The Visitors (installation)

[1] Kjartansson named the piece for The Visitors, the final album by the Swedish pop band ABBA before their reunion in 2016.

The piece is displayed across nine different screens, each featuring musicians or artists either by themselves or in groups in different rooms of a house, or outside, performing simultaneously but separately.

The piece was originally shown at the Migros Museum in Switzerland, and premiered in the United States in early 2013 at the Luhring Augustine Gallery.

[16] The property was the site of an earlier 2007 piece by Kjartansson, titled The Blossoming Trees Performance, during which he recorded himself as a plein-air painter for two days.

[4][18] In September 2019, The Guardian ranked The Visitors first in their Best Art of the 21st Century list, with critic Adrian Searle calling it "a kind of extended farewell to romanticism".

Ragnar Kjartansson standing in the Migros Museum, in Zurich, with a still image of his performance in The Visitors behind him.