The exhibition Frontiers of Another Nature will open on the 18th of August at Frankfurt Kunstverein.

"Frontiers of Another Nature - Contemporary Photographic Art from Iceland" is a unique selection of emerging and established Icelandic photo-media artists. These artists repeatedly draw from the landscape and environment in their work. Most of the artists are little known in Germany and most of these particular works have never been on view here.

"Frontiers of Another Nature" examines how the photographic arts are essential to examine individual derivations, which constitute the complexities of Icelanders undeniable relationship to their natural environment. This exhibition will introduce ambiguous environments in which the photographers themselves investigate and build visual narratives around the expanse of land, or the loss of it. Here the landscape often performs as metaphor for desire, alienation, magnificence and awe, tradition, irony and rebellion or achievement and deficit.

Artists: Bára Kristinsdóttir, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Haraldur Jónsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Katrin Elvarsdóttir, Pétur Thomsen and Spessi.

Curators: Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Dr. Christiane Stahl, Director of the Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung in cooperation with Inga Lára Baldvinsdóttir, Curator of Photography, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík and María Karen Sigurðardóttir, Director of the Museum for Photography, Reykjavík

The Exhibition is a production of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Kehrer and Crymogea will publish FRONTIERS OF ANOTHER NATURE.

Kehrer will publish the book in Europe and the USA and Crymogea will publish a special Icelandic version in Iceland.

this text is taken from Kehrer

FRONTIERS OF ANOTHER NATURE


Frontiers of "Another Nature – Pictures from Iceland" is a unique selection of emerging and established Icelandic photo-media artists.These artists repeatedly draw from the landscape and environment in their work. The catalog and exhibition will introduce ambiguous environments in which the photographers themselves investigate and build visual narratives around the expanse of land, or the loss of it. Here the landscape often performs as metaphor for desire, alienation, magnificence and awe, tradition, irony and rebellion or achievement and deficit.
The exhibition is curated by Celina Lunsford, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, and Dr. Christiane Stahl, Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, in cooperation with Inga Lára Baldvinsdóttir, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, and María Karen Sigurðardóttir, Museum for Photography, Reykjavík, as part of the arts and culture program of the Fabulous Iceland – Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011.

Participating artists: Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Icelandic Love Corporation, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Haraldur Jóns- son, Bára Kristinsdóttir, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Spessi, Pétur Thomsen and others

Editor: Celina Lunsford, Christiane Stahl, Kristján B. Jónasson
Authors: Christiane Stahl

Hardcover
30x24,5cm
176 pages
116 color and 29 duotone ills.

Subscription price Euro 30,00 until October 16, 2011, after that date Euro 36,00
German/English
available soon
ISBN 978-3-86828-252-8
ca. 30 Euro
2011

The exhibition "Kveldúlfur Sjónsuða" opened on the 30th of july and will be open until the 21th of august at Hjalteyri Factory in the north of Iceland.

This is a group exhibition with 14 participating artist. The exhibition is a mixture of video works, installations, paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Participating artist are:

Baldvin Einarsson
Bergur Andersson
Bryndís Björnsdóttir
Darri Úlfsson
Elísabet Brynhildardóttir
Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson
Katla Rós Völudóttir
Klængur Gunnarsson
Lilja Birgisdóttir
Loji Höskuldsson
Ragnar Már Nikulásson
Selma Hreggviðsdóttir
Sindri Snær S. Leifsson
Þórgunnur Oddsdóttir

Exhibition Dates and Hours:
June 9 - 26, 2011
Saturday & Sunday, 1-6pm and by appointment

Icelandic Artists' Publications at NEW STAND

a trans-Atlantic collaboration with Útúrdúr, an artist-run bookstore and gallery in Reykjavík.

For the month of June 2011, Arts & Sciences PROJECTS will feature a selection of independent artists' publications from Iceland in our on-going NEW STAND installation. Come browse a fine selection of books and zines by Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Rafskinna, Haraldur Jónsson, Unnar Örn, Hlynur Hallsson, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, and more.

