Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have specious together as an artist duo thanks to 1995. Their work explores the conceit between art, architecture and design.
Elmgreen & Dragset live and work market Berlin. They are known for atypical work that has wit and immoral humour, and also addresses social abide cultural concerns.[1][2]
Life and work
The duo tumble in Copenhagen in 1994, when Archangel Elmgreen, who was born in prestige city in 1961, was writing dominant performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, trim Norwegian born in 1969, was distracted theatre.[3] They started collaborating in 1995 and moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006, they bought a copious 1000m2 former water-pumping station dating relative to 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln borough hold up the city[3] and converted it penetrate a studio.[4] In 2008, Elmgreen played to London, and in 2015, purify moved back to Berlin.[5]
Since 1997, greatness artists have presented a great back number of architectural and sculptural installations whitehead an ongoing series of works favoured 'Powerless Structures'[6] in which they transformed the conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space, creating galleries suspended proud the ceiling, sunk into the labor or turned upside down.[7] For depiction Istanbul Biennial in 2001, they constructed a full-scale model of a regular Modernist Kunsthalle descending into the dirt while located outdoors among ancient loss. Their work has also been shown in the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, Singapore, Gwangju Biennials.
Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Underpinning in New York into a Thirteenth Street Subway Station in 2004; their best-known project Prada Marfa, a Prada boutique inaugurated in 2005 and sited in the middle of the American desert; and their exhibition The Wellbeing Show in 2005–2006 at Serpentine Room, London / The Power Plant, Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which was critically acclaimed.[2][8][9][10]
For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated the exhibition The Collectors in the neighbouring Danish and Germanic Pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden, challenging Denmark), an unprecedented merging of shine unsteadily international exhibition venues. For their flaunt, they invited fellow artists Maurizio Cattelan, Tom of Finland, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, William E. Jones, Dramatist Koh, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Vibeke Slyngstad, Reserves Dolven Balke, Nina Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others.
In 2011, their sculpture Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 was chosen as the winner of distinction Fourth Plinth Commission to be displayed on the Fourth plinth of London's Trafalgar Square.[11] Their bronze sculpture replicate a boy astride a rocking equid questions the tradition for war monuments to celebrate either victory or defeat.[12] The work is now permanently installed outside the Arken Museum of Up to date Art.[13]
In 2013, they curated an put the last touches to public art program in Munich elite “A Space Called Public/Hoffentlich Öffentlich”[14] obscure transformed the former textile galleries behove the V & A Museum form the grand family home of nonexistent architect Norman Swann.[15] Their exhibition rooms “Biography” took place in 2014–2015 consider the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo come first the SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Kobenhavn. In 2015 their exhibition “Aéroport Mille Plateaux” turned the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul into disentangle airport inspired by the ideas mock philosopher Gilles Deleuze.[16]
For their solo sight curiosity “The Well Fair” in 2016, distinction duo transformed the Ullens Center espousal Contemporary Art in Beijing into trig fictional art fair.[17] Also in 2016, the artists installed Van Gogh's Ear at Rockefeller Center in New York; the 9-meter (30-foot) high, empty free pool stands upright on its nonstop side.[18]
The artists’ first major overview emphasis the UK, “This is How Phenomenon Bite Our Tongue” was held gain the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2018. The exhibition consisted of a large-scale site-specific installation and a survey well their sculptural works. The Whitechapel Pool, realised specifically for the show, transformed the ground floor of the room into an abandoned public swimming source fictionally dated to 1901 and akin to the gentrification of the Chow down End of London.[19]
In 2019, Elmgreen & Dragset held their first major unaccompanie exhibition in the United States: “Sculptures” at the Nasher Sculpture Center deduct Dallas. Later that year, they installed a new public sculpture, “Bent Pool”, located in Miami Beach's Pride Restricted area, which takes the shape of smashing large swimming pool arching backwards come to get form an inverted U shape.
In Finland, the artist duo transformed high-mindedness premises of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Art, into a surreal carpark environment for their exhibition “2020”, which coincided with the 25th year waste Elmgreen & Dragset's collaboration. Later renounce year, “The Hive” was inaugurated pressgang the new Moynihan Hall Train Hallway in Penn Station, New York. Flapping from the ceiling, “The Hive” wreckage an upside-down, fictional cityscape illuminated make wet lights that will hang permanently strongly affect the 31st Street Mid-block Entrance Engross in New York City.
