Hlynur Hallsson is a visual artist and director of the Akureyri Art Museum. He often works with spray-painted text and language. His work frequently addresses communication, connections, understanding, borders, politics and everyday events. Since completing his master's degree in fine art in 1997, Hlynur has presented his work in more than 70 solo exhibitions and over 90 group exhibitions. His solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Heilbronn, the Living Art Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, Overgaden in Copenhagen, Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin, Reykjavík Art Museum and Kunstraum München. At the time of this exhibition, his spray-painted works were also on show at the Oslo Biennial. Hlynur has worked as an independent curator at the Living Art Museum, Kuckei + Kuckei, Villa Minimo in Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He was one of the artists who founded the art space at the old factory in Hjalteyri in 2008. He also published the magazine Blatt Blað from 1994 to 2018. Hlynur has been a visiting lecturer at the Akureyri School of Visual Arts, Iceland University of the Arts and the University of Akureyri. More information: hlynur.is and kuckei-kuckei.de

Sólveig studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts from 1974 to 1978 and continued her studies in New York and the Netherlands. Alongside her artistic practice, she has always taught, mainly at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts. Since 1980, she has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum, the ASÍ Art Museum and other institutions. Her outdoor work Streymi tímans (The Flow of Time) was unveiled in Reykjavík in 2012. Her work often revolves around time and a close examination of her surroundings or circumstances: the experience of a particular place and moment. These concerns emerge through materials and methods such as photographs made by working simply with light and film, or silverpoint drawings that refer both to art history and to the future, through the effects of atmosphere and time on the material itself. The works in the MUUR exhibition in Höfn were made in her studio outside the city, drawing on the possibilities of the place and the materials found there. The willow branch is worked during the brief period in spring when sap rises through the trunk and branches. The branches are then soft enough to bend and join without breaking. After the bark has been removed, branches that would naturally spread into the air are looped together. www.sola.is

Steingrímur Eyfjörð exhibits at MUUR. Steingrímur's artistic journey has taken him to many places. He studied in Iceland, Scotland, Finland and the Netherlands. In 2007, he represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale with the work Lóan er komin (The Golden Plover Has Arrived). He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad. Known and respected by fellow artists and art lovers, he is an artist we are honoured to present at MUUR.

Vikram Pradhan & Halldór Eldjárn Our reality is constantly interweaving with technology and the merging of our physical and virtual environment seems inevitable. In this exhibition, the intersections are explored between art and technology where the physical space is interpreted and endless new unexplored spaces and dimensions are produced in the form of architectural blueprints. These site-specific computer generated works are based on the floorplan of the hallway at Hagatún 7 where Muur gallery is located. A video work shows a continuous evolution of the space that happens in real-time. Each unique print work represents one of endless possible arrangements of spaces with in this particular space and is a one-off printed artwork. For each work Halldór Eldjárn has made a special sound piece that is partly computer generated and based on the visual elements of the work. The entire music series will be pressed on a vinyl record that accompanies each work. Curator: Björk Hrafnsdóttir Vikram Pradhan was born in India and is currently based in Iceland. He works with various mediums in the field of art and design to create pataphysical works and works revolving around psychology. Vikram‘s practice currently revolves around experimentations and research on speculative design and pataphysics. Halldór Eldjárn is a musician, programmer and artist based in Reykjavík. In his practice he is constantly searching for new ways to approach art and creativity with technology. He has collaborated with prominent Icelandic artists Björk and Ólafur Arnalds on music and tools aimed at bringing computer generation in to the artist’s creations.

