EXHIBITIONS

Callum Innes

Alphabet 17 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 i8 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 more

Stefán V. Jónsson a.k.a. Stórval

The Mountain Within 15 Aug - 5 Oct 2024 i8 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 landscape... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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