EXHIBITIONS

Margrét H. Blöndal

Þín er vænst / Do not go roughly into that good night 23 May - 20 Jul 2024 i8 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 in... Read more

Eggert Pétursson

Garden Flora 8 - 14 Mar 2024 Other Read more

Ragnar Kjartansson

Mother and Child, Gin and Tonic 22 Feb - 4 May 2024 i8 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 Kjartansson's practice:... Read more

Yui Yaegashi

Nichinichi-So 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 i8 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 more

Between the Window and the Door

Renee Gladman, Iman Issa, Christine Sun Kim, Tania Pérez Córdova, Iris Touliatou 21 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 i8 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, the show will connect varied approaches... Read more

Karin Sander

Ideoscapes 13 Jul - 2 Sep 2023 i8 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 more

Birgir Andrésson & Lawrence Weiner

Part 1 & 2 30 Mar - 1 Jul 2023 i8 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 more

B. Ingrid Olson

Cast of Mind 20 Jan - 20 Dec 2023 i8 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 for... Read more

Kathy Butterly / Eggert Pétursson

19 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 i8 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 and... Read more

Davíð Þór Jónsson

org vél 1 - 23 Dec 2022 i8 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 more

Arna Óttarsdóttir

soon, again 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 i8 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 loom... Read more

Ryan Mrozowski

Eyes Like Ponds 18 Aug - 8 Oct 2022 i8 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 works, Eyes... Read more

Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason & Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection

16 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 i8 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 works... Read more

Hreinn Friðfinnsson

Hegðun 10 / Conduct 10 23 Apr - 28 May 2022 i8 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 more

Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir

Peace 17 Feb - 9 Apr 2022 i8 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 of the... Read more

Alicja Kwade

In Relation to the Sun, to Sequences of Events within 8016 hours 22 Jan - 22 Dec 2022 i8 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, which includes... Read more

DIETER ROTH

9 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 i8 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 more

No.9 Cork Street

BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON, B. INGRID OLSON, RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR 4 - 20 Nov 2021 Other 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 more

Elisions

N. DASH, K.R.M. MOONEY, B. INGRID OLSON, CARRIE YAMAOKA 9 Sep - 20 Nov 2021 i8 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, photographic,... Read more

RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR

10 Jun - 28 Aug 2021 i8 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 more

CALLUM INNES

a pure land 16 Apr - 29 May 2021 i8 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 more

ANDREAS ERIKSSON

4 Feb - 3 Apr 2021 i8 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 more

Gallery as studio / Studio as gallery

10 Dec 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 i8 Gallery Read more

RONI HORN

24 Oct - 5 Dec 2020 i8 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 more

MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL

Aerotics / Loftleikur 3 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 i8 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 more

ÓLAFUR ELÍASSON

Beyond human time 25 Jun - 15 Aug 2020 i8 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 more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

Mostly Drawings 14 May - 20 Jun 2020 i8 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 more

CHARLES ATLAS

Kiss the Day Goodbye 12 Dec 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 i8 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 more

YUI YAEGASHI

24 Oct - 2 Dec 2019 i8 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 more

Late Summer Show

Margrét H. Blöndal, Ásgerður Búadóttir, Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir, Kristín Jónsdóttir frá Munkaþverá, Arna Óttarsdóttir, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Karin Sander, Júlíana Sveinsdóttir 22 Aug - 19 Oct 2019 i8 Gallery Read more

B. INGRID OLSON

Fingered Eyed 6 Jun - 10 Aug 2019 i8 Gallery What happens at the intersections of mise-en-scène, 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 Waldrop: a center around which, not... Read more

JANICE KERBEL

Sinkfight 28 Mar - 25 May 2019 i8 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 more

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Figures in Landscape 31 Jan - 16 Mar 2019 i8 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 more

Formation

Emma Heiðarsdóttir, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson, Una Björg Magnúsdóttir, Örn Alexander Ámundason, Magnús Ingvar Ágústsson and Elísabet Brynhildardóttir 15 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 i8 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 more

Seeing Believing Having Holding

Kelly Akashi, Kahlil Robert Irving, Michelle Lopez, B. Ingrid Olson and Daniel Rios Rodriguez 18 Aug - 27 Oct 2018 i8 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 more

SOE Kitchen

The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 11 Aug - 28 Oct 2018 Other 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 more

IGNACIO URIARTE

Divisions and Reflections 31 May - 4 Aug 2018 i8 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 more

