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The Living Art Museum
Grandagarður 20, 101 Reykjavík
Navigating
12. 10. 2024 - 24. 11. 2024
Opening hours: Wed to Sun 12—6PM
Artists
Joanna Pawłowska IS in collaboration with Sasa Lubinska
Kosmas Nikolaou GR
Despina Charitonidi GR
Zoe Hatziyannaki GR
co-curated by Eleni Tsopotou / Stoa42
The Living Art Museum presents Navigating, a group exhibition of works by artists Despina Charitonidi, Jo Pawlowska in collaboration with Sasa Lubinska, Kosmas Nikolaou, and JZoe Hatziyannaki curated by Eleni Tsopotou / Stoa 42. Navigating examines the ways humans communicate and explore—or fail to explore—connections within ourselves, our bodies, with human and non-human entities across physical and digital worlds, diverse geographies, and national boundaries. These ideas respond to and are defined by this critical moment of ecological crisis, in which humans have become geological agents, altering the earth’s physical processes, a time of climate change and chaos, late capitalism, conflicts, global pandemics, and extreme urbanization and overtourism.
The Living Art Museum or Nýló as the museum is called in everyday speech, was founded in 1978 by a group of artists and is therefore one of the oldest museums and exhibition spaces in Europe under the supervision of artists. The Living Art Museum has been one of the main venues for contemporary art in Iceland and has a unique collection of works by Icelandic and international artists from the 1960s to the present day.
The Living Art Museum's exhibitions began in the early 1980s, and many exhibitions have marked time limits in Icelandic art history. Every year, the museum presents a strong exhibition program as well as being a venue for various events, museum education and research, in close collaboration with artists, curators, scholars and the general public.
The Living Art Museum's collection includes over 2,200 works donated by artists, representatives, collectors and individuals associated with the museum. Today, Nýló's collection reflects the main movements in contemporary art and the museum's interest in asking and answering current questions.