Additionally, a selection of artists' publications from Arts & Sciences PROJECTS, New York, will be on view at Útúrdúr in Reykjavík. Dates for the exhibition in Reykjavík will be announced soon.

Arts & Sciences PROJECTS
368 Broadway #409
New York, NY 10013
artsandsciencesprojects.com
info@artsandsciencesprojects.com

I will be participating in a group exhibition the 19.August 2011 – 16.Oktober 2011 GRENZEN ANDERER NATUR – ZEITGENÖSSISCHE FOTOKUNST AUS ISLAND. I will be showing a new series called The Wall that I have been working on for a year. The exhibition focuses on Icelandic contemporary photography and the participating artist are Bára Kristinsdóttir, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Haraldur Jónsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Katrin Elvarsdóttir, Pétur Thomsen and Spessi. The series will be posted on the website later this year and then you can read more about the series but in the mean time you can read about the exhibition here.

I will be participating in a group exhibition in gallery 002, the opening will be the 6th of November at 14:00 - 17:00. The participants in the exhibition are Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Ragnhildur Jóhanns and Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson. I will be exhibiting a project about Möllan in Malmö, Sweden. I will post further information about the project next week.
The exhibition is in the apartment of Birgir Sigurðsson which has turned his apartment in to a gallery and this is the second exhibition that will open in gallery 002.

Þúfubarð 17
Apertment 002
Hafnarfirði
Iceland

Everybody is welcome.

I have been traveling in Sweden for the past week and started a project about contemporary Sweden. I will show a small series about Möllevången in Malmö in an exhibition next saturday. More info will be posted in the next days.

I am participating in a group exhibition in Färfabriken Norr in Östersund Sweden curated by Jonatan Habib Engquist. The opening will take place on the 16th of Otkober.

Info about the exhibition can be found on the website of Färgfabriken.

http://www.fargfabriken.se/ind|Nordens U-Land|

My website has been down for a while but the problem has been fixed so now it is up and running again as usual.

Ingvar Högni

Reality Check is an outdoor exhibition of works which are dealing with everyday environments, recent events, matters of fact that become matters of concern; the enchantment of the ordinary towards the extra-ordinary. The exhibition brings together works by contemporary Icelandic artists and photographers, who use photography as a creative space; contributing to the construction of our mental realities of today. In this exhibition, the works trace a path they become a place where things can be discussed.

Curated by Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir.

The public space seems neutral but is in fact as sensitive as the spectator himself. What happens when images are moved from the art space into the public realm? They can become aggressive and provoke reaction among spectators, who can hardly ignore them. What can be shown and where? What can be seen and what is to hide? Where are the limits, this fine line that turns a snapshot into a work, a documentary into a new narrative, a press-photo into a statement?

In the exhibition Reality Check, artists and photographers are dealing with everyday environments, recent events, matters of facts that become matters of concern; the enchantment of the ordinary towards the extra-ordinary. The exhibition brings together works by contemporary artists and photographers, who use photography as a creative space, as a part of installation or documentary, turning its everydayness into our contemporary aesthetics.

The exhibition creates a walk, which has its roots in the way people created popular itinerary in the centre of Reykjavik. The walk has an attachment to the place and questions daily habits and a traditional image of the city. The aim is to break up habits, stir and question, take people further to places they might ignore or look past every day. Limits between documentary, press-photography and art photography have been blurred, in order to challenge genres and question our habits of seeing.

Participating Artsits : Daníel Þorkall Magnússon, Eggert Jóhannesson, Haraldur Jónsson, Ieva Epera, Hlynur Hallsson, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Kristleifur Björnsson, Libia Castro og Ólafur Ólafsson, Óskar Hallgrímsson, Silja Sallé, Spessi og Vera Pálsdóttir.

I will participate in a groupshow at Färgfabriken Norr in Sweden in óktóber 2010. Among participating artists are Ragnar Kjartansson, Bjargey Ólafsdóttir and Pétur Thomsen. More detailed news will be posted as we get closer to óktóber.

