Arna Beth
Contact & Links
arnabeths@gmail.com
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Selected Works



    Arna Beth (b. 1997) is an Icelandic / American multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with the assemblage of digital media, speculative futures, and cultural critique of the postmodern. Her practice spans 3D fabrication such as sculpture and animation, performance, sound, and recombinant material processes. 

    Through frameworks of critical theory kin to xenofeminism, dromology and necropolitics, Arna constructs immersive, non-linear narratives, attempting to destabilize a dromocratic present.

    Self-composed sound, fabrication, and embodied performance mark an evolution toward more immersive, bodydriven work. Collaborations with curators and technologists continue to refine her spatial and political praxis, weaponizing aesthetics against the systems they mirror.

    She has performed and exhibited at:

    Boundary Condition at St. Garlickhythe Church (LDN) 2025.
    Manifest: IO at Goldsmiths (LDN) 2025.
    Club Are (LDN) 2023, 2025.
    Metamorphika (LDN) 2024.
    SÍM Residency + UKAI Projects at Korpúlfsstaðir (ICE) 2024
    Lewisham Art House (LDN) 2023
    Iklectik Art Lab (LDN) 2023
    Hafnarborg – the Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art (ICE) 2023.
    X3 Amsterdam (NL) 2022.
    Akademie der Künste in Berlin (DE) 2022
    Festival of Lights (ICE) 2020
    Decoratelier in Brussels (BE) 2019
    Lunga Festival (ICE) 2019
    Sónar Reykjavík (ICE) 2018


    Sím Residency / UKAI Projects at Korpúlfsstaðir





    Shipwreck, a month-long intervention in partnership with SIM Residency in Iceland, was more than an art exhibition. It was a place of grieving, an open space for creation, and a massive, immersive, experiential platform designed to bring abstract and overwhelming concepts down to earth. Six artists from Canada brought ruins of potential futures. Six Icelandic artists were then tasked with ‘making a home’ among these ruins. Then the public made their own offerings and adaptations.   The exhibition received national press coverage and drew large audiences, despite its distance from the downtown core. Bringing Shipwreck to your location will foster deep community engagement and dialogue. It encourages participants to confront global issues through personal and collective storytelling in beautiful and poignant ways and outside of the ideologies that too often lead to conflict.  Shipwreck invited everyone to contribute their interpretations and responses, creating a sense of shared responsibility and ownership over what happens next.