About MurMur
MurMur productions is a cultural production company, the first of its kind in Iceland. We specialise in producing cultural projects with independent artists and art groups. We work on big and small projects across all art fields.
Murmur Productions aims to create a supportive environment for Icelandic independent artists/groups and their projects to reach their fullest potential, both in Iceland and abroad.
The team
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Kara Hergils
Kara graduated from Iceland University of the Arts in 2011 as a dancer and choreographer. She founded her own theater company, Trigger Warning, in the year 2016 and has created and produced her own performance work consistently as a writer, director and artistic director. She has worked as a producer for Reykjavík Dance Festival in one capacity or another since 2015.
Her focus has increased more on independent production and cultural administration in the last few years where she has collaborated with various local companies, collectives and serves on the board the various theatre affiliations. In addition to her independent work she served as a project manager and PR for Reykjavík Arts Festival from 2020 - 2021.
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Davíð Freyr Þórunnarson
Davíð is an actor with a master's degree in cultural management. Since 2015, Davíð has worked as a freelance managing director and producer for many of Icelands leading performing arts groups, where he has gained extensive experience in information dissemination, planning, writing and conceptual work, project management and marketing of performing arts and cultural events in Iceland and on an international level.
Davíð is the managing director of the art festival Art without Borders which is the only venue in Iceland that focuses entirely on the artistic creation of disabled artists and is absolutely unique within the Icelandic art scene.
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Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir
Ragnheiður Maísól hodls a BA degree in Fine art from Iceland University of the Arts and is currently finishing her MA degree in practical ethnology at the University of Iceland
She has worked on versatile art projects over the years within all art fields. Previous works include production of theatre works Club Romantica and The Last Kvöldmáltíð, production of contemporary opera KOK, artistic director of Arts Without Borders - an interdisciplinary disabled artists festival and general manager of Dark Music Days festival. Her main focus is producing new performance work by leading Icelandic artists and creating long-term relationships, both within the Icelandic art scene and internationally.
What do we do?
MurMur specializes in all aspects of the production process; from conceptualization, to financing, implementation, post-production and after life. We are also able to take on individual aspects of projects. We advise on, and write, grant applications. We are also there to take on financing and budgeting aspects of production. We seek out partners and handle communication with institutions. We handle all aspects of marketing and public relations. In essence, we write the reports and make the boring phone calls so that you don’t have to. We will meet you wherever it is needed.
We believe that there is a great opportunity in the export of Icelandic art and we want to build foreign cooperation by collaborating with foreign cultural institutions and festivals..
About MurMur
MurMur was founded in 2021 by Davíð Frey Þórunnarson, Kara Hergils and Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir. They had all worked independently on cultural productions for years and have valuable experience and skills in the production of cultural events. MurMur was founded to meet a growing need for
Previous projects include Ø-l-a-n-d, Art without Borders, Club Romantica, Dark Music Days, Reykjavík Dance Festival, Blóðuga kanínan, The Icelandic Visual Art Awards and The Last Kvöldmáltíð.
MurMur was created to meet the need to support independent artists and groups. MurMur provides professional services in the production of cultural projects so that artistic directors and artists can focus on the creative process.