GUÐMUNDA ANDRÉSDÓTTIR, ÞORVALDUR SKÚLASON, NÍNA TRYGGVADÓTTIR

3 - 26 May 2018 i8 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 more

ORRI

8 Feb - 24 Mar 2018 i8 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 more

ROBERT IRWIN

14 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 i8 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 more

EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON

Ùgh & Bõögâr Jewellery 12 Oct - 25 Nov 2017 i8 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 more

EGGERT PÉTURSSON

17 Aug - 30 Sep 2017 i8 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 more

ALICJA KWADE

A Trillionth of a Second 22 Jun - 12 Aug 2017 i8 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 more

HILDIGUNNUR BIRGISDÓTTIR

- a) b) c) d) e) & f) 27 Apr - 10 Jun 2017 i8 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 more

Studio Olafur Eliasson

The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 18 Mar 2017 - 1 Dec 2021 Other 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 more

Málverkasýning

LARA VIANA, ANDREAS ERIKSSON, JAMES WHITE, MAIREAD O´H EOCHA, MELANIE SMITH, SILKE OTTO-KNAPP 9 Feb - 22 Apr 2017 i8 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 more

ELÍN HANSDÓTTIR

SIMULACRA 15 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017 i8 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 enter... Read more

4 Parts Divided

SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON, BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON, IGNACIO URIARTE, RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR 6 Oct - 25 Nov 2016 i8 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 more

KARIN SANDER

11 Aug - 24 Sep 2016 i8 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 more

CALLUM INNES

9 Jun - 6 Aug 2016 i8 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 more

ÞÓR VIGFÚSSON

6 May - 4 Jun 2016 i8 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 more

SOFIA HULTÉN

Entropy High 17 Mar - 30 Apr 2016 i8 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 more

MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL

7 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 i8 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 more

ARNA ÓTTARSDÓTTIR

5 Nov 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 i8 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 more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

Works from 1972 - 1989 3 Sep - 24 Oct 2015 i8 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 more

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Me and My Mother 11 Jun - 22 Aug 2015 i8 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 more

Form Regained

ALEXANDRA NAVRATIL, ERIN SHIRREFF, LARA VIANA 30 Apr - 30 May 2015 i8 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 more

POUL GERNES

12 Feb - 11 Apr 2015 i8 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 more

Transects

EGGERT PÉTURSSON, FRIEDERIKE VON RAUCH 4 Dec 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 i8 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 more

LAWRENCE WEINER

ALONG THE SHORE 16 Oct - 29 Nov 2014 i8 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 more

HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON

Revelation 21 Aug - 11 Oct 2014 i8 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 in... Read more

PETER LIVERSIDGE

C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-T-I-O-N 12 Jun - 2 Aug 2014 i8 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 more

IGNACIO URIARTE

New Works 30 Apr - 2 Jun 2014 i8 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 more

HREINN FRIÐFINNSSON

A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, with a Sculpture by the Sculptor 5 - 26 Apr 2014 i8 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 more

INGÓLFUR ARNARSSON, SACHIKO M.

13 Feb - 22 Mar 2014 i8 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 more

HÖRÐUR ÁGÚSTSSON, CAMILLA LØW, SERGIO SISTER, ÞÓR VIGFÚSSON

19 Dec 2013 - 1 Feb 2014 i8 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 more

ALICJA KWADE

Solid Stars and Other Conditions 31 Oct - 7 Dec 2013 i8 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 more

Works on Paper

Birgir Andrésson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ignacio Uriarte, Janice Kerbel, Karin Sander, Kristján Guðmunddsson, Lawrence Weiner, Ólafur Elíasson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and more 5 Sep - 31 Oct 2013 i8 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 more

ÓLAFUR ELÍASSON

Tiltrú 6 Jun - 17 Aug 2013 i8 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 more

HAMISH FULTON

25 Apr - 1 Jun 2013 i8 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 more

CALLUM INNES

15 Mar - 20 Apr 2013 i8 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 more

RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR

Seascapes 17 Jan - 9 Mar 2013 i8 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 more

EGGERT PÉTURSSON

1 Nov - 23 Dec 2012 i8 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 more

BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON

The Infinite Day 20 Sep - 20 Oct 2012 i8 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 more

EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON

12 Jul - 25 Aug 2012 i8 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 more

MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL, SILVIA BÄCHLI

Open; Wait 19 May - 30 Jun 2012 i8 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

ÍVAR VALGARÐSSON

Powerlines 29 Mar - 5 May 2012 i8 Gallery The exhibition consists of an installation of conductor cables along with five photographs of the same cables in situ against the backdrop of the blue sky. Three power lines stretched between the gallery walls at different heights make it a challenge for the audience to manoeuvre around the space. The... Read more

