Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

Museum and Culture

Art Gallery Fold - Rauðarárstígur 14-16 Reykjavik, Tel. 551 0400

Art Gallery Fold

Good art by recognized Icelandic artists.

Art Gallery Fold has the finest selection of contemporary Icelandic art available in Iceland. Located at the three biggest shopping areas Art Gallery Fold makes it easy for everyone to enjoy and acquire Icelandic contemporary art. We pride ourselves in selling good art by recognized Icelandic artists at a reasonable price.

In our main gallery on Raudarárstígur we always have a wide selection of oil paintings, aquarelles, pastels, prints, sculptures and textiles.

The gallery is divided into two departments. On one hand you will find works by artists currently working in Iceland and on the other hand you will find works by the pioneers of the Icelandic art world.

There is an exhibition room in the gallery called the "Baksalurinn" and it hosts around 14 private exhibitions every year. "Rauða stofan" is a small room convenient for showcases, smaller exhibitions and introductions of artists. "Ljósfold" is the newest exhibition room dedicated to photography.

Art Gallery Fold on Raudarárstígur is also an auctions house. Auctions are held on regular basis, three to four times a year. Items to be auctioned are on display for three days prior to the auctions and a catalogue is published both on print as well as on the Internet.

Art Gallery Fold provides appraisal and valuations of Icelandic art work for estate planning or insurance purposes.

In Kringlan Shopping Mall we offer a fine selection of ceramics, glass and smaller to medium size pictures. If you are looking for the perfect gift a visit to our Shopping Mall gallery is a pleasant beginning. Art Gallery Fold is located on 1st floor of the Kringlan Shopping Mall and you will be welcomed with a smile and a cup of coffee if you like.

Framing services
Art Gallery Fold has a new, fully equipped framing workshop and offers a full range framing service. A reception is at the galleries and all frames are custom made.

Shipping, packing and handling
All our galleries offer a packing and shipping services worldwide via FedEx or a courier of your choice. It only takes 24 hours to ship a package to Europe and Northern America and your art work is fully insured all of the way. We can also gift wrap the package for you.

Icelandic art -Exciting to own and behold!
Just over a hundred years ago, Iceland's first painters were graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. This fact may explain why most Icelandic art can be labelled as "modern art".

Of this first generation of Icelandic painters, Jóhannes S. Kjarval is the best known. His contemporaries include Þórarinn B. Þorláksson, Ásgrím Jónsson, Jón Stefánsson and Kristín Jónsdóttir. Wellknown Icelandic artist of the past few decads were Louisa Matthíasdóttir andNína Tryggvadóttir who both worked in America. Others of that same period were Gunlagur Scheving, Gunnlaugur Blöndal and Þorvaldur Skúlason.

Reykjavík has a plehora of art galleries: The National Gallery of Iceland primarily features Icelandic art. The Ásgrímur Jónsson Collection is named after the artist and features his work. Kjarvalsstaðir is a god place to see the work of Jóhannes S. Kjarval, and a variety of other interesting exhibitions are to be found there as well. The Harbour House features the works of Erró, possibly Iceland's bestknown contemporary painter. The works of sculptors Einar Jónsson, Ásmundur Sveinsson and Sigurjón Ólafsson have their respective galleries, each of which definitely merits a visit.

Art Gallery Fold, located at Rauðarárstigur 14, is by far Iceland's largest gallery, with an exemplary variety of works by over 200 artists from every generation. Art Gallery Fold also has a branch in the Kringlan Shopping Mall where the emphasis is on fine art in convenient sizes, suitable as gifts.

Art Gallery Fold
Rauðarárstígur 14-16
105 Reykjavík
Iceland
Tel. 551 0400
Website: www.myndlist.is