RECOMMENDED: SÍM Residency: Open House / 2026.04.28. 🎨 🇮🇸

SÍM Residency warmly invites you to an Open House at Seljavegur 32. This evening offers a unique opportunity to enter the working environment of the current international artists-in-residence, meet them in person, and engage directly with their ongoing research and artistic processes.

The residency programme brings together artists from diverse cultural and creative backgrounds, fostering dialogue between local contexts and international perspectives. During their time in Reykjavík, the artists have been exploring themes connected to materiality, ecology, technology, and human relations, often through close engagement with Icelandic resources and landscapes.

Visitors are invited to move through the studios and encounter works in progress. The Open House presents a rare glimpse into artistic processes as they unfold: installations, experiments, and material investigations that reveal both method and inquiry. Works include the use of locally sourced materials such as glacier and geothermal clay, Icelandic wool, and organic matter including seaweed transformed into bio-materials. The programme also features casting techniques, analog photography, and film screenings, offering a layered experience across disciplines.

Rather than a formal exhibition, the event emphasizes process over completion, an invitation to witness artistic thinking as an active, evolving condition. It is an opportunity to ask questions, exchange ideas, and experience how artistic practices respond to place, environment, and shared concerns.

Participating artists:

Jorė Janavičiūtė (Lithuania) Film director, screenwriter, and journalist whose work explores the complexities of contemporary human relationships through narrative and documentary film.

Thomas Udomrat Hostrup (Denmark) Installation and sculpture artist investigating the relationship between technology and reality through narrative-driven, conceptual environments.

Gertrud Hallum (Denmark) Artist working with speculative sculptural worlds that examine ecological entanglements, decay, and future imaginaries.

Davide Ronco (Italy/Denmark) Ceramic and installation artist focused on material research and site-specific practices, exploring the tension between natural and artificial systems.

Kajsa Cello (Denmark) Installation artist and writer whose work evolves through collected experiences, material transformations, and sensory elements such as smell.

Emma Sarpaniemi (Finland) Visual artist working with performative self-portraiture, examining femininity, identity, and representation.

This Open House creates a shared space between artists and audience, where studio, exhibition, and conversation intersect.

 

MORE INFO: www.sim-residency.info