Ragnar Kjartansson

♂ *1976 / Iceland

Works

Solo exhibitions

Sunday Without Love

NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale (US)
15 Nov 2026 – 11 Apr 2027
Politics of the Obvious

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (US)
4 Sep 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
Mercy

NGV National Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
26 Jun 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Sunday Without Love

Sunday Without Love (2025), A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird (2025), No Tomorrow (2022)

Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen (DE)
3 May 2026 – 16 Aug 2026
Sunday Without Love

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
1 Nov 2025 – 20 Dec 2025
The Visitors, Again!

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
5 Nov 2022 – 28 Sep 2025
World Light – The Life and Death of an Artist

Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik (IS)
7 Feb 2025 – 21 Sep 2025
Las cosas que ves al momento de caer el telón

Museo Tamayo Arte, Mexico City (MX)
9 Nov 2023 – 3 Mar 2024
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
9 Jun 2023 – 22 Oct 2023
THE VISITORS

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
28 Jan 2023 – 28 May 2023
Time Changes Everything

De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL)
17 Sep 2022 – 23 Jan 2023
There is a song in my heart and a hammer in my brain

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
29 Oct 2022 – 17 Dec 2022
Emotional Landscapes

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (ES)
22 Feb 2022 – 26 Jun 2022
Sumarnótt

Death Is Elsewhere

Montreal Museum FA, Montréal (CA)
28 Sep 2021 – 2 Jan 2022
Repent and Fire

BORCH Gallery, Berlin (DE)
16 Sep 2021 – 30 Oct 2021
The Visitors

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
30 Sep 2020 – 15 Aug 2021
The Visitors

High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
6 Mar 2021 – 29 May 2021
The Sky in a Room

Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano (IT)
22 Sep 2020 – 25 Oct 2020
Focus On: Ragnar Kjartansson

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (US)
15 Sep 2019 – 22 Mar 2020
Scenes from Western Culture

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
2 Nov 2019 – 1 Mar 2020
The Visitors

Kiasma Museum, Helsinki (FI)
11 Oct 2019 – 2 Feb 2020
Ragnar Kjartansson

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
20 Jul 2019 – 20 Oct 2019
A Lot of Sorrow [Beaucoup de tristesse], 2013

Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (CA)
20 Jun 2019 – 6 Oct 2019
The Visitors

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
20 Jul 2019 – 22 Sep 2019
Death Is Elsewhere (2019)

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
30 May 2019 – 2 Sep 2019
Scandinavian Pain and Other Myths

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
3 Nov 2018 – 14 Apr 2019
Scenes from Western Culture

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA), San Francisco (US)
25 May 2018 – 1 Sep 2018
A Lot of Sorrow

Faurschou Beijing, Beijing (CN)
25 Mar 2018 – 5 Aug 2018
The Visitors and 6 Scenes from Western Culture

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati (US)
30 Mar 2018 – 17 Jun 2018
The Sky in a Room

National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff (GB)
3 Feb 2018 – 11 Mar 2018
God, I Feel So Bad

Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik (IS)
3 Jun 2017 – 24 Sep 2017
and per se and: part XII

Giorgio Morandi and Ragnar Kjartansson

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
8 Aug 2017 – 19 Aug 2017
Ragnar Kjartansson

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
5 Nov 2016 – 23 Dec 2016
Ragnar Kjartansson

Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
14 Jul 2016 – 4 Sep 2016
Architecture and Morality

The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
26 May 2016 – 6 Aug 2016
SOUND IN MOTION

Internationale Video- und Performancekunst

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
27 May 2016 – 10 Jul 2016
Ragnar Kjartansson

Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (CA)
11 Feb 2016 – 22 May 2016
Seul celui qui connaît le désir

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
21 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016
Song

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
28 Jun 2015 – 16 Aug 2015
The Visitors

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
6 Feb 2015 – 24 May 2015
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Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (US)
28 Oct 2014 – 19 Apr 2015
Artes Mundi 6

Ffotogallery, Cardiff (GB)
24 Oct 2014 – 21 Feb 2015
The Visitors

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
30 May 2014 – 2 Nov 2014
The Visitors

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
23 Jul 2014 – 2 Nov 2014
The Visitors

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
1 Feb 2013 – 9 Mar 2013
The Visitors

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
17 Nov 2012 – 27 Jan 2013
Song

MoCA Miami, Miami (US)
17 May 2012 – 2 Sep 2012
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i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (IS)
15 Dec 2011 – 21 Jan 2012
Endless Longing, Eternal Return

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
19 Aug 2011 – 16 Oct 2011
Song

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
11 Mar 2011 – 4 Sep 2011
Me and my mother

