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Ragnar Kjartansson
Artist's Name: Ragnar Kjartansson
Preferred medium: multimedia
birth year: 1976
Nationality: IS
City: Reykjavik

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With a family background in theater, Ragnar Kjartansson follows a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating elements of visual art, music and above all theater in his works. From this emerge happenings, installations, drawings, photographs, and videos. Kjartansson acts in many of his works as a protagonist, entering different roles: He made appearances as a knight, rock star, revolutionary, and even as the incarnation of death. As an artistic genius, obsessed with the search for the ultimate image, he caused quite a sensation at the Venice Biennale of 2009 during a six-month-long continuous performance at the Icelandic Pavilion.

The use of repetitions, time loops and the related themes of duration and endurance are at the core of Ragnar Kjartansson's work. His works express a feeling of sorrow and distress but also of the beauty, an emotion the artist seeks to reduce to one existential moment. Thus many of Kjartanssons's works are concerned with staging and enduring literary, musical or gestural moments of gripping emotionality and pure expression to the point of exhaustion. Thereby, the artist pushes himself and his audience to physical and psychological limits, suspending them in an ambivalent state of happiness and mourning, beauty and horror, humor and drama.

(Frankfurter Kunstverein)

important exhibitions from Ragnar Kjartansson

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Ragnar Kjartansson Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich CH 01.09.2012
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON: SONG Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA) Miami US 01.06.2012
Forum 66: Ragnar Kjartansson Carnegie Museum of Art - CMA Pittsburg US 11.03.2011
Ragnar Kjartansson: Song Carnegie Museum of Art - CMA Pittsburg US 11.03.2011
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt DE 18.08.2011
Ragnar Kjartansson Bawag Contemporary - BAWAG Foundation Wien AT 21.04.2011
53. Biennale Venedig 2009 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 07.06.2009
Prospect New Orleans 2 Prospect New Orleans New York US 22.10.2011
Manifesta 7 Trentino - Alto Adige / Südtirol 2008 Manifesta Trentino Bozen IT 19.07.2008

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Galleries representing
Ragnar Kjartansson:

i8 Gallery
Luhring Augustine

Collections representing
Ragnar Kjartansson

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA)