The artist Odee rejected a proposal by the fishing conglomerate Samherji that would have required him to pay £1 and hand over control of the website; now the company wants £206,000
A judge in London ruled in favour of the seafood multinational Samerji, finding that the artist Odee Fridriksson’s satiric project “crossed the line”
The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik
Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson’s spoof of the Samherji Group’s website featured a prominent apology, seemingly acknowledging its alleged role in the Namibian fishing scandal
The musician, who has spent recent years carving out a side career as an artist, is showing four multi-sensory installations in his home country of Iceland
Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril
Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives
Funded by the tiny Nordic nation’s then thriving financial sector, the exhibition venue was an incubator for creative talent from Ragnar Kjartansson and Olafur Eliasson to Sigur Rós and Björk
Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Sigurður Guðjónsson’s mesmerising work in the cavernous Artiglierie uses the movement of metal particles around a magnet
Jack Latham’s “forensic photography” exhibition coincided with the reopening of a criminal investigation dating to 1974
Phallic-shaped sculpture has both shocked and endeared itself to the public
Banking sector collapse blamed
Decision made after rejection by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid