application – these might seem like straightforward actions for some of us. But which bodies, and which identities are these processes currently suited for? This panel invites you to enter into a conversation about who is included on an institutional level, and […]
Nora Dåsnes, Solvej Balle, Karin Rehnqvist, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Sjón, Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, and the City of Mariehamn are the winners of the 2022 Nordic Council prizes, announced during an awards ceremony broadcast live from Helsinki’s Musikhuset on the evening of Tuesday 1 November. The Icelandic film “Lamm” won the film prize, while the environment […]
Now, more than ever, we need narratives that illuminate other ways of living and being. Social imagination, catalyzed by compelling stories, might be a key ingredient for a green and just transformation. Stories that depict the future of humanity from a bleak, dystopian and apocalyptic perspective are omnipresent in liturature, films and other mediums. Considering […]