Högna Sigurðardóttir – Matter and Spirit in Architecture

July 2. - August 31. 2010

Safnahúsið / The Museum House
Vestmannaeyjar

This first retrospective of the works of architect Högna Sigurðardóttir is prompted by the occasion of her eightieth birthday. The first woman to practice architecture in Iceland, Högna Sigurðardóttir has not been shy to try innovations in her work. Over the years she has won notice for working structure and interior as a single whole, integrating finishings, furniture, and flower beds with interior space as well as shaping buildings’ immediate surroundings in seamless accord with the larger whole of the man-made environment. 

Högna Sigurðardóttir has lived and worked in France ever since her graduation from Ecole Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1960, but has created some of her most personal works in Iceland. She has received many international awards for her work. A detailed catalogue will accompany the exhibition. This exhibition is a joint project of the Reykjavík Art Museum and the Association of Icelandic Architects and is now put up in Vestmannaeyjar where Högna is born and raised.

Curated by Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir, head of the architecture dep. at Reykjavik Art Museum.