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 social and cultural concerns.

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 theatre.Daniel Kunitz (November 22, 2012)

''Art+Auction''. They started collaborating in 1995 and 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 and converted it into a studio.Wenin, Samila, "Art through irony", in ''The Bangkok Post'', 15 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-08. In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London, and in 2015, he moved back to Berlin. Since 1997, the artists have presented a great number of architectural and sculptural installations in an ongoing series of works entitled 'Powerless Structures' 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. For the Istanbul Biennial in 2001, they constructed a full-scale model of a typical Modernist

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descending into the ground while located outdoor among ancient ruins. Their work has also been shown in the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Moscow, São Paulo, Singapore, Gwangju Biennials. Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Foundation in

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into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004; their best-known project

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, 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

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, London /

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, Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which was critically acclaimed. For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated the exhibition ''The Collectors'' in the neighbouring 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,

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, Klara Lidén,

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, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Vibeke Slyngstad, Thora Dolven Balke, Nina Saunders, and

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, 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. Their

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sculpture of a boy astride a rocking horse questions the tradition for war monuments to celebrate either victory or defeat. The work is now permanently installed outside the

Arken Museum of Modern Art ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( da, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst) is a private non-for-profit charity, state authorised, contemporary art museum in Ishøj near Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The museum is amongst Denmark's major contemporary a ...

. In 2013, they curated an extensive public art program in Munich entitled “A Space Called Public/Hoffentlich Öffentlich” and transformed the former textile galleries of the

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into the grand family home of fictional architect Norman Swann. Their exhibition series “Biography” took place in 2014–2015 at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo and the SMK–

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, 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

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For their solo exhibition “The Well Fair” in 2016, the duo transformed the

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in Beijing into a fictional art fair. 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. The artists’ first major overview in the UK, “This is How We Bite Our Tongue” was held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2018. The exhibition consisted of a large-scale site-specific installation and a survey of their sculptural works. ''The Whitechapel Pool'', realised specifically for the show, transformed the ground-floor of the gallery into an abandoned public swimming pool fictionally dated to 1901 and related to the gentrification of the

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. In 2019, Elmgreen & Dragset held their first major solo exhibition in the United States
“Sculptures”
at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Later that year, they installed a new public sculpture
“Bent Pool”
located in Miami Beach’s Pride Park, which takes the shape of a large swimming pool arching backwards to form an inverted U shape. In Finland, the artist duo transformed the premises of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Art, into a surreal carpark environment for their exhibitio
“2020”
which coincided with the 25^th year of Elmgreen & Dragset’s collaboration. Later that year
“The Hive”
was inaugurated at the new Moynihan Hall Train Hall in Penn Station, New York. Suspended from the ceiling
“The Hive”
is an upside-down, fictional cityscape illuminated by lights that will hang permanently above the 31^st Street Mid-block Entrance Hall in New York City. The following year
The Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation
invited Elmgreen & Dragset to create a public sculpture for th
Royal Djurgården
Parks in Stockholm
“Life Rings”
a towering sculpture made up of interlocking, stainless steel life rings, now stands at 7.5 meters (25 ft) high by the waterside of the public park. In 2021, the artists also received the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize from the Würth Foundation, in

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, Germany. To celebrate the award a solo exhibition was held at the collection’
Würth Museum 2
in Künzelsau. More recently, Elmgreen & Dragset’s extensive exhibitio
“Useless Bodies?”
was held at Fondazione Prada in Milan through Spring and Summer of 2022. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, the exhibition drew focus to the status of the human body in today’s digitally saturated, post-industrial world, looking at our working conditions, living modes and the health and leisure industries. In winter 2022, the artist duo will open their forthcoming exhibition “After Dark” at By Art Matters Museum in Hangzhou, China.

Permanent installations

In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the German Government's competition for a

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in Berlin, in memory of the gay victims of the Nazi regime, which was unveiled in May 2008. Several of their sculptures are now permanently installed for the public including their commission for the Fourth plinth, now outside the

;

(2005), on the

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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 located in the centre of the harbor in Helsingør, Denmark. ''Han'' was installed in 2012 and is based on

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’s famous

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. The figure sits in a similar pose, challenging conventional portrayals of masculinity. In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were also selected for London’s Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, where they created
Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
'. Since then, Elmgreen & Dragset have realized:
Van Gogh’s Ear
', first presented by Public Art Fund at the Rockefeller Center in 2016 and since 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, New York; and most recently,
Life Rings
' a
Royal Djurgården
Stockholm (2021).

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. During the 2008 Frieze Art Fair, they staged ''Drama Queens'', this time enlivened by the voices of leading stage stars such as Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes, at The Old Vic in London.

