About the project
About the project
Viðbragð / Creative Responses is an interdisciplinary collaborative project involving scholars, artists, and activists that sheds light on the importance of creative practices in a world facing profound transformations. Through academic publications, art exhibitions, artist-in-residence programs, and symposia, participants from diverse fields contribute to the ongoing development of new ideas. Guided by ecological thinking, the project emphasizes diversity, interconnectedness, and shared responsibility in addressing environmental threats in an era of climate change.
Art as a Process
The project's exhibitions, events, and research reflect the idea that arts, literature, and creative responses not only process transformations in our environment but are also a key factor in ensuring human survival in a changing world. The emphasis is on creating a platform where diverse voices—scholars, artists, writers, and activists—meet to explore the characteristics of eco-art and the relationship between humans and the environment.
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PUBLICATION
ESSAY COLLECTION
The essay collection Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature (Lexington Books, 2024) offers a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises. The volume examines literature, visual art, and film from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, and its chapters reflect the complex interplay between the regional and the global in environmental art and activism. The contributors—both established and emerging scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism—draw attention to the complex and important role that art, literature, and other creative practices play in times of crisis
Editors: Katarina Leppänen and Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir.
Contributors:Ana Stanićević, Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir, Camilla Brudin Borg, Georgiana Bozîntan, Johan Alfredsson, Karoliina Lummaa, Katarina Leppänen, Ole Martin Sandberg, Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir, Torsten Bøgh Thomsen, and Xin Liu.
The book also includes artworks by Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir, and Hildur Hákonardóttir.
ART EXHIBITIONS
The group exhibition Viðbragð / “Creative Responses” has been presented at Gallery SPECTA (16 May–21 June 2025) and the Akureyri Art Museum (27 November 2025–8 February 2026), and will in the coming years also be shown in Finland and Sweden. The exhibition’s main themes are “creative response” as a fundamental trait of living organisms; diversity and adaptation; and resistance to dominant power structures, with an emphasis on care and collaboration.
Curators: Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir and Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir
Artists: Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Aurora Robson, Bolatta Silis-Høegh, Björg Eiríksdóttir, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Hildur Hákonardóttir, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir, Kristinn Már Pálmason, Laura Ortman, Peter Holst Henckel, Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir, Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir and Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir.
Further information can be found in the brochure below.
EVENTS
ART AND NATURE
SPONSORS
