The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson’s spoof of the Samherji Group’s website featured a prominent apology, seemingly acknowledging its alleged role in the Namibian fishing scandal

The musician, who has spent recent years carving out a side career as an artist, is showing four multi-sensory installations in his home country of Iceland

Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril

Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives

Funded by the tiny Nordic nation’s then thriving financial sector, the exhibition venue was an incubator for creative talent from Ragnar Kjartansson and Olafur Eliasson to Sigur Rós and Björk

Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

Sigurður Guðjónsson’s mesmerising work in the cavernous Artiglierie uses the movement of metal particles around a magnet

Jack Latham’s “forensic photography” exhibition coincided with the reopening of a criminal investigation dating to 1974

Phallic-shaped sculpture has both shocked and endeared itself to the public