What happens when materials, ideas, and lived experiences entangle? Symbiosis brings together six contemporary artists working across video, sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Each artist enters the exhibition from a personal perspective, shaped by their own interests, experiences,

and methods. What unfolds is not a single narrative, but a shared space where differences meet, resonate, and sometimes gently collide. A constellation of distinct

practices that become momentarily entangled. Symbiosis emerged from a desire to explore how artists navigate and reveal interdependence with the materials, environments, and histories they

inhabit. In curating this exhibition, I looked for works that speak in difference, yet resonate when placed in proximity. Whether rooted in ecology, personal memory, collective tension, or speculative futures, each artist contributes to a living dialogue, one that

is porous, reactive, and relational.

- Maja Gregl, Curator

Artists:

Marius van Zandwijk
Painter of inconvenient places, where the boundaries of nature and culture blur. His intuitive approach captures uneasy landscapes and reflects on collective memory and

materiality.

Heimir Snær Sveinsson
A recent MFA graduate whose visual language continues to evolve from his fine art

training in Iceland and the UK.

Omar Thor Arason

Painter and sculptor delving intó moral and metaphysical intersections — his dynamic figurative works draw from surrealism, mythology, and psychological theory.

Solveig Stjarna Thoroddsen
Installation artist weaving feminist, environmental, and social themes. Her immersive works often invite the audience to participate - sometimes with cake, sometimes with danger.

Steinn Kristjánsson
Painter with a long-standing presence in Icelandic art circles, whose works have quietly

documented the poetic tensions of surface, shadow, and place.

Olivia Lloyd-Sherlock Arribas
Multi-disciplinary artist creating hybrid digital ecologies, where queerness and nature

collide simultaneously lush, uncanny, and cinematic.