Þula

03/09/2026

𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓡ú𝓷 𝓣𝓻𝔂𝓰𝓰𝓿𝓪𝓭ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 - 𝓙𝓪𝓻ð𝓿𝓮𝓰𝓾𝓻 / 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱
Depicted: The Planetary - secret society I & II

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Currently on view!

27/08/2026

Curated for CHART
Booth #11
Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
Tolli Morthens

‘Weathering’ is a duo presentation by Þula for CHART 2026. In Tolli Morthens’ oil paintings of the Icelandic landscape - depicting the highlands and glaciers - the raw power and vastness of nature come vividly to life. The sculptures of Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir, portraying contemplative human figures, introduce a quiet dialogue between humanity and its surroundings. Together, these mediums create a multifaceted conversation about presence, perception, and the profound relationship between humans and their environment.

26/08/2026

Jarðvegur / Earth
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir

- Currently on view at Þula -

12-17 mánudag - laugardag
14-17 sunnudag

Marshallhúsið

19/08/2026

Frábært viðtal við Önnu Rún Tryggvadóttur í Víðsjá um sýningu hennar Jarðvegur sem opnaði síðastliðna helgi í Þulu og stendur til 20. september.

Á einkasýningu Önnu Rúnar Tryggvadóttur, Jarðvegi, taka á móti gestum fagurlega mótaðar vatnslitamyndir, órætt, líkamlegt landslag sem rennur til og ofan í jarðveginn. Að baki býr leynifélag kvenlegra gilda og viska sem byggir á tilfinningu, alúð og reynslu frekar en á hlutlausri, fjarlægri athugun. Síðustu ár hefur Anna Rún gjarnan unnið með náttúruleg fyrirbæri og ferli og beint með því sjónum okkar að stóra samhenginu. Við lítum við í gallerí Þulu í Víðsjá dagsins, heyrum rýni Gauta Kristmannsonar í venezúelsku skáldsöguna Mamma mjöll og minningar hennar og rifjum upp hugleiðingar Tómasar Ævars um draugapenna.

14/08/2026

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir
Opens her solo exhibition Jarðvegur / Earth
This Saturday, 17-19

From text by Becky Forsythe about the work:

What happens when the body becomes a way of reading the landscape? Not as a metaphor, but as a sensory instrument. In Anna Rún’s drawings, land is not simply seen; it is inhabited, remembered and felt. The body becomes a measure of environmental experience, just as the landscape becomes a record of movement, vulnerability and change. The works suggest a form of somatic knowledge—an understanding accumulated through sensation, proximity, memory, and lived experience rather than detached observation.

08/08/2026

Last chance to view the exhibition Meeting Point
The final day is tomorrow, Sunday ☀️
We are open 14-17

The artists:
Aurora Robson
Bolatta Paarnaq Silis-Høegh
𝙲𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙰 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁𝚄𝙿
Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir
Petra Hjartardóttir
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir
Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

01/08/2026

Meet the artists at 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir (b.1975)
Reykjavik, Iceland, lives and works in Normandie and New York. BFA from the Icelandic academy of arts and Universidad de Barcelona in 1999. MFA from the School of visual arts, New York in 2003. Represented by Specta Gallery in Copenhagen, Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and Nunu Hung fine arts in New York and Taipei. Had a solo exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum in 2006 and was in the Carniege Art Award exhibition in 2008. Recipient of the Pollock-Krasner award in 2025, the New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship award in 2012, the Socrates Sculpture Park NYC fellowship in 2013, and Art Omi Residency in New York 2006. Artist in residence and guest lecturer for one year at Chiang Mai University, Thailand 2013-2014 and Artist in residence in Luzhunan residency, Taiwan in 2016.

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir is an Icelandic painter whose work blends playful surrealism with dark social critique. Educated at the Icelandic Academy of Arts and the School of Visual Arts in New York, she creates flat, expressive scenes populated by anthropomorphic animals, disjointed human figures, and everyday objects—milk cartons, smartphones, mushrooms—that double as potent visual metaphors. Her paintings frequently explore themes of ecological collapse, digital dependency, consumerism, and societal anxiety, often drawing inspiration from her immediate environment, conversations, the news and current events. Despite their cartoonish appearance, her compositions evoke a sense of dread, absurdity, and melancholic humor.
Her visual language is rooted in repetition and symbolic layering—images of dogs strapped with bombs, cats spraying milk, and polar bears drinking beer recur across her canvases. She uses these motifs to highlight the surreal nature of modern life, offering a kind of apocalyptic folklore for the digital age. Through her distinct style, Adalsteinsdottir captures a world teetering between the whimsical and the catastrophic.

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

30/07/2026

Meet the artists at 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

Sigga Björg Sigurardóttir (b.1977)
is known for her imaginative drawings, installations, videos and books. She has created a unique visual world where fantasy, humor and horror go hand in hand.

In her works, she threads the emotional life in all its chaos and creates moods that are almost impossible to put into words, but with her characteristic style she manages to express the most subtle nuances. In Sigga Björg’s drawings she mixes ink splashes and randomness with fine precision and patterns. Her works are often created equally on the walls of showrooms and on paper/canvas.

Drawing is her primary medium but video also plays a big roll in her practice. In her videos she uses technically primitive methods, stop motion video, to record the process of creating a drawing, frame by frame, with a camera facing down on her drawing table.

Sigga Björg lives and works in Reykjavik. Her works have been exhibited widely abroad and in all major art museums and art spaces in Iceland. Sigurdardóttir’s works are in the collections of all major art museums in Iceland as well as in art collection in the Nordic countries and widely in europe.

Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir

29/07/2026

Meet the artists at 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

Petra Hjartardóttir (b. 1992)
is a visual artist based in Reykjavík. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2019) and a BFA in Fine Art from Hunter College in New York (2016), having also completed a foundation program at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts in 2012.

Petra works with silver-smithing, embroidery, and other traditional crafts. Her practice draws inspiration from old books, newspapers, archaeological objects, and memory. However, the works are not meant to haunt or resurrect the past - they emerge fresh and vital from the decaying soil of history. Her focus lies on overlooked fragments in the immediate environment, where quiet details are transformed into meaningful presence.

She has exhibited in Iceland, the United States, and Italy, with recent solo and duo exhibitions at Harbinger, Kannski, SÍM Gallery, and AiR Sandnes. Petra has participated in several international residencies and received numerous grants and awards supporting her education and artistic development.

Petra Hjartardóttir

26/07/2026

Meet the artists at 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir (b. 1992)
is an Icelandic painter working primarily in oil on canvas. Her practice is grounded in realism, yet often veers into surreal, dreamlike territories. Cobalt blue dominates her palette - used not only as a colour, but as an atmosphere through which her subjects emerge, dissolve, or fragment. Faces are mirrored in water drops, distorted through glass, or hidden behind delicate patterns, imbuing her subjects with a sense of mystery, melancholy, and transformation.

She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore (2013) with a minor in art history, and has lived and worked between New York City and Reykjavík in recent years. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo and duo exhibitions in Reykjavík, and numerous group exhibitions across cities including New York, Washington DC, London, Paris, Barcelona, and Annecy.

Karen’s paintings have also appeared in prominent publications such as New American Paintings, Create! Magazine, SFMOMA, Hyperallergic, Tibia Magazine, and El País.

“My paintings are derived from digitally dissected images. I apply oil paint to the surface in consecutive layers to transfer the abstracted reference information into iconic female forms. The accrued layers leave visible traces of the process and create a physical depth in the painting. The organic properties of the oil paint permeate the rigid digital process.”

Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir