Elmgreen and Dragset

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Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen , Denmark ) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim , Norway ) have been working together as an artist duo since 1995. Her work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.

Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin . They are known for their works of art, which are characterized by wit and subversive humor and also address social and cultural issues.

Life and work

The duo met in Copenhagen in 1994 when Michael Elmgreen, born in the city in 1961, wrote and performed poetry and the 1969 born Norwegian Ingar Dragset studied theater. They began working together in 1995 and moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006 they bought a 1000m2 former water pumping station from 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln district from the city and converted it into a studio. In 2008 Elmgreen moved to London, in 2015 he moved back to Berlin.

Since 1997, the artists have presented a large number of architectural and sculptural installations in an ongoing series of works called 'Powerless Structures' in which they transform the conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space and create gallery buildings that hung from the ceiling, lowered into the ground or turned upside down. For the Istanbul Biennale 2001 they constructed a true-to-scale model of a typical modernist art hall , which was set into the ground outdoors between ancient ruins. Her work has also been shown at the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, Singapore and Gwangju biennials.

Other exhibits include the conversion of the Bohen Foundation in New York to a 13th Street subway station in 2004; her best known project 'Prada Marfa ', a Prada boutique opened in 2005 in the middle of the Texas desert and her critically acclaimed exhibition The Welfare Show 2005-2006 at the Serpentine Gallery , London / The Power Plant , Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna .

For the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 they curated the exhibition The Collectors in the neighboring Danish and Nordic pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden and Denmark), an unprecedented amalgamation of two international exhibition venues. In their exhibition they showed u. a. Works of art by artist colleagues Maurizio Cattelan , Tom of Finland , Han & Him, Laura Horelli , William E. Jones, Terence Koh , Klara Lidén , Jonathan Monk , Nico Muhly , Norway Says, Vibeke Slyngstad, Thora Dolven Balke, Nina Saunders and Wolfgang Tillmans .

In 2011 her sculpture 'Powerless Structures, Fig. 101' was selected as the winner of the Fourth Plinth Commission , which was to be exhibited on the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square . Her bronze sculpture of a boy riding a rocking horse challenges the tradition that war memorials celebrate either victory or defeat. The work is now permanently installed outside the Arken Museum of Modern Art .

In 2013, they curated an extensive public art program in Munich entitled A Space Called Public / Hopefully Public and transformed the former textile galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum into the large family home of the fictional architect Norman Swann. Her exhibition series Biography took place in 2014-2105 at the Astrup Fearnley Museet , Oslo , and at the SMK- National Gallery of Denmark , Copenhagen. In 2015, her exhibition Aéroport Mille Plateaux transformed the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul into an airport, inspired by the ideas of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze .

For their solo exhibition The Well Fair in 2016, the duo transformed the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing into a fictional art fair. Also in 2016, the artists installed 'Van Gogh's Ear' at Rockefeller Center in New York; the nine meter high, empty swimming pool stands upright on its shortest side, supported by a visible structure on its back.

The artist's first major retrospective in the UK , This is How We Bite Our Tongue , took place at the Whitechapel Gallery , London, in 2018 . The exhibition consisted of a large-scale site-specific installation and a selection of her sculptural works. The 'Whitechapel Pool', which was created especially for the exhibition, transformed the first floor of the gallery into an abandoned public swimming pool, which is fictitiously dated to 1901 and is linked to the gentrification of the East End of London .


Permanent installations

In 2003 won Elmgreen & Dragset competition of the German government for a memorial in Tiergarten which was unveiled in May 2008 in Berlin to commemorate the gay victims of the Nazi regime.

Several of her sculptures are now permanently installed for the public, including the contract for the fourth plinth (Fourth Plinth ), which is now before the Arken Museum of Modern Art is; 'Prada Marfa' (2005), on US Highway 90 in Texas ; 'Dilemma', a site-specific sculpture of a boy on a high diving board overlooking a fjord on the outskirts of Oslo and 'Han', a polished steel sculpture of a young man on a rock in the middle of the harbor in Helsingor , Denmark . Han was installed in 2012 and is based on Edvard Eriksen's famous statue of the Little Mermaid . The character 'Han' sits in a similar pose, challenging traditional depictions of masculinity.


Performative works

In 2007 Elmgreen & Dragset developed 'Drama Queens' for Skulptur Projekte Münster , a play about the history of art in the 20th century with six remote-controlled versions of iconic sculptures. During the Frieze Art Fair 2008 they staged 'Drama Queens' at The Old Vic in London , this time enlivened by the voices of well-known stage stars like Kevin Spacey .

Prizes and awards

Elmgreen & Dragset were nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2000, and in 2002 they won the National Gallery Prize in Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin. The artists were awarded the Arken Art Prize in 2006. In 2009 Elmgreen & Dragset received a special mention at the Venice Biennale for 'The Collectors', their very elaborate exhibitionin theDanish and Nordic pavilion. For the same exhibition, also in 2009, they received the Critics' Prize / the Norwegian Critics Association Kunstkritikerprisen / Kunstkritikerpreis .

In 2012 they won an Eckersberg Medal and were also awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Legat Prize for their exhibition in Den Frie in Copenhagen.

In 2015 they were awarded an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Memorial to the homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism, Ebertstrasse, in Berlin-Tiergarten

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • "The Collectors" - the Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale , Venice, Italy
  • "Drama Queens", Center Pompidou , Paris, France
  • "Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget", MUSAC, León, Spain

2008

  • "Too Late", Victoria Miro Gallery , London, GB
  • "Drama Queens", Old Vic Theater, London, GB
  • "Home is the Place You Left", Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim, Norway
  • "Memorial for the Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialism", Berlin, Germany
  • "Side Effects", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.

