Saturday March 18th at 1-3 p.m., artist Lukas Bury will lead a family workshop in Polish in Hafnarborg. At the workshop, children and adults will get an opportunity to make colourful collages in connection with the exhibition Untitled, featuring abstract paintings by Eiríkur Smith (1925-2016). The participants will also have a chance to scope out the exhibition in search of inspiration for their own artistic creation.

The exhibition features mainly gouache paintings, which the artist made in the early 1950s when geometric abstraction was spreading across the globe. Works from this period in Eiríkur’s career are, however, quite rare, as he decided to burn many of these works in 1957. Still, the ones that have been preserved demonstrate Eiríkur’s knack for the style, even if he later went in a different direction.
Lukas Bury is an artist of Polish and German background. He graduated with an MA degree in fine art from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2020. Lukas lives and works in Reykjavík.
In My Language is an event programme focused on making Hafnarborg more accessible to people of different backgrounds by welcoming guests to the museum in various languages. The event is a collaboration between Hafnarborg and the aid organisation Get Together that provides support for asylum seekers and refugees in Hafnarfjörður. The programme is supported by the Museum Fund.