Gagarin

12/08/2026

Today is the day! Earlier this year, we created an interactive solar eclipse installation for Origo that explores what happens when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align.

And now, just in time for the real thing, we’ve updated the interactive table at LAVAcentre to follow today’s eclipse as it travels across Iceland.

We can’t wait to step outside at 17:45 and experience this for real.

13/07/2026

Our latest newsletter is out! Over the past months, we’ve had the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from museums and visitor centres to cultural experiences, exhibitions, wayfinding and interactive storytelling. We’re also excited to be part of the co-creation and design team for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale with Basalt architects and Rán Flygenring.

Take a look at some of the projects, ideas and experiences we’ve been working on lately.

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13/07/2026

Nýjasta fréttabréfið okkar er komið út!

Undanfarna mánuði höfum við unnið að fjölbreyttum verkefnum heima og erlendis. Allt frá söfnum og áfangastöðum til menningarupplifana, sýninga og stakra tímabundinna innsetninga.

Við segjum frá aðkomu okkar að spennandi uppbyggingu í Þjórsárdal, nýjum verkefnum í Svíþjóð og Noregi og síðast en ekki síst þátttöku okkar í hönnun íslenska sýningarskálans á Feneyjartvíæringnum í arkitektúr 2027 sem er samstarfsverkefni Gagarín, Basalt Architects og Rán Flygenring.

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26/06/2026

Við mælum með hlustun á Víðsjá þar sem Halla Helgadóttir framkvæmdastjóri Miðstöð hönnunar og arkitektúrs, er í góðu og upplýsandi viðtali um Tvíæringinn í arkitektúr og framlag Íslands árið 2027, Samfélag í bleyti, sem Basalt Architects, Gagarin og Rán Flygenring standa að.
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We recommend listening to Víðsjá, where Halla Helgadóttir, CEO of Miðstöð hönnunar og arkitektúrs, gives an insightful interview about the Venice Architecture Biennale and Iceland’s contribution in 2027, SOAK: Rituals of Collective Belonging, developed by Basalt Architects, Gagarin and Rán Flygenring. (The interview is in Icelandic only.)

Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands sendi frá sér dagskrárbækling fyrir næsta tónleikaár og verður þar ýmsu til tjaldað. Nýr Aðalhljómsveitarstjóri, Barbara Hannigan, tekur við. Nýr staðarlistamaður og staðartónskáld taka til starfa og margar stórstjörnur sígildrar tónlistar kom...

24/06/2026

A summer get-together for all the senses!

We started with Björk: echolalia and James Merry’s captivating masks at the National Gallery of Iceland. Then on to a sensory fragrance journey at Fishersund, before ending the evening with a fantastic dinner at Lola Restaurant. Happy summer!

29/05/2026

VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2027!

We are proud to share that Iceland Design and Architecture, Commissioner of the Iceland Pavilion, has announced that SOAK: Rituals of Collective Belonging is Iceland’s contribution to the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Curated by Basalt Architects partner Marcos Zotes, the pavilion is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Basalt Architects, Gagarin and Rán Flygenring. The exhibition explores Icelandic bathing culture as a unique social infrastructure and a space for collective belonging.

We look forward to bringing this conversation to Venice in 2027!

26/05/2026

At EVE Fanfest 2026 in Harpa, Reykjavík, Gagarín designed and developed a new interactive EVE History Exhibit for Fenris Creation (Former CCP Games).

The installation reimagined how the story of EVE Online’s player community could be experienced physically in space. Visitors selected capsules marked with different years and placed them into interactive stations. As the stations charged with light and sound, guests could explore milestones, alliances and player-driven history by navigating through time using a tactile interface.

At the centre of the space stood a large spaceship model where the capsules were stored, turning the exhibit itself into part archive, part ritual, and part shared memory for the EVE community.

Originally told through printed storytelling, the experience was transformed into a physical and interactive installation designed to engage thousands of Capsuleers visiting Reykjavík for Fanfest.

Huge thanks to the amazing team at Fenris Creation for the collaboration.

12/05/2026

What if visitors could step into the mythological worlds of the Eddas?

Worlds of Valhalla is an immersive experience inspired by Norse mythology and Iceland’s most important contribution to world literature. Guided by a Völva, visitors travel through the realms of Yggdrasil in a sensory journey shaped by light, sound, space and storytelling.

Not a museum, but a speculative interpretation of worlds beyond the limits of what can truly be known.

The concept was developed by Aron Þór Leifsson, Gagarin and Tobia Zambotti in 2024 and is still in progress.

27/04/2026

We love it when exhibitions continue to evolve and improve!

At the heart of the LAVAcentre exhibition is the interactive table, a central feature since the exhibition opened. It brings together live data and visual storytelling, helping visitors understand what’s happening across Iceland at any given moment. The table has now been updated with a new Northern Lights forecast layer, allowing visitors to explore a real-time 48-hour forecast visualising both cloud cover and aurora activity across the country.