The Icelandic Art Prize 2024 was awarded on March 14 in Reykjavík. The awards supply recognition to fantastic visible artists and exhibitions.
Amanda Riffo (b. 1977) receives the Icelandic Artwork Prize as Artist of the 12 months 2024 for her solo exhibition Property of Purkinje at The Residing Art Museum.
Dwelling of Purkinje, curated by Sunna Ástþórsdóttir, cleverly synchronises a lot of distinct narratives, from epistemology (theories of perception) and optics, by means of her own working experience of the patchwork financial system of the arts, as Riffo casts a critical eye on contemporary artwork and its mechanisms. Not only does Riffo’s exhibition mirror her talent for combining dissimilar matters into at the same time similar and distorted objects, but the total exhibition is a twist on alone, a depiction of every artist’s nightmare: working out of time when setting up their exhibition. As a result, the humour in Riffo’s do the job is specifically noteworthy, generating individuals doing work in the artwork field cry with laughter the execution of each individual item so proficiently and convincingly actively playing a section in her staging of an “unfinished” art exhibition.
Riffo is a French-Chilean artist who has been based mostly in Reykjavík because 2012. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 2002 with an MA in High-quality Arts. Her will work have been exhibited in Europe, South America and Japan, exactly where she was an artist-in-residence in 2012 and 2013. Riffo has because participated actively in the Icelandic artwork scene with solo exhibitions at the artist-operate area Open up in Reykjavik in 2018 and Skaftfell in Seyðisfjörður in 2019. She has also participated in many group exhibitions, such as Sequences XI, the artist-run International Biennial in Reykjavík, in 2019.
The recipient of the Motivational Award is Brák Jónsdóttir (b.1996) for her exhibition Possible Oddkin in the Nordic House’s Greenhouse in Reykjavík. Given that graduating, she has initiated several visual art assignments and exhibited in a number of art museums, festivals and exhibition areas about Iceland and overseas.
The Honorary Award 2024 was bestowed to artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. Sadly Hreinn handed away previously this month. His memory was honored throughout the ceremony and Ólöf Kristín Sigurðardóttir, museum director of the Reykjavík Museum, recalled his life span accomplishment.
Hildur Hákonardóttir´s exhibition Red Thread curated by Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir at the Reykjavík Artwork Museum received an award for Retrospective of the Year. The exhibition Tracing Fragments at Gerðarsafn curated by Daría Sól Andrews obtained the Group Show of the 12 months award. The Award for a Publication on Visible Art goes to Art Can Mend: The Lifestyle and Function of Sigríður Björnsdóttir. The guide is about Sigríður Björnsdóttir, an artist and innovator in the area of artwork remedy, staying primarily penned by trainer and artist Ágústa Oddsdóttir, who has researched Sigríður’s substantial occupation for a lot of several years.
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