About sequences

Sequences is an artist-run international art festival held every other year in Reykjavík. The festival subtitle Real-time Art Festival refers to its original goal of being a platform for time-based media within the visual arts scene. The curator of every festival can interpret this theme in their own way. The title of the twelfth edition of the festival will be announced in the coming months. Previous artists who have exhibited at the festival include Edith Karlson, Valgerðum Briem, Benjamin Patterson, Elísabet Jökulsdóttir, Philip Jeck, Miruna Roxana Dragan, Joan Jonas, David Horvitz, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Guido van der Werve, Ragnar Kjartansson, Emily Wardill, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Carolee Schneemann, Rebecca Erin Moran, Finnbogi Pétursson and Alicja Kwade to name just a few. The curators of previous festivals have been Icelandic and foreign artists and curators, including Marika Agu, Maria Arusoo, Kaarin Kivirähk and Sten Ojavee, Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir and Þráinn Hjálmarsson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Ingólfur Arnarsson, Margot Norton, Markús Þór Andrésson and Alfredo Cramerotti. The festival is founded by the artist-run exhibition venues Kling & Bang and the Living Art Museum, as well as The Icelandic Art Center, along with a board of artists and independent parties who are active in the artist-run scene in Reykjavík. Sequences art festival will be held for the 12th time in October 2025, 10th until the 20th of October. The festival’s overarching theme and curatorial concept will be announced in the coming months.
Team
Festival Manager - Odda Júlía Snorradóttir Curator - Daría Sól Andrews
Board
Chairman of the Board - Tinna Guðmundsdóttir - Board members - Sunna Ástþórsdóttir - Una Björg Magnúsdóttir - Vikram Pradhan - Dorothea Oelsen Halldórsdóttir - Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir - Sigþóra Óðins - Sean Patrick O'Brian - Emilie Dalum - Deepa Iyengar