The exhibition Catalysis is an investigation into the colour green, the designated colour of the current Ordinary Time in the Christian Church Year.  Here the grisaille of the gothic architecture of Hallgrimskirkja Church is met with an explosion of shades of green, ranging from the most furtile bright to the gloomy dark. Recognizable symbols and forms have been dissolved in a process that emphysis a fast and intuative approach to painting. The magnificent verticality of the church building is brought into a dialogue in an installation that stressed the horizontal. As darkness sets the top of the church tower will eminate green light visible from the exterior of the church. Appearing as an emittion of vapours from the green dissolution in the enterence hall. 

HULDA STEFÁNSDÓTTIR received her BFA in Iceland and her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Recent one person exhibitions include: The Neutral: In Motion at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg and hlutlaus. á hreyfingu in Gallery Ágúst, Reykjavík (2007), Yfirlýstir staðir (When Colour is Not) Reykjavík (2005), A hole in Your Time, Dandruff Space & Shroud, Brooklyn New York (2005) and Leiftur (Flash) Kopavogur art museum Gerðarsafn, 2003. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavík City Museum, the Boston Center for the Arts and at Exit Art in New York.
Hulda received the Guðmunda Kristinsdóttir Art Prize in 2008 and a stipendium from the Icelandic Visual Artist´s fund in 2006 as well as a scholarship award from the School of Visual Arts in 1999. She has been a professor at the department of Fine Arts at the Iceland Art Academy since fall 2008.

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Hulda Stefansdottir's CATALYSIS is the second art exhibition in the foyer of Hallgrímskirkja Cathedral in the series CHRISTIAN MOTIFS.
Presented by friends of the Arts Society in Hallgrímskirkja.
Curated by artist Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir.