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Mary (Shell) / Oil on Canvas / 25 x 25 cm / 2025
Shells 1 / Oil on Canvas / 45 x 45 cm / 2026
Robyn (Dropar) / Oil on Canvas / 90 x 128 cm / 2026
Hand (Water) / Oil on Canvas / 45 x 45 cm / 2026

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Selected 11 supports 11 upcoming and newcomer artists per year!💥

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blueartworks taken in Iceland by @kronosp

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Work featured in Nova 2, a bi-monthly publication via @newamericanpaintings. 💙✨ link in bio by @kronosp

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This Studio Sunday, we’ve got the blues in the best way 💙 @kronosp

Meet an artist bringing realism to life through a palette devoted entirely to blue. #studiosundays

What is blueness?
Is it a colour, a distance, or an atmosphere? Is it found in the sea, in the sky, or in the blue cast of distant mountains?

Body of Water is Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir’s third solo exhibition and continues her ongoing exploration of cobalt blue, a pigment she has worked with almost exclusively since 2019. Historically developed as a refined alternative to ultramarine, cobalt blue became prized for its ability to depict the sky and sea.
Her work shifts from the close up portrait to the body and environment, placing figures within landscapes. Bodies emerge within water, along shorelines, and beneath open skies. Horizons, shells, droplets, and reflections recur throughout the paintings, reflecting the many forms of water. Her ongoing exploration of cobalt blue appears throughout the exhibition, including in a painting of a cyanometer, an eighteenth century instrument used to measure the colour of the sky. Reimagined through a scale of cobalt-blue tonal variations derived from the artist’s own process of organizing colour through tone and value, the work reflects both the history of the pigment and its central role within her practice.

Make sure to follow her page and learn more about her recent solo exhibition 🦋 by @kronosp

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Meeting point at @thula.gallery just closed. Happy to have been a part of this exhibition along with:
@aurorarobson, @bolatta.silis, @camilla.thorup, @petrahjartar, @sigga_bjorg_sigurdardottir & @thordisadalsteinsdottir

Meeting Point brings together seven contemporary artists from Iceland, Denmark, and Greenland whose practices span painting, sculpture, and textile. Rooted in distinct cultural contexts yet connected through the shared landscape of the North Atlantic, the exhibition offers a meeting place for diverse artistic voices.

Working with different materials and approaches, the artists explore themes of memory, identity, nature, and transformation. Each practice is shaped by individual experience, while together the works reveal unexpected resonances across disciplines, geographies, and traditions. Rather than presenting a single narrative, Meeting Point invites dialogue between materials, cultures and the artworks themselves.

The title Meeting Point refers not only to the gathering of artists from diverse geographical and cultural contexts, but also to the gallery itself: a place where ideas, perspectives, and people converge. It is an invitation to slow down, to notice relationships between works that may not be immediately apparent, and to discover unexpected affinities across different media and ways of making. taken in Marshallhúsið by @kronosp

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2 months ago

Excited to have this piece included in MONSTERS IN BLOOM curated and presented by @pai_32_ at @temporaryart__

Along with:
@cyclemusicandart
@nacoca.ko
@andrea.samory
@olszewskaxedyta
@likangggg
@kirsik_fineart
@juliannahellerman
Photos by @plus1ap
The exhibition ended today; thanks everyone who stopped by 💙 taken in London, United Kingdom by @kronosp

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Unforgettable family trip to Perú for my moms 60th birthday 🇵🇪🦙 taken in Cusco - Peru by @kronosp

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Ekki missa af síðustu dögum sýningar Karen Aspar, Body of Water. 🌊

Sýningin er opin:

Föstudagur ~ 14:00–18:00
Laugardagur ~ 14:00–18:00
Sunnudagur ~ 13:00–18:00

Sjáumst í Hermu💙

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Don’t miss the final days of Karen Ösp’s exhibition, Body of Water. 🌊

The exhibition is open:

Friday ~ 14:00–18:00
Saturday ~ 14:00–18:00
Sunday ~ 13:00–18:00

See you at Herma 💙 by @kronosp

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BODY OF WATER 💙

My third solo exhibition is now open at @herma_rvk
Curated by the goat @jon.solvi 📸: Eric Guzman

Thank you to the Herma team & everyone who came out to the opening.

The exhibition is on view until Sunday, June 14th.
11.06 - 13:00-17:00
12.06 - 14:00-18:00
13.06-14:00-18:00
14.06-13:00-17:00

Dm For inquiries and a list of available works. taken in Herma by @kronosp

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Artist talk - Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir with Herma by @kronosp

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Hvað er blámi?
Er hann litur, fjarlægð eða andrúmsloft? Finnst hann í hafinu, á himninum eða í bláma fjallanna í fjarska?

Body of Water er þriðja einkasýning Karenar Aspar og heldur áfram rannsókn hennar á kóbaltbláum lit, sem hún hefur unnið nær eingöngu með frá árinu 2019. Á sýningunni færist áherslan frá portrettmyndum yfir á líkamann í samhengi við umhverfi sitt. Hafið, strendur, skeljar, dropar, speglanir og opinn himinn birtast aftur og aftur í verkunum og vísa til þeirra ólíku forma sem vatn tekur á sig. Á sýningunni er einnig málverk af blámæli (cyanometer), mælitæki frá 18. öld sem var hannað til að mæla bláma himinsins. Verkið er endurhugsað út frá kvarða kóbaltblárra litagilda sem byggir á eigin vinnuferli listamannsins.

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What is blueness?
Is it a colour, a distance, or an atmosphere? Is it found in the sea, in the sky, or in the blue cast of distant mountains?

Body of Water is Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir’s third solo exhibition and continues her exploration of cobalt blue, a pigment she has worked with almost exclusively since 2019. The exhibition marks a shift from close up portraiture toward bodies placed within landscapes. Oceans, shorelines, shells, droplets, reflections, and open skies recur throughout the paintings, exploring the many forms of water. Also included is a painting of a cyanometer, an eighteenth-century instrument used to measure the blueness of the sky, reimagined through a scale of cobalt-blue tonal variations derived from the artist’s own painting process.

Opnunartímar / Opening times:

6.06: 17:00-19:00 Opnun
7.06: 13:00-17:00
8.06: 13:00-17:00
9.-10.06: Closed
11.06: 13:00-17:00
12.06: 14:00-18:00
13.06: 14:00-18:00
14.06: 13:00-17:00 by @kronosp

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Upcoming solo art @herma_rvk, first weekend of June 💙👩🏻‍🎨 taken in Herma by @kronosp

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5 months ago

So excited to have my paintings featured in Tomorrow’s Talent 5 by @booooooom I have been following and frequenting exhibitions by many of the artists featured in this book, so it feels extra special to be included alongside them.
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To grab a copy of the book, see link in bio 💙 by @kronosp

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