The Monastery is a group exhibition created by students at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts, Painting department.

The artists, consisting of twelve individuals, initially named themselvesThe Monastery half-jokingly — but over time, the name materialized and revealed to them what art and artistic creation meant to them as a collective.

Within the walls of the monastery, stillness reigns, yet beneath the surface simmers a longing for meaning.

In The Monastery, the artists approach art history as a living myth — a heritage they admire, question, and attempt to write themselves into anew.

The works differ in form and medium, yet they unite in their search of understanding the position of the artist within a world that is at once sacred and daunting.

The art world appears to us as a monastery: a place of rituals, rules, and invisible creeds, where one
not only needs skills but also needs to approach art as a religious ritual — of painting, molding, or creating as a form of prayer and an attempt to reach something higher.
But what if the masters we look up to are not saints, but reflection of ourselves?

And what if our rituals are, in fact, acts of play, desire, and rebellion all at once?
Thus, The Monastery is not merely a title, but a state of being — a space where we stand between belief and doubt, inspiration and repetition, listening to our own voices echoing within the walls of art history.

The group consists of the following artists:
Bjarki Sigurjónsson, Ósk Ómarsdóttir, Nína Þorbjörg Árnadóttir, Sigurður Unnar Birgisson, Jón Sölvi Walderhaug Eiríksson, Elíana Mist Friðriksdóttir, Sólveig Aðalbjört Guðmundsdóttir, Steinn Kristjánsson, María Rún Þrándardóttir, Guðbrandur Aron Gíslason, Snædís Björt Guðmundsdóttir, Eyrún Ösp Jóhannsdóttir.

There will be a special exhibition opening on Thursday, November 13th  from 18:00-20:00 and you are welcome!

Other opening hours

Fri                            14th   Nov           16:00 – 20:00
Sat                           15th   Nov           13:00 – 20:00
Sun                          16th   Nov           13:00 – 18:00

LG // Litla Gallerý is sponsored by the Culture and Tourism Committee of Hafnarfjörður for this event.