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Kristján Guðmundsson
As Far as the Space Allows30 Jan - 22 Mar 2025 i8 Gallery is pleased to present As Far as the Space Allows , an exhibition of new work by Kristján Guðmundsson, on view from 30 January until 22 March 2025. The show, Guðmundsson’s seventh at i8, presents As Far as the Space Allo ws (2025), a unique, large-scale installation that... Read moreCallum Innes
Alphabet17 Oct - 30 Nov 2024i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Alphabet, an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. The show, the artist’s fourth with i8, will be on view from 17 October until 30 November. Read moreStefán V. Jónsson a.k.a. Stórval
The Mountain Within15 Aug - 5 Oct 2024i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce The Mountain Within , an exhibition of paintings by Stefán V. Jónsson, who is commonly known as Stórval. The exhibition will be on view from 15 August until 5 October 2024. Stórval (1908-1994) is an important figure in Icelandic art who captured his native... Read moreMargrét H. Blöndal
Þín er vænst / Do not go roughly into that good night23 May - 20 Jul 2024i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to present Þín er vænst / Do not go roughly into that good night , an exhibition of new work by Margrét H. Blöndal, which will be on view from 23 May until 20 July 2024. This show, Blöndal’s fourth with i8, features paintings on paper... Read moreEggert Pétursson
Garden Flora8 - 14 Mar 2024OtherRead moreRagnar Kjartansson
Mother and Child, Gin and Tonic22 Feb - 4 May 2024i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Mother and Child, Gin and Tonic , an exhibition of new paintings by Ragnar Kjartansson . This show, Kjartansson's fifth at i8, opens with a reception on Thursday, 22 February and will be on view until 4 May 2024. Mediums are indelibly linked throughout... Read moreAndreas Eriksson
Real Time18 Jan - 18 Dec 2024i8 Grandi i8 Gallery is pleased to present Real Time , a year-long exhibition by Andreas Eriksson at i8 Grandi. The presentation opens on 18 January and will be on view until 18 December 2024. Throughout the year, the show will evolve with the addition of one new painting a month, all... Read moreYui Yaegashi
Nichinichi-So16 Nov - 23 Dec 2023i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Nichinichi-So, an exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi, which will be on view from 16 November until 23 December. This is the artist’s second exhibition at i8 Gallery and opens with a public reception for the artist on 16 November. Read moreBetween the Window and the Door
Renee Gladman, Iman Issa, Christine Sun Kim, Tania Pérez Córdova, Iris Touliatou21 Sep - 4 Nov 2023i8 Gallery i8 Gallery presents Between the Window and the Door , group exhibition centred around visualised language, focused on artists that variously employ language as both a source and material. Featuring artworks by Renee Gladman , Iman Issa , Tania Pérez Córdova , Christine Sun Kim , and Iris Touliatou ,... Read moreKarin Sander
Ideoscapes13 Jul - 2 Sep 2023i8 Gallery Karin Sander's Ideoscapes at i8 gallery features maquettes of 12 Icelandic mountain landscapes retrieved and printed directly from Google Earth 3D geospatial data. Read moreBirgir Andrésson & Lawrence Weiner
Part 1 & 230 Mar - 1 Jul 2023i8 Gallery i8 is pleased to present a two-part exhibition featuring work by Birgir Andrésson (1955-2007, Iceland) and Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021, United States). The first iteration of the exhibition is on view from 30 March – 13 May, with the second on view from 25 May – 1 July. Andrésson first exhibited... Read moreB. Ingrid Olson
Cast of Mind 20 Jan - 20 Dec 2023i8 Grandi i8 Grandi is pleased to announce Cast of Mind , a year-long exhibition by B. Ingrid Olson. The artist ’ s show opens 20 January, 2023 and will be on view until 20 December 2023. Spanning far longer than traditional museum or gallery shows, i8 Grandi represents a new model... Read moreKathy Butterly / Eggert Pétursson
19 Jan - 18 Mar 2023i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to present Butterly / Pétursson , a two-person show featuring new work by American ceramicist Kathy Butterly and Icelandic painter Eggert Pétursson. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists on Thursday, 19 January from 5-7pm and will be on view until 4 March. Butterly... Read moreDavíð Þór Jónsson
