Curated by Jessica Morgan

This twenty-five-year-old festival, now focused on contemporary art, features thirty artists and collectives spanning three generations but follows neither a traditional theme nor a site-specific fixation. Instead, the trigger and kernel for Morgan’s curatorial effort (“Material Time/Work Time/Life Time”) is the festival’s inclusion of another show: a Dieter Roth retrospective curated by the artist’s son, Björn Roth. Scattered over twenty venues in Reykjavík and around Iceland, the larger project is conceived, as were many of Roth’s installations, as a constellation of elective affinities. On Kawara, Micol Assaël, Wilhelm Sasnal, Brian Jungen, John Bock, Margrét Blöndal, and others work with Roth’s artistic legacy. The catalogue includes a text by Morgan and a visual essay on Roth’s life and work in Iceland.

— Francesco Manacorda