{"id":14473,"date":"2025-11-20T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=14473"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:35:04","slug":"artist-talk-una-bjorg-magnusdottir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/artist-talk-una-bjorg-magnusdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk \u2013 Una Bj\u00f6rg Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"517\"><strong>Sunday December 7th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, artist <strong>Una Bj\u00f6rg Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> will welcome visitors and discuss her solo exhibition <em data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"330\">Fill &amp; spill<\/em>, alongside curator <strong>\u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>. The exhibition explores how artworks resonate across material and time, highlighting the dynamic interplay between substance, surface and space.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"517\">In Hafnarborg\u2019s main gallery, Una Bj\u00f6rg carves out a new space, drawing on the architecture of the gallery itself, which is built around a stately house from 1921 that originally served as both a residence and pharmacy. Traces of this history remain visible, most notably in the curved outer wall of the original building, which remains a distinctive feature of the space. One of the exhibition\u2019s central works plays on this architectural dialogue \u2013 a low partition stretches across the room, tracing its contours while defining a new interior within it \u2013 a void, a stage, a potential arena. Other works, including sculptures, images and works on paper created especially for the exhibition, form a subtle narrative that draws on the space\u2019s inherent qualities, its materiality and light, its possibilities and limitations. The works weave together the building\u2019s historical and imagined timelines, exploring relationships between originals and copies, doubles and reflections.<\/p>\n<p>Una Bj\u00f6rg Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir (b. 1990) employs diverse methods in her work to pose questions about beauty, value, existence and behaviour. She uses texture and value-laden materials with subtlety and restraint, where precise arrangements of simple objects create a surface of illusion that challenges conventional notions of meaning and perception. Una Bj\u00f6rg studied fine art at the Iceland University of the Arts and completed postgraduate studies at \u00c9CAL in Switzerland, graduating in 2018. She lives and works in Reykjav\u00edk, and her works have been shown at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, AS\u00cd Art Museum, Ger\u00f0arsafn, Y Gallery, \u00c1smundarsalur, KEIV in Athens and K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She was nominated as Artist of the Year at the Icelandic Art Prize 2025 and received the Gu\u00f0munda Award in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"2180\" data-end=\"2217\">Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday December 7th at 2 p.m., artist Una Bj\u00f6rg Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir will welcome visitors and discuss her solo exhibition Fill &amp; spill, alongside curator \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir. The exhibition explores how artworks resonate across material and time, highlighting the dynamic interplay between substance, surface and space. In Hafnarborg\u2019s main gallery, Una Bj\u00f6rg carves out a new space, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14528,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-14473","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14481,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14473\/revisions\/14481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}