Färgefabriken

I will participate in a groupshow called Realitycheck at the Reykjavik Art Festival in may. The exhibition is currated by Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and will be outside. The Show will take place in public space and the participating artists are Eggert Jóhannesson, Hlynur Hallsson, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Kristleifur Björnsson, Óskar Hallgrímsson, Spessi og Vera Pálsdóttir. More info will be posted later.

Reykjavik Art Festival

I participated in a group exhibition called Chrismasbagwindow exhibition. 20 artists were given white paper bags to work with and the outcome is very different. The wxhibition will be on display from 17th desember to 6th of january 2010. The participating artist are Listamennirnir sem verk eiga á sýningunni eru Alda Sigurðardóttir, Borghildur Óskarsdóttir, Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir, Eygló Harðardóttir, Guðrún Gunnarsdóttir, Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir, Guðrún Tryggvadóttir, Hannes Lárusson, Haraldur Jónsson, Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson, Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Hildur Hákonardóttir, Húbert Nói, Ingirafn Steinarsson, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Karen Ósk Sigurðardóttir, Margrét Zophoníasdóttir, Steinunn Helgadóttir, Þórdís Sigurðardóttir og Þuríður Sigurðardóttir.

I was the official photographer for the Sequences real time art festival in Reykjavík Iceland. The festival took place on various locations and involved local as well as international artists and the festival was a great success. There will be an article in the January 2010 issue of Art Review that will be accompanied by photographs by me. To take a look at the images from the festival visit the Sequences website and the Sequences photo site for full coverage.

enjoy
Ingvar Högni

A selection from the my newest series Waiting Pt.3 is due to be published in the newest issue of Ritið a book-magazine published by Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of Iceland. The magazine will be out january 2010. For further information visit the website of Centre for Research in the Humanities.

The exhibition in Havari galleri is still on display and will be until 3. december.

Exhibition in Havarí galleri - 14th nov - 3. desember come check it out......

Havarí Music & Gallerí
Austurstræti 6
101 Reykjavík

I am participating in a group exhibiton at Havarí in Reykjavík. I am showing the series, The palmtree, swimming pool and the trampolin. This is a series that i photographed in the south of USA when a was there in spring of 2009. There is also one photograph from my book "Þess á milli" in the exhibition and the last copys of the book is for sale at the same time.

The participating artists in Havari # 2 group exhibition

HILDIGUNNUR BIRGISDÓTTIR

EINAR ÖRN BENEDIKTSSON

MAGNÚS HELGASON

LILJA BIRGISDÓTTIR

SARA RIEL

INGVAR HÖGNI RAGNARSSON

INGA MARÍA BRYNJARSDÓTTIR

GYLFI SIGURÐSSON

For further information visit Havari at facebook.

Havarí info

I was photographing for Reykjavík Grapevine and 8weekly a dutch website.

You can check out some images on

Reykjavik Grapevine
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8Weekly
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Reykjavik Grapevine Flikr site
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enjoy....

There is a preview of my new work "Skammidalur". Skammidalur is a one year project that documents a place from places.



"On opposites sides of the water pipe stands the houses of skammidalur. They hold a rich community of people that have created a place from places. With no electricity and running water they have created something of there own." Skammidalur

Ingvar Högni

This is the last week of the exhibition in Listasafn Árnesinga. There will be a closing reception on the 28th of June the last day of the exhibition. Sigrún Sigurðardóttir the curator of the show will talk about the exhibition and the participating artists. There will be light refreshments and everybody is welcome.

Ingvar Högni

For further information and directions to the museum go to LÁ ART MUSEUM

I am participating in the groupshow "Leiftur á stund hættunnar" in Árnesinga Art Museum. The opening will take place on saturday the 2th of may at 15 o..clock. There are 8 artists participating in the show and the are al well establiced and recogniced on an international scale. The artist are Pétur Thomsen, Kristleifur Björnsson, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Haraldur Jónsson, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Gréta S. Guðjónsdóttir og Charlotta Hauksdóttir. The curator of the show is Sigrún Sigurðardóttir.

For more information about the show please visit Listasafn Árnesinga website. there you can also find a directions and a map of how to get to the museum.