org vél 1 - 23 Dec 2022i8 Gallery Until 23 December, musician and composer artist Davíð Þór Jónsson will perform each weekday inside i8 Gallery on a Hammond organ, which will remain on view in the gallery when not in use. With its tangle of cords and cumbersome appearance, the instrument—an electric C2 Hammond organ built around 1948... Read moreArna Óttarsdóttir
soon, again 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2022i8 Gallery i8 is pleased to present soon, again , Arna Óttarsdóttir's second solo exhibition with the gallery, which will open with a reception from 5-7pm on 20 October and be on view until 26 November 2022. This presentation will feature eight new weavings by Óttarsdóttir, all made by hand on a... Read moreRyan Mrozowski
Eyes Like Ponds 18 Aug - 8 Oct 2022i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Eyes Like Ponds , a solo exhibition of new works by Ryan Mrozowski . The show, the artist’s first with i8, will open with a reception on 18 August from 5-7pm and be on view until 8 October 2022. Featuring paintings and sculptural wall... Read moreSea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason & Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection
16 Jun - 30 Jul 2022i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to present Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection , which will be on view at the gallery from 16 June to 30 July 2022, with an opening reception this Thursday, 16 June from 5-7pm. This exhibition features a selection of... Read moreHreinn Friðfinnsson
Hegðun 10 / Conduct 1023 Apr - 28 May 2022i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Conduct 10, an exhibition by Amsterdam-based Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. Including works from 1974 to the present, this presentation features sculptures, installation, photography, and works on paper. This marks the artist’s fifth solo show with i8; in 1995, an exhibition by Friðfinnsson inaugurated i8 Gallery. Concurrently, Friðfinnsson's first American museum exhibition, which spans six decad Read moreHildigunnur Birgisdóttir
Peace17 Feb - 9 Apr 2022i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Peace , an exhibition of new work by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir . The show, Birgisdóttir’s second with the gallery, includes installations, prints, and sculptures by the artist. A major new publication highlighting ten years of Birgisdóttir’s work will be released to coincide with the opening... Read moreAlicja Kwade
In Relation to the Sun, to Sequences of Events within 8016 hours22 Jan - 22 Dec 2022i8 Grandi We are pleased to announce the opening of i8 Grandi , a new gallery in Reykjavík that focuses on year-long, single-artist presentations. The inaugural year of i8 Grandi features In Relation to the Sun, to Sequences of Events within 8016 hours, an exhibition by Alicja Kwade . The artist’s show,... Read moreDIETER ROTH
9 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of works by Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998). The show will open on December 9 and be on view until January 29, 2022, and will include works on paper, sculptures, and mixed-media works by the artist, many of which were made... Read moreNo.9 Cork Street
BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON, B. INGRID OLSON, RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR4 - 20 Nov 2021Other At Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, i8 Gallery will present an exhibition of work by three gallery artists: Birgir Andrésson, B. Ingrid Olson, and Ragna Róbertsdóttir. The exhibition opens on November 4, 2021. Andrésson, Olson, and Róbertsdóttir are united in their studies of personal perceptions, as well as in their... Read moreElisions
N. DASH, K.R.M. MOONEY, B. INGRID OLSON, CARRIE YAMAOKA9 Sep - 20 Nov 2021i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Elisions , a group show featuring the work of N. Dash, K.R.M. Mooney, B. Ingrid Olson, and Carrie Yamaoka. The exhibition will open with a reception on September 9 and be on view until November 20, 2021. The exhibition features works that employ painterly,... Read moreRAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR
10 Jun - 28 Aug 2021i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir opening 10 June 2021. This is the artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery, and comes twenty-five years after her debut exhibition with i8 in 1996. Róbertsdóttir’s presentation spans three iterations: an exhibition at... Read moreCALLUM INNES
