Happyhour Fest

The Happyhour art festival  "Happyhour Fest"  will be held on Thursday 24 March between 5 and 7 pm at the bars Lemmy & Skuggabaldur in the centre of Reykjavík. Four exhibitions are part the festival now being held for the first time. They will all be accessible on the web magazine artzine.is from 5 pm on the opening day onwards.

The festival is a collaboration between Artzine Web magazine and the course Creating & Curating Exhibitions at the IUA‘s Department of Fine Art, where emphasis is placed on digital and relational curating.The exhibitions are the product of students‘ collective approach to curating and their investigations of hybrid exhibition formats. Through these, the web is explored not merely as a tool to replicate existing practices, but rather as a site of convergence of rapidly changing practices and approaches; new ways of curating, of creative collaborations, investigations, expressions and dialogue. 

Eleven curators and four artists. The topics touch landscapes and bodies, how art converges with technology and virtual reality affects perception and self-awareness.  Side by side we ponder plant life, 3D printing, classifications of artistic media, and eusocial insects of the order Hymenoptera.

The exhibitions are the following: 

Ásgerður Arnardóttir: From one thing to another

Curated by Klara Malin Þorsteinsdóttir, Lilja María Tómasdóttir, Thora Karlsdóttir

Skuggabaldur, Pósthússtræti 9, 101 Reykjavík 

Online Stream https://artzine.is/ut-fra-einu-og-yfir-i-annad/

//

Louane Lelu-Ribaimont: It is probably just a question of provoking the loud encounter, 

Curated by Díana Gylfadóttir, Louane Lelu-Ribaimont

Lemmy, Austurstræti 20, 101 Reykjavík 

Online Stream artzine.is/it-is-probably-just-a-question-of-provoking-the-loud-encounter/ 

//

Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir: Tumble-humble-weed

Curated by Megan Auður, Neele Marie Denker,

Katrín Helga Guðmundsdóttir, Mirra Elísabet Valdísardóttir

at Lemmy, Austurstræti 20, 101 Reykjavík 

Online Stream artzine.is/tumble-humble-weed/

//

Vitalii Shupliak: The ants

Curated by Weronika Balcerak, Freyja Hafþórsdóttir

Lemmy, Austurstræti 20, 101 Reykjavík 

Online Stream: artzine.is/the-ants/

Conceived and developed at the IUA‘s Department of Fine Art during the course Creating & Curating Exhibitions, this year taught with an emphasis on curating digital art by Hanna Styrmisdóttir, Professor in Curatorial Practice, and Helga Óskarsdóttir, Founder and Editor, artzine. Guests included curator Daría Sól Andrews, artist Ragnar Már Nikulásson, Professor Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir and Krist Gruijthuijsen (Director, KW, Berlin) and Anna Gritz (Curator, KW, Berlin).

Event photo: Neele Marie Denke