The twelfth edition of the Sequences Biennial, Sequences XII: Pause, will take place from 10 to 20 October 2025 in Reykjavík. This year, the festival brings together a wide-ranging group of Icelandic and international artists whose work explores slowness in both artistic practice and audience experience.

Curated by Daría Sól Andrews, Sequences XII invites visitors to step away from the rush of daily life and immerse themselves in ten days of exhibitions, performances, lectures, guided walks, and more. The festival is an open invitation to pause, reflect, and experience art at a different rhythm, making space for attention, meditation, and sustained engagement.

Three main exhibitions anchor the programme, each offering a unique perspective on time: Experiential Time, focusing on time-based, experiential works and installations that invite us to experience slowly, and encourage quiet contemplation; Political Time, exploring art that considers the lived experience and politics of time, especially as it relates to marginalized communities and histories; and Natural Time, presenting works that reveal the tempo of non-human life, from microscopic growth to geological change, and invite us to see time on a scale far beyond our own.

Mark your calendars for 10–20 October 2025 and join us for Sequences XII: Pause, a celebration of contemporary art, reflection, and shared experience in Iceland.

The full list of participating artists and the detailed programme will be announced later this year.

For press inquiries, please contact: dorothea@sequences.is

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