RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Born in Reykjavík (Iceland), 1976
Lives & works in Reykjavík (Iceland)
Very active in: 2000s, Current decade

Representative galleries:
Adler

More links:
http://this.is/rassi/forsida.html

Video Art Works

Sorrow Conquers Happiness (2006)
Me and my Mother (2005)
Death and the Children (2002)
The Great Unrest (2005)
The Opera (2001)



CURRICULUM VITAE

1997-
2001 The Icelandic Academy of the Arts, painting department
2000 The Royal Academy, Stockholm, Sweden

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) 2005 The Great Unrest, Dagsbrún, Reykjavík Art Festival, Eyjafjöll, Iceland 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
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
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 2005 Invasion Klink & Bank, Reykjavik at Berliner Liste, Germany 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
2003 Behind the eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Iceland I Danmark, Gallery Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark
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
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
2000 A5 invitational, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Reykjavík und Copenhagen Feelings, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland

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 2004/05 Theater of Artist, four night of Performances, Klink und Bank, Reykjavík, Iceland 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
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
2003 Four variations on sorrow, Performance mit Egill S., Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Operatione Pathetica, Performance mit Gabriella Fridriksdóttir. Circuit 2003, Barcelona, Spain
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
2002/03/04 Santa Claus, Performance mti Asmundur Asmundsson. Galleri Kling & Bang, Iceland 1999-2002 Trubadour Rassi Prump, concerts a.o.: Reykjavík, Ísafjörður, Búðir und Seyðisfjörður, Iceland Music

2005 Trabant, Emotional, 12 tónar, Southern Fried Records
2003 The Funerals, Lordy, Funerals und 12 tonar 2002 Trabant, music for a ballet "Eva 3", Ekka Dance Theater
2001 Trabant, Moment of truth, Thulemusik, TMT
The Funerals, Pathetic me, Thulemusik, TMT
2003 Four variations on sorrow, Performance mit Egill S., Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Operatione Pathetica, Performance mit Gabriella Fridriksdóttir. Circuit 2003, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Kanada, Kanada, Thulemusik, TMT
1996 Music in "Sirkús Skara Skrípo" , Loftkastalinn, Reykjavík, Iceland 1995 Teenage band Kósý, Kósý Jól, Kisi-hljómplötur

Collections

Collection Olbricht, Essen, Germany Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary collection, Vienna, Austria and Zurich, Switzerland

Bibliography

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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