b. 1976 in Reykjavik Show Lives and works in Reykjavik EDUCATION 1997–2001 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland 2000 The Royal Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, exchange student 1996–1997 Hússtjórnarskólinn, Reykjavík, Iceland SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2022 Ragnar Kjartansson: Time Changes Everything, De Pont Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Schmerz, Theater Spektakel, Saffa Island, Zürich, Switzerland The Sky in a Room, St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, England Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen, Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria Ragnar Kjartansson:Emotional Landscapes, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Ragnar Kjartansson: The Underworld of Akureyri, Icelandic Art Center, Reykjavik, Iceland 2021 Ragnar Kjartansson: Santa Barbara, GES-2 House of Culture, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Ragnar Kjartansson: Sumarnótt, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Boston, MA 2020 Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, MA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in the Room, Church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto, Milan, Italy 2019 Focus On: Ragnar Kjartansson, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture,Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA The Visitors, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Ragnar Kjartansson. The Man, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Cordoba, Spain Scheize – Liebe – Sehnsucht, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Ragnar Kjartansson: A Lot of Sorrow, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, MFA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Death Is Elsewhere,The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Figures in Landscape, i8 Gallery, Iceland 2018 Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, Women’s Building, San Francisco, California, USA Krieg (War), National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Ragnar Kjartansson: A Lot of Sorrow, Faurschou Foundation Beijing, Beijing, China S.S. Hangover, The Contemporary, Austin, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room, National Museum Cardiff, Wales Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 2017 Ragnar Kjartansson: God I feel so bad, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Raw Salon: Ein Rohspiel, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany No Tomorrow (with Margrét Bjarnadóttir) performed by the Icelandic Dance Company, London, UK and Reykjavik, Iceland 2016–2017 Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican, London, UK;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA 2016 The Visitors, The Frist Center, Nashville, USA Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA Ragnar Kjartansson, Copenhagen Contemporary, Kaupmannahöfn, Denmark The Visitors, Le Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and the National, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA Architecture and Morality, cca, Tel Aviv, Israel Krieg (War), Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany The Visitors,University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA Woman in E, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA Ragnar Kjartansson, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 2015–2016 Seul celui qui connaît le désir, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2015 The Visitors, The Vinyl Factory, London, UK A Lot of Sorrow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The End, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA The Fall, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National,König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Song, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Me and My Mother, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland The End, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia The Visitors, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Visitors, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA The Visitors and The Man, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia 2014–2015 Black Box: Ragnar Kjartansson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA 2014 The End – Rocky Mountains, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada The Palace of the Summerland, Ragnar Kjartansson and Friends, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA Bjarni Bummer Listens to Take it Easy by the Eagles, Skúrinn, Reykjavík, Iceland Me, My Mother, My Father and I, New Museum, New York, USA The Visitors, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany The Visitors, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 2013–2014 The Visitors, Kling & Bang Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland The Visitors, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy 2013 Ragnar Kjartansson, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, MoMA PS1, New York, USA The Visitors, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria The End, Szene Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria The Visitors, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA Scandinavian Pain: Ragnar Kjartansson, Edvard Munch, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden 2012 The End, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada The Visitors, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 H2H, Athens, Greece Call/Response: The Gund Gallery Turns 10, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH Eternal Recurrence, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland The Pleasure Pavilion: A Series of Installations, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY Plus One, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2020 The Blue Peal of Bells, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand, MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Come Closer, Biennale Ve veci umeni / Matter of Art 2020 (VVUMOA), Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Photography’s