a pure land16 Apr - 29 May 2021i8 Gallery i8 Gallery and OSL contemporary are pleased to announce “a pure land”, a solo exhibition by Callum Innes. The show comprises a group of fifty watercolours constituting a single, major work by the artist. “a pure land” is presented collaboratively by i8 and OSL; this marks the artist’s third show... Read moreANDREAS ERIKSSON
4 Feb - 3 Apr 2021i8 Gallery Eriksson works between painting, tapestry, sculpture, photography, film, and installation. As a painter, Eriksson is keenly interested in the texture possible within the medium, and often employs multiple types of paint within a single work, including oil, acrylic, and egg oil tempera. This use results in his canvases having varied... Read moreGallery as studio / Studio as gallery
10 Dec 2020 - 30 Jan 2021i8 GalleryRead moreRONI HORN
24 Oct - 5 Dec 2020i8 Gallery Untitled [Pink] I was fond of the angels. Having them about the house added a gravitas to our occasions - and light! The purest, most luminous light blew around them wherever they were. Anyway, the one gave no trouble, usually lounging quiet in his corner of the fresco, practicing gallant... Read moreMARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL
Aerotics / Loftleikur3 Sep - 10 Oct 2020i8 Gallery 'My works are installations. I work across media and form. Sometimes I turn the medium around, approaching sculptures as drawings or drawings as sculptures. Text becomes a frame, words define a space and give me a footing — so I don’t float away. It is stimulating to read a text... Read moreÓLAFUR ELÍASSON
Beyond human time25 Jun - 15 Aug 2020i8 Gallery Ólafur Elíasson’s newest exhibition at i8, Beyond human time, brings together recent watercolour artworks by the artist. Watercolours have been a sustained interest of Elíasson’s that he has used since 2009 to investigate colour, movement, and time. The works often conjure subtle illusions of space and light through the repeated... Read moreKRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON
Mostly Drawings14 May - 20 Jun 2020i8 Gallery Kristján Guðmundsson has for years been making drawings about drawing, but there is a temptation to think of the various works within this genre rather as a single drawing extended over time and space. Guðmundsson’s drawings are made through the separation of the elements drawing: of its time, material, space... Read moreCHARLES ATLAS
Kiss the Day Goodbye12 Dec 2019 - 1 Mar 2020i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is delighted to announce a solo exhibition by the pioneering film and video artist, Charles Atlas. The show will open during the darkest days of winter, and consist of the single video work, Kiss the Day Goodbye; a grid of 24 sunsets shot by Atlas in Florida, at... Read moreYUI YAEGASHI
24 Oct - 2 Dec 2019i8 Gallery While at a distance Yaegashi’s small, unassuming works display a quiet simplicity, close attention reveals surprisingly complex patterning and layers of detail. Monochrome surfaces are constructions of meticulously woven brushstrokes, while in other compositions, traces of previous gestures are glimpsed beneath deliberate strokes of colour applied one on top of... Read moreLate Summer Show
Margrét H. Blöndal, Ásgerður Búadóttir, Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir, Kristín Jónsdóttir frá Munkaþverá, Arna Óttarsdóttir, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Karin Sander, Júlíana Sveinsdóttir22 Aug - 19 Oct 2019i8 GalleryRead moreB. INGRID OLSON
Fingered Eyed6 Jun - 10 Aug 2019i8 Gallery What happens at the intersections of mise-en-scè ne, l ’ esprit de l ’ escalier, and mise en abyme ? Or better yet: what happens when an art-making practice extends beyond those tools of which we’ve become accustomed? Pushing back becomes a launching off. Or, per Ezra Pound through Rosemary... Read moreJANICE KERBEL
Sinkfight28 Mar - 25 May 2019i8 Gallery If Janice Kerbel’s medium is language and other abstract systems, her implied one is the human body. Each of the large-scale silkscreen prints in her series Brawl (2018) consists of verbs and nouns printed in different fonts and deployed, sometimes almost strewn, across a portrait-orientated paper. Not only action words,... Read moreRAGNAR KJARTANSSON
