During Midsommar festival we will enjoy three performances from Finnish artists. The performances will happen outside at 16:00 – 17:30. After the performances Antti Ahonen will present his work on performance photography. The groups consist of six experienced artists, dedicated to working with performance art. Currently they are touring across the Nordic Countries in order […]
Niður, an Icelandic Circus on Ljósagangur, is the installation and live performance of a 1979 composition by John Cage. Originally titled Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, Cage’s work transformed Joyce’s novel into a musical performance. His score for the piece consists of detailed instructions on how to reconstruct any literary work in this […]
Welcome to a summer workshop for families that will be held in the greenhouse! By the Nordic House is a wetland that many birds call their home. Now is nesting time, so you can see all kinds of interesting bird species and it will be possible to observe them from afar. In the workshop you […]
Meet Bruun Rasmussens experts on valuation day at the Nordic House. We are seeking modern and North Atlantic art as well as design, fine art, jewelry, silver, and wristwatches. Furthermore, we are seeking coins, medals, banknotes and stamps, letters, and old postcards. Everyone is welcome.
PIKKNIKK #2: The Nordic House summer concert series` second act is Ólöf Rún! Welcome on Sunday 30th of June at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! Ólöf Rún is a singer and producer. Her approach to music creation is from the perspective of a producer – she uses recordings, samples, and synths […]
PIKKNIKK #1: The Nordic House summer concert series` first act is POSSIMISTE! Welcome on Sunday 23rd of June at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! *NEW TIME* The concert starts at 6pm in the Pavillion. POSSIMISTE brings songs into this world from other galactic dimensions she visits. This explains the stellar essence […]
PIKKNIKK #5: The Nordic House summer concert series` fifth act is Kompani Bárrogiera! Welcome on Sunday 21st of July at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! Mii Leat // Mii Gávdnot is an audio visual installation based around a visual dance performance filmed in the sámi region and outskirt landscapes of Eastern […]
People working in the cultural sector tell stories. They tell each other stories, they tell themselves stories, and they tell their citizens stories. Indeed, our institutions, structures and policies are based on stories – Lyotardian ‘grand narratives’ – that inform thought, belief and action. The defining crisis of cultural policy has resulted from attempts to […]
We warmly welcome you to celebrate the Midsummer Festival with us on 23th of June. The day is filled with fun activities, flowers, music, and art for children and adults. In honour of the holiday ‘Midsummer’ the Nordic House together with Föreningen Norden, Latvian school, and the Embassy of Sweden invites you to a summer […]
Dear guests. Due to extensive construction work around the building, we have decided to reduce our opening hours on weekdays and keep closed the following weekends, up to and including June 6th. This also applies to cafe Sónó Matseljur. However, some events will be held outside of these opening hours and they are advertised specificly […]
Soil is the basis of food production for the world’s population, and is an important factor for biodiversity and the Earth’s carbon cycle. Soil has a huge impact on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The state of the Earth’s ecosystems is in many places very poor, with a constant decrease in biodiversity. […]
PIKKNIKK #3: The Nordic House summer concert series` third act is Los Bomboneros! Welcome on Sunday 7th of July at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! The band Los Bomboneros will present a more laid-back programme than they are typically known for, celebrating the music of South America in new renditions of […]
PIKKNIKK #4: The Nordic House summer concert series` fourth act is KHAIRKHAN! Welcome on Sunday 14th of July at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! Khairkhan is an Inner Mongolian musician from the Khorqin Tribe in the east side of Inner Mongolia. He grew up in the famous Khorqin grasslands with various […]
Summer Workshop at the Nordic House: Nature in art and all around (8-10 y/o) Glaciers, waterfalls and landscape in the ocean, will be the focus in a four day summer workshop at the Nordic house. Additionally children will get the chance to learn about the birds living in the bird sanctuary around the Nordic house, […]
PIKKNIKK #6: The Nordic House summer concert series` sixth act is Soheil Peyghambari! Soheil is performing on Sunday 28th July at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! Soheil Peyghambari was born in Iran in 1985. Having studied Clarinet and Music Composition at Tehran Conservatory of Music, he also worked as Sound Engineer […]
Every summer the Nordic House hosts PIKKNIKK a summer concert series that is always very popular and now the summer’s program is starting to take shape. This year the summer concert series is put together by José Luis Anderson. The concerts all take place at 3pm in the Greenhouse outside of the Nordic House and […]
