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Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, DK 9 Jun - 22 Oct 2023 One of the must-see exhibitions of 2023, according to The Art Newspaper, this presentation of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson features works in a variety of media, ranging from drawing and painting to performance and large-scale spatial works. The exhibition, entitled 'Epic Waste of Love and Understanding', is developed in close collaboration with the artist. Read more -
Roni Horn: A dream dreamt, in a dreaming world is not really a dream... but a dream not dreamt is
He Art Museum, Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China 7 Jun - 7 Oct 2023 He Art Museum (HEM) will present Roni Horn's largest solo exhibition in Asia —— 'Roni Horn:A dream dreamt, in a dreaming world is not really a dream... but a dream... Read more -
Karin Sander: The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden 13 May - 8 Oct 2023 Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, presents The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen. With a selection of contemporary works by thirty-one female artists of different generations and cultural influences, the exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda presents exclusively female positions and their wide spectrum of themes. Read more -
Roni Horn: I am paralyzed with hope
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain 1 Apr - 1 Sep 2023 Centro Botín presents I am paralyzed with hope, a solo exhibition dedicated to major American artist Roni Horn. As well as showcasing key artworks spanning 30 years of the artist's practice, the exhibition will premiere 10 of her iconic glass works and be the first institutional presentation of her LOG series. Artworks will include conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, drawing and performance. Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: The curious desert
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar 19 Mar - 15 Aug 2023 The curious desert is the first solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson’s work in the Gulf region. The exhibition brings together a dozen new site-specific installations located in the desert, near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar, and an extensive gallery presentation at the National Museum of Qatar of artworks created over the artist's career. Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
4 Feb - 17 Sep 2023 The Visitors – an ode to friendship under the intonation of romantic desperation. A group of friends and musicians gather in the natural habitat of bohemians, during the twilight hour,... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Time Changes Everything
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 17 Sep 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 Ragnar Kjartansson's solo exhibition, Time Changes Everything, will open at the De Pont Museum opens September 17, 2022 and runs through January 29, 2023. Kjartansson works with every conceivable type... Read more -
Are You Glad if You Can ask Something?
LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland 4 Jun - 4 Sep 2022 A group show featuring works by i8 artists Ingólfur Arnarson, Eggert Pétursson, Kristján Guðmundsson, and Sigurður Guðmundsson opened June 4th at Iceland's LÁ Art Museum in Hveragerði. The exhibition will... Read more
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Margrét H. Blöndal: Liðamót / Ode to Join
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 28 May - 2 Oct 2022 The exhibition Liðamót / Ode to Join by Margrét Blöndal comprises on the one hand drawings made with oil and powdered pigments, and on the other three-dimensional pieces to be... Read more -
Ignacio Uriarte: Office Work
Museum Ostwall - Dortmunder U, Germany 22 Apr - 19 Jun 2022 Ignacio Uriarte's work captivates with elegance the act of repetition and arrangement. This simple starting point allows the aesthetic to emerge in a meditative and repetitive way, putting the process... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Emotional Landscapes
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 22 Feb - 26 Jun 2022 Emotional Landscapes, an exhibition of Ragnar Kjartansson's works that explores the artist's fascination with America and the North American landscape, opens today at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. The exhibition features... Read more -
Birgir Andrésson: As Far as the Eye Can See
Kjarvalsstaðir - Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 29 Jan - 15 May 2022 As Far as the Eye Can See is a major survey of works by Birgir Andrésson at the Reykjavík Art Museum. The exhibition, curated by art historian Robert Hobbs, offers... Read more
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Hreinn Friðfinnsson: For the time being
MOAD - Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL, USA 6 Nov 2021 - 22 May 2022 Spanning six decades, this first American museum exhibition of the influential work of Hreinn Fridfinnsson highlights the artist’s use of minimal gestures to transform everyday materials into poetic, allusive, and... Read more -
RONI HORN: When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?
Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation 18 Sep 2021 - 30 Mar 2022 The Pola Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of Roni Horn, an artist who has consistently remained at the forefront of contemporary art.... Read more -
Alicja Kwade: In Abwesenheit
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 18 Sep 2021 - 4 Apr 2022 The work of Alicja Kwade (*1979 ) is inspired by scientific, philosophical and social enquiry. She engages in her sculptures with models and constructs that inform our perceptions of reality,... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA 2 - 5 Jul 2021 From July 2 to 5, Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. It is the third project within Re/Projections: Video,... Read more
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IÐAVÖLLUR: ICELANDIC ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 10 Jun - 17 Oct 2021 In 2021, Reykjavík Art Museum focuses on the microenvironment, with an aim of displaying the growth of the Icelandic art scene. The whole Hafnarhús becomes the setting for a powerful... Read more -
LAWRENCE WEINER: CLOSE TO A RAINBOW
Holstebro Kunstumuseum 5 Jun - 31 Oct 2021 Holstebro Kunstmuseum has the great pleasure of presenting a special exhibition by US artist Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) – undoubtedly one of the most important living artists in international contemporary... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Sumarnótt
National Gallery of Iceland 7 May - 29 Sep 2021 During the bright summer months, the National Gallery of Iceland shows the video installation Death Is Elsewhere by Ragnar Kjartansson – filmed one Icelandic summer night, when darkness never falls.... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: LIFE
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland 1 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 ‘“Life” presents a model for a future landscape. It is hospitable. When Sam Keller, the Director of the Fondation Beyeler, and I first discussed the exhibition a couple of years... Read more
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ETERNAL RECURRENCE
Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik Art Museum 27 Mar - 19 Sep 2021 In this extensive exhibition, the works of Jóhannes S. Kjarval (1885-1972) create a thread which connects different periods in time. His art is displayed along with the works of artists... Read more -
Karin Sander
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany 27 Mar - 4 Jul 2021 Over the past four decades Karin Sander has developed an artistic position of her very own in the tradition of Post-minimalism. She smashed the rigid attitude of the Concept Art... Read more -
Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot (sempiternal clouds)
Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA 12 Mar - 16 May 2021 ParaPivot (sempiternal clouds) consists of interlocking frames supporting large blocks of white marble that appear as ice calved from a distant glacier. The array of steel and stone draws viewers... Read more -
B. Ingrid Olson: The Inconstant World
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA 6 Mar - 30 May 2021 The Inconstant World features nine international artists whose work examines the relationship between perception and abstraction, focusing on visibility and illegibility as artistic strategies. With the body, language, and the... Read more
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LAWRENCE WEINER: ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20)
The Jewish Museum, NY 18 Nov 2020 - 30 Jul 2021 Lawrence Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) is a two-story, building-wide banner in red, white, and blue that stretches across the Museum’s Fifth Avenue-facing... Read more -
RONI HORN: YOU ARE THE WEATHER
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland 10 Oct 2020 - 24 Jan 2021 New York artist Roni Horn first traveled to Iceland in 1975, at the age of twenty. Since then she has regularly visited the Nordic volcanic island, which has acquired a... Read more -
ALICJA KWADE: KAUSALKONSEQUENZ
Langen Foundation, Neuss 7 Sep 2020 - 8 Aug 2021 With the exhibition Kausalkonsequenz, the Langen Foundation is presenting an extensive solo exhibition by the artist Alicja Kwade, one of the most important visual artists of her generation. By intensively... Read more -
LAWRENCE WEINER: SHELLS USED TO BUILD ROADS POURED UPON SHELLS USED TO PAY THE WAY, AT THE LEVEL OF THE SEA (2008)
The Bass Museum, Miami 27 Jul 2020 LAWRENCE WEINER's text-based work SHELLS USED TO BUILD ROADS POURED UPON SHELLS USED TO PAY THE WAY, AT THE LEVEL OF THE SEA (2008) can now be seen on The... Read more
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B. Ingrid Olson: Just Connect
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 17 Jul - 8 Nov 2020 The global pandemic has forced us to put intense scrutiny on the things we touch, the spaces we inhabit, and the people we come into contact with. The connections that... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Sometimes the River is the Bridge
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan 9 Jun - 27 Sep 2020 The title of the exhibition, Sometimes the river is the bridge , suggests the possibility of bestowing form and function onto formless things—like invisible rivers that may appear to be... Read more -
Karin Sander: SKULPTUR / SCULPTURE / SCULTURA
Museion, Bolzano, Italy 30 May - 20 Sep 2020 In her exhibitions, Karin Sander humorously alludes to readymade situations, taking as her theme common cultural scenarios in their institutional and historical contexts. In doing so, she intervenes in established... Read more -
Ignacio Uriarte: Structuring Chance
Collection Satellite #5 - Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany 7 May 2020 - 24 Jan 2021 To some extent, art is always an expression of the artist’s view of the world and their attempt to understand, portray or organise it. For the Collection Satellite #5, the... Read more
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B. Ingrid Olson: New Visions