Figures in Landscape31 Jan - 16 Mar 2019i8 Gallery Figures in white lab coats roam a man-made landscape, pause, and kill time. They come to us as representatives of logic, science, and human progress. We have seen such images before, heroically depicted on the facades of Soviet bas-reliefs, for example, or in Diego Rivera’s Ford Motor Company murals. Only... Read moreFormation
Emma Heiðarsdóttir, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson, Una Björg Magnúsdóttir, Örn Alexander Ámundason, Magnús Ingvar Ágústsson and Elísabet Brynhildardóttir 15 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019i8 Gallery Formation features six emerging Icelandic artists whose work considers the human and the surroundings it creates for itself. With diverse approaches, from exhaustive research to playfulness and humour, the artists take traditional mediums head-on, referencing convention but in contemporary conversation. Emma Heiðarsdóttir (b. 1990) BA, Iceland University of the Arts... Read moreSeeing Believing Having Holding
Kelly Akashi, Kahlil Robert Irving, Michelle Lopez, B. Ingrid Olson and Daniel Rios Rodriguez18 Aug - 27 Oct 2018i8 Gallery Kelly Akashi Kahlil Robert Irving Michelle Lopez B. Ingrid Olson Daniel Rios Rodriguez Organised by Dan Byers Seeing Believing Having Holding brings together five American artists living across the United States: Kelly Akashi (Los Angeles, CA) Kahlil Robert Irving (St. Louis, MO), Michelle Lopez (Philadelphia, PA), B. Ingrid Olson (Chicago,... Read moreSOE Kitchen
The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 11 Aug - 28 Oct 2018Other On 11 August, chef Victoria Eliasdóttir and her brother, artist Olafur Eliasson, will open a culinary space in Reykjavik, hosted by the Marshall Restaurant + Bar. Running for almost three months, the temporary restaurant will serve lunch and dinner, inspired by the atmosphere of the Studio Olafur Eliasson (SOE) Kitchen... Read moreIGNACIO URIARTE
Divisions and Reflections31 May - 4 Aug 2018i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Divisions and Reflections by Ignacio Uriarte. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. Uriarte’s drawing practice is rooted in a mundane reality, based on small gestures that happen without artistic intention during office hours, for instance scribbling or drawing... Read moreGUÐMUNDA ANDRÉSDÓTTIR, ÞORVALDUR SKÚLASON, NÍNA TRYGGVADÓTTIR
3 - 26 May 2018i8 Gallery Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913 – 1968) Guðmunda Andrésdóttir (1922 – 2002) Þorvaldur Skúlason (1906 – 1984) i8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of three masters of Icelandic abstract painting: Nína Tryggvadóttir, Guðmunda Andrésdóttir, and Þorvaldur Skúlason. The exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on the artistic relevance of a... Read moreORRI
8 Feb - 24 Mar 2018i8 Gallery Time does not exist, no more than the absence of time. Yet, we experience time as the growth and ageing of our loved ones, as the movement of a raindrop upon our living room window. Immersed in a non-existent time, humanity drifts between thoughts of the past and the future,... Read moreROBERT IRWIN
14 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018i8 Gallery For the exhibition at i8 Irwin has chosen several works that expand on his use of fluorescent light, a material that Irwin first started working with in the 1970s and returned to prominence in his overture of works in the past 10 years. The works have all been selected with... Read moreEGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON
Ùgh & Bõögâr Jewellery12 Oct - 25 Nov 2017i8 Gallery The troll sleeps in its cave. Wakes up, falls asleep, breathes, lives and works. The wind weeps outside. Inside human debris rot. Steam rises from giant troll- bodies. Putrid organic waste in troll-flesh crevasses, solidified blood in their unwashed clothes, dried sweat in gigantic armpits, pyorrhea. Here is no time,... Read moreEGGERT PÉTURSSON
17 Aug - 30 Sep 2017i8 Gallery Eggert Pétursson: In his own words... I always had this space in mind when I was painting the works for this exhibition, all the way back to 2011. I had by then already completed a number of works based on the area around my summer cottage in Úthlíd and especially... Read moreALICJA KWADE
A Trillionth of a Second 22 Jun - 12 Aug 2017i8 Gallery An unimaginable unit of time marks that moment in which we can detect the first traces of the Universe: gravity was created in the first trillionth of a second following the Big Bang, and out of this, matter. Our understanding of this is the starting point for Alicja Kwade’s exhibition... Read moreHILDIGUNNUR BIRGISDÓTTIR
