NEW VENUE: BLACK BOX, CURIOSUM
EURAU 26 / LATITUDES lecture series
Warm welcome to the talk by the Icelandic artist RÚRÍ
In a career spanning more than five decades, Rúrí, one of Iceland’s preeminent artists, has centered her artistic practice on dealing with moral issues of inhumanity and existential threat, in works that confront imperialism, capitalism, social injustice, and environmental destruction. A pioneer of performance art in Iceland, Rúrí has worked in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, writing, photography, film, multimedia installations and performance art. Her groundbreaking performance Golden Car (1974), was one of the first works in Iceland to engage in political activism. She represented Iceland at the 2003 Venice Biennale with the work Archive-Endangered Waters, an interactive multimedia installation made up of visual and acoustic data on 52 waterfalls that had disappeared or were threatened by the construction of a dam in the Icelandic Highlands. The piece brought her international acclaim. Curator Pari Stave, Director of Skaftfell Myndlistarmiðstöð Austurlands | Center for the Visual Arts, in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
This artists talk is organised in partnership with UmArts, and is the first in a series of lectures organized by Umeå School of Architecture in the framework of EURAU 26. Rúrí is invited as a keynote speaker for the kick-off planning meeting for the ‘EURAU26 International Symposium on European research in architecture and urbanism’. The final symposium will take place in June 2026 under the title LATITUDES: situated reflections on architectural research, hosted by Umeå School of Architecture.
For more information about the Latitude project, contact Maria Luna Nobile, Associate Professor at Umeå School of Architecture.
This research project is funded through a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond initiation grant.