EX3 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Firenze (IT)
1 Jul 2010 – 19 Sep 2010
The End

Venice Biennale - IS, Venezia (IT)
7 Jun 2009 – 22 Nov 2009
Sorrow conquers happiness

Galerie Adler, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
7 Jul 2006 – 5 Aug 2006

Group

A Partir d’Elle

Fondation A Stichting, Brussels (BE)
23 Jan 2025 – 19 May 2025

with Asareh Akasheh, Chantal Akerman, Roland Barthes, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Christian Boltanski, Dirk Braeckman, Sophie Calle, Helene Delprat, Rebekka Deubner, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jochen Gerz, Paul Graham …
À partir d'elle. Des artistes et leur mère

LE BAL, Paris (FR)
12 Oct 2023 – 25 Feb 2024

with Asareh Akasheh, Chantal Akerman, Roland Barthes, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Christian Boltanski, Dirk Braeckman, Sophie Calle, Helene Delprat, Rebekka Deubner, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jochen Gerz, Paul Graham …
Since Unveiling

Selected Acquisitions of a Decade

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
20 Nov 2021 – 3 Apr 2022

with Tauba Auerbach, John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Lockhart, Kerry James Marshall, Shirin Neshat, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth
Re/Projections: Video, Film, and Performance for the Rotunda

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
19 Mar 2021 – 6 Sep 2021

with Christian Nyampeta , WU Tsang
Mother!

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
21 Apr 2021 – 29 Aug 2021

with Candice Breitz, Elina Brotherus, Sophie Calle, Rineke Dijkstra, Valie Export, Jean-Paul Goude, Peter Hujar, Miyako Ishiuchi, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffatt, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg …
TRAUERN

Von Verlust und Veränderung

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)
7 Feb 2020 – 14 Jun 2020

with Bas Jan Ader, Khaled Barakeh, Christian Boltanski, Helen Cammock, Anne Collier, Sibylle Fendt, Seiichi Furuya, Paolo Fusco, Maria Lassnig, Adrian Paci, Philippe Parreno, Rein Jelle Terpstra
AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand

MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna (IT)
23 Jan 2020 – 3 May 2020

with Ed Atkins, Luca Francesconi, Alexandros Georgiou, Susan Philipsz, Cally Spooner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Nordic Impressions

Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

Scandinavia House, New York (US)
23 Feb 2019 – 8 Jun 2019

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pia Arke, Olafur Eliasson, Jesper Just, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Torbjorn Rodland, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Tori Wranes
Everything Represents - Nothing Is

Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK)
23 Mar 2019 – 19 May 2019

with Hanna Ljungh, Magdalena von Rudy
A Journey That Wasn't

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
30 Jun 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, Sherrie Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Paul Pfeiffer, Ed Ruscha
ZEITSPUREN

The Power of Now

Kunsthaus Biel, Biel Bienne (CH)
9 Sep 2018 – 18 Nov 2018

with Ursula Biemann, Julian Charriere, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Cecile B. Evans, Rodney Graham, Tehching Hsieh, Kapwani Kiwanga, Kris Martin, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Agnieszka Polska, Barbara Probst, Barbara Probst …
Perfect Time Ahead

ZEITSPUREN

Photoforum Pasquart, Biel Bienne (CH)
8 Sep 2018 – 18 Nov 2018

with Ursula Biemann, Gabor Buda, Julian Charriere, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Martin Creed, Cecile B. Evans, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, David Horvitz, Tehching Hsieh, Sophie Jung, Kapwani Kiwanga …
Nordic Views

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (DK)
19 Jan 2018 – 10 Mar 2018

with Nina Beier, Annika von Hausswolff
Mir ist das Leben lieber

Weserburg Museum, Bremen (DE)
21 May 2016 – 2 Apr 2017

with Nicole Bianchet, Jeremy Blake, Katharina Bosse, Daniele Buetti, Mat Collishaw, Keren Cytter, Elger Esser, Charles Freger, Paul Graham, Evelyn Hofer, Marilyn Minter, Yasumasa Morimura …
Dicker als Wasser

Konzepte des Familiären in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE)
16 Dec 2016 – 26 Feb 2017

with Badr el Hammami and Fadma Kaddouri, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Simon Fujiwara, Nan Goldin, Verena Jaekel, Nina Katchadourian, NEOZOON, Gillian Wearing, Tobias Yves Zintel
DICKER ALS WASSER

Konzepte des Familiären in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

Kunstpalais, Erlangen (DE)
24 Sep 2016 – 27 Nov 2016

with Badr el Hammami and Fadma Kaddouri, Candice Breitz, Simon Fujiwara, Nan Goldin, Verena Jaekel, Nina Katchadourian, NEOZOON, Gillian Wearing, Tobias Yves Zintel
Printemps de septembre 2016