- a) b) c) d) e) & f) 27 Apr - 10 Jun 2017i8 Gallery Covered in the dust of dry-wipe markers, I have come round to find that the content of my thoughts has been deleted. The memory of our movement together remains, written as it is in permanent marker, but the precise nature of the ingredients has been erased. A gust of wind... Read moreStudio Olafur Eliasson
The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 18 Mar 2017 - 1 Dec 2021Other Ólafur Eliasson recently opened the doors of his new satellite studio at the Marshall House in Reykjavík. Berlin has long been the artist's primary site for artistic production, where Studio Olafur Eliasson houses a dedicated project team and a range of passing interdisciplinary collaborators. In comparison, the Reykjavik studio is... Read moreMálverkasýning
LARA VIANA, ANDREAS ERIKSSON, JAMES WHITE, MAIREAD O´H EOCHA, MELANIE SMITH, SILKE OTTO-KNAPP9 Feb - 22 Apr 2017i8 Gallery Andreas Eriksson (b. 1975, Sweden) Eriksson studied at The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2014-2015 Eriksson was the subject of a major solo exhibition Roundabouts which toured from Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden to Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway; Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland and Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. Other... Read moreELÍN HANSDÓTTIR
SIMULACRA 15 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017i8 Gallery The Gallery Is Open: On Simulacra by Elín Hansdóttir In Simulacra , an installation at i8 gallery from December 15th 2016 through February 11th 2017, Icelandic artist Elín Hansdóttir radically alters the gallery space and then returns it to its original state with only photographs serving as evidence. When viewers... Read more4 Parts Divided
SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON, BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON, IGNACIO URIARTE, RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR6 Oct - 25 Nov 2016i8 Gallery 4 Parts Divided is an exhibition of four large-scale works, each of particular significance in the career of four different artists. The works are shown separately, each on view in the gallery for a period of ten days. Sigurdur Gudmundsson’s work, created between 2001and 2014, consists of sensitive, fragile, hanging... Read moreKARIN SANDER
11 Aug - 24 Sep 2016i8 Gallery Karin Sander’s body of work seems extremely disparate at first glance, bringing together works that seem very distant from one another, such as vegetables nailed to a wall or enlarged photographs from a mobile phone, taken at a random angle, but following a strict program. But upon a closer look,... Read moreCALLUM INNES
9 Jun - 6 Aug 2016i8 Gallery Callum Innes’s approach to the canvas, through his method of subtraction, has prompted the term “unpainting”, a coinage the painter is at ease with. And it is true that the artist is in many ways dissolving an image that is already in his head. The inspiration or subject matter can... Read moreÞÓR VIGFÚSSON
6 May - 4 Jun 2016i8 Gallery Art, by its very nature and magic, can be at once simple and complex, fully on the surface while layered with depth and diverse connections. Whether it is constructed through symbolism, driven by conceptual or historical connotations, or trimmed down by the aesthetics of minimalism, the fact remains that the... Read moreSOFIA HULTÉN
Entropy High 17 Mar - 30 Apr 2016i8 Gallery Sofia Hultén reverses the idea that sculpture should be static and unchangeable. Armed with time, the artist approaches the material and asks: “What if?” And there it is – each thing or material may have several different stories, bound to time, possible uses, and imagination. She is the Master who... Read moreMARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL
7 Jan - 5 Mar 2016i8 Gallery Language is in the thrall of equivalences and allusion. We say what something is by saying what it reminds us of, of what it is like. We talk in likenesses. When speaking of art this becomes even more pronounced. The metaphors entwine, and unravel. The illusionistic idiom is so engrained... Read moreARNA ÓTTARSDÓTTIR