JANICE KERBEL

Cue 9 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 i8 Gallery Janice Kerbel (b. 1969) is a London-based Canadian artist known for rigorous “studies” which are at once realizable and imaginary. Her diverse body of work includes: Bank Job (1999), a detailed master-plan to rob Coutts Bank in London; Deadstar (2006), a town map of a ghost town; Remarkable (2009), a... Read more

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Song 15 Dec 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 i8 Gallery i8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Ragnar Kjartansson, exploring the most basic concepts of every true romantic, youth, love and death. The video installation, Song (2011), is based on Kjartansson’s 2011 three-week performance, Song, in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture. The... Read more

RONI HORN

a.k.a. 22 Sep - 26 Nov 2011 i8 Gallery Roni Horn (b. 1955). Horn’s exploration of the variability of identity continues in her recent photographic work. In paired, seemingly identical images taken seconds apart, slight shifts in perception reveal the elusive and conditioned nature of identity. For her extensive series of books, To Place, Horn finds much inspiration in... Read more

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

28 Jul - 10 Sep 2011 i8 Gallery Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Queens, New York. In 1963, Mapplethorpe enrolled at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists such as Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, he also experimented with various materials in mixed-media collages, including images cut from books... Read more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

9 Jun - 23 Jul 2011 i8 Gallery Kristján Gudmundsson’s body of work seeks to lay bare the essence of art and the fundamental properties of its language. Throughout his career, Gudmundsson has taken the most basic mechanical and material elements of drawing to their limits and in the process has challenged our underlying assumptions about what a... Read more

KARIN SANDER

Guestbook 28 Apr - 4 Jun 2011 i8 Gallery Karin Sander’s work reveals form present but unseen—exposing, with exquisite subtlety, the sculpture inherent in her extant subjects. Pieces such as highly polished chicken eggs, reflecting wallpieces, and machine-made precision miniature replicas of people, invite us to shift our perspective in the way we see things, both inside and outside... Read more

Three Parts Whole

ÍVAR VALGARÐSSON, HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON, FINNBOGI PÉTURSSON 10 Feb - 2 Apr 2011 i8 Gallery THREE PARTS WHOLE curated by Gregory Volk Three Parts Whole features new work by noted Icelandic artists Finnbogi Pétursson, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, and ívar Valgardsson. The work is diverse, and is meant to be so. Pétursson’s suspended video camera swinging like a pendulum as it briefly displays its own “view” on... Read more

Winter Show

11 Dec 2010 - 29 Jan 2011 i8 Gallery Read more

IGNACIO URIARTE

22 Oct - 23 Nov 2010 i8 Gallery Ignacio Uriarte began his professional life with a career in business administration. Understanding the probabilities offered to him by cubicle life he diverted his practice for a career in fine art. Somehow he brought the office with him. Every conceivable material or gesture one might associate with the business workplace... Read more

ÞÓR VIGFÚSSON

9 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 i8 Gallery Thór Vigfússon (b. 1954) has for many years been investigating the interaction between art and its surroundings through works made of glass, plexi, mirrors, and formica. Commissioned for many recent public buildings, his works dialogue with architectural design through their simple geometric forms and pure colours. Vigfússon is currently exhibiting... Read more

ELÍN HANSDÓTTIR

Trace 9 Jul - 21 Aug 2010 i8 Gallery Just as a line is a tracing of a point, a plane the tracing of a line and a space the tracing of a plane, a phenomenon in space is the tracing of time. Time appears to be in motion, because we are hardly able to experience the past, present... Read more

SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON

Situations 14 May - 26 Jun 2010 i8 Gallery This exhibition of works by Sigurdur Gudmundsson (b. 1942), presents a period in the artist’s career in which he focused solely on the medium of photography yet conceived his work in terms of sculpture and poetry. These photographs, influenced by Fluxus and conceptual art, and collectively titled Situations, construct a... Read more

LAWRENCE WEINER

31 Mar - 8 May 2010 i8 Gallery Read more

HREINN FRIÐFINNSSON

More or Less 12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 i8 Gallery Hreinn Fridfinnsson is one of the most surprising actors of European Conceptual Art. Born in rural Iceland in 1943, he has spent the last 40 years in Amsterdam. His vocabulary, underscored by a delicate sense of humour, encompasses dreams, folklore, doubling and perceptual tricks. By using different media in his... Read more

