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Lawrence Weiner: A Pursuit of Happiness ASAP
Ucca, Center for Contemporary Art 20 Jul - 20 Oct 2024 UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Lawrence Weiner: A PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ASAP” between July 20 and October 20, 2024. This survey exhibition is Lawrence Weiner’s first major presentation in China, showcasing nearly fifty works in language that span his trailblazing career. Here, viewers are invited to experience and explore the sculptural qualities of language as manifested by one of the earliest conceptual artists. Read more -
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Wishing you the best on your birthday
Mokka Kaffi, Reykjavík 20 Jun - 14 Aug 2024 The exhibition, titled Wishing you the best on your birthday, is on view from 20 June to 14 August 2024 and features multiple small-scale watercolour paintings recently made by... Read more -
Roni Horn: The Detour of Identity
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark 2 May - 1 Sep 2024 Subtle undertones, secret messages and erotic signals come to the surface when her works are shown in dialogue with a number of the great movie classics. This is the first... Read more -
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Icelandic Pavilion, 2024
Icelandic Pavilion, Arsenale, La Biennale Di Venezia 20 Apr - 24 Nov 2024 Artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Curator Dan Byers announced for the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 i8 Gallery is delighted to announce that Reykjavik-based artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir will... Read more
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Þór Vigfússon: Numbers, Places
Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland 13 Apr - 28 Jul 2024 The exhibition NUMBERS | PLACES presents a new installation by artist Þór Vigfússon which he created specifically for the Gerðarsafn exhibition hall. The exhibition consists of numerous equal-sized coloured glass squares, spread around the hall in a particular fashion, creating an interaction between colours, form and space. Read more -
Roni Horn: Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death
Museum Ludwig, Cologne 23 Mar - 11 Aug 2024 Museum Ludwig is pleased to present Roni Horn: Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death , a solo exhibition of works by influential American artist Roni Horn. The exhibition includes... Read more -
Callum Innes: Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black
Kode, Bergen, Norway 15 Mar - 28 Apr 2024 Light and landscape, control and chaos: Callum Innes is considered one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation. The Scottish artist lives and works in both Edinburgh and Oslo. Read more -
Alicja Kwade: Superposition
Sculpture Park, Jaipur, India 22 Feb 2024 Alicja Kwade’s Superposition is comprised of interlocking steel frames that unravel similarly to a folding screen. Within this arrangement, some frames stand bare, while four are equipped with double-sided mirrors.... Read more
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Hreinn Friðfinnsson: Klettur
Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík 20 Jan - 3 Mar 2024 Klettur (2017-2024) is an installation by Hreinn Friðfinnsson where images of ocean waves are projected onto a rugged landscape constructed of stacked cardboard boxes, amongst which can be found a... Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Things You See Before the Curtain Hits the Floor
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 9 Nov 2023 - 3 Mar 2024 Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavik, Iceland, 1976) uses theatrical conventions and their paradoxes to create works that often examine emotions, imposture, the historical and the autobiographic, as well as the politics of representation. Read more -
Alicja Kwade & Gregory Hildebrandt: Beyond Behind
Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico 29 Oct 2023 - 7 Apr 2024 Beyond Behind | Alicja Kwade y Gregor Hildebrandt Read more -
Alicja Kwade: In Agnosia
Lehmbruckmuseum, Duisburg, Germany 23 Sep 2023 - 25 Feb 2024 In the realm of contemporary sculpture, Alicja Kwade's work holds an exceptional position: her captivating aesthetics of materials and a harmony of form, combined with a precise formulation of existential... Read more
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Lawrence Weiner: Under the Sun
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea 31 Aug 2023 - 28 Jan 2024 The Amorepacific Museum of Art presents LAWRENCE WEINER: UNDER THE SUN, a solo museum survey of the remarkable American artist Lawrence Weiner. Weiner was born in New York City in... Read more -
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 -
Ragnar Kjartansson: não sofra mais
Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova Calçada Santa Isabel, Coimbra, Portugal 14 Apr - 16 Jul 2023 “não sofra mais” marks Kjartansson’s first presentation in Portugal, and features new works designed specifically for the Santa Clara-a-Nova Monastery, among other acclaimed works by the artist. Read more
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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 -
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 -
Ólafur Eliasson: In your time
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 22 Sep 2022 - 22 Jan 2023 The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi is proud to announce Nel tuo tempo (In your time), a major exhibition by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson on display throughout the gallery and courtyard space... Read more
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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 -
B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 21 Jul - 23 Dec 2022 i8 Gallery is pleased to announce two simultaneous solo exhibitions by artist B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother and Little Sister, each on a separate floor of the Center’s landmark Le... Read more -
B. Ingrid Olson: Little Sister
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 21 Jul - 23 Dec 2022 i8 Gallery is pleased to announce two simultaneous solo exhibitions by artist B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother and Little Sister, each on a separate floor of the Center’s landmark Le... Read more -
B. INGRID OLSON: Elastic X
