Artists in residence for the month of August 2024. Jutta Biesemann Gilélag is Juttas second residency. Photography is her primary mode, but she works in installations as well. In her photography she loves composing still lives. Therefore, she...
Artists in residence for the month of July 2024. Jonathan Smith creates abstract paintings based on maps and satellite images of the land. Enamored with maps, atlases, and Landsat photography from an early age, his first foray with...
Artists in residence for the month of June 2024. Ava P Christl makes paintings and drawings about the land. Her work encompass ideas around place and belonging; nature as healer; wilderness; loss, renewal and regeneration; landscape and memory;...
Gil Artist Residency is open for applications for one month stays in January to December 2025. Application deadline is August 1st 2024. Gil Artist Residency is an Artist in Residence Program located in Akureyri, North Iceland. We are located...
Artists in residence for the month of August 2024. Jutta Biesemann Gilélag is Juttas second residency. Photography is her primary mode, but she works in installations as well. In her photography she loves composing still lives. Therefore, she...
Artists in residence for the month of July 2024. Jonathan Smith creates abstract paintings based on maps and satellite images of the land. Enamored with maps, atlases, and Landsat photography from an early age, his first foray with...
Artists in residence for the month of June 2024. Ava P Christl makes paintings and drawings about the land. Her work encompass ideas around place and belonging; nature as healer; wilderness; loss, renewal and regeneration; landscape and memory;...
Artists in residence for the month of May 2024 Born 10.11.1949 in Rüti, ZH, Switzerland Apprenticeship as an advertising assistant – worked for various art directors Since 1979 a professional self-trained artist. 1999 Work contribution by Esther Matossi-Foundation,...
Artists in residence for the month of April 2024 Paul Landon explores built space. His wanderings are transcribed through individual processes of mediatisation: of recording, editing, archiving and reconstruction. Landon’s work, in drawing, photography, video and installation, is...
Artists in residence for the month of March 2024 In his own word: My name is Donat Prekorogja and I was born in Switzerland in 1999. I completed my bachelor’s studies in Visual Arts at HEAD Genève, where...
Artists in residence for the month of February 2024 Sanna Vatanen is a Finnish textile artist whose longstanding connection to Iceland is the base for her work during the Gilfélagid Artist Residency. She’ll be spinning Icelandic wool to...
Artists in residence for the month of January 2024 After the Birds Silence ‘After the Birds Silence’ delves into the internal process that unfolds during moments of profound solitude, as we willingly expose ourselves to our silence. In...
Artists in residence for the month of December 2023 Xurxo Pernas Díaz is a Galician artist born in Cedeira (1992) who graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo. “In my work I use film photography and...
The Gil Society was founded in 1991, marking the beginning of the construction of an Art Centre in Grófargil which is now the focal point of culture in Akureyri. This is where we find the Akureyri Art Museum, the Akureyri School of Art and exhibition halls of varying dimensions. This is the location of Deiglan, multiple restaurants and artists studios. The Gil Society runs an artist residency and is an organiser of art exhibitions, music and other happenings connected with the diverse and ambitious cultural life of the towns people of Akureyri.
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