Ragnar Kjartansson
Woman in E, 2016
Originally performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
January 15 – Apr 10, 2016
Duration: half-dozen to 9 hours, daily
Photo: Andrew Miller
Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying desolation and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. The artist blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings, and his performances to sculpture. Throughout, Kjartansson conveys an interest in dazzler and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a class of exploration.
Kjartansson (b. 1976) lives and works in Reykjavík. Major solo shows include exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Reykjavík Art Museum; the Barbican Centre, London; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington D.C.; the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; the Constitute of Gimmicky Art, Boston; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; amidst others. Kjartansson participated inThe Encyclopedic Palaceastward at the Venice Biennale in 2013, Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, Russian federation in 2014, and he represented Republic of iceland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The artist received the 2019 Ars Fennica Honor, and was the recipient of the 2022 Artes Mundi'due south Derek Williams Trust Purchase Honor, and Performa's 2011 Malcolm McLaren Award.
Ragnar Kjartansson
Santa Barbara, 2021-22
Durational performance
Directed by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
Functioning, staging and production: Lorem Ipsum
Commissioned by V–A–C Foundation, Moscow
Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Based on the serial originally created by Bridget and Jerome Dobson 'SANTA BARBARA' Ⓒ 1984 Twentieth Century Play a joke on Tv set, all rights reserved
Photograph: Misha Friedman
Ragnar Kjartansson
Bliss, 2020
Single-channel video
Duration: xi hours, 59 minutes, 25 seconds
Recorded at REDCAT equally part of LA Phil'due south Fluxus Festival curated by Christopher Rountree 25 May 2019, originally a commission for Performa 11
Ragnar Kjartansson
Me and My Mother 2020, 2020
Single-channel video
Duration: x minutes, 38 seconds
Ragnar Kjartansson
Sumarnótt, 2019
Seven-channel video installation with sound
Elapsing: 1 hr, 17 minutes
Ragnar Kjartansson
Eldhraun, 2019
Oil on canvas
31 i/2 ten 41 iii/8 inches
(80 10 105 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Figures in Mural (Sunday), 2018
Unmarried-channel video
Duration: 24 hours
Ragnar Kjartansson
Untitled, 2017
Oil on canvas
63 x 70 3/4 inches
(160 x 180 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Dope & Abuse, 2017
Polished stainless steel, electrical components, LED calorie-free
Edition of 3
91 one/4 x 19 5/8 10 iii 7/8 inches
(232 x fifty ten 10 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Architecture and Morality, 2016
Oil on sheet
47 3/16 x 59 inches
(120 ten 150 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Woman in East,2016
Originally performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
January fifteen – April 10, 2016
Duration: half-dozen to ix hours, daily
Photograph: Andrew Miller
Ragnar Kjartansson
Omnipresent Salty Death, 2015
Watercolor on newspaper
22 7/8 x 29 7/viii inches
(58 10 76 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Dice Nacht der Hochzeit, 2015
Watercolor on paper
36 two/3 ten l inches
(93 x 127 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
World Light – The Life and Death of an Creative person, 2015
Four-channel video
Duration: 20 hours, 45 minutes, 22 seconds
Commissioned past Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Ragnar Kjartansson
Scenes From Western Civilization,Burning House, 2015
Single channel video
Duration: 1 hr, 32 minutes
Ragnar Kjartansson
Bjarni Bömmer Listens to Take It Easy by the Eagles, 2014
Oil on sail
70 four/v x 63 inches
(180 x 160 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson and The National
A Lot of Sorrow, 2013-2014
Single-channel video
Duration: 6 hours, 9 minutes, 35 seconds
Originally performed at MoMA PS1, as part of Lord's day Sessions
Photo: Elísabet Davidsdottir
Ragnar Kjartansson
S.S. Hangover, 2013
Functioning for a boat and brass sextet
Music by Kjartan Sveinsson
Originally performed in the Arsenale, Venice, during the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
June 1 – November 24, 2013
Elapsing: 6 hours, daily
Photo: Lilja Birgisdóttir
Ragnar Kjartansson
The Visitors, 2012
Nine-channel Hard disk video projection
Duration: i hour, iv minutes
Photo: Elísabet Davidsdottir
Ragnar Kjartansson
To Music / An dice Musik, 2012
Performed at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
June ten – 17, 2012
Duartion: 4 to 8 hours, daily
Photograph: Marie Lusa
Ragnar Kjartansson
Song, 2011
Single-aqueduct video
Originally performed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
March x – 27, 2011
Duration: 6 hours, daily
Ragnar Kjartansson
Nighttime – Ice Cream Grill, 2011
Oil on canvas
17 3/4 x 13 3/four inches
(45 x 35 cm)
Ragnar Kjartansson
Have me hither by the Dishwasher: Memorial for Matrimony, 2011
Functioning installation featuring 10 troubadours and an excerpt from the motion pictureMorðsaga
Music past Kjartan Sveinsson
Originally performed at BAWAG P.S.K. Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Elapsing: 6 hours, daily
Installation view, Reykjavik Fine art Museum, Iceland, 2017
Photo: Vigfús Birgisson
Ragnar Kjartansson
The Man, 2010
Single-channel video with audio
Elapsing: 49 minutes
Ragnar Kjartansson
The End – Venezia, 2009
144 paintings, oil on canvass
Dimensions variable
Performed at the Icelandic Pavilion during the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
June 14 – Nov 22, 2009
Duration: 6 hours, daily
Ragnar Kjartansson
The End – Rocky Mountains, 2009
Five-channel video
Elapsing: 30 minutes
Commissioned for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Ragnar Kjartansson
The Schumann Machine, 2008
Video, six photographs, vinyl disc and difficult disc
Elapsing: 52 minutes, 15 seconds
Ragnar Kjartansson
God, 2007
Unmarried-channel video, with pink defunction
Duration: 30 minutes
Music by Dav Þór Jónsson and Ragnar Kjartansson
Deputed by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Gimmicky, Vienna and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík
Photo: Rafael Pinho
Ragnar Kjartansson
Scandinavian Pain, 2006
Neon sculpture
22 three/4 x 480 inches
(57.8 x 1219.2 cm)
Performed and deputed for Momentum, Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Music by Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
September 2 – ten, 2006
Duration: 6 hours, daily
Ragnar Kjartansson
The Great Unrest, 2005
Performed at Dagsbrún House every bit function of the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Reykjavík
May 16 – June xx, 2005
Elapsing: 6 hours, daily
Ragnar Kjartansson
Satan is Real, 2004
Unmarried-channel video
Duration: 1 hour, three minutes, 40 seconds
Ragnar Kjartansson
Death and the Children, 2002
Single-channel video
Duration: 4 minutes, 54 seconds
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