Opening party for the exhibition, Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík by the artist team Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson will be on Saturday March 9, at 2 pm.

 

The Reykjanes Art Museum is pleased to announce and welcome all to the exhibition and project in process, Deconstruction of Heavy Industry in Helguvík by the artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson and The Magic Team in dialogue and collaboration with the local activist group Opponents of Heavy Industry in Helguvík, other environmental activists, economist, people living in and around Reykjanesbær, and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist.

 

We recommend guests to visit more than once and participate in the dialogue.

 

The exhibition is sponsored by the Museum Council of Iceland. The artists are sponsored by The Icelandic Visual Arts Council and The Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association.

 

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

 

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.