5 Nov 2015 - 9 Jan 2016i8 Gallery Arna Óttarsdóttir’s (b.1986) practice explores the traditional methods of the loom, creating elaborate tapestries. The visual source derives from her sketchbooks, where she does not select the final motif based on refined finish, but rather on the possibility of future exploration. The exhibition reflects an enquiring process in which Óttarsdóttir... Read moreKRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON
Works from 1972 - 1989 3 Sep - 24 Oct 2015i8 Gallery This exhibition outlines a great research and development period in Kristján Guðmundsson’s art, where he took on the perimeters of the drawing, and finally succeeded in finding it a three dimensional form, without ever deviating from the fundamentals of the method. Kristján Guðmundsson moved to the Netherlands in 1970 with... Read moreRAGNAR KJARTANSSON
Me and My Mother11 Jun - 22 Aug 2015i8 Gallery 15 years ago, my son came to me and asked if I would take part in a performance he was preparing, which I admit I thought a great honour. I had been allowed to contribute to an event shortly before, his graduation piece for the Iceland Academy of the Arts.... Read moreForm Regained
ALEXANDRA NAVRATIL, ERIN SHIRREFF, LARA VIANA30 Apr - 30 May 2015i8 Gallery The exhibition brings together a selection of works by three artists; Alexandra Navratil, Erin Shirreff and Lara Viana, that build on fragmenting and re-shaping archives and memory. The work investigates issues of reproduction and the layering effects of media from multiple perspectives of personal and public territories. Lapses in time... Read morePOUL GERNES
12 Feb - 11 Apr 2015i8 Gallery The exhibition features works made in the years between 1965 and 1967 from a series of geometric-abstract paintings that Gernes made extensively in the period. The circle, stripe and alphabet series are based on a set of rules or principles with varying colour combinations. Gernes used spectral and industrial colours... Read moreTransects
EGGERT PÉTURSSON, FRIEDERIKE VON RAUCH 4 Dec 2014 - 31 Jan 2015i8 Gallery When Róska was a young star in Reykjavík, Barbara Árnason decorated her nails the way women in Turkey did in former times – which is where incessantly travelling British gentlewomen first became acquainted with the practice. Ten magnificent pictures, so tiny that binoculars might be needed to enlarge the proximity,... Read moreLAWRENCE WEINER
ALONG THE SHORE 16 Oct - 29 Nov 2014i8 Gallery ALONG THE SHORE is Weiner’s third exhibition at the gallery. Three large wall works occupy the gallery space along with new works on paper. On this occasion Lawrence Weiner has made a mass-produced fish tub, used for commercial fishing around Iceland. Fifty such tubs will be distributed between fisheries and... Read moreHRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON
Revelation21 Aug - 11 Oct 2014i8 Gallery In Revelation , Sigurdsson continues his photographic exploration of themes relating to nature, the man-made or the sublime, and culture and consumer society; engaging with sculptural and painterly elements through the detail of various materials and surfaces. Sigurdsson’s works often depict prefabricated materials or objects that are re-constructed or placed... Read morePETER LIVERSIDGE
C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-T-I-O-N12 Jun - 2 Aug 2014i8 Gallery Peter Liversidge (b. 1973) lives and works in London. His work, dynamic and experimental in nature, is driven by and epitomises the generative notion of creativity. For the past 16 years, Liversidge’s work has begun with single or grouped typewritten proposals; the proposed works taking form across a seemingly limitless... Read moreIGNACIO URIARTE
New Works 30 Apr - 2 Jun 2014i8 Gallery Contemporary art is heir to more than a century of avant-garde experimentation, transgressing boundaries, rejecting tradition, and breaking rules. At first sight, the work of Ignacio Uriarte seems the very antithesis of the playful antics of his fellow artists. Far from being transgressive, it reflects his decision, reported in a... Read moreHREINN FRIÐFINNSSON
A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, with a Sculpture by the Sculptor 5 - 26 Apr 2014i8 Gallery The exhibition centres on Fridfinnsson’s A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, 2014 – a group of five videos. Each part portrays the sculptor Kristinn E. Hrafnsson, who is Fridfinnsson’s friend of many years, performing simple, everyday actions in various public and private places throughout the city of Reykjavik.... Read moreINGÓLFUR ARNARSSON, SACHIKO M.