Ingvar Högni

There is a review about the exhibition Ipseity - Abeyance in the latest issue of Atlantica Magazine. Feel free to check it out, there is a link to a PDF version here below.

Article in Atlantica

There is a review about the groupshow Ipseity - Abeyance in the 3 issue of (2009) Reykjavík Grapevine. Check it out. It is in english.

Review Grapevine

I will participate in a group show on Listasafn Árnesinga the 2th of May which is an exhibition about contemporary Icelandic photography. I will post moire info later.

There is an article in Morgunblaðið 22th of february about my series Waiting and the group show in the nordic house. The article has also a small interview with me about the series and the Ipseity - Abeyance exhibition. the article is unfortunaly only in Icelandic.


Sunnudaginn 22. febrúar, 2009 - Fólk í fréttum

Skapar orðlaust tungumál

Ljósmyndarinn Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson festir birtingarmyndir kreppunnar á
filmu með seríu sinni „Waiting“

Eftir Birgi Örn Steinarsson biggi@mbl.is


NÚ stendur yfir í Norræna húsinu forvitnileg sýning er skjalfestir þann öra menningarlega og efnahagslega vöxt er Reykjavíkurborg og nágrenni hafa gengið í gegnum síðustu tvo áratugi. Þetta er aðallega sýnt með ljósmyndum en einnig er þar að finna hljóðlistaverk og hreyfimyndir. Listamennirnir er taka þátt í sýningunni eru átta talsins en einum þeirra hefur tekist sérstaklega vel að festa á filmu birtingarmynd ofþenslu síðustu ára og afleiðingar bankahruns.
Fjórar myndir eftir hinn 27 ára gamla Ingvar Högna Ragnarsson fanga athygli gesta þrátt fyrir að sýna lítið annað en hálfkláruð mannverk. Einnig vakti hann þónokkra athygli fyrir bók sína Þess á milli er kom út á vegum Nýhil-útgáfunnar síðasta haust. Ingvar hefur undanfarið einbeitt sér að heimildarljósmyndun en hann segist vera undir nokkrum áhrifum frá hollenskum kollega sínum,
Rob Hornstra, er hann aðstoðaði einmitt þegar hann kom hingað til lands árið 2006 að vinna.

Biðstaða

„Myndirnar á þessari sýningu eru hluti af stærri seríu er ég kalla Waiting eða Biðstaða,“ útskýrir Ingvar. „Ég hef verið að mynda úthverfin þar sem allt hefur stöðvast og framkvæmdir eru í áberandi biðstöðu. Þarna er ég líka með þrjú vídeóverk sem eru öll um sjö mínútur að lengd.
Fólk sér kannski ekki alveg strax hvort þetta er kyrr ljósmynd eða vídeó, en svo sést kannski hrafn fljúga í fjarska eða eitthvað slíkt. Þannig vildi ég að áhorfandinn fengi raunverulega tilfinningu fyrir biðstöðunni. Mig langaði til þess að reyna að vinna með ákveðið tóm er myndast í þessu.“
Ingvar hefur þegar sýnt annan hluta þessara mynda á samsýningu í Lost Horse galleríi í september. „Þá sýndi ég í fyrsta skipti brot úr þessari seríu, Waiting, og voru það myndir úr miðbænum og frá Granda. Þá var ég líka að sýna hús sem hafa verið tekin úr sínu upprunalega umhverfi og eru svo sett í geymslu á einhverjum stað. Þannig var ég að mynda ferli hússins. Ég er að vinna að bók sem mun innihalda alla seríuna, og hugmyndin er að sýna öll verkin á
svipuðum tíma og hún kemur út.“
Í nýjustu bók sinni, 101 Billionaires, ferðast hollenski ljósmyndarinn Rob Hornstra á heimaslóðir nokkurra rússneskra auðmanna. Bókin hefur hlotið einróma lof gagnrýnenda en Hornstra kom hingað til lands árið 2006, heimsótti mörg íslensk sjávarpláss og tók myndir af því sem fyrir augu bar. Með því sýndi hann á táknrænan hátt þá þróun er hefur orðið hér, að unga fólkið forðast að
vinna í fiskiðnaði og nýbúar flytjast hingað til þess að taka að sér láglaunuð störf smábæjanna.
„Ég var nemandi í LHÍ og hitti Rob þar. Við unnum saman að þessari bók sem heitir Rætur rúntsins. Ég vann með honum að þessu verkefni. Skrifaði hluta textans sem er í bókinni, tók viðtöl við fólk og hjálpaði honum að finna áhugaverða staði. Hann var með grófa áætlun um að hverju hann væri að leita en ég hjálpaði honum við framkvæmdina. Það var mjög gott að vinna með honum, kynnast hans frásagnarhætti og hvernig hann undirbýr verkefni sín. Það hafði mikil áhrif á mig. Ég hef unnið áfram verkefni frá hans arfleifð í þeirri viðleitni minni að skapa eigið
tungumál.“