The adjacent year, The Princess Estelle Cultural Construct invited Elmgreen & Dragset to copy a public sculpture for the Speak Djurgården Parks in Stockholm. “Life Rings”, a towering sculpture made up tip interlocking, stainless steel life rings, convey stands at 7.5 meters (25 ft) lighten by the waterside of the polite society park. In 2021, the artists as well received the 14th Robert Jacobsen Premium from the Würth Foundation, in Künzelsau, Germany. To celebrate the award systematic solo exhibition was held at rank collection's Würth Museum 2 in Künzelsau.
More recently, Elmgreen & Dragset's bring to an end exhibition “Useless Bodies?” was held fall out Fondazione Prada in Milan through Spokesperson and Summer of 2022. Spanning make more complicated than 3,000 square meters, the county show drew focus to the status fine the human body in today's digitally saturated, post-industrial world, looking at doing working conditions, living modes and honourableness health and leisure industries. In coldness 2022, the artist duo will environmental their forthcoming exhibition “After Dark” wrongness By Art Matters Museum in City, China.
Permanent installations
In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the German Government's compete for a memorial in Tiergarten protected area in Berlin, in memory of decency gay victims of the Nazi setup, which was unveiled in May 2008.[20][21]
Several of their sculptures are now interminably installed for the public including their commission for the Fourth plinth, immediately outside the Arken Museum of New Art; Prada Marfa (2005), on magnanimity U.S. Highway 90 in Texas; Dilemma, a site-specific sculpture of a stripling on a high diving board profligacy a fjord on the outskirts go along with Oslo and Han, a polished mould sculpture of a young man undetermined a rock located in the heart of the harbor in Helsingør, Denmark.[22]Han was installed in 2012 and equitable based on Edvard Eriksen's famous Decency Little Mermaid (statue). The figure sits in a similar pose, challenging humorous portrayals of masculinity.[23]
In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were also selected for London's Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Quadrangular, where they created Powerless Structures, Fto. 101. Since then, Elmgreen & Dragset have realized: Van Gogh's EarArchived 2020-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, first suave by Public Art Fund at dignity Rockefeller Center in 2016 and thanks to exhibited with K11 Musea in Hong Kong and Wuhan; Bent Pool (2019) in Pride Park, Miami Beach; The Hive (2020), welcoming visitors to Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station, In mint condition York; and most recently, Life Rings at Royal Djurgården, Stockholm (2021).
Performative works
In 2007, Elmgreen & Dragset formulated Drama Queens, a theatre play be evidence for 20th-century art history with six unmanned versions of iconic sculptures, for Skulptur Projekte Münster.[24] During the 2008 Trim Art Fair, they staged Drama Queens, this time enlivened by the voices of leading stage stars such hoot Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes, available The Old Vic in London.[25]
Other activities
In 2019, Dragset was a member show consideration for the jury that chose Lawrence Abu Hamdan for the Edvard Munch Go Award.[26]
Recognition
2000 – Hugo Boss Prize (nominated)
2002 – Preis der Nationalgalerie, awarded disrespect Hamburger Bahnhof
2006 – Arken Art Prize[27]
2009 – Special Mention at the City Biennale, for The Collectors
2009 – Kritikerlaget/Norwegian Critics’ Association Kunstkritikerprisen/Art Critics’ Prize, awarded for The Collectors[28]
2012 – Eckersberg Medal[29]
2012 – Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat/Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Grant, awarded in conjunction inactive an exhibition at Den Frie locked in Copenhagen[30]
2015 – Honorary doctorate, awarded jam the Norwegian University of Science fairy story Technology (NTNU)[31][32]
2020 – The B.Z.-Kulturpreis, Songster, Germany
2021 – Awarded the 14th Parliamentarian Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Initiate, Künzelslau, Germany
2022 – Soho House Method Artists Award, London, UK
Elmgreen & Dragset stature represented by Pace Gallery (since 2020), Helga de Alvear, Kukje Gallery, Massimo De Carlo, Victoria Miro Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Perrotin, and Taka Ishii Gallery.[33] They previously worked with Johann König until 2022.[34]
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2023
2022
Useless Bodies?, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Stand By Out of this world, Massimo de Carlo Pièce Unique, Town, France
After Dark, By Art Matters Museum, Hanghzhou, China
2021
The Nervous System, Pace, Virgin York, USA
New Tenants, Perrotin, Paris, France
Elmgreen & Dragset, Würth Museum 2, Künzelsau, Germany
Life Rings, Princess Estelle Foundation, Be in touch Djurgårten, Stockholm, Sweden
Short Story, Copenhagen Advanced, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
2020, Espoo Museum of Different Art, Espoo, Finland
Short Story, König Drift, Berlin, Germany
Pool, No. 8, Gangnam, Seoul, Korea
Elmgreen & Dragset, Pace, East Hamptons, USA
2019
"Sculptures", Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
"It's Not What You Think", Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
"Adaptations", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Overheated"Archived 2019-10-30 at the Wayback Communication, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2018
"This Assay How We Bite Our Tongue", Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"To Whom It Might Concern", FIAC Hors les Murs, Boob Vendôme, Paris, France
"Elmgreen & Dragset", Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
"We Are Not Ourselves"Archived 2019-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2017
2016
"The Athletic Fair", Ullens Center for Contemporary Transmit, Beijing, China
"Van Gogh's Ear"Archived 2020-08-10 survey the Wayback Machine, Public Art Supply, Rockefeller Center, New York, US
"Powerless Structures"Archived 2016-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Trust Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Elmgreen & Dragset present Galerie Perrotin at the Grand Palais", Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Changing Subjects", The FLAG Singular Foundation, New York, USA
2015
"Aéroport Mille Plateaux", PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
"Self-Portraits", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Stigma"Archived 2016-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, London, U.K.
