Elmgreen & Dragset

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Biography

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, based in Berlin and London, have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. They have held numerous solo exhibitions in art institutions worldwide, including Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern in London, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, ZKM Museum of Modern Art in Karlsruhe, The Power Plant in Toronto, MUSAC in Léon, and Kunsthalle Zürich. Their work has been included in the Berlin, Sao Paulo, Gwangju, Moscow, Singapore and Istanbul biennials, and in 2009 they received a special mention for their exhibition “The Collectors” in The Nordic and Danish Pavilions at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Amongst their most well known works are “Prada Marfa” – a full scale replica of a Prada boutique in the middle of the Texan desert, and “Short Cut” – a car and a caravan breaking through the ground which was first shown in Milan and now resides in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A major exhibition is planned at the Victoria and Albert Museum for Autumn 2013.

Selected Exhibitions

2012

  1. Elmgreen & Dragset Louis Vuitton, London, UK
  2. Harvest Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
  3. The Fourth Plinth, Powerless Structures, Fig 101 Trafalgar Square, London, UK
  4. It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry Coolsingle, Rotterdam, NL
  5. Group Show Gallerie Perrotin, Paris, FR

2011

  1. Amigos Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, ES
  2. Submarine Wharf Boijmanns Museum, Rotterdam, NL
  3. Celebrity: The One and the Many ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK

2010

  1. Celebrity: The One and the Many ZKM Karlsurhe, Germany, DE

2009

  1. The Collectors, the Danish Pavilion and the Nordic Pavilion, 53rd International ArtExhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
  2. Drama Queens Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
  3. Supermodels Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  4. Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget MUSAC, León, ES

2008

  1. Too Late Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
  2. Drama Queens The Old Vic Theatre, London, UK
  3. Side Effects Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FR
  4. Inauguration of Gedenkort für die im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen, Berlin, DE

2007

  1. This Is The First Day Of My Life Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
  2. I Care For You Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, IT
  3. A Change of Mind Giornata del Contemporaneo organizzata da AMACI, Alto Adige, IT

2006

  1. Disgrace Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
  2. Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning? Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT

2005

  1. Prada Marfa Art Production Fund/Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, USA
  2. The Brightness of Shady Lives Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, ES
  3. End Station Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, ES
  4. The Welfare Show Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen/Bawag Foundation, Vienna, AT
  5. Forgotten Baby Wrong Gallery, New York, USA
  6. Linienstrasse 160 Neue Mitte, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, DE
  7. Open House, Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel Karakoy, Istanbul, TR

2004

  1. Intervention 37 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
  2. Blocking the View Tate Modern, London, UK
  3. Moving Energies Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE

2003

  1. Short Cut Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, IT
  2. Spaced Out Portikus Frankfurt a.M., DE
  3. Paris Diaries Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FR
  4. Phone Home Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
  5. Constructed Catastrophes CCA, Kitakyushu, JP

2002

  1. How are You Today? Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano, IT
  2. Powerless Structures, Fig. 229 CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, ES
  3. Suspended Space Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  4. Please, Keep Quiet Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
  5. Taking Place Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
  6. Powerless Structures, fig. 111 Portikus, Frankfurt a. M., DE
  7. Opening Soon Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
  8. A Room Defined by its Accessibility Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, DK

2000

  1. Zwischen anderen Ereignissen Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (catalogue)/ Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, AU

1999

  1. Powerless Structures, Fig. 57-60 The Project, New York, USA

1998

  1. Dug Down Gallery/ Powerless Structures, Fig. 45 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS

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  1. The End Is Always Nearer, 2012 icon Elmgreen & Dragset The End Is Always Nearer, 2012 $26 Only 10 left at this price
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  2. Prada Marfa icon Elmgreen & Dragset Prada Marfa $1,600 [Edition of 100]
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  3. Powerless Structures, