Hildur Hákonardóttir - Red Thread
Curator: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir
Kjarvalsstaðir, The Reykjavík Art Museum - 2023
The artist Hildur Hákonardóttir with her work Conception with Nectar (2011) at the exhibition Red Thread 2023
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Hildur Hákonardóttir - Cycle of the Year, 1981-1982. 10 of 12 original panels . Wool.
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The bag series (Coffee Bag, Breasts I and II, The History of Man), 1971
Hildur Hákonardóttir - Breasts - knitted wool and wood. 28x26x2 cm. 1971. The collection of Safnasafnið / The Outsider and Folk Art Museum
Hildur Hákonardóttir - Ministerial Chairs (July 14, 1971 Between Midday and Three p.m.), 1971. Wool. 165x132.5 cm. The Living Art Museum Collection
Hildur Hákonardóttir - Detail from the work Conception with Nectar, 2011. Ink on ricepaper.
Hildur Hákonardóttir - Two-Dimensional Figure (The One Who Sees Nothing). Wool. 74x103 cm. Private collection.
Hildur Hákonardóttir - The Allseeing Eye. 1969. Wool and linen. 208.5x95 cm. Private collection
Hildur Hákonardóttir - God in You. 1970. Wool, embroidery and mirror, 100x130 cm. University of Iceland Art Collection.
Hildur Hákonardóttir - December 1972. wool, 112x87 cm. The Living Art Museum Collection
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Hildur Hákonardóttir - Red Thread
Curator: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir
Kjarvalsstaðir, The Reykjavík Art Museum, 2023
Red Thread is a diverse and extensive exhibition on the works of artist Hildur Hákonardóttir. During her long career, she has addressed contemporary issues and gender politics, using varied media but mostly weaving. The exhibition contains many of Hildur’s best-known works, which have become important landmarks in Icelandic cultural history and influenced societal changes. There are also installations, photographs, videos and computerised drawings from a career that spans over 50 years. Curator is Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir, but the exhibition is the result of her research into Hildur’s career. In 2021, Reykjavík Art Museum was awarded the Museum Fund’s Excellence Grant to examine women’s part in Icelandic art. Read more at Reykjavík Art Museum
The exhibition is accompanied by the publishing of a superb book on Hildur’s life’s work, with discussion about her key works, photos from her career and and essay by curator Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir.
Photographs: Vigfús Birgisson
Weaving a Mass Movement: The Art of Hildur Hákonardóttir
by Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir
in Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature
Editors: Katarina Leppänen and Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir
Creative Responses to Environmental Crises and Aesthetics in Nordic Art and Literature gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries. Showcasing examples of environmental literature, visual art and entertainment from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the chapters of the volume reflect the complex interplay of the local, regional and global in environmental art and activism. Authored by established and notable scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism, the volume highlights the complex and vital role art, literature, and other creative activities assume in times of crisis.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY KATARINA LEPPÄNEN; AUÐUR AÐALSTEINSDÓTTIR; ÞÓRDÍS AÐALSTEINSDÓTTIR; JOHAN ALFREDSSON; TORSTEN BØGH THOMSEN; GEORGIANA BOZÎNTAN; CAMILLA BRUDIN BORG; HILDUR HÁKONARDÓTTIR; SIGRÚN INGA HRÓLFSDÓTTIR; XIN LIU; KAROLIINA LUMMAA; ANGELA SNÆFELLSJÖKULS RAWLINGS; OLE MARTIN SANDBERG AND ANA STANIĆEVIĆ
Published by Lexington Books / Rowman and Littlefield