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway 21 Feb - 16 May 2020 It is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway and fills all three gallery spaces of the ground floor at the museum. The exhibition foregrounds practices that... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Scheize - Liebe - Sehnsucht
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 20 Jul - 20 Oct 2019 With Scheize – Liebe – Sehnsucht, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is showing Ragnar Kjartansson's most extensive show to date in Germany. It brings together all the essential thematic complexes of his... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: In real life
Take Modern, London, UK 11 Jul 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 The exhibition brings together over 40 works of art made between 1990 and today by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Born in 1967, Eliasson has created a broad body of... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA 30 May - 2 Sep 2019 As part of a new series of contemporary installations, The Met presents the world premiere of a major new work: Death Is Elsewhere (2019), a seven-channel video installation by the... Read more
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Alicja Kwade: PARAPIVOT
The Roof Garden Commission, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York 16 Apr - 27 Oct 2019 Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade's (born 1979, Poland) work is elegant, rigorous, and highly experiential. Using a wide range of media, Kwade creates sculptures and installations that reflect on time, perception,... Read more -
ARNA ÓTTARSDÓTTIR: EVERYTHING IS GREAT
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik 13 - 27 Mar 2019 “Coral, salmon pink, hospital pink, crabapple jelly, pale, blush, shrimp cocktail, rose, rosy, dawn, dusk, sweet, sweetheart, sunrise, sunset; Arna colours her words. Soft, hushed tones of pink fade and... Read more -
Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, Part I & II
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA 15 Feb - 5 May 2019 The Menil Collection proudly presents Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, opening to the public at the Menil Drawing Institute with a preview reception on Thursday, February 14, 2019... Read more -
Sigurður Guðmundsson: Intimacy and Sculpture
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 19 Jan - 31 Mar 2019 Sigurður Guðmundsson (b. 1942) studied in Iceland in 1960-63 and then moved to Holland for further studies. He lives and works in Reykjavík, China and Holland. Many, large sculptures by... Read more
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Ignacio Uriarte: X, Y, Z
Museo ABC, Madrid, Spain 20 Dec 2018 - 19 Mar 2019 For the past seven years, Museo ABC and Fundación Banco Santander have supported Contemporary Art with the program Conexiones. Artists linked to drawings are invited to develop a specific project... Read more -
Arna Óttarsdóttir: A Soft Power
Åplus, Berlin, Germany 15 Dec 2018 - 25 Feb 2019 Text by Katharina Wendler Although the textile works and drawings by Arna Óttarsdóttir shouldn’t necessarily be interpreted as being intentionally predefined or political, the exhibition title ‘A Soft Power’ aims... Read more -
B. Ingrid Olson: Lost without your Rhythm
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA 18 Nov 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 Taking its departure from New York’s Judson Dance Theater program and its founding members, Lost Without Your Rhythm examines diverse types of bodily movement—graceful as well as inelegant and of... Read more -
Ingólfur Arnarsson: Ground Level
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 3 Nov 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 New works by Ingólfur Arnarsson will be presented in Gallery A in Hafnarhús - Reykjavik Art Museum. Arnarsson has been influential on the Icelandic art scene ever since he graduated... Read more
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Alicja Kwade: Trans-For-Men
EMMA - Espoo Museum Of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland 10 Oct 2018 - 28 Apr 2019 Alicja Kwade’s exhibition Trans-For-Men kicks off a new form of collaboration between EMMA and the Saastamoinen Foundation. Every year, a new work will be commissioned for the Foundation’s collections from... Read more -
B. Ingrid Olson: Picture Fiction. Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA 28 Apr - 30 Dec 2018 Images surround us daily—from art to advertising and social media. But how do these images relate to reality? Chicago-based photographer Kenneth Josephson (American, b. 1932) changed the way we think... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: The unspeakable openness of things
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China 25 Mar - 12 Aug 2018 We are pleased to present Olafur Eliasson: The unspeakable openness of things, at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing. This extensive exhibit comprises an array of large-scale immersive installations,... Read more -
RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR: BETWEEN MOUNTAIN AND TIDE
The Living Art Museum 24 Mar - 18 May 2018 The Living Art Museum proudly presents the exhibition Ragna Róbertsdóttir Between mountain and tide, opening March 24, 2018 at 4pm. The exhibition considers works in light of their current time... Read more
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B. Ingrid Olson: Being: New Photography
MoMA, New York, NY, USA 18 Mar - 19 Aug 2018 Every two years, MoMA’s celebrated New Photography exhibition series presents urgent and compelling ideas in recent photography and photo-based art. This year’s edition, Being , asks how photography can capture... Read more -
B. INGRID OLSON: FOREHEAD AND BRAIN
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA 10 Mar - 17 Jun 2018 Within the confines of her studio, B. Ingrid Olson (American, born 1987) records her body as it shifts and relates to the surroundings and the camera lens, while simultaneously exploring... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson
