Experience the Art of Shoplifter May 27 at Rockefeller Center

Shoplifter represented Iceland at La Biennale di Venezia in 2019 with another multi-sensory large scale installation Chromo Sapiens which is on permanent display in her art center in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo credit: Elisabet Davidsdottir

We will meet the Icelandic artist and Elfi von Kantzow Alvin Art Award recipient Shoplifter/Hrafnhildur Arnadottir for an exclusive viewing of her new installation “Fathoms” at reSOUND New York, a site-specific multi-sensory art exhibition.

We will meet at 5:45 pm at HERO, our entry is at 6pm until closing at 7pm. There is a cash bar, but we hope you will join us for drinks afterwards in the neighborhood.

Tickets are limited, first come first serve. 3 ticket maximum per order for members.

Member Tickets – $25
Non- Member Tickets – $40

ReSOUND: A Multisensory Art Exhibition at HERO in Rockefeller Center –
610 5th Avenue Rink Level, New York, 10020

HERO is a new kind of space for immersive storytelling, within the heart of New York City— at Rockefeller Center. HERO activates large scale video, spatial audio and scenic design to tell stories of mythic scale, blending arts & culture and experiential retail.

ReSOUND is an expansive multi-sensory platform, transforming the space beneath one of New York’s most iconic landmarks into a layered sensory environment where sound, light, touch, movement, and exhibition formats converge. This large-scale multi-sensory art project invites you to explore immersive installations, digital art, and omnidirectional soundscapes crafted through a collaboration between artists, designers, scientists, and media & sound experts around the globe. This experience redefines art through innovation, blending technology, design, and sensory exploration like never before.

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, also known as Shoplifter, is an Icelandic born, New York based artist celebrated for her immersive, large-scale installations using synthetic hair as a primary material. Her work blurs the boundary between the natural and artificial, creating hypernatural environments that invite tactile and multi sensory engagement.

For reSOUND, Shoplifter presents Fathoms, a site-specific forest of fuzzy, floating sculptures in synthetic hair that visitors are invited to gently touch, pet, and embrace. Drawing on the dual meaning of the Icelandic word – faðmur both a word for a unit of measure as well as the act of an embrace, the work channels the therapeutic power of nature to evoke joy, connection, and wonder.

Portrait by Anna Maggy