For the exhibition Fyrsta flokkun (First Classification), Helga Páley and Una Björg worked both together and independently. They discussed their latest ideas and experiments, finding points of overlap in their practices that they then developed separately. The exhibition presents new works in which materials and textures led them along nostalgic paths, taking the form of plastic objects, wallpaper and other everyday items. Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir lives and works in Reykjavík. She makes mixed-media paintings alongside three-dimensional sculptures. These sculptures often relate to imagery that extends beyond the frame, inviting the exhibition space itself to become part of the work and its imagined world. Drawing has long been central to her practice. Helga graduated with a BA from Iceland University of the Arts in 2011. Since graduating, she has helped establish the Freezer Theatre in Rif with Kári Viðarsson and was director of the Æringur art festival in Rif in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, she was part of the Kunstschlager collective, helping run its gallery at Rauðarárstígur 1 and later at Reykjavík Art Museum, as well as exhibiting with the group in Iceland and abroad. Una Björg Magnúsdóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík. The overly familiar often appears in her work, in sculptural settings that imitate reality through obvious artifice. She reconstructs the ordinary with unexpected objects, sounds, images and scents. Una has exhibited at venues including KEIV in Athens, GES-2 in Moscow, Nordatlantens Brygge in Denmark, Reykjavík Art Museum and Y Gallery. She received an MA in fine art from ÉCAL in Switzerland in 2018 and a BA from Iceland University of the Arts in 2014. At the time of the exhibition, she served on the boards of Kling & Bang and the Sequences art festival. Curator: Björk Hrafnsdóttir

Þórdís Erla Zoëga Digital Direction Þórdís Erla Zoëga explores our connections with the digital univers in her practice as well as our shared routines and directions as beings in our current world. With her use of colour changing film and holographic materials she examines the digital aesthetics of our everyday life. In Hagatún, Þórdís exhibits a circular etched plexiglass sculpture in addition to three works that all feature a colour changing film that changes depending on lighting, direction and the time of day. The size and dimension of the three works is referred to as landscape which we increasingly associate with our computer screens rather than a traditional landscape image. Simple geometry and internet imagery is prominent in her works as she leads us into a digital dimension. In Nýheimar, two paintings by Þórdís are on display where she uses mixed techniques and materials such as polish and spray paint on a holographic canvas that result in individual images and luscious textures that also relates to screens and internet aesthetics. The works benefit from repeated viewing as they are constantly changing with the position of the viewer. They also offer free interpretation with its narrative that mirrors the endless options of the internet. The works exhibited were completed by Þórdís from 2020 to 2022 and have separately been exhibited in Gallery Þula, Norrtälje Konsthall and Akureyri Art Museum. Þórdís Erla Zoëga (1988) is a visual artist based in Iceland. Þórdís received her BFA degree from the Audio Visual Department of The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2012 and has since exhibited her work both in Iceland and abroad, such as in Stockholm, Berlin, Basel, Amsterdam, Czech republic and more. In Iceland she has made works for the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Gerðarsafn, Icelandic Dance Company and exhibited in the Reykjavík Art Museum. Her recent exhibitions include Embrace (Norrtälje konsthall, Sweden, 2021 and Akureyri Art museum 2022), Routine (Listasafn Árnesinga, 2022) and Hyper Cyber (Þula, Reykjavik, 2020). She was also chosen as the town artist of Seltjarnarnes 2022. www.thordiserlazoega.is Curation: Björk Hrafnsdóttir

