Allocation from the LHÍ publication fund for the 2025 school year

The Iceland Academy of the Arts has allocated grants from its publication fund for the 2025 school year. This time, three academic staff received funding for the publication of their research results.

Carl Theodore Marcus Boutard receives funding for the publication of a book containing drawings and sculptures from the exhibition Degrowth, to be held at Cecilia Hillström Gallery in Stockholm in January-February 2025. The works are based on the philosophy of growth, which criticizes traditional measures of economic growth as an indicator of progress.

Birna Geirfinnsdóttir working on the publication of a book based on almost 50 interviews conducted by art historian Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson with partner and friend Dieters Roth in 1981 -1988. The book will publish the interviews along with pictures of Roth's work, and the publication is a unique source of his career as a designer and artist. The editors of the work are Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson, Birna Geirfinnsdóttir and Fraser Muggeridge.

Einar Torfi Einarsson receives funding for the publication of the magazine's anthology Threads, published by the music department of LHÍ since 2016. The collection edition, which will be published in a limited edition in the spring of 2026, will contain the first ten issues of the magazine with diverse material on music research in Iceland.

The Publication Fund of the Iceland Academy of the Arts has the task of promoting the development of knowledge in the academic field of art and providing academic staff with support in the dissemination of research results