Curated projects
Curated projects include the visual art biennale Sequences - Real Time Art Festival in 2021, co-curated with Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir. Contemporary music series Phonemes (ísl. Hljóðön) at Hafnarborg, since 2013 and co-curating the contemporary music festival Dark Music Days from 2025.
Curated projects include the visual art biennale Sequences - Real Time Art Festival in 2021, co-curated with Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir. Contemporary music series Phonemes (ísl. Hljóðön) at Hafnarborg, since 2013 and co-curating the contemporary music festival Dark Music Days from 2025.
Hljóðön
The concert series Hljóðön (e. Phonemes) at Hafnarborg was founded in 2013 and has since hosted concerts along with transforming into exhibitions. The concert series has included over 40 events since it first began in 2013.
The concert series Hljóðön (e. Phonemes) at Hafnarborg was founded in 2013 and has since hosted concerts along with transforming into exhibitions. The concert series has included over 40 events since it first began in 2013.
Percussionist Matthias Engler at Hljóðön in 2025.
Harpist Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir at Hljóðön in 2025.
Documentation from Dark Music Days 2025
Dark Music Days
Currently co-curating the contemporary music festival Dark Music Days in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Established in 1980, Dark Music Days has been the foremost platform for showcasing innovative and progressive contemporary music in Iceland for over 40 years Dark Music Days is an Icelandic contemporary music festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. Held during some of the darkest days of winter, Dark Music Days provides the foremost platform for showcasing innovative and progressive contemporary music in Iceland. Established by the Society of Icelandic Composers in 1980, the festival places emphasis on premiering new and often experimental pieces that reflect the ever-growing diversity and creativity of contemporary music. The role of Dark Music Days in the musical community in Iceland is vital both as an eye-opener for the general public and well as being an incubator for innovation, collaboration and inspiration within the musical community itself.
Dark Music Days particularly focus on encouraging new projects to debut and the daring nature of the festival’s programming has resulted in it premiering more new works of music every year than any other Icelandic cultural event. It is a festival celebrating the wealth of contemporary music creation in Iceland, showcasing a variety of concerts and compositions in different styles by diverse composers.
Dark Music Days puts an emphasis on presenting composers and performers ranging in age, nationality and gender while continuously celebrating the versatile and vivacious contemporary music scene in Iceland.
Currently co-curating the contemporary music festival Dark Music Days in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Established in 1980, Dark Music Days has been the foremost platform for showcasing innovative and progressive contemporary music in Iceland for over 40 years Dark Music Days is an Icelandic contemporary music festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. Held during some of the darkest days of winter, Dark Music Days provides the foremost platform for showcasing innovative and progressive contemporary music in Iceland. Established by the Society of Icelandic Composers in 1980, the festival places emphasis on premiering new and often experimental pieces that reflect the ever-growing diversity and creativity of contemporary music. The role of Dark Music Days in the musical community in Iceland is vital both as an eye-opener for the general public and well as being an incubator for innovation, collaboration and inspiration within the musical community itself.
Dark Music Days particularly focus on encouraging new projects to debut and the daring nature of the festival’s programming has resulted in it premiering more new works of music every year than any other Icelandic cultural event. It is a festival celebrating the wealth of contemporary music creation in Iceland, showcasing a variety of concerts and compositions in different styles by diverse composers.
Dark Music Days puts an emphasis on presenting composers and performers ranging in age, nationality and gender while continuously celebrating the versatile and vivacious contemporary music scene in Iceland.
Sequences
Co-curating the visual art biennale Sequences - Real Time Art Festival along with Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir.
Documentation from the festival.
Co-curating the visual art biennale Sequences - Real Time Art Festival along with Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir.
Documentation from the festival.
Hljóðön - Exhibiting music
Curating the exhibition Phonemes - Exhibiting Music at Hafnarborg.
Documentation from the exhibition.
Curating the exhibition Phonemes - Exhibiting Music at Hafnarborg.
Documentation from the exhibition.
Urban Archive as an English Garden
Curating Davíð Brynjar Franzson's solo exhibition Urban Archive as an English Garden at Hafnarborg.
Documentation from the exhibition.
Curating Davíð Brynjar Franzson's solo exhibition Urban Archive as an English Garden at Hafnarborg.
Documentation from the exhibition.
Þýðing tónlistar
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Tónlist handan ritunar
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Tónlist í augum véla
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Samtíminn og nýja snilligáfan
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Text in Icelandic. Written for RÚV - The National Radio Broadcast in 2022.
Object's music: On Studio Brynjar & Veronika's Circle Flute
Text about Studio Brynjar & Veronika's Circle flute from 2017.
Text about Studio Brynjar & Veronika's Circle flute from 2017.