Sunday Gallery Talk with Jón Gnarr | Big Little City - Images of Reykjavík

Jón Gnarr was the founder and chairman of the Best Party from 2009 to 2010, and served as Mayor of Reykjavík from 2010 to 2014.

To mark Reykjavík’s 240th anniversary in 2026, the city’s changing appearance through the ages is explored in a summer exhibition at Kjarvalsstaðir.

The exhibition presents new contemporary artworks, highlights intriguing pieces from the museum’s collection, and features fascinating objects on loan from other museums and institutions. Visitors can follow the development of Reykjavík from a trading town and fishing village into a multicultural city of culture and tourism, portrayed in a vivid, fragmented, and ever-evolving way.

The exhibition raises questions about image and identity, urban planning, social structures, and cultural self-understanding. The tangible is presented alongside the poetic, the historical and the artistic, the personal and the collective.

Museum admission applies. Free entry for Annual Pass and Culture Card holders, and free for visitors under 18 years of age.