Recognition

* 2000 –

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(nominated) * 2002 – Preis der Nationalgalerie, awarded by Hamburger Bahnhof * 2006 – Arken Art Prize * 2009 – Special Mention at the Venice Biennale, for ''The Collectors'' * 2009 – Kritikerlaget/Norwegian Critics’ Association Kunstkritikerprisen/Art Critics’ Prize, awarded for ''The Collectors'' * 2012 – Eckersberg Medal * 2012 – Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat/Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Grant, awarded in conjunction with an exhibition at Den Frie in Copenhagen * 2015 – Honorary doctorate, awarded by the

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(NTNU) * 2020 �
The B.Z.-Kulturpreis
Berlin, Germany * 2021 �
Awarded the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation, Künzelslau, Germany
* 2022 �
Soho House Established Artists Award
London, UK * 2022 �
Ny Carlsberg Fondet Prize
Ny Carlsberg Glypotek, Copenhagen, Denmark

Art market

Elmgreen & Dragset are represented by Pace Gallery (since 2020),

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, Kukje Gallery,

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, Victoria Miro Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Perrotin, and Taka Ishii Gallery. They previously worked with Johann König until 2022.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2022
Useless Bodies?
Fodazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Stand By Me
Massimo de Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris, France * After Dark, By Art Matters Museum, Hanghzhou, China (forthcoming) 2021
The Nervous System
Pace, New York, USA
New Tenants
Perrotin, Paris, France
Elmgreen & Dragset
Würth Museum 2, Künzelsau, Germany
Life Rings
Princess Estelle Foundation, Royal Djurgårten, Stockholm, Sweden
Short Story
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copehagen, 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, Dallas, Texas, USA
"It's Not What You Think"
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
"Adaptations"
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Overheated"
Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong 2018
"This Is How We Bite Our Tongue"
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"To Whom It May Concern"
FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris, France
"Elmgreen & Dragset"
Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
"We Are Not Ourselves"
, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal 2017

Museum Haus Lange,

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"Dilemma"
Ekebergparken, Oslo, Norway 2016
"The Well Fair"
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Van Gogh's Ear"
Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, US
"Powerless Structures"
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Elmgreen & Dragset present Galerie Perrotin at the Grand Palais"
Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Changing Subjects"
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA 2015
"Aéroport Mille Plateaux"
PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
"Self-Portraits"
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Stigma"
, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, London, U.K.
"Stigma"
, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
'"Lot"
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

Galerie Perrotin Perrotin is a contemporary art gallery founded in 1990 by Emmanuel Perrotin, at the age of twenty-one. He has since opened over eighteen spaces, with the aim of offering increasingly vibrant and creative environments in which to experience art. He ...

, New York, USA 2014
"Biography"

, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Biography”
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway

, Hong Kong 2013
"Tomorrow"
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
"A Space Called Public"
Munich (curated by Elmgreen & Dragset), Germany 2012
"Harvest"
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK *"Han", permanent public artwork installed at Kulturværftet Helsingør, Denmark *"Powerless Structures, Fig. 101", The Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK 2011
"Happy Days in the Art World"
, Performa 11, New York, 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 Mr. B", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France *"Elmgreen & Dragset", The

Thorvaldsen Museum The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796–1838). The museum is locat ...

, Copenhagen, Denmark *"It's Never Too Late to Say Sorry", daily performance, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands * "Silent wishes and broken dreams", Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany 2010
"Celebrity: The One & The Many"
ZKM ,

Center for Art and Media The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

, Karlsruhe, Germany 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 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. 2007 * "This is the first day of my life" Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden *"Ti sto pensando", Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy *"A Change Of Mind", Kunst am Bauzaun, Museion Bozen, Italy 2006 * "The Welfare Show",

, London/

, Toronto, Ontario, Canada * "Disgrace", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 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 * "

", Art Production Fund/Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas * "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 * "Intervention 37",

Sprengel Museum Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake (german: Maschsee) approximately south ...

, Hannover, Germany * "Blocking The View", Tate Modern Gallery, London, UK * "Moving Energies" - Aspekte der Sammlung Olbricht : 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",

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, 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 * 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)

2022
Politics in Art
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Every Moment Counts—AIDS and its Feelings
Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway * Art in the Elevator, Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
CASH on the Wall
Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Berlin, Germnay
MARMOR / MARBLE
Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
Matrix of Gender
Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal, Norway

Konstgalleriet Slottsholmen, Malmö, Sweden
Why can’t we live together
Marburg Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
Blue Jeans - Myth and Marketing
Museumsquarier Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
And Now the Good News
Pera Museum, Istanbul, Türkei

