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.
Noelle is staying on and we welcome two new guests:
Rosalind Breen, artist from Canada – rosalindbreen.com
Ken Steen, composer, sound and media artist from USA – www.kensteen.com
Emerson Schreiner was at Gullkistan in february.
Here is an interview with him on the national TV. Go to minute 22.35
Emerson Schreiner
On April 1st 2009 we launched the Gullkistan website, ready to go. We thank all our guests, 119, for the trust and everything they have given us – and we look forward to an exciting future. Today a house full of creative people! Love Alda, Kristveig and families. Photographer: Ortzi Akizu – ekobidaiaria.wordpress.com
Katariina and behind her Mt. Hekla, shaking a little bit lately as she gets ready to let out some fire for us to watch at a comfortable distance.
Easter time and spring is in the air. We have been working hard, cleaning out the studio to make it ready for all our new creative guests.
Katariina Vuorinen, poet, Jyväskylä, Finland – www.savukeidas.com/katariinavuorinen
Sade Kahra, photography artist, Turku, Finland – www.kahra.fi
Sonia Ali, artist, Exess, UK – stormsinateacup.blogspot.com
Caroline Jean, painter, Canada – carolinejean.wordpress.com
Noelle Sharp, visual art, sculpture, textiles , Chicago, USA – www.noellesharponline.com
Nick Pedersen took this photo one evening, just down the road from the farm.
The guests in february enjoyed the mild winter weather, travelling and working hiking and socializing and whatever else came along. We wish to see them all again.
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2012 was eventful with 41 guests, some with attachments, from 14 countries. Among them our 100th guest since we started in june 2009. Amazing people that have filled their hearts with new feelings for the nature, new ideas and art work. The rest of the world will see in future exhibitions, movies, poems, paintings, drawings, choreography, novels and animation.
Baniprossonno and his wife Putul came back to Gullkistan to celebrate his 80th birthday and as always he was busy working. Again he left behind paintings and drawings for Gullkistan as he has such strong feelings about how wonderful Gullkistan is for the creativity. Many thanks Bani and Putul!
2013 is looking great for Gullkistan with artists staying every month of the year. Many seem to be interested to know how the winter is in Iceland and want to work in harmony with the wind, storm, …( we have more than 50 words for wind), northern lights and snow. January has been very mild with only one or two days of snow.
There are still some vacancies so we urge dreamers to go for it!
We welcome our guests in January and February:
Ilsu Hwang, artist, South Korea / London, UK – www.ilsuhwang.com
Jieum Kim, artist, South Korea / London, UK – www.jieunkim.net/index.php
Lissa Holloway-Attaway, artist, Canada/ Sweden – momoby.wordpress.com
Kenn Bass, video/ installations, Brooklyn, USA – kennbass.com
Suwon Lee, photographer, South Korea / Venezuela – www.suwonlee.com
Luis Romero, Venezuela – http://www.oficina1.com/luis-romero/ , http://pulgar.multiply.com/ ; http://www.tiposmoviles.net/
Emerson Schreiner, painter, USA – www.emersonschreiner.com
Nick Pedersen, artist, Salt Lake City, USA, , www.nick-pedersen.com
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This year we celebrate new year with a guest for the first time.
We welcome Ilsu Hwang from South Korea.
As the year comes to it’s end we recollect many of the incredible creations of our guests.
Du Yun made a music peace and is so generous to share it with us.
Du Yun’s song
Gudrun von Maltzan made drawings. They are about 2 meters long each one, all made outside with a pencil and paper. She will exhibit them in Paris before too long. Thanks to Gudrun for sharing them with us.
A beautiful autumn has passed and winter has taken over.
Kyle Williams survived it all for three months and we thank him for being with us. He had two friends over from San Francisco who worked on their new movie L for Leisure.
See more about Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, their films and their Kickstarter site where they search funding to finish their movie.
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Gullkistan is honored to have started to collaborate with the CAMAC International residency program for artists, writers, musicians and composers in Marney Sur Seine in France.
It was sparked by interest of our guests in 2010 Raom & Loba who later cooperated with poet Jón Özur Snorrason for their exhibitions held in Paris and Buenos Aires in spring 2012. It was therefore with pleasure we invited Jón to be the first artist to represent Gullkistan at Camac to work on his ideas and also to start a project about people who run residency program exchange as Jón is part of the Gullkistan team.
Jean-Yves Coffre director of Camac, Omar and Jón.
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