On Sunday, December 7 at 14:00, artist Una Björg Magnúsdóttir will welcome guests and discuss her solo exhibition, Fylling, together with curator Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir. The exhibition explores how works resonate across material and time by highlighting the interplay between material, surface, and space.

In the main gallery of Hafnarborg, Una Björg defines a new space within the exhibition hall itself, which surrounds a stately house from 1921 that once housed both a home and a pharmacy. The main hall bears clear evidence of this history, as the curved façade of the older building remains an unmistakable landmark within the space. One of the exhibition’s central works echoes this gesture – a low partition stretches through the room, shaping itself to the contours of the hall while carving out a new interior space – a void, a new stage, a possible arena. Other works, created specifically for the exhibition, include sculptures, wall pieces, and works on paper that form a delicate narrative relying on the qualities of the space: its material, light, potential, and limits. They intertwine the building’s timelines, both historical and imagined, and raise questions about the relationship between originals and reproductions.

Una Björg Magnúsdóttir (b. 1990) employs various methods in her work to explore questions of beauty, value, existence, and behavior. She uses texture and materially loaded objects in a subtle yet precise manner, where careful arrangements and understated items create a kind of simulated surface that challenges conventional ideas of meaning and perception. Una Björg studied at the Iceland University of the Arts and ÉCAL in Switzerland, graduating in 2018. She lives and works in Reykjavík and has exhibited widely, including at the Reykjavík Art Museum, ASÍ Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She was nominated for Artist of the Year at the Icelandic Art Awards 2025 and received the Guðmunda Award in 2024.

Admission is free – everyone is welcome.