Change

by | Feb 2, 2019 | Uncategorized

After almost 10 years of running the Gullkistan Creative Center, Kristveig and Alda have; received almost 400 artists to work on their ideas in and by the Laugarvatn village, taken care of international student groups, held workshops of many kinds and organized and...
Guests in August

Guests in August

by | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized

We have 7 new guests in August from 5 countries: the Philippines, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and USA.  Everybody presented their works after a great potluck dinner last Monday. Now starts the period of exploring the neighborhood and and getting inspired by the...
July guests

July guests

by | Jul 12, 2014 | Uncategorized

For july we have 9 new guests and some of them our first in the new houses. The first weekend we had a great pot luck dinner where we also had some other guests with us. Then our guests went to work and so did we, there is still a lot of little things to do. Despite...
Eventful june

Eventful june

by | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized

June is the month when the sun gets the highest and stays around the longest. On june 14th we opened an exhibition called laNDSLag / laNDSCape with artworks by 22 artists. In respect of Þórarinn B. Þorláksson the landscape painter who so much loved to work here early...

Culture Grant

by | Jul 6, 2014 | Uncategorized

Once again we are grateful for having received a grant from the South Iceland Culture Board. It is truly of much value that official funds understand the importance of what we are doing. We will do our best to keep up the good work. Many thanks! At the same time we...