Ocean is about the magnitude of the sea which surrounds Reykjanesbaer and the individuality of experience. In addition to this new installation, the exhibition also presents work from across Ívar’s professional career. Read more

Silvia Björg exhibits “Fertility” at Bíósalur showroom,
DUUS Reykjanes Art Museum, summer 2023 Read more

The artist Snorri Ásmundsson is an interloper. He has attracted a lot of attention since the late nineties with his performance pieces. Read more

INFRA-GLOW is curated by Elise Bergonzi, Daria Testoedova and Hannah Zander, MA students in Curatorial Practice in the Department of Fine Art at the Iceland University of the Arts. The exhibition brings together works by Carissa Baktay, Claire Paugam, Claudia Hausfeld, Guðrún Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir, Hye Joung Park, Iða Brá Ingadóttir and Þórdís Erla Zoëga, with a focus on the impact of local surroundings on inner experiences and expression. Read more

Vena and Michael are performance artists, and this exhibition will be a display of where they are at this particular point in time, and a documentation of what occupies their minds at the moment. They are here and now, foreign citizens in Iceland, making their mark on the Reykjanes Art Museum where they will rule for a while. Read more

Guðrún Gunnarsdóttir is a pioneer in the field of filament art and her exhibition gives a overview of the artists development from the textile art of the 70s, to the three-dimensional work that characterizes her art practice today. Read more

Gabríela Friðriksdóttir and Björn Roth will open Sporbaugur/Ellipse in Reykjanes Art Museum on saturday the 28th of May. The exhibition will be on display until the 13th of November 2022. Read more

Skrápur / SecondSkin opens in Reykjanes Art Museum on the 20th of November 2021.

Reykjanes Art Museum presents the exhibition SecondSkin with Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Igor Antić.

The exhibition tackles refugees and migration of people in the world. The title SecondSkin refers to the shelter that the body creates over time from external aggravation. The word also refers to the thick skin people develop mentally as a defence. Read more

The exhibition relates on the close bonds between the seamen and the ocean around Reykjanes during the rowing boat era, which lasted from the settlement of Iceland until the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition gives a glimpse into the world of these bonds between the sailors and often capricious sea, sometimes tender and smooth, but more often rough and risky and constantly demanding offering of fishermen lives. Read more

Ceramic from Arnbjörg Drífa Káradóttir. Read more

Sculptures and paintings Read more

Inga Þórey Jóhannsdóttir , Valgerður Guðlaugsdóttir , Sossa , Margrét Jónsdóttir , Gunnhildur Þórðardóttir og Kristín Rúnarsdóttir Read more

In the exhibit ,,Patterns of the Family" Erla S. Haraldsdóttir exhibits new works, paintings and lithograph prints inspired by family history and memories. She finds connections to her family-based works in abstract patterns created by the Ndbele people, patterns that Erla S. explored while staying in an artist residency in South Africa. Read more

In recent years it has become a tradition that one of Reykjanesbær Art Museum‘s summer exhibition displays artwork from the the museum‘s collection. This year‘s summer exhibition displays work by artist Benedikt Gunnarsson. Read more

The nature of Iceland in the eyes of two locals. Read more

The Art Museum of Reykjanesbær begins the year 2019 with a solo exhibit of works by the artist Guðjón Ketilsson. The exhibition is titled “Teikn”, meaning symbol, omen or sign, and consists of eight different works which all have aspects of symbols, symbolism or the “reading” in the most general sense. Read more

Photos from the collection of the Reykjanes Art Museum. In the last 15 years the Reykjanesbær Art Museum has come into possession of a variety of photographic art pieces some of which are currently on display here in the Movie Hall. Read more

The exhibition combines the works of the artists Eygló Harðardóttir, Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir and Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir. What connects the three artists is their strong sense of material and how their work revolves around the structure of art, form, colour, space and time. Paper connects all three works but through very different approaches. Read more

The exhibition consists of photographs taken by Jón Hilmarsson, showing landscape and nature of the Reykjanes Peninsula. Read more

The exhibition Endless consists of works made entirly from recycled material. The subjects are diverse and 20 designers in all take part in the exhibition. Read more

The photography competition “One day in Suðurnes” was announced and anyone who lived in Suðurnes invited to participate. The photographers, both professional and amateur, were to submit photographs of people or nature on Suðurnes taken between the 17th of June 2017 and the 17th of June 2018. Read more

3 exhibitions to mark the museum's 15th anniversary Read more

As part of the Children´s Art Festival in Reykjanesbær all 10 kindergartens in town, all 6 elementary schools and the Collage of Suðurnes are participating in three exhibitions you can see on display from April 26th - May 13th in Duus Museum. Read more

This year Kvennakór Suðurnesja (Womens Choir of Suðurnes) celebrates their 50th anniversary. On the occasion they will open a exhibition in Duus Museum Friday February 9th at 18:00. The exhibition will be on display until March 11th 2018. Read more

Paintings of Þingvellir from the collection of Sverrir Kristinsson, Read more

Should certain areas in this town be protected on account of significant cultural history? Read more

