Plakat RAGNAR KJARTANSSON The End A2

Louisiana poster with the work, The End (pink), released in conjunction with Louisiana’s 2023 solo exhibition with Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976), Epic waste of Love and Understanding . Kjartansson has long since distinguished himself internationally as one of contemporary art’s most important voices, and Louisiana’s exhibition contains both new and older works in a multitude of media, from drawing and painting to performance and large, spatial works with film and music.

The motif here comes from Kjartansson’s international breakthrough work, The End – Venice, 2009. The work consists of 144 portraits of a young man in Speedo swimming trunks, which Kjartansson painted during a six-month performance for the Venice Biennale in 2009, where he represented Iceland.