Thursday, 28 August at 20:00, we welcome you to the opening of two new exhibitions at Hafnarborg. This time, we present the museum’s 2025 autumn exhibition, Algjörar skvísur, curated by Jasa Baka and Petra Hjartardóttir, and You Are Here: From Uppsala to Hafnarfjörður and Hafnarfjörður to Uppsala, organized in collaboration with the Uppsala Art Museum.

Algjörar skvísur
Hafnarborg Autumn Exhibition 2025

The exhibition Algjörar skvísur invites visitors to explore themes related to softness, strength, and feminine energy in contemporary art. It revolves around different manifestations of sweetness, divine and mythical female archetypes, and animism, which views (mother) nature as a living being. These ideas are examined in relation to people, places, and objects, especially at a time when feminine archetypes are emerging from their shadows and transforming our understanding of identity and balance.

The exhibition features works in a variety of media, with the goal of highlighting how participants interpret different archetypes and mythical beings, as well as our relationship with nature. Algjörar skvísur offers fascinating perspectives on vulnerability and humanity by opening a gateway for the supernatural to flow into earthly life.

The artists featured in the exhibition are Berglind Ágústsdóttir and Hrefna Sigurðardóttir, Darsha Hewitt and Svava Skúladóttir, Dýrfinna Benita Basalan and Róska, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and Gunnþórunn Sveinsdóttir, Hildur Ása Henrýsdóttir and Kíkó Korriró, Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttir and Jóhannes S. Kjarval, Veronica Brovall and Sóley Eiríksdóttir. The curators are Jasa Baka and Petra Hjartardóttir.

You Are Here
From Uppsala to Hafnarfjarður and Hafnarfjörður to Uppsala

What is here, what is home, and what is the local environment or community? These are all relative concepts, based on an individual’s position or relationship with the surrounding world. We locate ourselves on a map, create homes, learn to understand circumstances, form connections, and perceive ourselves as part of a whole. But this perspective—like anything else—can change, whether through travel or relocation, for example.

The exhibition features works from the Uppsala Art Museum, Hafnarfjörður’s sister city located 2,085 kilometers away, as indicated on a street sign at the town hall pointing to Hafnarfjörður’s ten sister cities. The works reflect life in Uppsala, the city’s environment, and its history, while much in our own lives and surroundings may resemble the Swedish reality. Many aspects unite us or are similar in the Nordic region: climate and cold nights, flora and fauna, attitudes and values, not to mention our shared cultural heritage.

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the connections between the sister cities and invite visitors to travel mentally to Uppsala. This allows us to see our own reality and the lives of Uppsala residents from a new perspective—a relative point that exists neither there nor here, but within us, in our imagination. Nothing connects us like putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes—to see and understand life through art. Exhibition committee: Aldís Arnadóttir, Hólmar Hólm, Mikaela Granath, and Tove Otterclou.

Admission free – see you at Hafnarborg.