ANTHONY McCALL

19 Jun - 21 Jul 2009 i8 Gallery Sean Kelly Gallery and i8 Gallery are delighted to announce two exhibitions, featuring Anthony McCall and Finnbogi Pétursson, being held concurrently in New York and Reykjavík, Iceland. In Reykjavík: Anthony McCall will present Doubling Back, 2003, at the Kjartöflugeymslur positioned on the outskirts of the city. This projected light piece... Read more

HRAFNHILDUR ARNARDÓTTIR

Vanity Disorder 16 May - 13 Jun 2009 i8 Gallery I am occupied with human behaviour, how the environment affects us and where we get our ideas of who and how we are as individuals. Vanity is to a different extent on the surface of my work and sometimes it appears only vaguely or in an abstract way, but it... Read more

ÓLAFUR ELÍASSON

Limboland 27 Mar - 9 May 2009 i8 Gallery Read more

HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON

Uplift 15 Jan - 15 Mar 2009 i8 Gallery The photographs comprising Hrafnkell Sigurðsson’s Uplift series do not hide what they are: eerie, confrontational. With added lighting eliminating theatrical shadows, two stacked one-ton bales of compacted trash hover like ostentatious ghosts against the shady backdrop of the garbage processing plant where they are created. Staring blindly out at us... Read more

Winter Show

Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Ólafur Elíasson, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Lawrence Weiner and more 13 Dec 2008 - 10 Jan 2009 i8 Gallery New works by Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Kelly Jazvac, Ólafur Elíasson, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ívar Valgarðsson, Guðrún Einarsdóttir, A.K Dolven, Kristján Guðmundsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Lawrence Weiner, Kristinn E. Hrafnsson, Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir and Jonathan Meese Read more

GUÐRÚN EINARSDÓTTIR

New Works 6 Nov - 7 Dec 2008 i8 Gallery Icelandic nature has been the main focus of Icelandic art since the eve of modern art and this is still true today in spite of strong international influence. Its enormous power and magical quality makes it a constant inspiration and source of ideas for artists regardless of the media they... Read more

Pleinairism

12 Sep - 12 Oct 2008 i8 Gallery curated by Kitty Scott The exhibition pleinairism is, with some exception, a selection of work on paper by artists, most of whom are rarely associated with plein air activity. Working plein air has a long history and first became popular among landscape painters in seventeenth-century Rome, while it was the... Read more

HAMISH FULTON

10 Jul - 9 Aug 2008 i8 Gallery Read more

ERNESTO NETO

16 May - 28 Jun 2008 i8 Gallery Ernesto Neto was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro where he currently lives and works. He has had numerous international museum solo exhibitions including Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Museum of Modern Art, NY (project); Aarhus, Aaros, Denmark;... Read more

BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON

19 Apr - 10 May 2008 i8 Gallery Birgir Andésson (1955-2007) studied at the Icelandic College of Arts & Crafts and Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland. During his lifetime Birgir actively exhibited around Scandinavia and Nothern Europe. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Major solo shows include a Retrospective at... Read more

EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON

28 Feb - 5 Apr 2008 i8 Gallery GYONATA BONVICINI ON EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON Egill Sæbjörnsson has since the late 1990s consistently captivated and amused audiences with his extraordinary transformations of objects. He has been working across a wide range of media including an unusual fusion of music, sound, video and installations. Underlying all of his work is a... Read more

ÍVAR VALGARDSSON

11 Jan - 16 Feb 2008 i8 Gallery Research in colour The blue colour of the sky. A blue ocean, blue grass, a blueish shade. A yellow sun, a daffodil, shafts of sunlight. Red fire, a fiery iris, a lighting. A yellow wall, a blue table, a red chair. Where, in the case of a painter, are the... Read more

RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR

Landscape for All 8 Nov - 13 Dec 2007 i8 Gallery Ragna Róbertsdóttir is a landscape artist; however, her works are not images of landscape, she brings landscape into exhibition spaces and private homes. Her works are made from natural materials: mud, stones, sand, which she collects on her frequent walks in Icelandic nature. She is mostly attracted to volcanoes by... Read more

EGGERT PÉTURSSON

One Hundred Paintings 13 Sep - 21 Oct 2007 i8 Gallery There is a story about a painting by Cezanne of apples and this work hung in the display window of a Parisian art dealer. A passer-by liked the work, stepped inside the Gallery and asked the dealer to cut out one of the apples and sell it to him. In... Read more

