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{{icelandic name|Ragnar}}
[[File:Ragnar Kjartansson, in his installation at the Migros Museum, 2012 in Zürich.jpg|thumb|Ragnar Kjartansson in his installation, Migros Museum, Zürich, 2012]]
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     Kjartansson participated in ''The Encyclopedic Palace'' at the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2013, Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2014, and he represented Iceland at the 2009 Venice Biennale<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/38021/ragnar-kjartansson-at-53rd-venice-biennale/|title=Ragnar Kjartansson at 53rd Venice Biennale - Announcements - e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref>. The artist is the recipient of the 201(contracted; show full)
Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature finds its way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging become key tools in the artist’s attempts to convey sincere emotion and offering a genuine experience to the audience. Kjartansson’s playful work is full of unique moments where a conflict of the dramatic and the banal culminates in a memorable way.
    

== Selected works and projects ==  

=== Me and My Mother ===
“Me and My Mother” began in 2000 while Kjartansson was still a student, and it is based upon a simple premise—every five years, Kjartansson invites his mother, the well-known Icelandic actress Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir, to spit on him. Mother and son stand side-by-side in her living room facing a fixed-point camera. Periodically and repeatedly, Kjartansson’s mother turns and spits into his face with dramatic gusto.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/09/11/hirshhorn-acquires-ragnar-kjartanssens-me-and-my-mother-work-by-shirin-neshat-deb-sokolow/|title=Hirshhorn Acquires Ragnar Kjartansson’s ‘Me and My Mother,’ Work by Shirin Neshat, Deb Sokolow|last=Freeman|first=Nate|date=2017-09-11|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref>  <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/when-artist-ragnar-kjartansson-asked-his-mother-spit-him-180964861/|title=Why the Artist Ragnar Kjartansson Asked his Mother to Spit On Him|last=Catlin|first=Roger|work=Smithsonian|access-date=2018-01-18|language=en}}</ref> 

=== A Lot of Sorrow<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://alotofsorrow.com|title=A Lot of Sorrow|website=www.alotofsorrow.com|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref> ===
(contracted; show full)e German Romantics, and Elvis Presley. As in all of Kjartansson’s performances, the idea behind A Lot of Sorrow is devoid of irony, yet full of humor and emotion. It is another quest to find the comic in the tragic and vice" versa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3216|title=Ragnar Kjartansson A Lot of Sorrow featuring The National {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref> 

=== [[The Visitors (installation)|The Visitors]]
  <ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-01-15|title=The Visitors (installation)|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Visitors_(installation)&oldid=820670925|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> ===
(contracted; show full), and friends to create the two-part project ‘The Palace of the Summerland’ Between the April 3 and April 27, the artist and his troupe of musicians, actors, artistic directors, costume designers, camera operators, and technical crew lived and performed continuously in the Augarten exhibition space, transforming it into an active studio, an art factory, and a set for a lmic and theatrical adaptation of the epic novel ''World Light'', by the Icelandic author and Nobel laureate [[Halldór 
Laxness|Halldór Laxness]]. ''The Palace of the Summerland'' is a piece of performance art, irting with literature, music, and sculpture—a manic journey into the souls of generations of Icelandic artists, presented under the guise of making a lm. Kjartansson describes the project as a “megalomaniac quest,” in this case to capture beauty, art, emotion, and the essence of life. Aiming at the impossible, it is a task that has to be tried, completed, lived. It was developed simultaneously with ''Th(contracted; show full)rland'' by building it, acting it, and living it. Kjartansson’s father, the theater director Kjartan Ragnarsson, was there to help direct the scenes, so there was even father-son tension. By visiting TBA21–Augarten at different times, the public experienced diverse situations: the team caught in the middle of a rehearsal; Kjartansson with his father introducing the timing of a certain scene; musicians rehearsing a score composed by [[Kjartan Sveinsson]], the composer and former member of [[Sigur 
Rós|Sigur Rós]]; the production of sets, costumes, and props: literally the entire production process in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. “''It will be a factory where we are building, acting, and lming an impossibly big story on beauty. The drama is on- site. We are making an epic on a softporn budget, surrounded by the audience. It is a hopeless task. A true disaster,''” said Kjartansson.

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The Team for the project included: Ragnar Kjartansson, Davíð Þór Jónsson, [[Kjartan Sveinsson]], Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Kjartan Ragnarsson, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, Sólveig Katrín Ragnarsdóttir, Helga Stefánsdóttir, Sveinn Kjartansson, Lilja Gunnarsdóttir, Halldór Halldórsson, Anna Hrund Másdóttir, Tómas Örn Tómasson, Christopher W. McDonald, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, [[Kristín Anna 
Valtýsdóttir|Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir]], Thelma Marín Jónsdóttir, Sigríður Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, Daníel Björnsson. 

=== The End<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/38021/ragnar-kjartansson-at-53rd-venice-biennale/|title=Ragnar Kjartansson at 53rd Venice Biennale - Announcements - e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref> ===
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