The Icelandic Art Prize 2022

The Icelandic Art Prize 2022 took place on March 17th in Reykjavík.

Bryndis og Mark Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin 2022. Ljósm: Owen Fiene

Art Prize 2022: Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson

The duo Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir (b. 1955) & Mark Wilson (b. 1954) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2022 for their exhibition Visitations at Akureyri Art Museum.

Lucky 3 Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin 2022 Photo: Owen Fiene

Motivational Award 2022: Lucky 3

The recipients of the Motivational Award 2022 are Lucky 3 for their performance PUTI at Sequences X Art Festival 2021.

Kristján Guðmundsson. Photo Lilja Birgis

Honorary Award 2022 : Kristján Guðmundsson

The Honorary Award 2022 is given to an artist whose long and successful career has made a significant mark on the history of Icelandic art.

Publication

It is hard to pin down in words what art really is. It is slippery and hard to grasp, to use the phrase directly. As slippery as an eel is a descriptive expression. While anyone would struggle to hold onto an eel straight out of the mud, its constant wriggling, twists, and turns are also confusing and its wild and extreme vitality amazing. The eel’s story is not yet fully known and what we know of it is baﬄing. It is born in the fertile and fantastic Sargasso Sea, and its larvae drift over to Europe and Iceland where they grow up to one meter long, and then they return to the Sargasso Sea and the life cycle continues. According to the ancient Greeks and Aristotle, the eel was mud, brought to life by itself. Freud did not manage to determine the eel’s gender although he tried.

Icelandic Art Award 2022

Deiglumór Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin 2022

Publication on Visual Art 2022

Inga S. Ragnarsdóttir and Kristín G. Guðnadóttir received the award for their book Deiglumór: Keramík úr íslenskum leir 1930-1970 (Ceramics from Icelandic Clay).

Listþræðir LÍ Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin

Retrospective of the year 2022

The National Gallery of Iceland received the Retrospective of the year award for its extensive exhibition, Threads of Art, covering a 60-year period, from 1958 to 2018, with 60 works of 37 artists.

Endurromur Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin 2022

Group show of the year 2022

The group show of the year is the ambitious international exhibition Resonance at the Factory at Hjalteyri in the north of Iceland

Previous awards

Íslensku myndlistarverðlaunin 2021 - athofn - Ljosmynd: Owen Fiene

The Icelandic Art Prize 2021

The Icelandic Art Prize 2021 winner was announced on February 25 by the minister of education and culture, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, at the National Gallery of Iceland.