Metz City Hall, Metz, France

Musees des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy, France
Heroic Bodies
Rudolph Tegners Museum, Denmark 2021
Statements
Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy
Work It Out
Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
Psychopathia Sexualis
Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tempo
Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Heilbrunn, Germany * SkultpurOdense21, Hollufgård Skultpurparken, Odense, Denmark
Wild/Schön
Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Grave Monuments
Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark * Monument for the Cemetery, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
OASIS
Tallin Arhcitecture Museum, Tallin, Estonia
Sobressalto: Coleção Norlina e José Lima
CAA, Portugal
It’s Just a Phase
KUK, Trondheim, Norway 2020
Mythologies - The Beginning and End of Civilisations
ARoS Triennal, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Wände , Walls
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Shapeshifters
Mälmo Konstmuseum, Mälmo, Sweden
Animals in Art
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
I Put A Spell On You: On Artists Collaborations
SCAD, Savannah, USA
“WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano”
- The collection of Erling Kagge, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: From the Taguchi Art Collection
Shimonoeseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
WANTED!
Grand Palais, Paris, France
Szene Berlin
Schloss Derneburg, Hall Art Foundations, Holle, Germany
OH! MY CITY
Paradise Art Space, Incheon, Korea
Who Am I
Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Friendship as a Way of Life
UNSW Galleries, Paddington, Australia
A Greater Perspective
The606, Damen Arts Plaza, Chicago, USA 2019
"There I Belong. Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset"
Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Sculpture Milwaukee"
Wisconsin, USA
"Art's Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale 2007-2019"
Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts, USA
"Art & Porn"
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
"Art & Porn"
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Blickachsen 12"
Bad Homburg, Germany
"Political Affairs - Language is not innocent"
, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"A Cool Breeze"
Galerie Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic
"Grand Hotel Abyss"
steirischerherbst'19, Graz, Austria
"La Source"
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
"Tainted Love"
Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Schöne Sentimenten"
, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium 2018
"Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body"
The Met Breuer, New York, USA
"Beyond Bliss"
Bangkok Art Biennial, Bangkok, Thailand
"It's Never Too Late To Say Sorry"
Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, USA
"Soziale Fassaden"
MMK Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Minimalism: Space. Light. Object."
National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
"Far From Home"
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
"No Place Like Home"
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
"Zeitspuren – The Power of Now"
Kunsthaus Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
"Talk Show Festival"
La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, France

Berlin, Germany 2017
"WAITING. Between Power and Possibility"
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"No Place Like Home"
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Cool, Calm and Collected"
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
"Commissions from Performa’s Archives"
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"Kuss. Von Rodin bis Bob Dylan"
Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany
"OVER THE RAINBOW"
Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, California, USA *"Die Schönheit im Anderen/The Beauty of Difference", Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose, Germany
"Meet me in Heaven"
Schloss Tüßling, Tüßling, Germany
"THE GARDEN: End of Time; Beginning of Time"
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
"The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest"
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Physical Mind Restless Hands"
Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany 2016
"The Others"
, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Animality"
Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
"Protest"
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
"Moved"
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses"
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany *"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
“Mom, am I barbarian?”
, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey *“auf Zeit”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden Baden, Germany Powerless Structures, Fig

2012
"Nude Men"
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
"Common Ground"
Public Art Fund, New York, USA * Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK *“TRACK – A contemporary city conversation”, S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium 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 across the world including: * Mumok, "Museum of modern art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria * TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria * Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium * Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium *

Museum Voorlinden Museum Voorlinden () is an art museum in Wassenaar in the Netherlands. It was founded and is privately owned by Joop van Caldenborgh. It was opened on 10 September 2016 by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander (; Willem-Al ...

, Wassenaar, Belgium * National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada * Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic *

K11 Art Foundation The K11 Art Foundation (KAF) is a non-profit art foundation based in Central, Hong Kong, named for an eponymous shopping centre and established by the shopping centre's operator. It supports the development of Chinese contemporary art from Greate ...

, Hong Kong SAR, China *

, Ishøj, Denmark * ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark *

Dokk1 Dokk1 or Dokken is a government building, public library and culture center in Aarhus, Denmark. It is situated on '' Hack Kampmanns Plads'' in the city center by the waterfront next to the Custom House. Dokk1 is part of the much larger developmen ...

, Aarhus, Denmark * Københavns Billedkunstudvalg, Copenhagen, Denmark *

KØS Museum of art in public spaces KØS Museum of art in public spaces is situated in Nørregade in Køge, Denmark. It is the only museum in Denmark focusing of art in the public realm. It boasts a collection of models and sketches for public artworks and plays host to special exh ...

, Køge, Denmark *

KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art is located in Aalborg, Denmark, on Kong Christians Allé near its junction with Vesterbro. Of a modern Scandinavian design, it was built between 1968 and 1972 by Finnish architects Elissa and Alvar Aalto and Danis ...

