In October 2025, the Sequences art festival will take place for the twelfth time. The curator of the festival is Daría Sól Andrews.

“My curatorial concept for Sequences XII centers around a growing aesthetic field, as Arden Reed has termed it, called “slow art” – which encompasses intimate encounters between art and viewer, examining alternative approaches to art making and experiencing. Through an aesthetic perception of slowness, the festival will connect locally, and focus on practices involving investigation, research, and interconnectivity. Programming will emphasize community building and reflective discussion and mediation. I will emphasize artists who use their practice to invest in a time and place through research and pedagogy.  We will explore what it means to both experience and produce with slowness at the heart, through works that force us to pause, to meditate and reflect. Exhibitions will focus on artists that approach their work through a slowness of research practice, as well as works that are produced slowly through a meditative patience and sensory focus.

An appreciation for slowness reframes the concept of productivity. As a mindful practice, it offers an escape from oversaturated content and an unhealthy bias towards speed and consumption in our modern society. Through the ethos of less is more, artists allow for ethical and sustainable production, creating work carefully and with consideration, and towards a deeper observation and slow appreciation. Slowing down then offers a political dimension, an act of rebellion, resistance, and patience. I will approach slowness not strictly through an element of time, but rather through deep connection, immersive attention, reciprocal relationships, engagement, and participatory involvement.” 

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.