Ragna Róbertsdóttir
i8 Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir.
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Elisions
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, Icelandi8 Gallery is pleased to announce Elisions, a group show featuring the work of N. Dash, K.R.M. Mooney, B. Ingrid Olson, and Carrie Yamaoka. The exhibition features works that employ painterly, photographic, and sculptural methods. In the works on view, control and chance alternately mediate processes of replication, reproduction, resurfacing, and cropping. Elision is a …
Dieter Roth
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, Icelandi8 Gallery is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of works by Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998). The show will open on December 9 and be on view until January 29, 2022 and will include drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by the artist. Through his career, Roth produced an extensive collection of artist’s books, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and video …
Alicja Kwade: In Relation to the Sun,
i8 Grandi Marshall House, Grandagarður 20, Reykjavík, IcelandWe are pleased to announce the opening of i8 Grandi, a new gallery in Reykjavík that focuses on year-long, single-artist presentations. The inaugural year of i8 Grandi features In Relation to the Sun, an exhibition by Alicja Kwade (b. 1979, Katowice, Poland, lives and works in Berlin, Germany). The artist’s show, which includes installation, sculpture, and work on paper, is now open and will be on view until …
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir: Peace
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, Icelandi8 Gallery is pleased to announce Peace, an exhibition of new work by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir. The show, Birgisdóttir’s second with the gallery, includes installations, prints, and sculptures by the artist. A major new publication highlighting ten years of Birgisdóttir’s work will be released to coincide with the opening of the show. Throughout her nuanced …
Hreinn Friðfinnsson: Conduct 10
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, IcelandUsing everyday materials as a basis, Friðfinnsson continually explores elements of time, environment, narration, memory, and perception. Friðfinnsson's practice is characterized by a poignant and recursive nature that creates a framework throughout his oeuvre. Referred to by curator and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist as “emotional conceptualism,” Friðfinnsson's approach to artmaking is often reductive, and …
Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, IcelandThis exhibition features a selection of works from more than five decades of collecting by Pétur Arason and his wife Ragna Róbertsdóttir, an artist who has shown with i8 since 1996. Forged through the close relationships that the couple has established with artists, the collection includes sculpture, painting, photography, and works on paper, all of …
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Ryan Mrozowski: Eyes Like Pond
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, IcelandFeaturing paintings and sculptural wall works, Eyes Like Ponds highlights Mrozowski’s signature systematic approach to painting. The artist’s immersive language, which is rooted in visual and linguistic puzzles, frequently uses botanical subjects to explore elements of presence, absence, and perception. Foliage, fruit, and letters become abstracted in Mrozowski’s compositions, as the artist crops and repeats his …
Arna Óttarsdóttir: Soon, Again
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, Icelandi8 is pleased to present soon, again, Arna Óttarsdóttir's second solo exhibition with the gallery, which will open with a reception from 5-7pm on 20 October and be on view until 26 November 2022. This presentation will feature eight new weavings by Óttarsdóttir, all made by hand on a loom in her Reykjavík studio. As is consistent …
Butterly / Pétursson
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, Icelandi8 Gallery is pleased to present Butterly / Pétursson, a two-person show featuring new work by American ceramicist Kathy Butterly and Icelandic painter Eggert Pétursson. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists on Thursday, 19 January from 5-7pm and will be on view until 4 March. Butterly and Pétursson are united in their …
Lawrence Weiner & Birgir Andrésson
i8 Gallery Tryggvagata 16, Reykjavík, IcelandLanguage is at the essence of Lawrence Weiner and Birgir Andrésson’s artistries. The iconic conceptualists, who were also friends, are inextricably linked to the power of words and their methods of expression, particularly through the visual power of text. Andrésson and Weiner explored the boundaries of what art can be, pushing past traditional understandings of …
