A nine-screen installation with a cult following is one of many highlights in the Icelandic artist’s first major Australian show, at Melbourne’s NGV ...
Ragnar Kjartansson was stuck in traffic. It was the opening night of his Metropolitan Museum of Art solo show, “Death Is Elsewhere,” and the Icelandic artist had agreed to meet with artnet News before ...
Ragnar Kjartansson, “Bangemand (Scaredman),” a live performance as part of the exhibition An Epic Waste of Love and Understanding at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (all photos AX ...
The Rollins Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Sunday Without Love, a single- channel video work by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which first exhibited publicly in the fall of 2025 at ...
Did Yoko Ono just get pranked by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson at her own exhibition? When the Japanese conceptual artist invited fellow artists to contribute “a vessel for the water to give to ...
Since last September, Luhring Augustine Bushwick has hosted The Pleasure Pavilion, a series of nine three-week shows in which gallery artists are in dialogue with a surprising centerpiece: the tawny, ...
The artist's repeating performance films can bring on a sort of catharsis, and people often cry after seeing a few cycles. "He's a huge deal,"... Art Star Ragnar Kjartansson Moves People To Tears, ...
He's put on a five-month floating concert in Venice and a 12-hour loop of Mozart. Now the Icelandic performance artist debuts a bracincly dreamy installation that goes on and on and on … "This is it.
“Moobs” doesn’t directly translate into Icelandic, explained Ragnar Kjartansson as he stood in the middle of London’s Barbican Centre. But it seemed an appropriate topic of conversation given the last ...
The Hirshhorn purchased all four current installments of artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s ongoing video series Me and My Mother,” including any future installments. Ragnar Kjartansson, courtesy of the ...
“Moobs” doesn’t directly translate into Icelandic, explained Ragnar Kjartansson as he stood in the middle of London’s Barbican Centre. But it seemed an appropriate topic of conversation given the last ...