13 Feb - 22 Mar 2014i8 Gallery i8 is pleased to announce a collaborative installation by Ingólfur Arnarsson and Sachiko M. Featuring intricate drawings and delicate concrete reliefs by Arnarsson and sparse digital sound work by Sachiko M, the exhibition forces the fine-tuning of the act of seeing and listening. Both Ingólfur Arnarsson’s and Sachiko M’s work... Read moreHÖRÐUR ÁGÚSTSSON, CAMILLA LØW, SERGIO SISTER, ÞÓR VIGFÚSSON
19 Dec 2013 - 1 Feb 2014i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of works by Hördur Ágústsson, Camilla Løw, Sérgio Sister and Thór Vigfússon – artists of four generations with similar sensibilities to form and colour. The works featured in the exhibition, made between the 1960s and the present day, are rooted in geometric... Read moreALICJA KWADE
Solid Stars and Other Conditions31 Oct - 7 Dec 2013i8 Gallery Alicja Kwade has received much recognition in recent years for her sculptures, installations, and videos. Oscillating between the familiar and the fictional, she combines ready-mades and skillful craftsmanship in sophisticated installations that provoke, amuse, and surprise. Her work possesses formal sculptural qualities with roots in minimalism bordering the surreal or... Read moreWorks on Paper
Birgir Andrésson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ignacio Uriarte, Janice Kerbel, Karin Sander, Kristján Guðmunddsson, Lawrence Weiner, Ólafur Elíasson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and more5 Sep - 31 Oct 2013i8 Gallery Featuring 30 artists, Works on Paper uses the conventional subtitle as title to emphasize the exhibition’s shift in focus; from paper as merely media toward a wider interpretation for its material and conceptual presence in the works. As a title, Works on Paper, allows for an ambiguous reading – paper... Read moreÓLAFUR ELÍASSON
Tiltrú6 Jun - 17 Aug 2013i8 Gallery Icelandic nature is prominent in Elíasson’s work, and his artistic relationship with it often involves collection or documentation that is scientific in tone. The country becomes a sensory laboratory where ideas can be developed and evolved into art, as evidenced in the multiple photographic series that would seem to witness... Read moreHAMISH FULTON
25 Apr - 1 Jun 2013i8 Gallery The exhibition features a selection of new and older works relating in part to two walks Fulton made around Mýrdalsjökull glacier in southern Iceland (June 24th – July 7th , 2008 and February 28th – March 6th , 2013). The show includes wall paintings, photographs, prints, and wooden wall objects.... Read moreCALLUM INNES
15 Mar - 20 Apr 2013i8 Gallery In his first exhibition at i8 Gallery, Callum Innes shows a selection of new oilpaintings and watercolours. Using a complex process of applying and removing paint, (a technique that has been referred to as “un-painting”), Innes washes paint away from the canvas or paper – bringing luminosity to the work... Read moreRAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR
Seascapes17 Jan - 9 Mar 2013i8 Gallery “The day will end, and Phoebus will bathe his weary horses in the deep, before my words can do justice to all that has been translated into new forms.” - Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Bk XV:418-452, Pythagoras’s Teachings: Transfers of Power The continual undercurrent of change and transformation that surrounds us is... Read moreEGGERT PÉTURSSON
1 Nov - 23 Dec 2012i8 Gallery FRAGMENTS OF A CONVERSATION WITH EGGERT PÉTURSSON Little is left to chance with how my work is created and often my ideas are not realised until many years later. For example, I think about exhibitions in their entirety before the first brush-stroke. I had studied the new space of i8... Read moreBIRGIR ANDRÉSSON
The Infinite Day 20 Sep - 20 Oct 2012i8 Gallery The Infinite Day – a solo exhibition of works by Birgir Andrésson (1955–2007), features a selection of works from the artist´s estate, some of which have never been exhibited previously. The diverse group of works, spanning a variety of the artist´s oeuvre, includes works on paper, paintings and sculpture. Andrésson´s... Read moreEGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON
12 Jul - 25 Aug 2012i8 Gallery JANE BENNETT & EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON TEN QUESTIONS TO JANE BENNETT 1. Can we say that art is its own species, which might have co-existed with human- kind just like the dog was bred from the wolf? JANE BENNETT: I like the idea of art as a species, or, even better,... Read moreMARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL, SILVIA BÄCHLI
Open; Wait 19 May - 30 Jun 2012i8 Gallery A light shines on the ground, the outline of a doorway. You step forward, drawn by its hesitant oblong shape, the door open just a crack to make a towering diamond. You imagine murmurs on the other side, the shufflings of conversation, and are in the midst of these images... Read more
