i8 Gallery (IS)

Over its twenty-eight year history, i8 Gallery has fostered an influential group of artists from its Reykjavík base. The foundation of i8 Gallery is the conceptual rigour and intellectual spirit of its artists’ practices, which subtly unites the diverse roster. The twenty-three artists of the gallery work in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, drawing, video, textile, installation, and performance.

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101 Reykjavík
Iceland
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2026, i8 Gallery presents a duo exhibition of new works by Yui Yaegashi and Þór Vigfússon, created especially for the fair. The presentation brings together Yaegashi's small-scale, carefully composed paintings with Vigfússon's sculptural works in glass, mirrors, and industrial materials. While working in different mediums, both artists share a precise and considered approach to form, surface, and composition, creating a dialogue between painting, object, and space.

Yui Yaegashi (JP)

Yaegashi’s small-scale oil paintings are rooted in precision, with her distinct style of patterning resulting in reductive, layered works. Yaegashi’s compositions are carefully composed, with a focus on graphic lines, veiled strokes of color, and explorations of both symmetry and asymmetry.

Yui Yaegashi (b. 1985, Chiba, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Yaegashi received a B.A. from the Tokyo Zokei University’s Department of Painting (2009) and her M.F.A. from Tokyo Zokei University’s Graduate School of Art and Design (2011). Her work has been included inCabinet Pictures at The Power Station, Dallas, TX; SCHMALTZ at Guimarães, Vienna, Austria; Particularities curated by Chris Sharp at X Museum, Shanghai, China; and in solo exhibitions at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL; Queer Thoughts, New York, NY; and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. In Spring 2020, Yaegashi completed a self-directed residency in New York City supported by the Japanese Government’s Department of Art and Culture.

Phthalo Blue

Oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery

Two Sizes

Oil on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery

Untitled

Oil on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery

Portrait of Yui Yaegashi

Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery

Þór Vigfússon (IS)

Þór Vigfússon creates powerful objects with colour, texture, and reflection using prefabricated industrial materials. His deceptively simple works, primarily made of glass, plexiglass, mirrors, and Formica with monotone colour fields, push the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional works. Architecture and space play a vital role in their presentation. The works constantly change, eliciting intimate contemplation from the viewer. Vigfússon‘s geometric works are self-referential, singular, and ideal objects in the minimalist tradition, emphasizing the purification and simplification of the art form. They are both a reflection and a function of the inner rationalism of contemporary technological society.

Þór Vigfússon (b. 1954, Iceland) lives and works in Iceland. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavik and Strichting De Vrije Academie, The Hague in 1978. Vigfússon has had solo exhibitions at Kópavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur (2024); Quint Gallery, San Diego (2011); LA Art Museum, Hveragerdi (2003); Reykjavik Art Museum (2002) and at The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (1998). He was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award in 2008 (touring exhibition to Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Stockholm, London, Gothenburg and Carros, France).