The Art Museum of Reykjanesbær opens the exhibition Wolf At The Gate, November 11th at 2 pm. The artist Úlfur Karlsson, is born in 1988 and is among the most noticeable painters of his generation. His work is a colorful and intense reflection on the human life in an abstract-epxpressional spirit. Úlfur has exhibited his work in many places, both in Iceland and abroad such as in Hilger, the famous gallery in Austria. Read more

Fortunately there has never been any lack of admirers of Iceland's nature like this exhibition reflects very well. The exhibition displays 17 photographs taken by Oddgeir Karlsson, a local professional photographer, in various places on Reykjanes peninsula. Read more

The exhibition Icelandic Nature are landscape artworks from the collection of Reykjanes Art Museum. Read more

The hidden life in the deep ocean has always fascinated me. We share our planet with these watery inhabitants which yet remain unknown to us. In this exhibition I pay my homage to them and their magical world of wonder and splendour. Read more

The exhibition Tests shows 57 oil paintings, all in the same size and in two colors: white and red. The inspiration is 57 pregnancy tests. 56 paintings have one red vertical bar on a white canvas and resemble a red thread through the exhibition while painting number 57 stands out, showing two red, vertical bars. Read more

Sossa and Anton Helgi Jónsson share the common interest in the complexity of life, Sossa in paintings and Anton in poems. The exhibition Flame shows paintings by Sossa and framed poems by Anton about love and roleplay of the sexes. Read more

A middle aged man located in Hafnir tries to explain the state of the world to himself and what its prospects are. Through the medium of art, he tries to understand and learn more about this world we are building. Read more

The Art Museum of Reykjanesbær presents a new exhibition in Duus Museum about Icelandic abstract art in the beginning of the 21st century. The exhibition consist of work made by seven artists; Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir, Hadda Fjóla Reykdal, Halldór Ragnarsson, Logi Bjarnason, Magnús Helgason, Marta María Jónsdóttir og Sara Oskarsson. Read more

Gillian Pokalo is an American artist that fell in love with Icelandic nature. The work on display in Duus Museum are the result of her two trips to Iceland in April 2016 and March 2017.
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The chance to earn a good amount of money, in a relatively short time, has always been a strong force. From the middle of the 20th century Icelandic fishing villages provided this opportunity for young people. Read more

„The hour between night and dawn. The hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted be their deepest fears, when ghosts and demons are most powerful, the hour of the wolf is also the hour when mist children are born. " Read more

Exhibition of the Local History Museum Read more

Our earth is not a stable entity; we live on its very mobile surface. The natural world is far from settled but ever changeable and inconstant. This is essentially the point of view expressed by a show entitled At The Edge of The World, a joint project of artists Elva Hreiðarsdóttir, Phyllis Ewen and Soffía Sæmundsdóttir. Read more

November 11th at 18:00 Jóhanna Hreinsdóttir opens an exhibition in the Movie Hall in Duus Museum. Read more

On the occasion of the Night of Lights festival the photographer Vigdís Heiðrún Viggósdóttir opens the photographic series “The country boy’s dream” in the lobby in Duus Museum Thursday September 1st at 6pm. Read more

September 1st 2016, at 6pm Íris Rós Söring opens an exhibition with selected works of art on behalf of the Reyk­janes Art Museum in Duus Museum. Read more

On the occasion of the Night of Lights festival the Reykjanes Art Museum opens the exhibition “Future Memory” in Duus Museum Thursday September 1st at 6pm. The exhibition is a co-exhibition of four artists, Dodda Maggý, Elsa Dóróthea Gísladóttir, Ingirafn Steinarsson and Kristinn Már Pálmason. Read more

On the occasion of the Night of Lights festival Elínrós Blomquist Eyjólfsdóttir opens her exhibition “A sea of flowers” in the Movie Hall in Duus Museum Thursday September 1st at 6pm. Read more

The exhibition shows works by 21 artists, mainly paintings but also a photographic work and a sculpture. The oldest of the artists is Ásgrímur Jónsson (1876 – 1958) and the youngest is Aron Reyr (b. 1974). What the artists have in common is that they touch on human relations and how they appear, either straight forward or in a symbolic way. Their perspective can be either private, professional or social. Read more

As part of the Children´s Art Festival in Reykjanesbær all 10 kindergartens in town, all 6 elementary schools and the Collage of Suðurnes are participating in three exhibitions you can see on display from May 4th -22nd in Duus Museum. Read more

In early 2015, photographer Bragi Þór Jósefsson, displayed the exhibition Iceland Defence Force in Reykjavík‘s Museum of Photography. There he showed photographs taken in the military base in Keflavík airport, shortly after the United States army left the country after 55 years. In these photograps Bragi Þór captured the athmosphere in the abondened houses of the Iceland Defence Force, houses that used to be filled with american culture but were now empty and exotic. Read more

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The exhibition is the home to a collection of over 100 model boats built by retired skipper Grímur Karlsson. The models offer a fascinating insight into Iceland's maritime history. Read more