Talk:Ragnar Kjartansson (performance artist)

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Ragnar Kjartansson went under the name Rassi Prump (Assy-Fart) in Iceland, or DJ Rassi Prump, or Rúsínubollurass (Raisin-bun-ass) at the beginning of his career, which is still commonly used today. This is a well-known fact in Iceland, see: https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/1275096/ , https://grapevine.is/wp-content/uploads/Grapevine_06_2009_LORES.pdf - worth pointing out that Rúsínubollurass is something that is commonly said about babies, which in Icelandic are commonly refered to ass asshole, raisin-bun and other terms of endearment.

The long copypasta of his exhibitions is unnecessary. I'm going to move it here with the hope that it will be sourced and contextualized.

Solo Exhibitions Include -

2016-2017 Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

2016 Ragnar Kjartansson, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Ragnar Kjartansson and the National: A Lot of Sorrow, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Woman in E, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA

2015-2016 Ragnar Kjartansson: Seul celui qui connaît le désir, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2015 A Lot of Sorrow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: A Lot of Sorrow, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The End, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Feana Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Sala Cathedral, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Brazil, Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, The Vinyl Factory, London, England Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors + The Man, The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia

2014–2015 Black Box: Ragnar Kjartansson, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D. C., USA

2014 The End – Rocky Mountains, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada The Palace of the Summerland, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Ragnar Kjartansson and The National: A Lot of Sorrow, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Me, My Mother, My Father and I, New Museum, New York, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

2013–2014 Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Kling & Bang Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland 2013 Ragnar Kjartansson, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Scandinavian Pain: Ragnar Kjartansson, Edvard Munch, Malmö Nordic 2013 Festival, Malmö, Sweden

2012 Benefit, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland The End—Ragnar Kjartansson, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada Ragnar Kjartansson: The End-Venezia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy The Visitors, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

2011–2012 Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA, USA 2011 Ragnar Kjartansson, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland Ragnar Kjartansson: Endless Longing, Eternal Return, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Ragnar Kjartansson: The Man, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, USA Take Me Here by the Dishwasher (music by Kjartan Sveinsson), BAWAG P.S.K. Contemporary, Vienna, Austria 2010 The End—Ragnar Kjartansson, Hafnarborg—Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Me and My Mother, EX3 Contemporary Art Center, Florence, Italy Ragnar Kjartansson: The End, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada Studio: The Night—Eroticism, Folköl, Melancholia, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2009 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (representing Iceland)

2008 2nd Turin Triennal, Turin, Italy Manifesta 8, Rovereto, Italy

2007 Folksong, 508 West 25th Street, New York, NY, USA God, Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland Guilt Trip, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland Hot Shame—The Quest for Shelley’s Heart, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy

2006 Sorrow Conquers Happiness, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany

2005 The Great Unrest, Dagsbrún, Reykjavík Art Festival, Eyjafjoll, Iceland

2004 Monument of Love, Gallery GUK +, Selfoss, Iceland; Lejre, Denmark; Bremen, Germany Oh My God, Safn, Reykjavík, Iceland

2003 Colonialization, Kling & Bang Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland

2001 Hurt the One You Love, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

2000 Konstar och jag vil knulla, Gallerí 1319 A, Stockholm, Sweden

HAPPENINGS AND PERFORMANCES

2016 Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen / The Explosive Sonics of Divinity (music by Kjartan Sveinsson), Théâtre Maisonneuve Montreal, Canada Krieg (music by Kjartan Sveinsson),, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

2015 The Fall, Haus der Berliner Festspiel, Berlin, Germany FOREVER LOVE, Eaux Claires Festival, Eaux Claires, WI, USA Ragnar Kjartansson and the All-Star Band, Culturescapes Iceland, Zurich, Switzerland

2014 Bjarni Bömmer hlustar á Take it Easy með Eagles (Bjarni Bömmer listens to Take It Easy by the Eagles), Skúrinn, Reykavík, Iceland Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen / The Explosive Sonics of Divinity (music by Kjartan Sveinsson), Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Reykjavík City Theatre, Reykjavík, Iceland Sorrow Conquers Happiness, Manifesta10, Vitabsk Station, St. Petersburg, Russia

2013 Civilization: Monumental Materialism, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA Ragnar Kjartansson: Variation on Meat Joy (online performance), BMW Tate Live, Tate Modern, Performance Room, London, England Self-portraits from Room 413, Sequences: Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland S.S. Hangover, Venice Biennale, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedia Palace), Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2012 Bliss, National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

2011 Bliss, Performa 2011, New York, NY, USA

2010 The February Radio Drama: The Constant Reality Theater, Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, USA

2009 Number Three: Here and Now. Düsseldorf (in association with exhibition 100 Years (Version #1, Duesseldorf)), Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany SYMPHONY N.1 with Alterazioni Video, Performa 2009, New York, NY, USA

2004 The Theater of Artists, Kling & Bang Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland

2003 Four Variations on Sorrow (with Egill S.), Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík, Iceland Operatione Pathetica (with Gabriella Fridriksdóttir), Circuit Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2002 And Björk of Course (music supervisor and artistic advisor for play by Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson), Reykjavík City Theater, Reykjavík, Iceland The Artist on the Corner (performance), Reykjavík Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland Modern Music (CD project with Gabrialla Frieriksdóttir), Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland Santa Claus (with Asmundur Asmundsson), Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

1999–2002 Troubadour Rassi Prump (concerts), Reykjavík, Ísafjöreur, Búeir, and Seydisfjördur, Iceland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Lines of Flight: Life Serial, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA The Rhetoric of Time, Revisited, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Spring Performance Festival, Kunstverein and Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015-2017 Sound in Motion, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2015-2016 The Bauhaus #itsalldesign, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany Festival d’Automne à Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Inaugural installation, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015 Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park, Creative Time and Central Park Conservancy, Central Park, New York, NY, USA Falling Fictions, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany Fireflies in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece Framing Desire: Photography and Video, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Australia MusicNOW Festival, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Parasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto, Japan Piano Pieces – Pianos, Sounds, Concepts, Neue Residenz, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival of Music, Art and Conversation, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2014–2015 Artes Mundi 6, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales

2014 High Performance: Time-Based Media Art since 1996 from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Rīgas Mākslas Telpa, Riga, Latvia Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA Manifesta10, Vitebsk Station, St. Petersburg, Russia All Together Now, Soctiabank Nuit Blanche, Hart House, Toronto, Canada Stanze/Rooms—Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien) 1/4 : Bruit rose / Truly Flabby Preludes (For a Dog) 1/4: Pink Noise, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France

2013 Deep Feelings: From Antiquity to Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), Venice Biennale, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2012–2013 À ciel ouvert: Le nouveau pleinairisme, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada; Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada 2012 Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany It’s Not the End of the World, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2011 The Garden of Forking Paths, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland Prospect.2, New Orleans, LA, USA A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2010 Figura cuncta videntis (The All-Seeing Eye) / Homage to Christoph Schlingenseif, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria New Frontier at Sundance 2010, Park City, UT, USA Scene Shifts, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2010–2009 The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL, USA

2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere in Contemporary Icelandic Art, Artfestival at Bozar, Brussels, Belgium; Reykjavík Art Festival, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík, Iceland It’s Not Your Fault, Art from Iceland, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

2007 Detour, ADC Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Repeat Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

2006 Momentum: Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway Pakkhús Postulanna, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík, Iceland

2005 Tívolí, Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerði, Iceland

2004 Aldrei, Niem Never, Gallery+, Akureyri, Iceland Berlin North (with the Icelandic Love Corporation), Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin, Berlin, Germany Intimacy (with Magnús Sigurdarson), Reykjavík Art Festival, Listasafn ASÍ, Reykjavík, Iceland Etoiles Polares Finland, Feestlokaal van Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium Momentum 2004, Moss, Norway Where Do We Go from Here? Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, USA Winter Mass, Norræna Húsið, Reykjavík, Iceland

2003 Behind the Eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Iceland in Denmark, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark

2002 Grassroot, Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland The Tiger and the Polar Bear, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden The Times Are Changing, Studio Alaska, Reykjavík, Iceland

2001 Polifóní, Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 2000 Náttúrubörn, Gallerí Nema Hvað, Reykjavík, Iceland

Bangabandhu (talk) 16:33, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think some of his bigger projects (e.g. The Visitors) should get their own articles. What do you guys think? ☆☆☆ interstellarpoliceman ☆☆☆ 00:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Interstellarpoliceman – It appears that article might exist: The Visitors (installation). But the link to it might not be that obvious (headers are rarely linked on Wikipedia). – Þjarkur (talk) 12:53, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If this person is referred to by the given name Ragnar, then wouldn't all bare references to "Kjartansson" correctly be replaced with "Ragnar"? If this is changed, then the same change would properly be made on The Visitors (installation) Thisisnotatest (talk) 05:50, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]