Revisiting ‘The Visitors’ An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece


Revisiting ‘The Visitors’ An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece

March 6 - May 9, 2021 Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012, nine-channel video with sound. Duration: 64 minutes Commissioned by the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich Photo: Elísabet David © Ragnar Kjartansson; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik


ragnar kjartansson the visitors at hangarbicocca Ragnar, Contemporary art gallery, The visitors

The Visitors is a 2012 installation and video art piece created by Ragnar Kjartansson. [1] Kjartansson named the piece for The Visitors, the final album by the Swedish pop band ABBA before their reunion in 2016. The piece was commissioned by the Migros Museum in Zurich, and was one of the museum's inaugural exhibits.


Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors Frist Art Museum

531 West 24th Street. Chelsea. Through March 16. Bonhomie and nihilism go hand in hand in "The Visitors," a recent video installation by the talented performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson.


Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012 YouTube

Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors ,2012. Nine-channel video projection (color, sound; 64:00 minutes). Gift of Graham and Ann Gund to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. Photo by Elísabet Davids. Courtesty the artist, Luhring Augustine, New Yor


Feeling with Friends Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors Burnaway

Ragnar Kjartansson. The Visitors. 2012. Nine-channel video (color, sound). 64 min. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen Schwab. 636.2013.a-i. © 2024 Ragnar Kjartansson.


Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors / Interview for FM4 YouTube

Time Out says. It may already have toured Europe and America, but Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's epic nine-screen video installation 'The Visitors' (2012) hasn't lost any of its.


‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times Icelandic Artists, Bard College, Oral

Installation Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors November 5, 2022-October 13, 2024 Floor 6 Tickets Entry to this exhibition is included with general admission. Ragnar Kjartansson's beloved video installation The Visitors (2012) is back at SFMOMA.


Ragnar Kjartansson & The All Star Band The Visitors (Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo

Ragnar Kjartansson, from The Visitors, 2012 Photograph: The Broad/Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík 'Everything is putting on a show'.


‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times

The Visitors soundtrack has been repressed! Order it on vinyl now: https://thevinylfactory.com/product/the-visitors/In late 2015 The Vinyl Factory presented.


Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors « File Magazine

¹ The Visitors is based on a piece called The End—Rocky Mountains (2009), which Ragnar and Davíð Þór created at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. ² Quotations from Ragnar Kjartansson are from a 2013 interview with Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, and correspondence with the artist.


Ragnar Kjartansson, on Repeat The New Yorker

Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012. Nine-channel HD video projection, 64 minutes. © Ragnar Kjartansson; courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Dates February 25-May 14, 2016 Location UB CFA Gallery Artist List Ragnar Kjartansson Description


Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors (July 20September 22, 2019) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Visitors is a reference to the title of Abba´s eponymous album that appeared in 1981, which was to be their last. Shortly after the publication the successful pop band broke up. In contrast, his work The Visitors brought Kjartansson international renown, and it was acclaimed by the press.


Revisiting ‘The Visitors’ An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece

Ragnar Kjartansson, "The Visitors" (2012), video still. Kjartansson has placed himself in perhaps the least aesthetic, most comically self-deprecating circumstance; he strums a beat-up guitar.


‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times

The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, singing and playing guitar in the bath at Rokeby during the recording of "The Visitors." (Elisabet Davids) Connected by headphones, the musicians.


The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson Ragnar, The Visitors, Art History, Art Collection, Visual

R okeby is a crumbling 43-room mansion in upstate New York, where the descendants of the grand American families the Astors and the Livingstons - as well as their bohemian friends - participate in.


The Visitors Ragnar Kjartansson The Broad

IN "The Visitors," a nine-screen video installation by Ragnar Kjartansson that will have its first American showing next month, the artist lies in a pedestal bathtub almost in a trance,.