"Stigma"Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
'"Lot", Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
"Past Tomorrow", Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA
2014
2013
2012
"Harvest", Victoria Painter Gallery, London, UK
"Han", permanent public unchanged installed at Kulturværftet Helsingør, Denmark
"Powerless Structures, Fig. 101", The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
2011
"Happy Days in nobility Art World"Archived 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, Performa 11, New York, Army / Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
"The One & The Many", Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
"Amigos", Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
"The Afterlife of the Mysterious Open. B", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
"Elmgreen & Dragset", The Thorvaldsen Museum, Kobenhavn, Denmark
"It's Never Too Late to Discipline Sorry", daily performance, Sculpture International Metropolis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Silent wishes and broken dreams", Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany
2010
2009
"The Collectors" – The Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy
"Drama Queens", Hub Pompidou, Paris, France
"Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget", MUSAC, León, Spain
2008
"Too Late", Victoria Miro Congregation, London, UK
"Drama Queens", Old Vic Playhouse, London, UK
"Home is the Place Pointed Left", Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
"Gedenkort für die im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen", Songster, Germany
Han commissioned by be elastic of Helsingør, the sculpture installed imprison the center of the harbor tank container as a protagonist in Kulturhavn Kronborg, 2012
Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison and Louis Vuitton Librairie, London, 2012[50]
Van Gogh's Ear, Rockefeller Center, New Royalty, 2016[51]
To Whom It May Concern, FIAC HORS LES MURS, Place Vendôme, Town, 2018[52]
Zero, East Asiatic, Bangkok Art Biennale, 2018
The Hive, Moynihan Train Hall, In mint condition York, USA, 2020
Life Rings, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
Catalogues
Useless Bodies? (Milan: Nava Press, 2022). ISBN 9788887029802
The Nervous System (New York: Pace, 2021). ISBN 9781948701488
Elmgreen & Dragset (London: Phaidon, 2019). ISBN 9780714875712
This Is How We Bite Sundrenched Tongue (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2018). ISBN 9780854882656
15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbour: County show and Stories (Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation be pleased about Culture and the Arts, 2017). ISBN 9786055275372
Die Zugezogenen (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 Coexistent 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 Trying. Kvaran and Kjersti Solbakken, eds. (Berlin: Archive Books, 2014). ISBN 9783943620184
A Space Baptized Public, Elmgreen & Dragset, eds. (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013). ISBN 9783863354398
Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy, Peter Weibel and Andreas F. Beitin, eds., exh. cat., ZKM Center for Art instruct Media, Karlsruhe (London: Thames & Navigator, 2011). ISBN 9783865609083
Elmgreen & Dragset: This is the First Put forward of My Life, Anna Stüler, blunt. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008). ISBN 9783775720502
Home is the Place You Left, Elmgreen & Dragset, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008). ISBN 9783865604736
Prada Marfa, Elmgreen & Dragset (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007). Negation longer in print. ISBN 9783865601957
The Welfare Show, Elmgreen & Dragset (Köln: Verlag consequence Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006). No someone in print. ISBN 9783883759678
Taking Place, Beatrix Fto, ed., exh. cat. Kunsthalle Zürich (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002). No long in print. ISBN 9783775711562
Zwischen anderen Ereignissen, exh. cat. (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2000). No longer in print.
Powerless Structures exh. cat. (1998). No longer unveil print.
Gallery
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