, Aalborg, Denmark * Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark * Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark *

, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark * EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland * Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki, Finland * Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France * Fondation Emerige, Paris, France * Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France * European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne, Germany * Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany * Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany * Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * KAT_Kunst am Turm, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, Germany * Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany * Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany * Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany * Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany * Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany * Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany * Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany * Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany * Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Stiftung Denkmal, Berlin, Germany * Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong *

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

, Tel Aviv, Israel *

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

, Jerusalem, Israel * Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy * Museion, Bolzano, Italy * Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Naoshima, Japan * Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon * Colección Jumex, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico * Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR), Rotterdam, Netherlands * Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway *

Ekebergparken Sculpture Park Ekebergparken Sculpture Park is a sculpture park and a national heritage park close to Ekebergrestauranten with a panoramic view of the city at Ekeberg in the southeast of the city of Oslo, Norway.Equinor Art Programme, Stavanger, Norway * Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway * Kode Art Museums, Bergen, Norway * Kunstneriske Forstyrrelser, Tranøy, Norway * Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway * Park of the School of Agriculture, Ås, Norway * Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway * Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts, Anyang, South Korea * Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain * CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea), A Coruña, Spain * MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), León, Spain * Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden * Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden * Nicola Erni Collection, Zug, Switzerland * Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland * Soho House, London, UK * Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK * Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, USA * Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, USA * Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA * Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA * The Donum Estate, Sonoma, USA * Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA * Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA

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 Kulturhavn Kronborg is an area in the harbour of Helsingør dedicated to culture and events, designed to attract residents and visitors. It is a joint initiative by Kronborg Castle, the Danish Maritime Museum, Kulturværftet (The Culture Yard) an ...

, 2012 * Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison and Louis Vuitton Librairie, London, 2012Nick Compton (September 25, 2012
Elmgreen & Dragset at the Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison, London
'' Wallpaper''. * ''Van Gogh’s Ear'', Rockefeller Center, New York, 2016
Public Art Fund, ''Elmgreen & Dragset: Van Gogh’s Ear'', 2016. * ''To Whom It May Concern'', FIAC HORS LES MURS, Place Vendôme, Paris, 2018Ted Loos (October 17, 2018

'' The New York Times''. * ''Zero'', East Asiatic, Bangkok Art Biennale, 2018 * ''The Hive,'' Moynihan Train Hall, New York, USA, 2020 * ''Life Rings''
Royal Djurgården
Stockholm, Sweden, 2021

Catalogues

*''Useless Bodies?'' (Milan: Nava Press, 2022). *''The Nervous System'' (New York:

Pace Pace or paces may refer to: Business *Pace (transit), a bus operator in the suburbs of Chicago, US * Pace Airlines, an American charter airline *Pace Foods, a maker of a popular brand of salsa sold in North America, owned by Campbell Soup Compan ...

, 2021). *''Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures'' (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2019). *''Elmgreen & Dragset'' (London:

Phaidon Phaidon is an ancient Greek name that may refer to: * Phaedo of Elis, philosopher *'' Phaedo'', one of Plato's dialogues named after Phaedo of Elis who appears in it *Phaidon Press, a publisher *''Phaidon Design Classics ''Phaidon Design Classics' ...

, 2019). *''This Is How We Bite Our Tongue'' (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2018). *''15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbour: Exhibition and Stories'' (Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, 2017). *''Die Zugezogenen'' (London: Koenig Books, 2017). *''The Others'' (Berlin: König Galerie / London: Koenig Books, 2017). *''The Well Fair'', Elmgreen & Dragset (London: Koenig Books / Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2016). *''Aéroport Mille Plateaux'', Elmgreen & Dragset (Seoul: PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, 2015). *''Biography'', Elmgreen & Dragset (Ostfildern:

Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd HatjeBeatrix Ruf, ed., exh. cat. Kunsthalle Zürich (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002). - no longer in print. *''Zwischen anderen Ereignissen'', exh. cat. (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 2000). - no longer in print. *''Powerless Structures'' exh. cat. (1998). - no longer in print.

Gallery

Image:Denkmal fuer verfolgte Homosexuelle Berlin2.JPG,

Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism The Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism (german: Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen) in Berlin was opened on 27 May 2008. Design The memorial was designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dra ...

by Elmgreen and Dragset Image:Berlin.Homomahnmal.3451.jpg, The unveiling of the memorial, 2008, 27 May Image:Berlin.Homomahnmal.3460.jpg, The signboard Image:Denkmal fuer verfolgte Homosexuelle Berlin.JPG, The video in the memorial

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elmgreen And Dragset 1961 births Living people Art duos Artists from Copenhagen Danish contemporary artists Gay artists Danish LGBT artists Norwegian LGBT artists Norwegian contemporary artists Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal