The launch of the publication and finissage for the exhibition Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík - Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, will be held at Reykjanes Art Museum, 3-5 pm, Sunday April 28, 2024.

 

The Reykjanes Art Museum is pleased to announce the finissage of the exhibition and project in process, Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík and the launch of its publication, by the artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson and The Magic Team in collaboration with the local activist group Opponents of Heavy Industry in Helguvík, Auður Önnu Magnúsdóttir, director of the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association, former director of Landvernd, the Icelandic Environment Association Landvernd, economist Ásgeir Brynjar Torfason, architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

Everyone is warmly welcome!

 

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Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson started their collaboration in the Netherlands in 1997. Their works are collaborative and interdisciplinary; they work with video, photography, audio sculpture and multimedia installations, performance and interventions. Libia & Ólafur represented the Icelandic Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011). They have presented their works in the public space in different cities across Europe and have exhibited solo shows at various venues around the globe.

 

Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an internationally active curator and author. From 2021 editor of Ord&Bild.

 

The exhibition is sponsored by the Museum Council of Iceland. Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson's project is supported by The Icelandic Visual Arts Council, Artists' Salary Fund, The Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association, CBK Rotterdam art fund (Center of Visual Arts Rotterdam) and The Mondriaan Foundation.

 

Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík will run until Sunday April 28, 2024.