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.

Tryggvagata 16
101 Reykjavík
Iceland
(+354) 551 3666

Curated for
CHART

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 various historical and cultural references.

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.

Die Nacht der Hochzeit

Watercolour on paper
2022

Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík.

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Guilt and Fear porcelain salt and pepper shakers

Porcelain salt and pepper shakers
2022

Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík. Photo by Eddo Hartmann

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Guilt Trip

Oil on canvas
2007

Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík.

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Eldhraun

Oil on canvas
2019

Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík.

 

Me and My Mother, 2020

Single channel video with sound
2020

Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík

 

'Time Changes Everything', installation view at De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and i8. Photo by Eddo Hartmann

Ragnar Kjartansson, 'I’m Not An Authentic Human Being'

Courtesy of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art