Open call!

Open call for summer 2010. Apply as soon as possible to have a better chance of getting the time best suitable for you. We are really looking forward to the second summer of Gullkistan with many enthusiastic creative guests staying with us. We are also accepting...

Happy new creative year 2010

30.12.2009, 16:30, Laugarvatn. We, at GULLKISTAN Residecy for Creative People, send all our creative people best wishes for a Happy New Creative Year 2010. Thank you so much for your continuous support – for believing in the  new opportunity for creative people...

Ósk Eiríksdóttir exhibition

“Winter by the lake” Ósk Eiríksdóttir lives at Laugarvatn and will have her first private exhibition at the Gullkistan studio on november 28th and 29th. The name of the exhibition is “Winter by the lake”. Ósk has taken photographs since she was...

Family friendly

Laugarvatn is getting ready for winter. Already there is a little snow in the mountains and the northern lights light up the sky. The Gullkistan residency is accepting applications for this winter, next year and for the very well organized, the year 2011. Children are...

DESCENDING

John Krogh will have an exhibition on saturday october 17th at the Gullkistan studio, Bjarkarbraut 6 between 2 and 4. John has been enjoying the amazing bright autumn weather, hiking and working.

John Krogh

John Krogh, artist from Denmark, has arrived at Gullkistan today. “The Walden Project, is a concept built upon the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, an american writer and philosopfer, and his book “WALDEN”. For a period of two years he lived in a small...

Daniele Frongia

Daniele Frongia from Rome, Italy at Kerið with Alda Sigurðardóttir, on the way to Gullkistan, Laugarvatn. Daniele  is an IT expert and a statistician. He is at present working on two books: the first on “secret codes for children”, the second on “Innovative and...

Joan Perlman – Open studio

Joan Perlman will have open studio on august 7th between 5 and 7 pm at the Gullkistan studio at Bjarkarbraut 6 at Laugarvatn. On this photo Joan is on the top of the Gullkistan, (chest of gold ) mountain. Behind Joan the view over Laugarvatn, the village to the right...