To visit The Living Art Museum and get the most from your holiday in Reykjavik, create itinerary details personal to you using our Reykjavik journey planner. Between 20 the organisation had a brief stay at Vatnsstígur 3 and in 2006 moved to Laugavegur 26. A year later Vatnsstígur 3b was purchased and Nýló occupied 560 m2 there until 2001. In 1989 Islandsbanki purchased the building and terminated the lease, forcing Nýló to move the museum's holdings in a rented storage space at Þingholtsstræti 6. Nýló then occupied a 200 m2 ground floor space in an alley at Vatnsstígur 3b, where another storey was added in October 1983. Originally the collection began in a 30 m2, rented space at Mjölnisholt 14, Reykjavík. This new roll took some prominence over collecting and helped to make Nẏlȯ a foremost venue for performance during the 1980s. In 1981 The Living Art Museum Gallery was founded and Nýló became a venue for exhibiting art along with collecting. Equal weight has been given to exhibiting and collecting works by both Icelandic and international artists. Since that founding year Nýló has maintained the original goal to create a platform for progressive exhibitions and critical discussions on experimental art practices, but has also remained inherently flexible as necessary within smaller, mainly volunteer-based organisations. Janumarks the inaugural meeting where the Living Art Museum Association was established and the initial foundations for its roll were set in place. It began initially as a collection to preserve and archive artworks by a younger generation of artists that were otherwise ignored by the art public and authorities at the time the founders were a diverse group of artists at various stages within their careers, and mainly associated with the fluxus movement and conceptual art. Nýló was founded by a group of twenty-six artists in 1978 as the first artist-run, non-profit organisation in Iceland. As an active art venue and collecting museum Nýló is committed to presenting, collecting and preserving works by Icelandic and international artists and in engaging with the discourse on contemporary art practices. The Living Art Museum or is an artist-run, member-based, non-profit museum and platform for innovative and experimental contemporary art in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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