Elmgreen and Dragset

Elmgreen and Dragset form a Danish- Norwegian artist duo, working together since 1995.

Life

Michael Elmgreen ( born in 1969 in Trondheim ) ( born 1961 in Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset criticize their work in the fields of architecture and design, preferably, the role of established institutions in the art world.

The duo began with performance art in Copenhagen. In 1997, she established a workshop in Berlin, where Dragset is still alive, while Elmgreen is headquartered in London today. Since 1999 her work has been shown internationally. With a built in the Texas desert Prada Boutique them succeeded in 2005 artistic breakthrough. Already in 2003, Elmgreen and Dragset had for a memorial to the homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis won the competition of the Federal Government, which is in May 2008 in Berlin's Tiergarten.

For the Komische Oper Berlin ( 2002/ 03) they designed as part of the museum designed in progress exhibition series " Iron Curtain " the big picture "Looking Back ".

Prizes and awards

  • 2001: National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin
  • 2010: Art critics prizes

Solo exhibitions (selection )

2012

  • "Harvest", Victoria Miro Gallery, London
  • " HAN ", permanent public sculpture in the cultural port city of Helsingør
  • " Powerless Structures, Fig 101 ," The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London

2011

  • " Happy Days in the Art World", Performa 11, New York / Tramway, Glasgow
  • "The One & The Many", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • " Amigos ", Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • " The Afterlife of the Mysterious Mr. B", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
  • " Elmgreen & Dragset ," Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen
  • "It's Never Too Late to Say Sorry", take place daily performance, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • "Silent wishes and broken dreams", Bavarian State Opera, Munich

2010

  • "Celebrity: The One & The Many", ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

2009

  • "The Collector " - The Danish and Nordic Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venezia
  • " Drama Queens", Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • "Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget ", MUSAC, León

2008

  • "Too Late ", Victoria Miro Gallery, London
  • "Home is the Place You Left ", Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
  • " Memorial for homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis ", Berlin
  • " Side Effects ", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France.

2007

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

2006

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

2005

  • " Prada Marfa " Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
  • "The Brightness of Shady Lives", Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • " The Welfare Show ", Bergen Art Hall, Bergen, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
  • "Forgotten Baby " Wrong Gallery, New York, USA
  • " End Station ", Bohen Foundation, New York, USA

2004

  • "Intervention 37 ", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  • "Moving Energies " - aspects of the Olbricht Collection: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany

2003

  • " Paris diaries", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  • " Phone Home ", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
  • " Short Cut ", Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy; Installation in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
  • " Spaced out", portico, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • "Please, Keep Quiet ", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • " Constructed Catastrophes, 2 ," CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
  • "Do not 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 / Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
  • "Suspended Space", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2001

  • " Taking Place ", Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, 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
  • " Powerless Structures, Fig 111 ," portico, Frankfurt, Germany

2000

  • " Among other events," Museum of 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)

  • 2000: Among other events, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • 2001: Powerless Structures, fig. 111, portico, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2001: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset: A Room is defined by its accessibility, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
  • 2001/2002: Taking Place: The Works of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
  • 2002: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset: Prison Breaking / Powerless Structures, fig. 333, 25th Biennale Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 2002: Museum: Elmgreen & Dragset, Sala Montcada / Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • 2003: Spaced Out / Powerless Structures, fig. 211, portico, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003: Short Cut, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
  • 2004: Moving Energies - aspects of the Olbricht Collection: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 2005: The Welfare Show, Bergen Art Hall, Bergen, Norway
  • 2005: Prada Marfa, Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
  • 2006: The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London and The Power Plant, Toronto
  • 2006: The Incidental Self, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2007: This is the First Day of my Life, Malmö Art Hall, Malmo, Sweden
  • 2008: Home is the Place You Left, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
  • 2009: The Collectors, the Danish and Nordic Pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia ( The Collector, designed by Robert Rebele, drives dead in the pool at his home )
  • 2010: Elmgreen & Dragset. Celebrity - The One and the Many, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
  • 2011: Submarine Wharf, Port of Rotterdam together with the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2012: Powerless Structures. Figure 101, Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.
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