August activities

People come and go and here is a list of our guests in august and september. We welcome them all and look forward to see what they will surprise us with! Adrian McGruther, Composer / Sound Designer, Sidney, Australia, www.soundcloud.com/sagebass Jeanne Borensztajn,...

The magic

Late in july the Gullkistan residents presented their work, what they had been up to the last few weeks. There were many surprises and it is not easy to write about… A pianist spun wool. A writer who came to finish a novel had started a new one. A filmmaker who...

An artist fiest

Our new guests decided to have an artist talk, a get together to talk about their work. It was an amazing event and after we had a great party, 21 people, the biggest party at Eyvindartunga so far! Joining us were the owner of Iceland Safari and his family and a...

Invitation to the center

“We just had a wonderful vistitor, a friend of the farmer came and asked, if some of us wanted to go to Hveravellir on friday with a super jeep. He is just restarting a company called Iceland Safari, www.icelandsafari.com.” What an opportunity! Such are...

June going too soon

June is coming to an end and our June guests are soon gone somewhere else. We look forward to following their creative lives in the future, wish them a beautiful farewell and hope to see them all again some day. Noelle arrived in April and is going now in end of June,...

Open call for 2014 – 2015

Alda, Vala, Noelle, John and Jenny. The list of guests for the first six months this year is incredible. We are so proud of all the talented and wonderful people staying with us. The second half of the year looks promising, we still have some vacancies in the autumn...

End of spring

Noelle Sharp, Rosalind Breen and Ken Steen organized an open studio and shared their audio visual works, paintings, drawings, knitting and photographs with guests. At the same time we had live broadcastin of the event. We welcome also new guests. Noelle Sharp, visual...

Orangeblue nights

May is the month when the day eats up the night so fast that every new night has a bigger orange-white lining in the north and the rest of sky gets more blue. We said farewell to Caroline who moved to Reykjavík for further adventures, we thank her for staying with us....

Gullkistan on TV

Emerson Schreiner was at Gullkistan in february. Here is an interview with him on the national TV. Go to minute 22.35