The opening of the group exhibition Ipseity - Abeyance was a great success. The exhibition will be open from 13th of February until the 8th of Mars. For further information about the show see the homepage of the Nordic House

Friday the 13th I am participtaing in a multmedia exhibition at the Nordic House in Reykjavík. The opening is at 7:30.

Ipeseity - Abeyance

A multimedia exhibition of sound and picture that seeks to capture the fast paced cultural and economic growth in Iceland for
the past few years. Especially reflecting on the inactivity after the fall of the economy. The nine artists behind the show are:
composer Nico Muhly, painter Alexander Zaklynsky and photography based artists Guðmundur Ingólfsson,
Erla Haraldsdóttir, Bo Melin, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Julia Staples and Pétur Thomsen and sculpture
Will Schlough.

A limited edition of 20 copy´s will be available to purchase directly from me. The limited edition comes in a hand made luxury box with a signed and numbered c-print and a handwritten letter by the artist containing all the text in the artistbook. The starting price of the special edition is 225€. Fore further information contact ihr@ihragnarsson.com

A small article was published in the Icelandic review about the show in Lost Horse Gallery.

Iceland Review article

A review of my photobook Þess á milli came in Morgunblaðið the 11 of Október and was written by Einar Falur Ingólfsson. The review is only in Icelandic but I translated one quote from Einar Falurs review.

" "Þess á milli" deals with the intermediate condition when reality changes. Therefore this bookwork deals head on with the present, and reveals almost a complete reflection of the absurd reality we experience in Iceland to day. A reality that is so unreal, a reality that you fint your self "in between". A reality that no one knows and has no use for, like the one in Ingvar Högni photographs"

Einar Falur Ingólfsson


Enjoy!!

Ingvar Högni

There will be a party in Útúrdúr due to the publication of my photobook Þess á milli next saturday the 4th october from 16-18. There will be light refreshments and music. There will be an installation at the party by me and a small photographic show. All those who buy a copy will get a signed copy from the artist. Lets show upp, have some fun and support Útúrdúr and the artist.

Útúrdúr (artist bookstore)
Njálsgata 14
101 Reykjavik
Iceland

Saturday 14th of October
From 16-18

My first photobook will be published by Nýhil and will be for sale at the Lost Horse Gallery and in various bookstores in Reykjavík and Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam. It is also possible to contact me via email and purchase it directly from me and get the book autographed. The book is published in a limited edition of 300 numbered copy´s. It is possible to se images from the book on the website under the title Endless Equality. The price of the book is 2990 isk or 25euro.

ihr@ihragnarsson.com

The opening of a group exhibition of 5 photographers will open at saturday the 13th of september at The Lost Horse Gallery at Skólastræti 1 in Reykjavik. The exhibition is a mixture of styles and themes and shows an insight to the variety of contemporary photography. The photographers hvae different backgrounds which reflects the out come of the show.

Hope to see you there.

Enjoy!

Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson

http://losthorse.is

I will be participating in a groupshow of 7 photographers in Gallery Lost Horse the 13th of september. I will be exhibiting new work from the project Waiting. More info about the exhibition will be posted later.

Ingvar Högni

Http://www.losthorse.is

This is my new website. For any information (prints,books, and so forth) about the works please feel free to contact me through the email on the website.

Enjoy.

Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson