Ragnar Kjartansson (IS)

i8 Gallery is pleased to present a solo presentation by Ragnar Kjartansson at CHART 2023. Featuring sculpture, painting, and video, the booth will highlight Kjartansson’s engagement with seriality, as well as historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, as 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 beauty and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a form of exploration.

Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976) lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. The artist currently has a survey show of his work at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark. Recent solo exhibitions of his work include presentations at the De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA; the Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland; the Barbican Centre, London, UK; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington D.C., USA; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.