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR)
23 Sep 2016 – 23 Oct 2016

with Mohamed Bourouissa, Balthasar Burkhard, Chto Delat International, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Hubert Duprat, Aurelien Froment, Bouchra Khalili, Wolfgang Laib, Vincent Meessen, Hans Op de Beeck, Thomas Ruff …
I See A Darkness

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
31 Mar 2016 – 11 Sep 2016

with Victor Alimpiev, Meris Angioletti, Marine Hugonnier, Joao Onofre, Laure Prouvost, Cerith Wyn Evans
ILLUMINATION

New contemporary art at Louisiana

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
1 Mar 2016 – 11 Sep 2016

with John Bock, Tacita Dean, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Rodney Graham, Shilpa Gupta, Andreas Gursky, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman
The Rhetoric of Time, Revisited

National Gallery, Praha (CZ)
6 Feb 2016 – 22 May 2016

with Tomas Svoboda
On the Shoulders of Giants

Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (DE)
26 Feb 2016 – 22 May 2016

with Matthew Buckingham, CAO Fei, Goshka Macuga, Kris Martin, Deimantas Narkevicius
FRAMING DESIRE: Photography and Video

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (US)
21 Feb 2015 – 23 Aug 2015

with Cory Arcangel, Artemio, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Debbie Grossman, Candida Hoefer, Misty Keasler, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ryan McGinley, Nicholas Nixon …
Überschönheit

Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
25 Apr 2015 – 21 Jun 2015

with Nilbar Gueres, Joao Maria Gusmao og Pedro Paiva, Schirin Kretschmann, Ursula Mayer, Isabel Nolan, Aida Ruilova, Tilo Schulz, Nicole Wermers
SCORE. BETWEEN IMAGE AND SOUND

MARCO Vigo, Vigo (ES)
11 Jul 2014 – 11 Jan 2015

with Meris Angioletti, Martin Arnold, Guy Ben-Ner, Keren Cytter, Manon de Boer, Anna Franceschini, Douglas Gordon, Annika Larsson, Christian Marclay, Dora Maurer, Lis Rhodes, Manuel Saiz …
Manifesta 10

The European Biennial of Contemporary Art

State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
28 Jun 2014 – 30 Oct 2014

with Francis Alys, Guy Ben-Ner, Pavel Braila, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Jordi Colomer, Josef Dabernig, Anna Daucikova, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elena Kovylina, Klara Liden …
Stanze/Rooms

Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection

me Collectors Room, Berlin (DE)
2 May 2014 – 21 Sep 2014

with Matthew Barney, Julie Becker, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Sherrie Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Sarah Lucas, Esko Maennikkoe, Paola Pivi, Laure Prouvost …
The Venice Biennale - 55th International Art Exhibition

The Encyclopedic Palace

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
1 Jun 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Kasper Akhoj, Victor Alimpiev, Yuri Ancarani, Uri Aran, Ed Atkins, Nikolay Bakharev, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Neil Beloufa, John Bock, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David …
I Wish This Was A Song

Music in Contemporary Art

The National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)
14 Sep 2012 – 20 Jan 2013

with Nevin Aladag, Dave Allen, Fikret Atay, Johanna Billing, Christoph Brech, Clegg & Guttmann , Phil Collins, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Idris Khan, Erkki Kurenniemi …
More light

Meer licht

Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)
2 Oct 2011 – 8 Jan 2012

with Bas Jan Ader, Miroslaw Balka, Ann Böttcher, David Claerbout, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Spencer Finch, Gertjan Kocken, Wolfgang Laib, Wolfgang Tillmans, Guido van der Werve, Roy Villevoye
Performa 11 - biennial of new visual art performance

Performa, New York (US)
1 Nov 2011 – 21 Nov 2011

with Abbas Akhavan, Julieta Aranda, Robert Ashley, Gerard Byrne, Tamar Ettun, Tamar Ettun, James Franco, Simon Fujiwara, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Liz Magic Laser, Guy Maddin …
iRonic - Die feinsinnige Ironie der Kunst

Kunstpalais, Erlangen (DE)
2 Jul 2011 – 4 Sep 2011

with Ahmet Oeguet, Sener Oezmen, John Bock, Shannon Bool, Thorsten Brinkmann
Dreamlands Burn - Nordic Art Show 2006

Műcsarnok, Budapest (HU)
8 Dec 2006 – 25 Feb 2007

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Miriam Baeckstroem, Johanna Billing, Elina Brotherus, Jonas Dahlberg, Jacob Dahlgren, Felix Gmelin, Veli Granoe, Alexander Gutke, Jens Haaning, Jesper Just, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen …
The Un-Homely: New art from Iceland

Galerie Adler New York, New York (US)
14 Sep 2006 – 28 Oct 2006

with Sigurdur Gudjonsson

Events

15th Shanghai Biennale

Does the flower hear the bee?

