Today, Saturday 14th May, Magnus Helgason opens his solo exhibition in Gallery Agust, Reykjavik. Read the full story

RAFLOST + PIKSLAVERK 2011 will open at Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus today at 17.00. The festival runs through the weekend 5th-8th May and will consists of workshops, lectures, performances, installations and video screenings of Icelandic and international artists. Read the full story

Reykjavik Art Museum is holding an exhibition on Icelandic participation at the Venice Biennale. The successful ongoing exhibition at the Kjarvalsstadir site ends on Monday. Read the full story

On Saturday the 3. July Ingunn Fjola Ingthorsdottir (born 1976) opens her solo exhibition in Gallery Agust (Reykjavik) where she presents the installation PAINTING SITE where the viewer can experience the spatial work of art from within. Painting Site was first exhibited at Cuxhavener Kunstverein in Germany in 2008 and is now on view for the first time in Iceland. Read the full story

Arnor Bieltvedt, an Icelandic artist is having a solo exhibition of oil paintings at the internationally renowned Beeldkracht Gallery in the Netherlands.

Arnor’s paintings are influenced by his childhood memories of the spectacular Icelandic landscape and folklore, as well as a new found appreciation for the exotic beauty of Southern California. Read the full story

A photo exhibition “Icelandic Terrorists” was opened on Sunday 26th October in Smaralind, the biggest shopping centre in Iceland.

The exhibition consists of 79 photos in all of 98 alleged Icelandic “Terrorists” photographed by Thorkell Thorkelsson. Read the full story

The Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition, which is being held near Reykjavik starts next Thursday 2nd October and lasts for two days. It is only held every three years and therefore provides a rare opportunity to meet key figures from the Icelandic catching and fish processing industries under one roof and in a convivial atmosphere.

The exhibitors from all over the world will compete to get one of the four awards for the best new product, best individual stand up to 50m2, best individual stand over 50 m2 and the best group stand.

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‘SEYDISFJ R U ’, a site-specific installation produced by artists Mhari Baxter and Melissa MacRobert, is a result of their joint residency at Skaftfell Cultural Centre in Iceland last year.

Expanding from their previous exhibition in Edinburgh’s Old Town in March this year, the artists have been presenting a series of light boxes in The Arches, Glasgow.

Open since July, the popular exhibition is to hold its closing event this Wednesday (3 September) at 20.00.

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Stemming from their successful exhibition in Edinburgh’s Old Town in March this year, Mhari Baxter and Melissa MacRobert will present a series of light boxes in The Arches, Glasgow.

‘SEYDISFJ R U ’ is a site-specific installation created by the artists following their joint residency at Skaftfell Cultural Centre in Iceland last year and their resultant love of East Iceland.

Baxter and MacRobert were students at the Iceland Academy of Arts (Listahaskoli Islands) in Reykjavík in 2006 and last year made a return journey to the small harbour town of Seydisfjordur in the east fjords. It was in Seydisfjordur that Baxter attended a workshop in conjunction with the Dieter Roth Academy- which honours the late German-born Swiss artist who lived and worked extensively in Iceland.

Calling on the familiarity and understanding of the place and people ‘SEYDISF J R U’ explores the life of this small town, so far flung from the hub of Reykjavík.

Melissa MacRobert is currently studying on the postgraduate course Art Space and Nature at Edinburgh College of Art. Mhari Baxter is a graduate from Edinburgh College of Art, currently working at the Warehouse Studios in Glasgow.

For further details about The Arches, including the ‘SEYDISFJR U’ exhibition, go to the Arches website.