The National Gallery of Iceland will host the Icelandic premiere of the renowned Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay’s masterwork, The Clock, 2010, a 24-hour single-channel video. Winner of the Golden Lion Award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and widely acclaimed as one of the most significant works of art of the century, The Clock is an epic meditation on time and a sweeping homage to cinema history that has captivated large audiences at the many international venues where it has been shown.

The exhibition will take place from the 2nd of May 2025 to the 22nd of June 2025 in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

There will be two 24-hour showings of The Clock: one on the opening night of the exhibition on May 2nd from 5 pm to May3rd at 5pm, and a second on the summer solstice, June 21st. The museum will be open non stop from 10 am on June 21 until 5 pm on June 22nd.

Tickets and more information can be found on the galerie's website. 

About the artist

For nearly 40 years, Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, CA) has been exploring the connections between vision and sound, creating works in which these two sensibilities enrich and challenge one another. Marclay garnered international acclaim at the 54th Venice Biennale for his masterpiece video work, The Clock, for which he received the prestigious Golden Lion award. Marclay’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including one-person presentations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (1990); the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (1995); the Kunsthaus, Zurich (1997); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002); Muséed’Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2008); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2010); Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2011); the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2022–2023); and the Museum of Modern Art (2024–2025). His work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.