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


‘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.


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

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.


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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.


Feeling with Friends Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors Burnaway

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


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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


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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


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

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.


Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors / Interview for FM4 YouTube

Ragnar Kjartansson's performance practice has embraced the entire spectrum of art ever since he began. "The Visitors" consists of nine videos on a scale of 1:1, in which the audience sees different musicians, all friends of Kjartansson's (including Kristín Anna and Gyða Valtýsdóttir, founding sisters of the historic Icelandic band Múm, and Kjartan Sveinsson, keyboard player until.


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

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

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


The Visitors Ragnar Kjartansson The Broad

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, on Repeat The New Yorker

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.


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

"The Visitors" was an assurance that the world was a place where artmaking could be easy, could fit in seamlessly with friendship and love and long baths, could be as languorous as it was ambitious, as special as it was mundane.


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

This presentation of Ragnar Kjartansson's (b. 1976, Reykjavik, Iceland) The Visitors is dedicated to you. The first newly installed exhibition at the museum following months of closure during the global COVID-19 pandemic, The Visitors is a truly beloved artwork in the ICA's permanent collection, one that continually inspires and moves our community.


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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.


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

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.