2007

  • "This is the first day of my life" Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  • "Ti sto pensando", Villa Manin, Center for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy
  • "A Change Of Mind", art on the fence, Museion Bozen, Italy

2006

  • "The Welfare Show", Serpentine Gallery , London / The Power Plant , Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • "Disgrace", Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Miami, USA
  • "The Incidental Self", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • "Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning?", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

2005

  • "Prada Marfa" , Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA
  • "The Brightness of Shady Lives", Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  • "The Welfare Show", Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway / BAWAG Foundation , Vienna, Austria
  • "Forgotten Baby", Wrong Gallery, New York, USA
  • "End Station", Bohen Foundation, New York, USA
  • "Linienstrasse 160, Neue Mitte", Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

2004

2003

  • "Paris diaries", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  • "Phone Home", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
  • "Short Cut", Nicola Trussardi Foundation , Milan, Italy
  • "Spaced out", Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • "Please, Keep Quiet", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • "Constructed Catastrophes, Fig. 2", CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
  • "Don't leave me this way", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

2002

  • "How are You Today", Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
  • "Powerless Structures, Fig. 229", Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid Spain
  • "Museum", Sala Montcada / Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • "Suspended Space", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2001

  • "Taking Place", Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • "Opening Soon", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
  • "A Room Defined by its Accessibility", Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • "Linienstrasse 160", Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
  • "Powerless Structures, Fig. 111", Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

2000

  • "Between other events", Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany
  • Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1999

  • Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • "Powerless Structures, Fig. 57-60", The Project, New York, USA

1998

  • "Dug Down Gallery / Powerless Structures, Fig. 45", Galleri i8 & Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

1997

  • "Powerless Structures", Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • "Twelve Hours of White Paint / Powerless Structures, Fig. 15", Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark

Group exhibitions (selection)

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

  • "What We Call Love, From Surrealism to Now", performance piece, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
  • “Man in the Mirror”, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  • “Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968–2015 ”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
  • “Slip of the Tongue”, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy
  • “Panorama”, High Line Art, New York, USA
  • “Infinite Experience”, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • “Days push off into nights”, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
  • “All the world's a stage. Works from the Goetz Collection ”, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
  • “No Hablaremos de Picasso”, Palacio Municipal Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña, Spain
  • “More Konzeption Conception now”, Museum Morsbroich, Germany

2014

  • “Power Memory People - Memorials of Today”, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark
  • “GOLD”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
  • “Do it Moscow”, Independent Curators International, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  • “Man in the Mirror”, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  • “Attention Economy”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • “Do Not Disturb”, Gerhardsen Gerner Gallery, Oslo, Norway
  • “LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX II, Art Aids Activism from 1995 until today”, NBGK | New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2013

2012

2011

  • "Untitled" (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turkey
  • "You Are Not Alone", Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, ​​Spain

2010

  • "Fourth Plinth Commission, Six new proposals", The Foyer, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, GB

Collections

Elmgreen & Dragset's work is in the permanent collection of several museums around the world including:

Commissions

  • Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 , Mayor of London's Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 2012
  • Han commissioned by the city of Helsingør , sculpture in the middle of the harbor basin as a protagonist in Kulturhavn Kronborg , 2012
  • Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison and Louis Vuitton Librairie, London, 2012
  • To Whom It May Concern , FIAC HORS LES MURS, Place Vendôme, Paris, 2018
  • Van Gogh's Ear , Rockefeller Center , New York, 2016

Catalogs

  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag , 2019). ISBN 9783775746229
  • Elmgreen & Dragset (London: Phaidon , 2019). ISBN 9780714875712
  • This Is How We Bite Our Tongue (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2018). ISBN 9780854882656
  • 15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbor: Exhibition and Stories (Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, 2017). ISBN 9786055275372
  • The Newcomers (London: Koenig Books, 2017). ISBN 9783960981930
  • The Others (Berlin: König Galerie / London: Koenig Books, 2017). ISBN 9783960980698
  • The Well Fair , Elmgreen & Dragset (London: Koenig Books / Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2016). ISBN 9783863358952
  • Aéroport Mille Plateaux , Elmgreen & Dragset (Seoul: PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, 2015). ISBN 9788985468527
  • Biography , Elmgreen & Dragset (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz , 2014). ISBN 9783775738651
  • Biography (reader), Elmgreen & Dragset, Gunnar B. Kvaran and Kjersti Solbakken, eds. (Berlin: Archive Books, 2014). ISBN 9783943620184
  • A Space Called Public , Elmgreen & Dragset, eds. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013). ISBN 9783863354398
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy , Peter Weibel and Andreas F. Beitin, eds., Exh. cat., ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (London: Thames & Hudson, 2011). ISBN 9783865609083
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances: 1995-2011 , Anita Iannacchione, ed. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011). ISBN 9783863350994
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: This is the First Day of My Life , Anna Stüler, ed. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008). ISBN 9783775720502
  • Home is the Place You Left , Elmgreen & Dragset, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008). ISBN 9783865604736
  • Prada Marfa , Elmgreen & Dragset (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007). - no longer in print. ISBN 9783865601957
  • The Welfare Show , Elmgreen & Dragset (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006). - no longer in print. ISBN 9783883759678
  • Taking Place , Beatrix Ruf , ed., Exh. cat. Kunsthalle Zürich (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002). - no longer in print. ISBN 9783775711562
  • Between other events , exh. cat. (Leipzig: Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2000). - no longer in print.
  • Powerless Structures exh. cat. (1998). - no longer in print.

Individual evidence

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