An overview of Hallgrímur Helgason’s art career has opened in The Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir Branch. Curated by museum director Ólöf Kristín Sigurðardóttir and art historian Aldís Snorradóttir, the exhibition showcases about 70 paintings from the start of Hallgrímur’s career in 1985 until the present day, including freshly finished works from the summer and fall of 2024. We follow the artist’s evolution from Icelandic landscapes to geometric figuration during his years in Boston and NYC, 1985-89, and on to a more painterly style of the Paris period, 1990-95. A couple of works depict the artist’s alter ego, Grim. The black and white period is also on show, with the famous “Málað á myrkur” (“Acrylic on Darkness”) series as well as his portraits of dead Icelandic writers. The last part of the exhibition is dedicated to Hallgrímur’s latest works, an emotional and heartbreaking portrait of his dying father from 2021, his take on death in general, and on to the “Group Self Portraits” from 2022, where the artist groups together all his many selves. The most recent works are more political in nature, concentrating on the ongoing genocides in Ukraine and Gaza.