Wond­erland: Work in Progress with Ásta Fanney

As a performance artist, she has performed on various occasions and tested communication with the audience. Language comes into play in many ways, its possibilities and limitations, and questions arise about what takes over when we reach its limits.

Ásta Fanney intends to use her time in Ásmundarsafn attempting to map what she has worked on in recent years. The task is not easy, as it can be said that the characteristic of her career is that things come and go, something comes out of nothing but disappears just as quickly. As some sort of goal, Ásta Fanney has decided to share her findings in book form.

Wonderland is a project dedicated to the history of Ásmundarsafn. This was the home and studio of sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), which he designed himself and built in the years 1942-1950. The plot was adjacent to a farm called Undraland (Wonderland). Ásmundur bequeathed the house and his works to the city of Reykjavik after his day, and a museum dedicated to his memory was established there in 1983. During the four decades that the artist worked in the house, it was a scene of vibrant artistic creation. Throughout the year 2025, artists are invited to elaborate on their own works in progress or any state of flux.

Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir (1987), deals with art, poetry, filmmaking and music. She has exhibited and performed her work in museums and festivals around the world, including Reykjavík Art Gallery, Ars Longa, Onassis and MOT and was nominated for the Bernard-Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou prize in France in 2021. Ásta Fanney will represent Iceland at the Venice Art Biennale in 2026.