MAGNÚS PÁLSSON

12 Jul - 18 Aug 2007 i8 Gallery A man was named Thorarinn Nefjolfsson. He was an Icelandic man from the North country. Thorarinn was not noble by birth but wise and well spoken. He was uglier than other men particularly because of his awkward limbs. He had big, ugly hands but his feet were uglier by far.... Read more

SPENCER TUNICK

12 May - 23 Jun 2007 i8 Gallery Spencer Tunick was born in 1967 and currently lives in New York. He has been documenting the live nude figure in public since 1992 and has created installations around the world in spectacular locations including Belgium, Australia, Canada, USA and Brazil, gathering thousands of people at one time. His temporary... Read more

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Guilt Trip 13 Mar - 21 Apr 2007 i8 Gallery The Paradox of Ragnar Kjartansson “… haunting isn’t it? I love the theme of shame and remorse. It is life’s secret invisible thread. Like our good old Mr. Ingmar Bergman and Mr. Woody Allen have also put it so well in their movies.” – R.K. People who have been involved... Read more

KRISTINN E. HRAFNSSON

18 Jan - 24 Feb 2007 i8 Gallery Read more

KATRÍN SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

9 Nov - 23 Dec 2006 i8 Gallery Neither/Body/Story/Room: Two Sculptures by Katrin Sigurdardottir The room is ideal and real, minute and enormous. Its walls are pierced by windows, thresholds, a proscenium. But it is entered through a flat mirage of deep space, and the architecture’s solid parts appear provisional. The box of the building-in-the-building does not entirely... Read more

HILDUR BJARNADÓTTIR

Background 21 Sep - 21 Oct 2006 i8 Gallery Although Hildur Bjarnadóttir is acnowledged for work where she deals with textile traditions in a wider context, here, in this exhibition, it is plainly evident how she utilizes widespread influences as a basis for her work in order to create a multifaceted impression. The interconnections between the individual pieces might... Read more

Summer Show

Ólafur Elíasson, Karin Sander, Roni Horn, Birgir Andrésson and more 20 Jul - 2 Sep 2006 i8 Gallery Read more

FINNBOGI PÉTURSSON

18 May - 1 Jul 2006 i8 Gallery A Wandering Mind „Dabbling has led to all sorts of things,“ says visual artist Finnbogi Pétursson. A a boy, he spent hours examining the interiors of various electrical appliances, which the curious child had pried open. At the age or nine, he performed a very effective experiment when he connected... Read more

TUMI MAGNÚSSON

9 Mar - 29 Apr 2006 i8 Gallery Beyond categories I don’t want pictures. I just want to find things out, Piet Hein once said. Tumi Magnússon´s project seems to have the same goal. Magnússon does not wish to freeze a given moment in time or elevate a moment, a being or a figuration, but rather to initiate... Read more

ÓLAFUR GÍSLASON

12 Jan - 25 Feb 2006 i8 Gallery Towards a Strategy of Weakness Olafur Gislason‘s artistic oeuvre is exemplary of a cultural production of the late 20th and early 21st century which transcends the limitations for which the term avant-garde stands. This production is beyond the criticism of being labelled neo-avant-garde or being classed as the mere reiteration... Read more

ÞÓR VIGFÚSSON

27 Oct - 23 Dec 2005 i8 Gallery Þór Vigfússon og Þóroddur Bjarnason – Conversation for i8 exhibition, October 2005 Þór and I are sitting in the cafeteria at the Sculptors´ Association in Reykjavík, where Þór had a studio for several years before moving to the village Djúpavogur (in the far east of Iceland) with his wife. “If... Read more

ÓLÖF NORDAL

Iceland Specimen Collection 1 Sep - 15 Oct 2005 i8 Gallery Iceland Specimens: On the Work of Ólöf Nordal by Eva Heschler Walking along Reykjavik’s craggy south coast, one encounters a penguin-like bird on a boulder in the sea. Clearly artificial—metallic, smooth—it is a duplicate of the extinct great auk. Out of reach in the cold sea, Olöf Nordal’s sculpture is... Read more

LAWRENCE WEINER

14 May - 6 Jul 2005 i8 Gallery LAWRENCE WEINER & KRISTINN E HRAFNSSON Conversation for the Reykjavik Arts Festival in 2005 '… THE MAJOR TOPIC SHOULD REALLY BE THE WORK AT HAND WHICH IS ALL CONCERNED WITH THEOBJECTIFICATION OF DESIRE. THAT THEN CAN BECOME THE PRELUDE AND WITH REFERENCE THE BODY OF OUR INTERVIEW.' You named it... Read more

HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON

10 Mar - 30 Apr 2005 i8 Gallery RITUALIZED LOGIC There is something sinister about reversed playback. It most likely relates to the sense that the contrary running of causality, which sucks the present into the past, builds monsters. Sometimes they find physical form: such as the apparent demonic voices that escape when certain records are played backwards,... Read more

FINNUR ARNAR ARNARSSON

13 Jan - 26 Feb 2005 i8 Gallery From the beginning of his career Finnur Arnar Arnarson has been particularly drawn to generic circumstances where art is displayed in a volatile state, scarcely visible at the narrow margin between art and life. Taking advantage of unaesthetic, real-life situations, experienced in absence of artistic ambience, he excelled in drawing... Read more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

Architecture 4 Nov - 18 Dec 2004 i8 Gallery Kristján Gudmundsson was one of the principal figures in the short-lived, but enormously influential, movement of progressive artists called SUM, which radically challenged and ultimately renewed art-making in Iceland in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. A renowned and, at the time controversial , piece by Gudmundsson from 1969 involved,... Read more

Cardiac Circus

ICELANDIC LOVE CORPORATION 9 Sep - 30 Oct 2004 i8 Gallery The Icelandic Love Corporation The myth tells us that if standing on the moon, only two human phenomena are visible: The Great Wall of China and four Icelandic girls that call themselves The Icelandic Love Corporation. Coming down to planet Earth, another myth can be heard amongst earthlings about this... Read more

JEANINE COHEN

New Paintings 8 Jul - 21 Aug 2004 i8 Gallery This is the work of a painter New paintings by Jeanine Cohen It is no coincidence that the paintings of Belgian artist Jeanine Cohen have made their way to Iceland. Somehow her work belongs here. It talks in a quiet and self-contained way about the extreme opposites that the nature... Read more

GABRÍELA FRIÐRIKSDÓTTIR

15 May - 26 Jun 2004 i8 Gallery Gabríela Friðriksdóttir’s ironically naive idealism is also a certain kind of fetishistic geneology: of spiritualism, for instance, which due to its remarkable popularity often passes as the unofficial religion of the Icelanders. But whereas she is unable to envisage the guiding spirits of her ancestors-the fading of psychic force is... Read more

BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON

19 Mar - 30 Apr 2004 Read more

VICTOR BOULLET

Social Hypocrite 15 Jan - 25 Feb 2004 i8 Gallery VICTOR BOULLET – SOCIAL HYPOCRITE Victor Boullet’s first show at Gallery i8 in Iceland will open on January 15 2004. Norwegian born, half Scottish artist Victor Boullet, currently living and working in London, will present new photographic work and a video piece. The title of the exhibition is Social Hypocrite... Read more

HREINN FRIÐFINNSSON

13 Nov 2003 - 10 Jan 2004 i8 Gallery “Boys, have you heard”, Ilyusha began saying, “what happened to us in Varnavitsy just recently?” “On that dam, you mean?” Fedya asked. “ Ay, on that dam, the one that´s broken. That´s a real unclean place, real nasty and empty it is. Round there is all them gullies and ravines,... Read more

GUÐRÚN EINARSDÓTTIR

25 Sep - 1 Nov 2003 Icelandic nature has been the main focus of Icelandic art since the eve of modern art and this is still true today in spite of strong international influence. Its enormous power and magical quality makes it a constant inspiration and source of ideas for artists regardless of the media they... Read more

RONI HORN

This is Me, This is You 31 Jul - 13 Sep 2003 i8 Gallery Abandoned, absorbed, acting, adolescent, adorable, angry, appalled, assertive, bad,beautiful, bejeweled, bereaved, bespectacled, bewildered, biting on a muffin, blase, blowing a balloon, boyish, camera-conscious, candid, capricious, charming, chewing gum, childish, comic, confiding, coquettish, couldnt-care-less, cross, cunning, cute, defiant determined, disdainful, dishevelled, dressed up, drinking from a straw, eating salad, emerging from... Read more

EGGERT PÉTURSSON

8 May - 21 Jun 2003 Read more

BERND KOBERLING

13 Mar - 1 May 2003 Read more

HARALDUR JÓNSSON

Galaxy 23 Jan - 8 Mar 2003 i8 Gallery Haraldur Jonsson’s “Galaxy” greets the viewer with a dense star cluster of lamps, huddled together to give and receive warmth, a temporary community of designed commodities not yet sold, arbtrarily joined by function. Despite the clamor of incommensurable “styles” of lamp, upon closer examination a touching kind of family resemblance... Read more

SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON

17 Oct - 23 Nov 2002 ART, MEANING AND LOVE How can chocolates become so meaningful ? Obviously I have managed to L them and therefore admire their beauty which is one way of celebrating them as art works Could they have been something else? It can be anything Do I love everything? Unfortunately not. But... Read more

HELGI THORGILS, KRISTINN G. HARÐARSON

22 Aug - 5 Oct 2002 Read more

RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR, SABINE FUNKE, BEATE TERFLOTH

4 Jul - 17 Aug 2002 Read more

ÓLAFUR ELÍASSON

12 May - 22 Jun 2002 i8 Gallery Throughout history one can observe how different models of seeing and of relating to space – that is mans relation to his surroundings – have replaced each other, parallelly with social, ideological, technical and other changes. Values of a given time will always determine the models and relations through which... Read more

HÖRÐUR ÁGÚSTSSON

21 Mar - 5 May 2002 Read more

HELENA HIETANEN

Technolace 16 Jan - 9 Mar 2002 HELENA HIETANEN’s ”TECHNOLACE” most often is a site specific sculpture installation. The final form of the work depends on the form and the height of the final space. The work consists of stainless steel structure, projectors with halogen lights, partially painted rotating glass discs and optical fibres. The hundreds of... Read more

RONI HORN

Still Waters (The River Thames, for Example) 1 Nov 2001 - 12 Jan 2002 i8 Gallery Metaphorically transfigured flow in the form of the ocean or a river is an ancient leitmotif in art. It suffices to mention the predicament of Ulysses as an example of what one encounters where the flow of unknown worlds merges at the boundaries of consciousness and reality. The oldest centres... Read more

KRISTJÁN DAVIÐSSON

20 Sep - 27 Oct 2001 Read more

MAX COLE, THOMAS RUPPEL

2 Aug - 16 Sep 2001 THE BALANCE OF THE HORIZON Harmony. One of the principles operative in the culture of her ancestors, Max Cole reports (1), is never to put another person in a situation where they have to say no. It is the culture of the native Americans, in this case the Cherokee. Max... Read more

EGGERT PÉTURSSON

21 Jun - 28 Jul 2001 i8 Gallery PAINTING THE FLOOR Like most painters, Eggert Pétursson hangs his paintings on gallery walls. But unlike many paintings, his works are not openings to an illusory space. Very often they seem to be almost devoid of all representations of three-dimensionality. This is not the same as saying that they are... Read more

HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON

3 May - 16 Jun 2001 i8 Gallery Read more

KARIN SANDER

17 Mar - 29 Apr 2001 i8 Gallery Karin Sander, who has shown widely throughout the world, is among the preeminent artists of her generation. Her recent body of work, involving small human figures standing on pedestals, challenges just about every aspect of what has traditionally constituted figurative sculpture. Sander’s figures are not made by hand at all... Read more

JYRKI PARANTAINEN

26 Oct - 26 Nov 2000 Read more

DOUWE JAN BAKKER

21 Sep - 22 Oct 2000 BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON ON DOUWE JAN BAKKER Breaking a plank While studying in the Netherlands, ´78-´79, I had the opportunity to exhibit in the remarkable Lóa gallery, at Blomgracht in Amsterdam. I Immediately mentioned the idea to my friend Douwe Jan Bakker. After a long and careful contemplation, Douwe suggested that... Read more

ANNE KATERINE DOLVEN

10 Aug - 10 Sep 2000 You have to be there Anne Katrine Dolven is sitting in a café by the river Thames, in London where she has her studio. The day is dull gray. It is raining, and we are looking at the drops falling down, making little circles as they hit the river. We... Read more

ELINA BROTHERUS

6 Jul - 6 Aug 2000 Elina Brotherus (b. in Helsinki 1972) studied photography in Helsinki and Berlin. Her photographs are primarily self-portraits, but sometimes incorporating other people who have a special meaning in her life. Her work has a direct relationship with her reality, dealing with marriage troubles, loss of her parents and divorce. It... Read more

TONY CRAGG

1 Jun - 2 Jul 2000 i8 Gallery LEAVING SCULPTURE Ever since the 1970´s Tony Cragg has been engaged in a redefinition of what sculpture is. In the wake of Duchamp´s reday-mades and what Rosalind Krauss has described as the´”expanded field” of late modernist sculpture, Cragg began experimenting with found materials and the waste products of industrialism. Combing... Read more

