Sunday September 13th at 2 p.m., art historian Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson will guide visitors through the exhibition Bjarmaband, currently on view at Hafnarborg, and discuss Frosti Fjalar’s work in the context of the artist’s distinctive career and his place within Icelandic art.

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 Following an active period of exhibiting in the 1970s and 1980s, however, he withdrew from public exhibitions and was no longer active publicly or within the art community.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.
The exhibition is curated by Ásdís Spanó.

Frosti Fjalar (1936-2026) studied art in Copenhagen, first at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a trained engineer, having graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology 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.