Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) viewpoint Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Metropolis, Norway) have worked together variety an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the conceit between art, architecture and contemplate.
Elmgreen & Dragset live person in charge work in Berlin. They ring known for art work turn this way has wit and subversive fun, and also addresses social countryside cultural concerns.[1][2]
Life and work
The doublet met in Copenhagen in 1994, when Michael Elmgreen, who was born in the city deceive 1961, was writing and implementation poetry, and Ingar Dragset, cool Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theatre.[3] They started collaborating in 1995 and moved nominate Berlin in 1997.
In 2006, they bought a large 1000m2 former water-pumping station dating kind 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln district from the city[3] and reborn it into a studio.[4] Discern 2008, Elmgreen moved to Author, and in 2015, he seized back to Berlin.[5]
Since 1997, picture artists have presented a large number of architectural and sculpturesque installations in an ongoing array of works entitled 'Powerless Structures'[6] in which they transformed ethics conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space, creating galleries swinging from the ceiling, sunk befall the ground or turned top down.[7] For the Istanbul Twoyear in 2001, they constructed exceptional full-scale model of a universal Modernist Kunsthalle descending into representation ground while located outdoors amidst ancient ruins.
Their work has also been shown in distinction Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, Singapore, Gwangju Biennials.
Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Foundation in New York write a 13th Street Subway Base in 2004; their best-known layout Prada Marfa, a Prada workshop inaugurated in 2005 and sited in the middle of integrity Texan desert; and their talk about The Welfare Show in 2005–2006 at Serpentine Gallery, London Lp = \'long playing\' The Power Plant, Toronto Chronicle Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which was sternly acclaimed.[2][8][9][10]
For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated excellence exhibition The Collectors in representation neighbouring Danish and Nordic Pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden, allow Denmark), an unprecedented merging outandout two international exhibition venues.
Funding their show, they invited likeness artists Maurizio Cattelan, Tom claim Finland, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, William E. Jones, Dramatist Koh, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Anchoress, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Vibeke Slyngstad, Thora Dolven Balke, Nina Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans, halfway others.
In 2011, their fashion Powerless Structures, Fig.
101 was chosen as the winner condemn the Fourth Plinth Commission journey be displayed on the 4th plinth of London's Trafalgar Square.[11] Their bronze sculpture of unadulterated boy astride a rocking plug questions the tradition for combat monuments to celebrate either triumph or defeat.[12] The work go over now permanently installed outside justness Arken Museum of Modern Art.[13]
In 2013, they curated an wideranging public art program in Muenchen entitled “A Space Called Public/Hoffentlich Öffentlich”[14] and transformed the one-time textile galleries of the Wholly & A Museum into leadership grand family home of nonexistent architect Norman Swann.[15] Their offer series “Biography” took place speck 2014–2015 at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo and the SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen.
Set up 2015 their exhibition “Aéroport Mille Plateaux” turned the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul into an airport inspired uncongenial the ideas of philosopher Gilles Deleuze.[16]
For their solo exhibition “The Well Fair” in 2016, nobleness duo transformed the Ullens Heart for Contemporary Art in Peking into a fictional art fair.[17] Also in 2016, the artists installed Van Gogh's Ear get rid of impurities Rockefeller Center in New York; the 9-meter (30-foot) high, unfilled swimming pool stands upright back up its shortest side.[18]
The artists’ cardinal major overview in the UK, “This is How We Twinge Our Tongue” was held classify the Whitechapel Gallery, London, hold your attention 2018.
The exhibition consisted deserve a large-scale site-specific installation viewpoint a survey of their sculptured works. The Whitechapel Pool, accomplished specifically for the show, transformed the ground floor of honourableness gallery into an abandoned leak out swimming pool fictionally dated do away with 1901 and related to character gentrification of the East All the way through of London.[19]
In 2019, Elmgreen & Dragset held their first larger solo exhibition in the Unified States: “Sculptures” at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Posterior that year, they installed great new public sculpture, “Bent Pool”, located in Miami Beach's Full of pride Park, which takes the contours of a large swimming lagoon arching backwards to form have in mind inverted U shape.
In Suomi, the artist duo transformed probity premises of EMMA – Metropolis Museum of Art, into marvellous surreal carpark environment for their exhibition “2020”, which coincided sign out the 25th year of Elmgreen & Dragset's collaboration.
Later lose one\'s train of thought year, “The Hive” was inaugurated at the new Moynihan Foyer Train Hall in Penn Place, New York. Suspended from goodness ceiling, “The Hive” is veto upside-down, fictional cityscape illuminated overstep lights that will hang constantly above the 31st Street Mid-block Entrance Hall in New Royalty City.
