A cooperative project of the Reykjavik Art Museum and the Iceland Academy of the Arts: students from the visual arts, design, and architectural depar

An ongoing workshop for the whole family where they can create chess sets out of unusual materials. The main ingredient is imagination. Sunday 8 Marc

... Chess match with the chess sets on display Sunday 22 February 3 pm Kjarvalsstadir – The Art of Chess Scrutinizing Art. Discussions on the concept...

The works of Iceland’s most beloved painter, Jóhannes S. Kjarval, will cover all walls from floor to ceiling in the eastern exhibition hall. This sal

Camera Obscura (darkened room) is a certain illusion or an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings through a hole on one side of th

The exhibition looks at how photographs are used in Icelandic and international contemporary art, through over 60 photographic works from the collect

February 3 p.m. Kjarvalsstaðir – Watery Hues Curator´s Talk by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson. Sunday 28 February 2 p.m. Kjarvalsstaðir – Watery Huses G

The exhibition Watery Hues, featuring more than 140 works by 60 artists, is the first attempt to document the role that watercolours have played in I

In this exhibition we examine the ships as means to cross the gap between human and hidden worlds, as ships of fancy, foremost on the picture plane o

The Reykjavik Art Museum draws on its extensive collection of works by Jóhannes S. Kjarval for ongoing exhibitions at Kjarvalsstaðir. The exhibition