The 10th of February, the Nordic House is hosting a literary event where authors discuss and dissect literature as a disruptive force, and how collisions with new words and ideas can send our thoughts down new and unexpected paths. We tend to see interruptions as negative, breaking our focus and disrupting the order we are […]
In collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in Iceland, the Nordic house will screen two Sami films on the Sami national day, Saturday 6th of February. 16:45 Min mors hemmelighet / My mothers secret 18:00 Veiviseren / Ofelas / Pathfinder The event is free of charge. 20 seats available each screening for adults. Children born 2005 […]
Novel (Danish) Dy Plambeck: Til min søster, 2019 A novel about being a woman and being seen and understood – or not. Historian Aya is abandoned by her boyfriend and gives birth to her daughter as she researches a well-known late author’s childhood sweetheart and tries to see and understand her role for his authorship […]
A Guided Visual Tour The Nordic House: A Total Work of Art A guided visual tour of the history, architecture, and culture Manuscript: Guðni TómassonEnglish Voice Over Bjartmar ÞórðarsonDirector: Kristbjörg Kona KristjánsdóttirDirector of Photography and Editor: Blair Alexander MassieProduced by The Nordic House in Reykjavik
Novel (Danish) Hanne Højgaard Viemose: HHV, FRSHWN Dødsknaldet i Amazonas, 2019 A fragmentary and wild novel about Danish Hanne’s experiences, thoughts and a troubled mind in respectively Denmark, the Amazons and Iceland, about her life with the occasionally psychotic Icelandic ex-husband and their amazingly inventive children, about her rough young adult experiences with love in […]
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As part of the Reykjavik Feminist Film Festival we feature Lene Berg in our Nordic Film Focus 2021. LENE BERG Lene Berg is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker originally trained as a film director at Stockholm’s Dramatiska Institutet. Her work includes installations, performance, film, photography, and text-based works, and she often draws her inspiration from […]
RVK Feminist Film Festival presents ‘No Woman Alone’ FREE event – Held in ENGLISH 16th of January 2021 13:00 – 14:30 Hosted at the Nordic House, streaming ONLINE – available on RVK FFF Vlog following the event Hosting an online festival has enabled RVK FFF 2021 to create a space for all to partake in. […]
Short stories (Danish) Thomas Korsgaard: Tyverier, 2019 15 short stories about secrecy, loneliness, and hope seen in the eyes of different people, for example about having their past revealed in front of a post office worker, about fleeing a family lunch after the truth has been revealed, about trying to sell insurance to a dying, […]
Crime novel (Norwegian, translated into Danish) Helene Uri: Sort is, 2019 Read a captivating story of a home confined elderly couple – locked in because the winter cold has made it dangerous to go out on the slippery black iced sidewalks, but also locked inside a marriage where an intense drama lurks just below the […]
The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles. All episodes available here
Crime novel (Danish) Niels Krause-Kjær: Mørkeland, 2019 Just before the parliamentary elections, this political crime novel takes the life of a government clerk. An elderly, experienced journalist and newly-educated young trainee are on the verge of extensive fraud committed by a secret circle of politicians and government officials who see themselves as the resistance movement […]
The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? For Rosa Liksom, winter is absent and hasn’t shown itself […]
Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? For Sami Said, there is a snowstorm brewing in […]
Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? Winter Works will be available on the Nordic House’ […]
Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? The reading is in Norwegian. Through three excerpts that move […]
The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
This year, the Nordic House offers you a digital Christmas program for the holidays with a literary advent calendar and a visual guided tour of the house, its architect, culture, and history. Our culture show, Auður Norðursins (the richness of the Nordics) will continue to be broadcasted on Wednesdays, and the exhibition UNDERNEATH will be open […]
Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? Einar Már describes an Icelandic winter, where magic sleeps and […]
Novel (Danish) Maren Uthag: En lykkelig slutning, 2019 A truly different family chronicle of the work of seven generations of undertakers, one undertaker more special than the other. Nicholas loves corpses but knows that it is socially and culturally unacceptable. Looking back on his family history, each generation’s bizarre tendencies unfold in the face of […]
The Nordic culture talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
Are you interested in working as a Mediator of Arts and Culture? The Nordic House in Reykjavik is a well-established venue for Nordic art, culture, language and public discussion. We focus on sustainability in every aspect of our operation. We aim for carbon neutrality and we emphasise equality and diversity. We offer a bold and […]
False Belief is the love story of a couple caught up in the gentrification of a neighborhood that is wiping out a seminal African-American cultural legacy and displacing its original residents. In 2008 Norwegian artist and filmmaker Lene Berg moved in with her partner, a black New York publisher, who will be referred to as […]
The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
Are you interested in art and culture? The Nordic House in Reykjavik is a well-established venue for Nordic art, culture, language, and public discussion. We focus on sustainability in every aspect of our operation. We aim for carbon neutrality and we emphasize equality and diversity. We offer a bold and relevant program that centers on […]
The Nordic culture talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.