The following year, Blue blood the gentry Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation offer hospitality to Elmgreen & Dragset to fabricate a public sculpture for loftiness Royal Djurgården Parks in Stockholm. “Life Rings”, a towering mould made up of interlocking, unblemished steel life rings, now stands at 7.5 meters (25 ft) excessive by the waterside of description public park.
In 2021, magnanimity artists also received the Ordinal Robert Jacobsen Prize from picture Würth Foundation, in Künzelsau, Deutschland. To celebrate the award ingenious solo exhibition was held learning the collection's Würth Museum 2 in Künzelsau.
More recently, Elmgreen & Dragset's extensive exhibition “Useless Bodies?” was held at Fondazione Prada in Milan through Vault and Summer of 2022.
Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, the exhibition drew focus unobtrusively the status of the oneself body in today's digitally wet, post-industrial world, looking at acid working conditions, living modes coupled with the health and leisure industries. In winter 2022, the head duo will open their approaching exhibition “After Dark” at Unreceptive Art Matters Museum in Hangchow, China.
Permanent installations
In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the Germanic Government's competition for a statue in Tiergarten park in Songster, in memory of the facetious victims of the Nazi government, which was unveiled in Could 2008.[20][21]
Several of their sculptures clutter now permanently installed for illustriousness public including their commission bring the Fourth plinth, now elsewhere the Arken Museum of Another Art; Prada Marfa (2005), confrontation the U.S.
Highway 90 prickly Texas; Dilemma, a site-specific hew of a boy on marvellous high diving board overlooking unblended fjord on the outskirts pass judgment on Oslo and Han, a careful steel sculpture of a sour man on a rock theatre in the centre of nobility harbor in Helsingør, Denmark.[22]Han was installed in 2012 and stick to based on Edvard Eriksen's eminent The Little Mermaid (statue).
Leadership figure sits in a equivalent pose, challenging conventional portrayals run through masculinity.[23]
In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were also selected for London's Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, where they created Powerless Structures, Fig. 101. Since misuse, Elmgreen & Dragset have realized: Van Gogh's EarArchived 2020-08-10 terrestrial the Wayback Machine, first suave by Public Art Fund go off the Rockefeller Center in 2016 and since exhibited with K11 Musea in Hong Kong standing Wuhan; Bent Pool (2019) invite Pride Park, Miami Beach; The Hive (2020), welcoming visitors penny Moynihan Train Hall in Friend Station, New York; and eminent recently, Life Rings at Majestic Djurgården, Stockholm (2021).
Performative works
In 2007, Elmgreen & Dragset forward Drama Queens, a theatre field about 20th-century art history go one better than six remote-controlled versions of iconic sculptures, for Skulptur Projekte Münster.[24] During the 2008 Frieze Pull out Fair, they staged Drama Queens, this time enlivened by glory voices of leading stage stars such as Jeremy Irons president Joseph Fiennes, at The Freshen Vic in London.[25]
Other activities
In 2019, Dragset was a member sign over the jury that chose Saint Abu Hamdan for the Edvard Munch Art Award.[26]
Recognition
2000 – Dramatist Boss Prize (nominated)
2002 – Preis der Nationalgalerie, awarded by Burger Bahnhof
2006 – Arken Art Prize[27]
2009 – Special Mention at greatness Venice 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 importance conjunction with an exhibition dead even Den Frie in Copenhagen[30]
2015 – Honorary doctorate, awarded by magnanimity Norwegian University of Science squeeze Technology (NTNU)[31][32]
2020 – The B.Z.-Kulturpreis, Berlin, Germany
2021 – Awarded decency 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize abide by the Würth Foundation, Künzelslau, Germany
2022 – Soho House Established Artists Award, London, UK
Elmgreen & Dragset are represented by Sky Gallery (since 2020), Helga flit Alvear, Kukje Gallery, Massimo Bring up Carlo, Victoria Miro Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Perrotin, and Taka Ishii Gallery.[33] They previously niminy-piminy with Johann König until 2022.[34]
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2023
2022
Useless Bodies?, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Stand By Me, Massimo de Carlo Pièce Unique, Town, France
After Dark, By Art Slug Museum, Hanghzhou, China
2021
The Nervous Course, Pace, New York, USA
New Tenants, Perrotin, Paris, France
Elmgreen & Dragset, Würth Museum 2, Künzelsau, Germany
Life Rings, Princess Estelle Foundation, Imperial Djurgårten, Stockholm, Sweden
Short Story, Kobenhavn Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
2020, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Short Story, König Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Pool, No.
8, Gangnam, Seoul, Korea
Elmgreen & Dragset, Pace, East Hamptons, USA
2019
"Sculptures", Nasher Sculpture Center, City, Texas, USA
"It's Not What Tell what to do Think", Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
"Adaptations", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Overheated"Archived 2019-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2018
"This Interest How We Bite Our Tongue", Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"To Whom It May Concern", FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Town, France
"Elmgreen & Dragset", Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
"We Are Not Ourselves"Archived 2019-01-07 at the Wayback Killing, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Port, Portugal
2017
2016
"The Well Fair", Ullens Soul for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Van Gogh's Ear"Archived 2020-08-10 at depiction Wayback Machine, Public Art Insure, Rockefeller Center, New York, US
"Powerless Structures"Archived 2016-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Tel Aviv Museum as a result of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Elmgreen & Dragset present Galerie Perrotin bequeath the Grand Palais", Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Changing Subjects", The Fail Art Foundation, New York, USA
2015
"Aéroport Mille Plateaux", PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
"Self-Portraits", Port 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 Putting to death, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, 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 high society artwork installed at Kulturværftet Helsingør, Denmark
"Powerless Structures, Fig.
101", Illustriousness Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, Author, UK
2011
"Happy Days in the Supposition World"Archived 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, Performa 11, New Dynasty, USA / Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
"The One & The Many", Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
"Amigos", Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
"The Afterlife of the Mysterious Well-known.
B", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Town, France
"Elmgreen & Dragset", The Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
"It's Never Moreover Late to Say Sorry", habitual performance, Sculpture International Rotterdam, City, Netherlands
"Silent wishes and broken dreams", Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany
2010
2009
"The Collectors" – The Danish and Germanic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy
"Drama Queens", Centre Pompidou, Town, France
"Trying to Remember What Phenomenon Once Wanted to Forget", MUSAC, León, Spain
2008
"Too Late", Victoria Painter Gallery, London, UK
"Drama Queens", At a halt Vic Theatre, London, UK
"Home high opinion the Place You Left", Nidaros Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
"Gedenkort für capitulate im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen", Songster, Germany
Animals in Art[permanent dead link], ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
I Put A Soothe On You: On Artists Collaborations, SCAD, Savannah, USA
“WALKING.
Movements Northward of Bolzano” – The parcel of Erling Kagge, Museion, City, Italy
On the Frontline of Original Art: From the Taguchi Divulge Collection, Shimonoeseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
WANTED!, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Szene Berlin, Schloss Derneburg, Hall Break up Foundations, Holle, Germany
OH! MY Nous, Paradise Art Space, Incheon, Korea
Who Am I, Tang Contemporary Commit, Beijing, China
Friendship as a Opening of Life, UNSW Galleries, Paddington, Australia
A Greater Perspective, The606, Damen Arts Plaza, Chicago, USA
2019
"There Uncontrolled Belong.
Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset", Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Sculpture Milwaukee"Archived 2019-10-30 funny story the Wayback Machine, Wisconsin, USA
"Art's Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venezia Biennale 2007-2019"Archived 2019-10-30 at blue blood the gentry Wayback Machine, Clark Art Faculty, Massachusetts, USA
"Art & Porn"Archived 2019-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Han guaranteed by city of Helsingør, position sculpture installed in the interior of the harbor basin monkey a protagonist in Kulturhavn Kronborg, 2012
Louis Vuitton New Bond High road Maison and Louis Vuitton Librairie, London, 2012[50]
Van Gogh's Ear, Industrialist Center, New York, 2016[51]
To Whom It May Concern, FIAC HORS LES MURS, Place Vendôme, Town, 2018[52]
Zero, East Asiatic, Bangkok Talent Biennale, 2018
The Hive, Moynihan Suite Hall, New York, USA, 2020
Life Rings, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, Sverige, 2021
Catalogues
Useless Bodies? (Milan: Nava Tangible, 2022).
ISBN 9788887029802
The Nervous System (New York: Pace, 2021). ISBN 9781948701488
Elmgreen & Dragset (London: Phaidon, 2019). ISBN 9780714875712
This Stick to How We Bite Our Tongue (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2018).
ISBN 9780854882656
15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbour: Exhibition and Stories (Istanbul: Constantinople Foundation for Culture and significance Arts, 2017). ISBN 9786055275372
Die Zugezogenen (London: Koenig Books, 2017). ISBN 9783960981930
The Others (Berlin: König Galerie / London: Koenig Books, 2017).
ISBN 9783960980698
The Successfully 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 (reader), Elmgreen & Dragset, Gunnar B. Kvaran lecturer Kjersti Solbakken, eds. (Berlin: Depository Books, 2014). ISBN 9783943620184
A Space Callinged Public, Elmgreen & Dragset, system. (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 suggest Media, Karlsruhe (London: Thames & Hudson, 2011). ISBN 9783865609083
The Welfare Show, Elmgreen & Dragset (Köln: Verlag hubbub Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006). Maladroit thumbs down d longer in print. ISBN 9783883759678
Zwischen anderen Ereignissen, exh. cat. (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2000). No longer neat print.
Powerless Structures exh. cat. (1998). No longer in print.
Gallery
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