Frosti Fjalar: Bjarmaband – sýningarstjóraspjall

Frosti Fjalar: Bjarmaband – Curator Talk

Sunday October 25th at 2 p.m., curator Ásdís Spanó will lead visitors through the exhibition Bjarmaband and discuss Frosti Fjalar’s life and art, his career and working methods, as well as the development of the exhibition and the work behind it.

The exhibition presents a selection of works by Frosti, who pursued his practice in solitude for several decades. Frosti, formerly known as Jakob Jónsson, had a long career spanning more than half a century. Following an active period of exhibiting in the 1970s and 1980s, however, he withdrew from public exhibitions and was no longer active publicly or within the art community. Across his long career, his visual language was shaped by a refined sense of form, disciplined composition and a profound sensitivity to colour.

Frosti Fjalar (1936-2026) studied art in Copenhagen, first at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and also earned a degree in structural engineering from KTH in Stockholm. After his final exhibition in 1991, he disappeared from public view, although he continued to work with exceptional perseverance. He left behind nearly six thousand watercolours and around eight hundred paintings.

Free entry – everyone welcome.