PIKKNIKK #7: The Nordic House summer concert series` last act is Irina Shtreis! Irina is performing on Sunday 4th August at 3pm. Free entry as always and bring your friends! Irina Shtreis is an ambient-folk artist originally hailing from Russia and currently based in Reykjavik. Using keyboard, looper, beats and field recordings, the artist produces […]
Every summer the Nordic House hosts PIKKNIKK a summer concert series that is always very popular and now the summer’s program is starting to take shape. This year the summer concert series is put together by José Luis Anderson. The concerts all take place at 3pm in the Greenhouse outside of the Nordic House and […]
Mediator Hrafnhildur Gissurardóttir guides kids, young people and families around the exhibition (Post). Read more about the exhibition here. Acessibilty to Hvelfing exhibition space is good. A ramp leads up to the main entrance of the building and from there an elevator goes down to Hvelfing. There is also a staircase leading to the exhibition […]
Kolbrún Ýr Einarsdóttir, Head of Communications at the Nordic House, guides guests around the exhibition (Post). Read more about the exhibition (Post) here. Acessibilty to Hvelfing exhibition space is good. A ramp leads up to the main entrance of the building and from there an elevator goes down to Hvelfing. There is also a staircase […]
Curator Ruth Hege Halstensen and artists show guests around the exhibition (Post). The event is in English. Read more about the exhibition here. Acessibilty to Hvelfing exhibition space is good. A ramp leads up to the main entrance of the building and from there an elevator goes down to Hvelfing. There is also a staircase […]
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition (Post), 7th June at 6pm. The curator and artists will be present during the opening. The multimedia art exhibition (Post) presents artwork created between 2005 and 2021 by mainly Nordic artists who question and reflect our time and our future. An underlying theme of these diverse works […]
Paper blocks, colorful paper, glue and scissors will be offered in the concert hall of the Nordic house, for all creatives to play with during Children´s Culture Festival and Design March. Get inspired by looking at Architecture and Alvar Aalto exhibition made during a long process with ten year old children from Hólabrekkuskóli inspired by […]
Paper blocks, colorful paper, glue and scissors will be offered in the concert hall of the Nordic house, for all creatives to play with during Children´s Culture Festival and Design March. Get inspired by looking at Architecture and Alvar Aalto exhibition made during a long process with ten year old children from Hólabrekkuskóli inspired by […]
On Friday the 31st of May the Nordic House invites you to the third edition of PØLSE&POESI – an afternoon of poetry readings, good food and drinks in our pavilion and surrounding garden. During PØLSE&POESI we serve free sausages, condiments and drinks from different Nordic countries, showcasing Nordic “sausage culture” in its variety. There will […]
Meet the nominees for the 2024 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize! Fourteen Nordic picture books, children’s books and youth novels have been nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. Several of this year’s nominees examine existential questions about life and death, and another recurring theme is mankind’s […]
Stockfish Film Festival in Reykjavík is the film industry’s festival in Iceland. It was founded in 2015, as a reincarnation of the Reykjavík Film Festival (Kvikmyndahátíð í Reykjavík), which was established in 1978. The festival aims to create a platform in Reykjavík to encourage collaboration between domestic and international film communities and gives the general […]
Welcome to the opening of CHAOS a photo exhibition by vocational education students in the Nordic countries. The NU exhibitions have been held yearly since 2017 by Yrkesinstitutet Prakticum in Helsinki. Where: Nordic House Atrium When: 15:00 – 17:00, Tuesday 9th April. Accessibility to the Atrium is good. Wheelchair accessible restrooms are on the same level. All […]
CHAOS is a photo exhibition for vocational education students in the Nordic countries. The NU exhibitions have been held yearly since 2017 by Yrkesinstitutet Prakticum in Helsinki. The aim of the project is to network and develop media & art education in the Nordic countries and give students and schools a platform to meet and […]
It is clear that the carbon footprint of buildings is large and has a worldwide impact; both on nature and societies in the present and future. Current building regulations allow for unsustainable building practices, while also limiting the space for experimentation within the construction sector. The whole world is at stake and we need to […]
Som praktikant i Nordens hus är du en del av ett dynamiskt team, som arbetar med kulturutbyte mellan Island, Norden och de baltiska länderna i form av samarbetsprojekt med kulturinstitutioner, konstnärer och forskare i hela regionen. Nordens hus har en bred verksamhet och arrangerar kontinuerligt utställningar, evenemang, konferenser och festivaler med inriktning på konst, kultur och […]
After the three-day Prague launch of the Regeneration online exhibition, titled Festival of environmental and decolonial perspectives, one more launch will take place in Iceland in cooperation with the partner institution Iceland University of the Arts here at the Nordic House (Norræna húsið). Alžběta Bačíková and Janek Rous from the Artyčok.TV platform, which is the […]
