In 2015 Iceland brought wonderful sound from the north to Basel. Now the live recordings of the concerts in the bird's eye jazz club are available on CD. Charming Icelandic!
<Culturescapes Iceland> explores the cultural landscape of the island in the North Atlantic focussing history, language and trauma. In Iceland, literature is particularly closely related to history and has strongly influenced the young nation.
For the joint opening concert the Basel Sinfonietta presented ‹Epicycle I - Ísland› with contemporary compositions from the second largest island in Europe.
Iceland has always had a uinique way of capturing the imagination of the outside world. The aim of this lecture series at the University of Basel is to examine Iceland as a both a place of historic as well as current interest, from the perspectives of various disciplines.
Across three exhibitions the Icelandic cultural journalist, literature critic, and photographer Einar Falur Ingólfsson (*1966) devotes himself to his homeland of Iceland:...
Iceland's countryside is not just an aesthetic, but also a social and political challenge, especially when confronted with today's ecological and economic crises.
At the entrance to the exhibition we are welcomed by the Demented Diamond of the Kling og Bang Gallery - dense and colourful, just like the city of Reykjavík itself.
In at the Museum of Natural History, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and Egill Sæbjörnsson have devoted themselves to the seismologically and volcanically active landscape of Iceland - a source of inspiration, ...
Works by conceptual artist Kristián Guðmundsson (*1941) are intellectual challenges, peppered with subtle humour, and at the same time hardly to be surpassed in their minimalism.