Barbican, London, UK 14 Jul - 4 Sep 2017 This is the first ever UK survey of the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, charting his wide-ranging practice across film and performance, and his less well... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: God I feel so Bad
Hafnarhús - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 3 Jun - 24 Sep 2017 After a successful series of international appearances in recent years, including major survey exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, Ragnar Kjartansson opens his first museum show in his homeland,... Read more
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Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour
Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), Germany 17 Mar 2017 - 14 Jan 2018 In her project ZEIGEN. An audio tour, Karin Sander invited artists whose work is featured in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) to make an acoustic... Read more -
Karin Sander: Identities on Display
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 3 Mar - 10 Jun 2017 For the 25th anniversary of the Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, the artist, who was born not far from the museum in Bensberg, is showing an extensive complex of her hair drawings... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA 14 Oct 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most celebrated performance artists anywhere,” Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík, Iceland; b. 1976) came to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in... Read more -
Callum Innes: I'll Close My Eyes
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 5 Oct 2016 - 26 Feb 2017 The interplay of applying and removing paint, of presence and absence: it constitutes the essence of the oeuvre developed by Scottish artist Callum Innes (Edinburgh, 1962). The exhibition I'll Close... Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: The Parliament of Possibilities
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 28 Sep 2016 - 26 Feb 2017 Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is pleased to host The parliament of possibilities, a major solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is one of the most acclaimed... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Nothingness is not nothing at all
Long Museum, Shanghai, China 20 Mar - 26 Jun 2016 The Long Museum, Shanghai, is pleased to announce the first survey exhibition of the work of world-renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Chinese museum: Nothingness is not nothing at... Read more -
Eggert Pétursson: FLORA
Pori Art Museum, Finland 12 Feb - 28 Aug 2016 From a distance, Eggert Pétursson’s (b. 1956) paintings may look like abstract colour compositions, but a closer look reveals that the motif is Icelandic flora, flowers and plants. Pétursson’s paintings... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Reality Machines (Verklighetsmaskiner)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Oct 2015 - 17 Jan 2016 Stockholm’s Moderna Museet and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design present: Reality Machines– a series of colour spectrum installations conceived by Olafur Eliasson. Continuing his career-long exploration of perception,... Read more
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Lawrence Weiner: WRITTEN ON THE WIND
MACBA - Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain 8 Mar - 30 Jun 2013 With clear references to navigation, WRITTEN ON THE WIND presents one of the most significant artists of the past fifty years through the humble but essential medium of drawing. The... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland 17 Nov 2012 - 27 Jan 2013 The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst reopens with the first Swiss solo exhibition of the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Kjartansson’s enthusiasm for music and his interest in performance art are evident... Read more -
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Somewhere along those lines
Reykjanesbær Art Museum, Keflavik, Iceland 14 May - 22 Aug 2011 'Somewhere along those lines', opens on Saturday 14 May at 15.00 in the Reykjanesbær Art Museum. The exhibition attempts to shed light on the different approaches and working methods of... Read more -
Margrét H. Blöndal: Touching the Membrane
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 8 Nov - 31 Dec 2007 The exhibition Touching the Membrane does not dwell on the literal implications suggested by its title. Though it underlies Margrét H. Blöndal’s fundamental idea, her creative process expands the gesture... Read more
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Hreinn Friðfinnsson
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 2 Nov 2007 - 27 Jan 2008 Hreinn Friðfinnsson’s art is celebrated for the lyricism that transcends the often commonplace subject matter and materials he uses. His practice encompasses photography and drawing as well as sculpture and... Read more -
Roni Horn: My Oz
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 11 May - 19 Aug 2007 This is the first large-scale exhibition of Roni Horn's work in Scandinavia. The work is selected in close collaboration with the artist to reflect her intimate connection to Iceland but... Read more -
BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON: THE YEAR IN ICELANDIC COLORS AND A FEW 90 MINUTES IN BLACK AND WHITE
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany 24 Apr - 31 Jul 2005 The Museum Abteiberg presents Birgir Andrésson: THE YEAR IN ICELANDIC COLORS AND A FEW 90 MINUTES IN BLACK AND WHITE. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in a German... Read more -
Ragna Róbertsdóttir: Patterns of Energy
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 3 Sep - 31 Oct 2004 An extensive retrospective of Ragna Róbertsdóttir, presenting both new and older works made in Icelandic rock, lava, pumice, crushed shell and soil. An exhibition catalog will be published in connection... Read more