Last Century: The Collection of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2019 Happy !, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA MOMENTUM 10 - The Emotional Exhibition, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway Nordic Impressions - Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden, ASF + Scandinavia House, New York, USA 2018-2019 Allting föreställer. Ingenting är., Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden Nordic Impressions: Art from Åland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821-2017, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C 2018 Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Viena, Austria Nordic Views, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA 2017-2018 Commissions from Performa’s Archives, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England La mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada 2017 Soundtracks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Voice, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Opnun, Kling og Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland Nordic Matters, Southbank Centre, London, U.K 2016 Dicker als Wasser. Konzepte des Familiären in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstpalais & Stadtische Sammlung Erlangen, Erlangen Reading Prison, Art Angel, Reading, U.K Life Serial, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery – Columbia University, New York, USA I See a Darkness, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Auf den Schultern von Giganten, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany Moving Image Department – 4th Chapter: The Rhetoric Of Time, Revisited, National Gallery Prague, Veletržní Palace, Prague, Czech Republic Collection on Display: Momentary Monuments, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland Lines of Flight: Life Serial, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 2015–2017 Sound in Motion, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 2015–2016 The Bauhaus #itsalldesign, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany Inaugural installation, The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA Saga. Iceland: Art and Narrative, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2015 Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park, Creative Time and Central Park Conservancy, Central Park, New York, USA Falling Fictions, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany Fireflies in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Australia MusicNOW Festival, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Listening, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK; The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Site Gallery, Sheffield, uk; Art Exchange, Colchester, UK Piano Pieces – Pianos. Sounds. Art., Neue Residenz, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival of Music, Art and Conversation, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Home Manchester, Manchester, UK Saga: Narrative Art, Listasafn Islands, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Überschönheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria Und weg mit den Minuten. Dieter Roth und die Musik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan A man walks into a bar… ., me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2014–2015 Artes Mundi 6, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, uk 2014 High Performance: Time-Based Media Art since 1996 from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Rīgas Mākslas Telpa, Riga, Latvia Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York, USA Manifesta 10, Vitebsk Station, St. Petersburg, Russia Rolling Snowball 5, Chinese European Art Center, Djúpivogur, Iceland Score, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain Your Compound View, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland Island: Wenn Bilder erzählen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany All Together Now, Nuit Blanche, Hart House, Toronto, Canada Stanze/Rooms, Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Truly Flabby Preludes (For a Dog) 1/4: Pink Noise, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France 2013 Göteborg Biennial, with Andjeas Ejiksson, Stora Teatren, Gothenburg, Sweden Towada Art Festival at Towada Art Centre, Japan Civilization: Monumental Materialism. Artists colony, MoMA PS1, New York, USA Deep Feelings: From Antiquity to Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, Venice Biennale, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy A Space called Public, part of Elmgreen & Dragset’s project of public artworks, Munich, Germany Il Palazzo Enciclopedico(The Encyclopaedic Palace) 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Trekk: Contemporary Currents in Icelandic Art Today, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Forde, Norway 1.pers.sing.: The artist’s body between self-portrait and performance, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Association e.V, Montabaur, Germany Sequences VI Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavík 2012 I Wish this was a Song: Music in Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway Songs of space, time and lust, Ephemeropterae˜ XIV / XV+, tba21, Vienna, Austria Á Ciel Ouvert - Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Bliss, The National Theatre of Iceland as part of The Reykjavík Art Festival, Iceland A House Full of Music: Strategies in Music and Art, Institute Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany It’s Not the End of the World, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA The Broad Art Foundation, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA Center for Curatorial Studies – Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA El Mirador Project, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Turin, Italy Glenstone, Potomac, MD Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Haudenschild Collection, La Jolla, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.cC, USA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria University of Copenhagen Maersk Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia Where can I see Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors?The first newly installed exhibition at the museum following months of closure during the global COVID-19 pandemic, Ragnar Kjartansson's (b. 1976, Reykjavik, Iceland) The Visitors is a truly beloved artwork in the ICA's permanent collection, one that continually inspires and moves our community.
Where can I see The Visitors art installation?The piece has since been displayed in several museums around the world, including the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (the first North American showing of the piece), The Broad in Los Angeles, The Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Turner House Gallery in Penarth, the ...
Who are the musicians in The Visitors?Sebastian Smee. ,. Gabriel Florit. and.. Joanne Lee.. How long is The Visitors at the Broad?Running for over an hour, The Visitors was produced in one take, recording each musician's performance simultaneously in different rooms of the mansion. The friends play the same song, instilling it with nuanced meaning through voice, instrument and movements of the body.
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