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Galleries
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CURRICULUM VITAE
1997-
2001 |
The Icelandic Academy of the Arts, painting department
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| 2000 |
The Royal Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
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Solo Exhibitions
| 2006 |
Sorrow conquers happiness, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
It´s not your Fault, Crossroads: Kunst und Performance, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin (mit Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir)
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| 2005 |
The Great Unrest, Dagsbrún, Reykjavík Art Festival, Eyjafjöll, Iceland
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| 2004 |
Monument of Love, Gallery GUK+; Lejre, Denmark; Bremen, Germany; Selfoss, Iceland
Intimacy (with Magnús Sigurðarsson), ASÍ Museum, Reykjavík Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
Oh My God, SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
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| 2003 |
Colonialization, Galleri Kling & Bang,Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2001 |
Hurt the one you love, Gallerí i8, Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 2000 |
Video installation with Gunnhildur Hauksdottir, Gallerí Nema Hvað, Reykjavík, Iceland
Konstar och jag vil knulla, Gallerí 1319 A, Stockholm, Sweden
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Group Exhibitions
| 2006 |
Dreamland Burns, Budapest Műcsarnok, Hungary
Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
Singing, Swinging North, Project room Paris Photo 2006, Paris, France
Icelandic Art in the 3rd Millenium, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
The Un-Homely, Galerie Adler, New York City, USA
Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Eiland, Island (curated by Fridrik Orn)
Eine Szene, in der Kunst entsteht: Island, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Quartair, Den Haag, Netherlands
Islandia, Kültur Büro Barcleona, Barcelona, Spain
The Idea of North: An Exhibition about Sound and Site, Saint Mary?s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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| 2005 |
Invasion Klink & Bank, Reykjavik at Berliner Liste, Germany
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| 2004 |
Etoiles Polares, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
Winter Mass, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Aldrei, Nie, Newer, Gallery+, Akureyri, Iceland
Where do we go from here?, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
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| 2003 |
Behind the eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Iceland I Danmark, Gallery Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark
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| 2002 |
The Times are Changing, Studio Alaska, Reykjavík, Iceland
Tígurinn og ísbjörninn / The Tiger und the Polar Bear, Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden
Grasrót, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Tiger und the Polar Bear, Gallery Saevar Karl, Reykjavík, Iceland
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| 2001 |
The Tiger und the Polar Bear, Slunkaríki, Ísafjörður, Iceland
Polifony, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Performance Week, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Ready made in the House, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland
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| 2000 |
A5 invitational, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Reykjavík und Copenhagen Feelings, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland
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Happenings and performances
| 2006 |
Cold, Cold Heart (with Mattias Akerfelt/Olga Chernysheva/Jesper Just/Ragnar Kjartansson/Antti Laitinen/Elena Nasanen/Torbjorn Rodland/Richard T. Walker), The Courtauld Institute of Art's East Wing Collection, London, UK
Sequences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sorrow conquers happiness, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Belgium
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| 2004/05 |
Theater of Artist, four night of Performances, Klink und Bank, Reykjavík, Iceland
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| 2004 |
Oracle 2005, Perfromance with Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Iðnó und Bad Taste Recordstore, Reykjavík,
Iceland
To Bubbi, Performance with Gabriella Fridriksdóttir, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, U.S.A
Satan is Real, IJS/Ice, Museum Dhont-Dhaens, Belgium
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| 2003/04 |
Cristal Rain, Performance with the Icelandic Love Corporation:
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Boys und Girls, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Behind the Eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Icelandic embassy, Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark
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| 2003 |
Four variations on sorrow, Performance mit Egill S., Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Operatione Pathetica, Performance mit Gabriella Fridriksdóttir. Circuit 2003, Barcelona, Spain
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| 2002 |
Modern Music, CD Projekt mit Gabriella Friðriksdóttir, Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Art Clown, Performance, Reykjavík Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
And Björk of course, a piece by Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson, Theater und Performances in cooperation with Thorvaldur
Thorsteinsson and Benedikt Erlingsson, Reykjavík City Theater, Reykjavík, Iceland
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| 2002/03/04 |
Santa Claus, Performance mti Asmundur Asmundsson. Galleri Kling & Bang, Iceland
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| 1999-2002 |
Trubadour Rassi Prump, concerts a.o.: Reykjavík, Ísafjörður, Búðir und Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
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Music
| 2005 |
Trabant, Emotional, 12 tónar, Southern Fried Records
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| 2003 |
The Funerals, Lordy, Funerals und 12 tonar
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| 2002 |
Trabant, music for a ballet "Eva 3", Ekka Dance Theater
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| 2001 |
Trabant, Moment of truth, Thulemusik, TMT
The Funerals, Pathetic me, Thulemusik, TMT
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| 2003 |
Four variations on sorrow, Performance mit Egill S., Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Operatione Pathetica, Performance mit Gabriella Fridriksdóttir. Circuit 2003, Barcelona, Spain
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| 2000 |
Kanada, Kanada, Thulemusik, TMT
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| 1996 |
Music in "Sirkús Skara Skrípo" , Loftkastalinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
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| 1995 |
Teenage band Kósý, Kósý Jól, Kisi-hljómplötur
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Collections
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Collection Olbricht, Essen, Germany
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Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary collection, Vienna, Austria and Zurich, Switzerland
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Bibliography
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Ragnar Kjartansson, Frieze, by Amanda Coulson, October 2006, p. 274
Kunst wie ein Blues, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, by Christioph Schütte, August 2, 2006, p. 41
Der traurige Isländer, Frankfurter Rundschau, Feuilleton, by Sandra Danicke, July 14, 2006, p. 16
Reykjavik, Art Review, June 2006, p. 54
A prior magazine, #12: Erik van Lieshout, Steven Shearer, Ragnar Kjartansson, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt 2006
Bright young things, Art Review, December 2005, p. 28
Iceland Hopping, Artforum, Mark Sladen, May 2005
Morgunbladid, Leikhúsdraugurinn, Jón B.K. Ransu, 2005
Tímarit Mals og Menningar, 3/2005
Art Fairs International, Visions of Beyond, 2004
Momentum 2004, Artforum, Liutauras Psibilskis, December 2004
From darkness to light: Icelandic Art, Dazed and Confused Magazine, October 2004
"Where Do We Go From Here: Emerging Icelandic Artists", Time Out New York, August 5-12, 2004, p. 51
Iceland Cometh, ArtForum, Eric Demby, February 2003
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