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
8 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026

with Francis Alys, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Sara Cwynar, Rohini Devasher, Theaster Gates, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Amar Kanwar, Sharon Lockhart, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lisa Oppenheim …
PhotoBrussels Festival 09

9TH EDITION, 46 LOCATIONS <a href="http://www.photobrusselsfestival.com" target="_blank">www.photobrusselsfestival.com</a>

Hangar H18, Brussels (BE)
23 Jan 2025 – 23 Feb 2025

with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Ragnar Axelsson, Chloé Azzopardi, François Bellabas, Thomas Bernardet, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Christian Boltanski, Jörg Bräuer, Denis Brihat, Thorsten Brinkmann, Elina Brotherus, Michael Christopher Brown …
Frieze London 2023

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
11 Oct 2023 – 15 Oct 2023

with Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Inaki Bonillas, Lisetta Carmi, Hannah Collins, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Thomas Demand, CAO Fei, Annette Frick, Nan Goldin, Noemie Goudal …
Art Basel 2023

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
15 Jun 2023 – 18 Jun 2023

with Ignasi Aballi, Ibon Aranberri, Eugene Atget, John Baldessari, Lillian Bassman, Valerie Belin, Ilse Bing, Erwin Blumenfeld, Martin Boyce, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alejandro Cesarco …
Market Art Fair 2022

Market, Stockholm (SE)
29 Apr 2022 – 1 May 2022

with Morten Andenaes, Lotta Antonsson, Arvida Bystroem, Theresa Traore Dahlberg, FOS (Thomas Poulsen), Adam Jeppesen, B. Ingrid Olson, Trine Sondergaard, Henrik Stroemberg
Art Düsseldorf 2022

Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
8 Apr 2022 – 10 Apr 2022

with Christiane Baumgartner, Anja Bohnhof, Candice Breitz, Clegg & Guttmann , Grey Crawford, Lucinda Devlin, Anna Ehrenstein, Mitch Epstein, Thomas Florschuetz, Candida Hoefer, Georg Herold, Evelyn Hofer …
Frieze London 2021

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2021 – 17 Oct 2021

with Darren Almond, Ghada Amer, William Eggleston, Awol Erizku, Nilbar Gueres, Gauri Gill, David Goldblatt, Andy Goldsworthy, Dor Guez, Candida Hoefer, Mona Hatoum, Nicholas Hlobo …
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2021

Gallery Weekend Berlin, Berlin (DE)
16 Sep 2021 – 18 Sep 2021

with Nevin Aladag, Matthew Barney, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Axel Huette, Wolfgang Laib, Louise Lawler, Richard Mosse, Peter Piller, WU Tsang
Momentum 10 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Momentum, Moss (NO)
8 Jun 2019 – 9 Oct 2019

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Julieta Aranda, Knut Asdam, Johanna Billing, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Keren Cytter, Anne de Vries, Olafur Eliasson, Ilkka Halso, Saskia Holmkvist, Annika Larsson, Gabriel Lester …
Yokohama Triennale 2017

Islands, Constellations and Galapagos

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)
4 Aug 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Hartley, Naoya Hatakeyama, Christian Jankowski, Paola Pivi, Anri Sala, Wael Shawky, The Propeller Group, Ai Weiwei, ZHAO Zhao
EXPO CHICAGO 2017

EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago (US)
13 Sep 2017 – 17 Sep 2017

with Daniel Beltra, Julie Blackmon, Melanie Bonajo, Julie Boserup, Nick Brandt, Edward Burtynsky, Michael Eastman, Liat Elbing, Lalla Essaydi, Dan Estabrook, Omer Fast, Julia Fullerton-Batten …
Printemps de septembre 2016

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR)
23 Sep 2016 – 23 Oct 2016

with Mohamed Bourouissa, Stan Douglas, Aurelien Froment, Vincent Meessen, Hans Op de Beeck, Guido van der Werve
Art Basel 2016

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
16 Jun 2016 – 19 Jun 2016

with Ilse Bing, Nick Brandt, Lynn Davis, Lynn Hershman, Luzia Huerzeler, Walter Niedermayr, Peter Piller, Allen Ruppersberg, Timur Si-Qin
Satan is real

Courtauld Institute of Art, London (GB)
20 Oct 2006
Aktuelle Videokunst aus Island

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
10 Aug 2006

with Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Erla Haraldsdottir, Icelandic Love Corporation, Bjargey Olafsdottir