ICELANDIC LOVE CORPORATION

11 - 28 May 2000 Read more

CATHERINE YASS

6 Apr - 7 May 2000 i8 Gallery Looking at the Overlooked 'If you use a camera, you are stuck with an instrument that is documentary and that will record perspective and will record a set form of vision which has a history behind it. It would be an illusion to think that necessarily you record things as... Read more

ÓLÖF BJÖRNSDÓTTIR

2 Mar - 2 Apr 2000 ‘I don’t think there is anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can some day replicate that on a machine. Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how Nature did... Read more

BIRGIR ANDRÉSSON

29 Jan - 27 Feb 2000 The Closets of the Icelandic Myth The best weapon against myth is probably to mythologize it and create a virtual myth: the new myth thus created will become a real mythology. As the myth is nurtured by the language, why not nourish on myth itself? ( Roland Barthes) One of... Read more

OLA KOLEHMAINEN

9 Dec 1999 - 16 Jan 2000 I explore aspects of mortality that are neither macabre nor morbid but sublime and serene. I develope an idea using imaginary realized through photography of either exterior or iterior spaces I find in my travels. I then combine related elements in their most minimal and pure form. A golden wall,... Read more

MAGNÚS PÁLSSON

4 Nov - 5 Dec 1999 Read more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

Paintings and Drawings 9 Sep - 10 Oct 1999 i8 Gallery Read more

HREINN FRIÐFINNSSON

17 Jun - 18 Jul 1999 i8 Gallery Read more

FINNBOGI PÉTURSSON

6 May - 13 Jun 1999 i8 Gallery Read more

ÍVAR VALGARÐSSON

25 Feb - 21 Mar 1999 i8 Gallery Read more

ÁSGERÐUR BÚADÓTTIR

14 Jan - 14 Feb 1999 Read more

ÓLAFUR ELÍASSON

9 Dec 1998 - 10 Jan 1999 Read more

GUÐMUNDA ANDRÉSDÓTTIR

12 - 29 Nov 1998 Read more

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

15 Oct - 8 Nov 1998 i8 Gallery Read more

SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON

25 Jun - 26 Jul 1998 i8 Gallery Read more

INGA SVALA THORSDÓTTIR, WU SHAN ZHUAN

Vege-Pleasure 20 May - 21 Jun 1998 i8 Gallery Vege-pleasure was a collaborative project between Wu Shanzhuan and Icelandic artist Inga-Svala Thórsdóttir (b. 1966) completed in Hamburg, Germany, in 1995. It is related to their earlier work Paradises (1993), which derives from a well-known woodblock print of Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer (1504). Both collaborative works point towards... Read more

ÓLÖF NORDAL

2 Apr - 10 May 1998 Read more

Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson

2 Feb - 3 Mar 1998 i8 Gallery Read more

HARALDUR JÓNSSON

18 Dec 1997 - 10 Jan 1998 Read more

LORE BERT

Set-theory 14 Aug - 14 Sep 1997 i8 Gallery Gallery Ingólfsstræti 8 shows works by the German artist Lore Bert. The exhibition runs until September 14 and the gallery is open Thursdays to Sundays from 14 to 18. Lore Bert works with a specific theme and numbers are the guiding memory of this exhibition called Set-theory. The artist deals... Read more

TUMI MAGNÚSSON

3 Jul - 10 Aug 1997 i8 Gallery Read more

RONI HORN

31 May - 29 Jun 1997 Read more

ANNA LÍNDAL

1 - 25 May 1997 Read more

ÞORVALDUR ÞORSTEINSSON

3 - 27 Apr 1997 i8 Gallery Read more

KRISTJÁN GUÐMUNDSSON

New Works 20 Feb - 23 Mar 1997 i8 Gallery Read more

PEKKA NISKANEN

7 Nov - 1 Dec 1996 Read more

HULDA HÁKON

12 Sep - 6 Oct 1996 Read more

ÍVAR BRYNJÓLFSSON

Myndir frá forsetaframboði 1996 8 Aug - 1 Sep 1996 i8 Gallery Occasionally exhibitions offer speculations about the nature of the medium which the artist has chosen to work with; what is its nature, how does it tie in with the subject matter and how does it relate to the times and the changing attitude? These and some other questions are brought... Read more

RAGNA RÓBERTSDÓTTIR

6 - 30 Jun 1996 i8 Gallery Read more

RÚRÍ

2 - 25 May 1996 Read more

HRAFNKELL SIGURÐSSON

8 Feb - 3 Mar 1996 i8 Gallery Read more

INGÓLFUR ARNARSSON

10 Jan - 7 Feb 1996 i8 Gallery Read more