Experiments, researches and mini models, showing houses of the future, seen through the eyes of ten-year-old children, will be in the lobby of the Nordic House during the Design March. At the exhibition, you can see the work of the students of Hólabrekkuskóli, which were created this winter in collaboration with the teachers and pedagogue […]
Welcome to the exhibition “Feathers”, made by pupils at Fellaskóli in Reykjavik! Elevenes kunst i form av tegninger, dikt og Haiku er hengt opp på veggene i Nordens hus. Kunsten er laget i forbindelse med billedkunstens dag, som var den 13. mars. Utstillingen er fylt av flotte farger og fine dikt. Gjestene våre kan få […]
Easter is around the corner, opening hours vary: Thursday 28th March: Open 10am – 9pm Friday 29th March: Closed Saturday 30th March: Open Sunday 31st March: Closed Monday 1st April: Closed The exhibiton Wasteland will be open and in the atrium we have the exhibition Feathers made by students in 4th and 6th grade in Fellaskóli. On […]
The Visual Arts Day in the Nordic House Exhibition by 4th and 6th grade students from Fellaskóli The Visual Arts Day is a pan-Nordic art day for children and young people. The day serves the purpose of showing and exalting art and the potential of art forms. The aim is that the day will be […]
Navigating Nordic Futures: Strengthening Cooperation for Peace and Security On the occasion of Nordic Day, which marks the signing of the Helsinki Treaty in 1962, we invite you to a conversation about the future of Nordic cooperation in an evolving geopolitical landscape. In a world marked by crises, conflicts, increasing polarization, and stigmatization of minorities, […]
We are proud to present a literature night with the recipient of the 2023 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Joanna Rubin Dranger, in conversation with Tinna Ásgeirsdóttir. Together they will discuss Dranger’s rich body of artistic and literary work, and dive deeper into her award-winning 2022 graphic novel Ihågkom oss till liv. The conversation will be […]
We proudly present our next literature event in the Meet-the-author series at the Nordic House auditorium, the 25th of August at 16:00, in collaboration with The Representation of the Faroe Islands in Reykjavik. Meet Carl Jóhan Jensen in conversation with Einar Már Guðmundsson, as they unfold Carl Jóhan Jensen authorship. The conversation will be held […]
We are proud to present a Norwegian literature night in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy. Meet Marie Aubert in conversation with Silje Beite Løken, for an exploration of Aubert’s literary life and works. This conversation will be held in Norwegian. Marie Aubert (b. 1979) made her fiction debut in 2016 with the short story collection […]
Bibliotekar med fokus på litteratur og læseoplevelser Vi søger en kollega til biblioteket i Nordens Hus i Reykjavik på Island. Nordens Hus er et etableret nordisk mødested for kunst, kultur, sprog og social diskussion. Bæredygtighed er centralt for vores virksomhed. Vi stræber efter CO2-neutralitet, og vi fokuserer på lighed og mangfoldighed. Vi tilbyder et modigt […]
The exhibition “How did I get to the bomb shelter” opened in Lithuania last week! Our previous exhibition is currently on tour, and now it is located in Klaipeda, Lithuania. We are very excited and grateful for the collaboration, as well as the opportunity to continue to bring this important message out to people! How […]
The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum and the Living Art Museum have come together in collaboration with The Nordic House and initiated a symposium focused on the collection of outsider art. The symposium will examine the environment of museums with specific goals and collection values, their role within the ecosystem of art, and where […]
For the first time since the building’s inception, our library is now just as empty as in the picture from before the house opened to the public. This iconic room, which has been so important for generations of Nordic book lovers in Reykjavik as well as all of us who have ever worked in the […]
On Sunday we invite all children to come create and decorate a paper bird. Each bird will be dedicated to a child that has lost its life in Gaza by adding the child’s name on the bird. We will hang up the birds in the ceiling of the Nordic House to make sure they fly […]
Thirteen novels, poetry collections, and short stories have been nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council Literature Prize. The list of nominees for this year delivers a strong literary field spanning the entire Nordic Region. The prize has been awarded since 1962. The Nordic Council Literature Prize goes to a literary work written in one of […]
In the contemporary landscape, the edges between different creative arts are getting more and more figurative. Composers write pieces for video-art and visual artists create sound installations. It is getting harder to differentiate, yet connections and finding common grounds becomes easy. We are acting a bit like radar – trying to identify these changes – […]
Verið velkomin á skemmtileg og fræðandi Hvalasmiðju! Við munum kynnast mögnuðum aðlögunum hvala að hinu krefjandi búsvæði vatns og sjávar. Hvalir eru að mörgu leiti furðuleg spendýr sem hafa sagt skilið við fætur, hár og ýmsa aðra eiginleika spendýra en hafa þess í stað aðlagast sjávarumhverfinu á ótrúlegan hátt. Sú þróun hefur leitt af sér […]