Secession, Vienna, Austria 29 Jun - 4 Sep 2022 In her exhibition Elastic X, B. Ingrid Olson presents a series of new works: a sculptural installation that both responds to and inverts the gallery’s architectural characteristics, small anthropomorphic ceramics,... Read more
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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room
St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, England 25 Jun - 3 Jul 2022 Ikon presents The Sky in a Room, a major off-site project with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, organised in collaboration with Artes Mundi (Cardiff). The Sky in a Room involves... Read more -
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 -
Ólafur Elíasson: Sonnenernergie 22
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 15 Apr - 4 Sep 2022 For the first time, an artistic installation presented in the light-flooded Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne focuses on the sun. From mid-April the earth's rotation around the sun will become the protagonist of an ephemeral light painting - Olafur Eliasson's expansive artwork Sonnenenergie 22 (Solar Energy 22). Read more
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Ragnar Kjartansson: Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen
Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria 17 Mar - 3 May 2022 An overly romantic, theatrical, dramatic, minimalist, musical spectacle – in search of a past dead world to find something new. Just as the title suggests, DER KLANG DER OFFENBARUNG DES... 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 -
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
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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 -
Ólafur Elíasson: The living observatory
The Art Space 193, Daejeon, South Korea 17 Sep 2021 ‘The living observatory’ is a multipart work of art that renders the viewer’s perspective both explicit and complicit through each element. It comprises six interrelated interventions, leading the viewer on... 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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Roni Horn: A RAT SURRENDERED HERE
Chateau La Coste, Provence, France 1 Jul - 24 Oct 2021 Roni Horn's solo show A Rat Surrendered Here at Château La Coste, near Aix-en-Provence, will be on view from July 1 through October 24. In this exhibition, Horn’s use of... 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 -
Lawrence Weiner: SMASHED TO PIECES (IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT)
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria 5 May 2021 - 5 May 2022 Lawrence Weiner's well-known artwork 'SMASHED TO PIECES (IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT)' can now be seen publicly again in a revised version: The artwork, the German-language version of which... Read more
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Yui Yaegashi
Queer Thoughts, New York 8 Apr - 22 May 2021 Yui Yaegashi makes paintings using a self-imposed system of rules to create a composition. The artist focuses more on how the paintings will be made, rather than what they will... 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 -
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 -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy 22 Sep - 25 Oct 2020 Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presentsThe Sky in a Room by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík, 1976). The project, staged for the church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto in Milan, was... Read more
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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 -
Sigurður Guðmundsson: Journey of Being
hunt kastner, Prague, Czech Republic 5 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 hunt kastner is very pleased to present an exhibition of work by the Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðmundsson, organized in cooperation with i8 gallery in Reykjavik as part of the 2020... 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 -
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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Karin Sander: 43°45’51.8″N 11°15’46.8″E
Base Progetti per l'arte, Florence, Italy 8 Feb - 21 Mar 2020 Base / Progetti per l'arte presents the exhibition entitled 43°45'51.8″N 11°15'46.8″E that Karin Sander, an artist who has been proposing a conceptual reflection on the nature of the work of... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Symbiotic Seeing
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland 17 Jan - 22 Mar 2020 At its centre is a large scale installation created exclusively for Zurich that addresses a key issue of our age: the relationship and interplay between human and non-human actors on... Read more -
Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA 18 Oct 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Kwade explores structures of reality such... Read more -
Hreinn Friðfinnsson: To Catch a Fish with a Song: 1964–Today
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 28 Sep 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 As one of Iceland’s leading artists, Hreinn Friðfinnsson is celebrated for his inspirational and poetic use of everyday objects. His vocabulary, underscored by a delicate sense of humour, playfully implements... Read more
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Alicja Kwade: MOVING IN GLANCES
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA 15 Sep - 22 Dec 2019 Alicja Kwade’s work employs ordinary materials such as glass, steel, and concrete to explore the conventions developed by humanity in order explain natural phenomena. In questioning the absolute nature of... 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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Hreinn Friðfinnsson: To Catch a Fish with a Song: 1964–Today
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 24 May - 25 Aug 2019 The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is happy to present the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland of Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. With more than seventy works, To Catch a Fish... 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 -
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Universal Sugar
ASÍ Art Museum, Iceland 16 - 28 Feb 2019 Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir is the second artist chosen to participate in the ASÍ Art Museum’s new series showcasing the latest works in the museum’s collection. Hildigunnur’s exhibitions in Garðabær and the... 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
