Icelandic Art Center — Out There

About Icelandic Art Center — Out There

Created and produced by the Icelandic Art Centre, recorded in 101 Studio in Reykjavík, Out There explores what is out there/is out and about in the contemporary art (scene) in Iceland, between artists, curators and creative professionals, with conversations led by Becky Forsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir. Icelandic Art Center’s podcast Out There brings these things into focus and is a portal reflective of place and our present moment; a widened view that offers impressions of the Icelandic art scene, here and now.

Publisher

Icelandic Art Center

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2020

Latest episode

3 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jul 2025

   Snaebjornsdottir/Wilson: Human Relations, Socially Engaged Art & R.A.F.

   Collaborative artists Bryndis Snæbjörnsdottir and Mark Wilson discuss their interdisciplinary art practice that examines human and more-than-human relational behaviors within environmental change with Becky Forsythe and Þorhildur Tinna Sigurðardottir in an interview.

2. 

   3 Jul 2025

   HK Rannversson on Out There podcast

   Art historian Heiðar Kári Rannversson discusses his curatorial work in Iceland and internationally, including recent exhibitions at Gerðarsafn, in an interview with Becky and Tinna.

3. 

   14 Jun 2024

   The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Museum: Summer exhibition & rethinking art outside of the cultural mainstream

   In this episode of Icelandic Art Center’s Out there podcast we speak with artists Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and Unnar Örn, who are board members at Safnasafnið, The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum. The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum was founded in 1995 by Níels Hafstein and Magnhildur Sigurðardóttir in Svalbardseyri, in north Iceland. For 30 years the founders and board of the museum have focused their attention on collecting work, and often extensive bodies of works, by artists whose contributions to art have existed outside the cultural mainstream and collections, and have been considered folk, naïve or outsider artworks. We discuss the role of the museum, some of the language around categorizing art and artists, and the summer exhibitions, including; Dark Deeds and the Light of Hope and Aesthetics of Senses and Delights curated by Níels Hafstein, Source by Nína Óskarsdóttir and Who Came Through by Jasa Baka curated by Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Sale by Arnar Herbertsson curated by Unnar Örn, Domestic Spirit by Svava Skúladóttir curated by Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Deities by Bimala Dutta curated by Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and Assortments by Örn Karlsson curated by Níels Hafstein. There are over 13 exhibitions and hangs on display now so to read more about the variety visit the museum’s website. The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum was founded in 1995 by Níels Hafstein and Magnhildur Sigurðardóttir. For over 30 years the museum’s founders have been passionately committed to collecting artworks by artists who have hitherto been seen as outside the cultural mainstream, often also called naïve or outsider artists who have a real and direct connection to an original creative spirit; true, unspoiled and free. The museum is unique in Iceland, initially collecting artworks by all major con­temporary folk artists and autodidacts in Iceland, forming the core of the collection, while also gradually acquiring an excellent collection of art by professional artists, whose works cohere with exhibition and collection policies. It is of importance that all the artworks presented are on an equal footing, in exhibitions as well as the collec­tions. The core collection consists today of thousands of artworks and sketches by over 300 artists, dating from the mid­19th century to the present. https://safnasafnid.is/exhibitions-2024/ @gunnitune @unnar.orn at @safnasafnid @ninaoskarsdottir @jasa.baka // Created and produced by the Icelandic Art Center, Out There brings co-hosts Becky Forsythe @beforsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir @tindilfaetta in conversation with artists, curators and art professionals at Borgarbókasafn. This episode is our last one, but surely more things to come from the Icelandic Art Centre in support of circulating critical engagement with contemporary art in Iceland, ongoing dialogues with artists and their works! #OutTherePodcast (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/outtherepodcast/) #IcelandicArtCenter (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/icelandicartcenter/) #IcelandicArt (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/icelandicart/) #IcelandicArtist (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/icelandicartist/) #Iceland (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/iceland/) #VisualArt (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/visualart/) #ContemporaryArt (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/contemporaryart/) #InspiredByIceland (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/inspiredbyiceland/) #IcelandicArt (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/icelandicart/)

Who has been a guest on Icelandic Art Center — Out There

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Bryndis Snæbjörnsdottir
• Mark Wilson
• Heiðar Kári Rannversson

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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