Elmgreen & Dragset

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

Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin. They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses serious social and cultural concerns.[1]

Life and work

The duo met in Copenhagen in 1994, when Michael Elmgreen, who was born in the city in 1961, was writing and performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theater.[2] They started collaborating in 1995, and for the first 10 years of their artistic collaboration, they were a couple. They moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006, they bought a large 1000m2 former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin’s Neukölln borough from the city[2] and converted it into a studio.[3] In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London, and in 2015, he moved back to Berlin.[4]

Since 1997, the artists have presented a great number of architectural and sculptural installations in an ongoing series of works entitled 'Powerless Structures'[5] in which they transformed the conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space, creating galleries suspended from the ceiling, sunk into the ground or turned upside down.[6] For the Istanbul Biennial in 2001, they constructed a full-scale model of a typical Modernist Kunsthalle descending into the ground while located outdoor among ancient ruins. Their work has also been shown in the Berlin, Gwangju, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, and Singapore Biennials.

Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Foundation in New York into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004; their best-known project Prada Marfa, a Prada boutique inaugurated in 2005 and sited in the middle of the Texan desert; and their exhibition The Welfare Show in 2005-2006 at Serpentine Gallery, London / The Power Plant, Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which was critically acclaimed.[1][7][8][9]

For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated the exhibition The Collectors in the neighboring Danish and Nordic Pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), an unprecedented merging of two international exhibition venues. For their show, they invited fellow artists Maurizio Cattelan, Tom of Finland, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, William E. Jones, Terence Koh, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Nina Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others.

In 2011, their sculpture Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 was chosen as the winner of the Fourth Plinth Commission to be displayed on the fourth plinth of London's Trafalgar Square.[10] Their bronze sculpture of a boy astride a rocking horse questions the tradition for war monuments to celebrate either victory or defeat.[11]

In 2013 they curated an extensive public art program in Munich entitled “A Space Called Public/Hoffentlich Öffentlich”[12] and transformed the former textile galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum into the grand family home of fictional architect Norman Swann.[13] Their exhibition series “Biography” took place in 2014–2105 at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo and the SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. In 2015 their exhibition “Aéroport Mille Plateaux” turned the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul into an airport inspired by the ideas of philosopher Gilles Deleuze.[14]

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.[15] Also in 2016, the artists installed Van Gogh’s Ear at Rockefeller Center in New York; the 9-meter (30-foot) high, empty swimming pool stands upright on its shortest side, supported by a visible construction on its backside.[16]

Permanent installations

In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the German Government's competition or a memorial in Tiergarten park in Berlin, in memory of the gay victims of the Nazi regime, which was unveiled in May 2008.[17][18]

Performative works

In 2007, Elmgreen & Dragset developed Drama Queens, a theatre play about Twentieth Century art history with six remote-controlled versions of iconic sculptures, for Skulptur Projekte Münster.[19] During the 2008 Frieze Art Fair, they staged Drama Queens, this time enlivened by the voices of leading stage stars such as Kevin Spacey, at The Old Vic in London.[20]

Recognition

Elmgreen & Dragset were nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2000, and in 2002 they won the Preis der Nationalgalerie at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. The artists were awarded the Arken Art Prize in 2006.[21] In 2009, Elmgreen & Dragset were awarded Special Mention at the Venice Biennale for The Collectors, their highly elaborate exhibition for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions. For the same exhibition, also in 2009, they were awarded the Kritikerlaget/Norwegian Critics’ Association Kunstkritikerprisen/Art Critics’ Prize.[22]

In 2012 they won an Eckersberg Medal[23] and were also awarded the Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat/Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Grant in conjunction with their exhibition at Den Frie in Copenhagen.[24]

In 2015 they were awarded an honorary doctorate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): "https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors".[25]

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • "The Collectors" – The Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy
  • "Drama Queens", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • "Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget", MUSAC, León, Spain
Death of a Collector, 2009. Pictured at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
File:Powerless Structures, Fig. 11, 1997, Elmgreen and Dragset.jpg
Powerless Structures, Fig. 11, 1997 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.

2008

  • "Too Late", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
  • "Drama Queens", Old Vic Theatre, London, UK
  • "Home is the Place You Left", Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
  • "Gedenkort für die im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen", Berlin, Germany
  • "Side Effects", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.[26]

2007

  • "This is the first day of my life" Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden[27]
  • "Ti sto pensando", Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy
  • "A Change Of Mind", Kunst am Bauzaun, Museion Bozen, Italy

2006

  • "Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning ?", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
  • "The Incidental Self", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan[28]
  • "The Welfare Show", Serpentine Gallery, London/The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada[7]
  • "Disgrace", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA

2005

  • "Prada Marfa", Art Production Fund/Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas[29][30]
  • "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[31]

2004

2003

  • "Paris diaries", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France[34]
  • "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

  • "Zwischen anderen Ereignissen", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany[35]
  • 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 (selected)

2016

  • "ta.bu", Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

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 | Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, 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, UK

Collections

Elmgreen & Dragset's work is in the permanent collection of several museums in Europe, such as the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek; the Moderna Museet in Stockholm; the Malmö Konsthall; the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela.[36] Other public collections include Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts; Arken Museum of Art, Ishøj; Bergen Kunstmuseum; Kunsthalle Bremen; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; Dokk1, Aarhus; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo; Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst), Vienna; MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), León; Museion, Bolzano; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Nasjonalmuseet Oslo; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Sculpture International Rotterdam; Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden - Skulpturensammlung; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.[37]

Commissions

  • Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, Mayor of London's Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 2012
  • Han commissioned by city of Helsingør, the sculpture installed in the center of the harbor basin as a protagonist in Kulturhavn Kronborg, 2012
  • Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison and Louis Vuitton Librairie, London, 2012[38]

Catalogues

  • 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 Verlag, 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. (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 and Media, Karlsruhe (London: Thames & Hudson, 2011). ISBN 9783865609083
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances: 1995-2011, Anita Iannacchione, ed. (Köln: 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 (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008). ISBN 9783865604736
  • Prada Marfa, Elmgreen & Dragset (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007). - no longer in print. ISBN 9783865601957
  • The Welfare Show, Elmgreen & Dragset (Köln: 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
  • Zwischen anderen Ereignissen, exh. cat. (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2000). - no longer in print.
  • Powerless Structures exh. cat. (1998). - no longer in print.

Images

References

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  3. ↑ Wenin, Samila, "Art through irony", in The Bangkok Post, 15 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
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  5. ↑ Elmgreen/Dragset, 20 October 2001 - 24 November 2001 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
  6. ↑ Untitled: Elmgreen & Dragset, 12 May - 4 July 2004 Tate, London.
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  16. ↑ Elmgreen & Dragset: Van Gogh's Ear, April 13 – June 3, 2016 Rockefeller Center, New York.
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  36. ↑ Elmgreen & Dragset: Short Cut, May 7 – June 4, 2003 Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan.
  37. ↑ Elmgreen & Dragset artist page: biography. “Galerie Perrotin website”. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  38. ↑ Nick Compton (September 25, 2012) Elmgreen & Dragset at the Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison, London Wallpaper.

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