New exhibition has been opened in gallery Klaustur. Kristín Rut Eyjólfsdóttir, an artist from Egilsstaðir, shows her works, 50 small paintings.

The exhibition is open every day from 10.00 to 18.00 and will be up until 19th June.

The summer has arrived with warm wind from the south and sunshine everyday. Rivers and creeks are full of water from the melting snow in the highlands. The culture centre is now open everyday from 10 am to 6 pm and the café also. The ruins of the 16th century cloister are green and soon we will have to start cutting the grass around Gunnar Gunnarsson's home.

Saturday 18th May the American artist Joan Perlman opened an exhibition in Gallery Klaustur. She is an Artist-in-Residency at Skriðuklaustur in May with a grant from The American-Scandinavian Foundation to work on her project Sanctuary. The paintings in the exhibition are made with gouache on Yupo. They are part of a the Sanctuary project of video and paintings which is inspired by the glacial rivers of Iceland. Joan Perlman's exhibition ends on 1st June.  Joan Perlman.

On the birthday of Gunnar Gunnarsson, 18th May, a small exhibition was opened at Skriðuklaustur. The exhibition is part of the 350 years jubileum of the manuscript collector Árni Magnússon, celebrated by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. Our former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir brought the replica of the story of saint Margaret to Skriðuklaustur again but the original manuscript was sent from Skriðuklaustur to Copenhagen in the year 1704.  Pictures and video can been found at Facebook Skriðuklaustur.