Nina Kraviz compiles previously unreleased tracks by the late Icelandic electronic music pioneer, Biogen.
All in The Reykjavík Grapevine
Nina Kraviz compiles previously unreleased tracks by the late Icelandic electronic music pioneer, Biogen.
Brian Scott Campbell’s latest exhibit connects the California Desert with Iceland.
To what degree does anyone belong to a place if they can only view it as an outsider? Must we participate in society—and if so how, and to what degree—in order to be a part of it? Is it enough to simply exist?
As both a beautifully curated space and an invaluable resource, the Reykjavík Museum of Photography is both understated and immaculate, like standing at the edge of the river that formed the Grand Canyon.
Siggi is the art director of the well-known Reykjavík design agency Jónsson & Le’macks, and also works as a freelance illustrator and designer. While working on a brand design for the local R&B trio Sturla Atlas, he came up with the idea of writing their name in a traditional runic alphabet.
Psychologists and social scientists have analyzed and theorized endlessly about the pleasure we get from watching something completely unpleasant. Their answers vary widely, but almost all are in agreement that it’s not logic which draws us in, it’s emotion.
The world is getting smaller I hear from all directions, and naturally my inner skeptic creeps out as we pile into the car. The south coast of Iceland is a path-more-travelled. The roads are narrow, the busses are wide, and there are parking lots at the base of every waterfall.
Architects and artists have a successful history of converting dilapidated buildings into exciting new art spaces, from WWII bunkers in Berlin, to a slaughterhouse in Spain, to MoMA’s famous PS1, a former New York City public school. With the opening of the Marshall House, Reykjavík joins the party.
From international eye-catchers like Ólafur Eliasson to graduate artists fresh out of Lístaháskóli, showing everywhere from a window display to grandma’s basement, art in Reykjavík spans many weird and wonderful forms in spaces that you couldn’t dream up.
Musically inclined from the start, Doddi studied music as a child. “I always played by ear, and even faked reading from the sheets,” he recalls. Music, for Doddi, is tactile; it’s experimental and experiential.
For some, seeing is more than a sense—it’s a sensation. “It’s painful to be somewhere, see something amazing and not be able to take a photo of it,” photographer Þórsteinn Sigurðsson says.
As one of Iceland’s longest running music festivals, Dark Music Days was created as a platform for Icelandic composers to present their work. The festival has since expanded its boundaries—both physically and musically—to include international acts and mixed techniques in contemporary music.
It’s been three years since that first release. The Samaris trio is still young and still full of energy. But, like a painting set out to dry in the sun, they’ve also taken on the warm maturity of their surroundings.
It’s the fifth annual Grapevine Music Awards. Which means that it’s the fifth time we’ve rounded up a panel of expert music nerds for a few rounds of drinks and the chance to hash out everything that has happened in sound since the Earth’s last orbit around the sun.
For the third consecutive year RBMA will host the ‘SónarComplex,’ a specially curated stage at Harpa Kaldalón during Sónar Reykjavík this year.