Ráðhildur Ingadóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1959. She studied art in England from 1981 to 1986. Since then she has exhibited in Iceland and in Europe to a large extent. Ráhildar Ingadóttir’s art contains texts, wall drawings, wall paintings, sculptures, videos and events. All these elements are often interrogated in large installations. Ráhildur was a visiting teacher at Iceland’s School of Art and Handicrafts and Iceland’s Academy of Arts from 1992-2002. She was a board member of the Museum of Contemporary Art from 2000-2002. Ráhildur has been curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions in Iceland and abroad. She was the artistic director of Skaftfell’s visual arts center in East Iceland in 2013 and 2014. She has received salaries, project grants and travel grants in Iceland and Denmark. Ráhildur lives and works in Copenhagen, Seyðisfjörður and Reykjavík Works in public ownership, the Icelandic Museum of Art, Reykjavík Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art The work at the exhibition in Muur is based on her drawing series “Thoughts on Gravitational Waves”. Tumi Magnússon was born in Reykjavík in 1957. He studied art at Myndlista and Handicraft School of Iceland and at AKI Academie voor Beeldende Kunst in Enschede, the Netherlands. His first solo exhibition was at the Red House in Akureyri in 1981. Since then, he has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art in Reykjavík 1986, the Nordic Art Center in Helsinki 1991, Center PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland 1991, the Sao Paulo Biennial 1994, MACMO Uruguay 2015, Iceland Art Gallery 2017, Kyoto Art Center 2017 and PORT25-Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Mannheim 2023. Tumi’s works often deal with the simple, boring events of everyday life. They are about the simple logic and laws of nature that lie behind these events, and also about how we turn everyday life around and play with it to make it tolerable and even interesting. And they are about how we can use everyday life as a tool to think about something completely different. Tumi Magnússon lives and works in Copenhagen and from time to time in Reykjavík and Seyðisfjörður. The work in the exhibition is called “Man walks to the library in America” The movements of the man’s heels are followed so that they form lines through the space, which are then drawn on the wall of the library in Höfn in Hornafjörður.

Áslaug and Finnur's exhibition is entitled Unwrapped Miracle. Although they have sometimes worked together on their art, they usually work separately, as they do here. Finnur presents the photographic work Miracle in a Sculpture Garden, a philosophical reflection on life and existence created in Árni Páll Jóhannsson's sculpture garden in Rangárþing ytra in 2017. Áslaug presents works made from plastic packaging, using whatever material in her surroundings catches her eye. Áslaug and Finnur have been together since 1987, when they began studying at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts. Both have held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions during their careers of more than 30 years. Alongside his art, Finnur has worked in design, mainly theatre set design, but also for museums and special exhibitions. In 2020, he directed his own play, The Angel, at the National Theatre, based on texts by Þorvaldur Þorsteinsson. Áslaug has also held various roles alongside her artistic practice and has been principal of the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts since 2014.

Olga Bergmann and Anna Hallin form the artist duo Berghall. Since 2005, they have collaborated on numerous works and projects, including exhibitions in Iceland and abroad at the National Gallery of Iceland, Kling & Bang, the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, the Einar Jónsson Museum and the Nordic biennial Momentum in Moss, Norway. In 2021, they organised and participated in Resonance at the old factory in Hjalteyri, which received the Icelandic Art Prize for the year's most notable group exhibition. Their work also featured in Resonance 2.0 at Seinäjoki Kunsthalle in Finland. They have created temporary indoor and outdoor installations as well as permanent works for public spaces and buildings, including an outdoor artwork for Hólmsheiði Prison. Since 2021, they have run Gallerí Undirgöng, an outdoor gallery for art in public space in central Reykjavík. “The humour in the work of Anna Hallin and Olga Bergmann tickles, but it is more than the first thing we see. It does not flare up and disappear; it is also a mirage, because it knows mortality and the seriousness on which our existence rests. The imagination is boundless: that of the earthling, the astronaut and the dreamer in close contact with the earth — a globe that is a ball in a kelp forest; the sea, which is a sheet of paper; the sky, which is a door or opening; all the animals of the wild, birds and fish. They move between forms: paintings, videos, sculptures and drawings without parallel. They lead us into an image-world without limits, playing with us and on us and opening all kinds of unexplored dimensions. Their art takes its own path without claiming ownership of it.” Text: Kristín Ómarsdóttir, 2022. English translation of the Icelandic exhibition text. Áfangastaður — Destination The work describes a journey through time and space towards an undefined destination. The landscape is at once familiar and strange, echoing and repeating like an algorithm. Are we in the present in another dimension, or are we here in another time? Berghall have also exhibited at Pro Artibus in Finland and Bozar in Brussels. Their public works include projects for Reykjavík Capital Cemeteries. Their works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum, the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, Reykjanes Art Museum, Kópavogur Art Museum and the ASÍ Art Museum. BERGHALL — Anna Hallin and Olga Bergmann — Reykjavík, Iceland. @annahelenkatarinahallin · @obergmann5050