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Swell: Women鈥檚 Initiative in Icelandic Art in the Eighties is a group exhibition that explores the pivotal role of women artists in shaping the Icelandic art scene leading up to and during the transformative decade of the 1980s.

For many, embroidery connotes a certain bygone luxury, a delicate labor of love. 

Perfectly located between North America and Europe, Reykjav铆k has become a cultural pitstop for collectors, attracted by the Icelandic capital鈥檚 vibrant art scene, emerging gallery spaces, and striking architecture.

Birgir Andr茅sson was steeped in Iceland鈥檚 ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.

鈥榃omen of all ages, from all countries of the world: you are invited to send a testament of harm done to you for being a woman鈥�

There are only two weeks left to catch a glimpse of works that rarely come before public eye at Kjarvalsta冒ir, the current exhibition runs trough 21st of August.

A slim 69-year-old man in a rumpled sports jacket looking like a gone-to-seed history lecturer with the colour-clash dress sense of Michael Portillo

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