This year was supposed to be the year of climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has turned everything upside down and the climate negotiations at COP26 have been postponed. While large gatherings are not a possibility, we in the Nordic Co-operation find the work too important to put on hold and are thus continuing the path […]
Memoir novel (Danish) Malene Lei Raben: Fruen, 2019 How to live a life when as a child you loved your strong and freedom-seeking mother through the youth rebellion in the 1970s, then as a young woman you are left in the throes of the same ambitious, troublesome and egocentric mother who clearly shows that she […]
Friday, 20 November the Nordic House invites you to an online screening of the movie False Belief followed by a Q&A with the director Lene Berg and co-star Delano. Discussions start at 16:50 and they will be conducted in English. To comment go to Livestream False Belief is the love story of a couple caught […]
Welcome to The Egg! The Egg (Ägget) is an interactive children´s exhibition based on the picture book by the same name – written by Sanna Sofia Vuori and illustrated by Linda Bondestam. Delve into Sanna’s and Linda’s universe and follow the mouse Brie and his friends (on a unique adventure!) Join them as they look […]
Novel (Danish) Merete Pryds Helle: Nora, 2019 The novel is one of three Nordic reinterpretations of Henrik Ibsen’s plays – here a reinterpretation of Et dukkehjem (1879). The young and in love woman, Nora breaks up from her father’s house and marries Torvald, gives birth to a child and submits to the increasing depression of […]
Icelandic Arctic Talks II The Centre for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and the West Nordic Council in collaboration with the Nordic House, the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Circle have organized a series of online discussions, taking place in the fall of […]
An online event organized by two organizations, Young Professional Women in Iceland and Hugrún, an organization for mental health education. The topic of the event is “Superwoman”. What does this term include? Where does the external pressure that many women feel to excel in all aspects of their life simultaneously; career, exercise, family, household chores, […]
Icelandic Arctic Talks I The Centre for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and the West Nordic Council in collaboration with the Nordic Region in Focus, the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Circle have organized a series of online discussions, taking place in the fall […]
Crime novel (Danish) Katrine Engberg: Vådeskud, 2019 This book is the fourth in the series about the police investigative team Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner as well as the helpful, retired literature professor Esther De Laurenti. A new disappearance case annoys the police investigators and lurks to the reader’s dismay as a teenage boy disappears […]
Welcome to the Nordic House. As our guests, your safety is our main priority. We follow the guidelines given by the Icelandic Health Authorities at all times and have introduced measures to secure that your visit happens safely. OPENING HOURS Information on opening hours and temporary closing due to covid can be found here. A […]
Novel (Norwegian and translated into Danish) Johanna Frid: Nora eller brænd Oslo brænd, 2019 A Scandinavian novel about jealousy that takes place between the young love couple Swedish Johanna and Danish Emil and the latter’s ex-girlfriend Norwegian Nora. The ex-girlfriend is all that Johanna is not: beautiful, photogenic and popular on social media. When Emil […]