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Alicja Kwade: The Resting Thought
Centre De Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France 2 Feb - 1 Sep 2019 Polish artist Alicja Kwade presents a 'The Resting Thought,' a monumental new sculptural installation, specifically designed for the Nave of the CCC OD. Through sculptures which probe matter, established value... Read more -
Karin Sander: A to Z
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany 25 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 On the occasion of its reopening, Haus am Waldree presents a comprehensive solo exhibition with Karin Sander. The work of this award-winning artist, who has lived in Berlin and Zurich... 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 -
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
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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 -
Alicja Kwade: GLANCES
Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona 23 Nov 2018 - 21 Apr 2019 The Blueproject Foundation presents the first Spanish solo exhibition of artist Alicja Kwade, which will be shown at Il Salotto from November 23rd 2018 to April 21st 2019. The exhibition... 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 -
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
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Alicja Kwade: Out of Ousia
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 21 Sep 2018 - 17 Feb 2019 Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first major exhibition in Denmark of the acclaimed Polish-born artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979). During the last decade, Kwade has rapidly become a rising star, winning... Read more -
Janice Kerbel: Sink
The Western Baths Club, Glasgow, UK 3 Aug 2018 Janice Kerbel’s major new artwork Sink was commissioned by The Common Guild as part of Festival 2018, the cultural programme for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. Sink takes the form... 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: 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 -
Ólafur Elíasson: Reality Projector
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 1 Mar - 15 Aug 2018 For his first major exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade, Eliasson has created a spectacular immersive work for the Marciano Foundation's Theatre Gallery. Eliasson’s art–comprised of sculpture, painting,... Read more -
Margrét H. Blöndal: Pollur-Spegill
Skaftafell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 7 Oct - 26 Nov 2017 The solo exhibition pollur – spegill by Margrét H. Blöndal, is ongoing from Oct 7 – Nov 26 in the Skaftfell Art Center. The exhibition consists of six works that... 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
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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 -
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 -
Lawrence Weiner: WHEREWITHAL / WAS ES BRAUCHT
Kunshaus Bregenz, Austria 12 Nov 2016 - 15 Jan 2017 On the walls of Kunsthaus Bregenz Weiner’s work becomes a commentary on the architecture, the space, and sensory experience. His works are only apparently site-specific. They relate to themselves, pursue... 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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Janice Kerbel: Doug
Tramway, Glasgow, UK 1 Oct 2015 - 17 Jan 2016 Janice Kerbel works with a wide range of media including audio, print, radio plays and performance. Employing recognizable conventions from a variety of disciplines—from theatre to sport to music—Kerbel’s work... Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Contact
Fondation Luis Vuitton, Paris, France 17 Dec 2014 - 16 Feb 2015 Fondation Louis Vuitton launches the second phase of its inaugural program with an expansive exhibition by Olafur Eliasson, from 17 December 2014 to 16 February 2015. Entitled Contact, Olafur Eliasson’s... Read more -
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
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Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: NACHO CHEESE
Kling & Bang, Reykjavík 22 Feb - 24 Mar 2013 Nacho cheese Triangle. Basic shape. Orange, blue. Basic colours. Food, nutrition, aliment. Actually chips, which isn’t really food - but still, of course it’s real food. Made from all sorts... Read more -
Ingólfur Arnarsson: Drawings
Harnarborg - Center for Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland 12 Jan - 17 Feb 2013 From a distance, Ingólf Arnarsson's drawings appear as almost invisible units, precisely positioned hues, which are not isolated phenomena but part of a well-thought-out installation. The drawings seem conflict-free and... 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 -
Roni Horn: Well and Truly
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria 24 Apr - 4 Jul 2010 The exhibition conceived by Roni Horn specifi cally for the Kunsthaus Bregenz is the first comprehensive one-person show by the internationally renowned New York artist in Austria. Spanning four floors,... Read more
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Ragnar Kjartansson: The end
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 30 Jan - 18 May 2010 A self-described radical post-romantic, the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson traveled westbound towards the Rocky Mountains in search of the epic. Working primarily as a performance artist, Kjartansson is known for... 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 -
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 -
Hreinn Friðfinnsson
Serpentine Galleries, London, UK 17 Jul - 2 Sep 2007 Hreinn Fridfinnsson is one of Iceland’s leading conceptual artists. His work is celebrated for its lyricism and stark poetry that transcends the often-commonplace subjects and materials that the artist uses... Read more
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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 -
Sigurður Guðmundsson: Situations
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 25 Jan - 21 Apr 2003 During the 1970s and 80s, Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson made a remarkable series of photographs documenting his temporary actions and interventions in the world around him. In this exhibition, the... Read more
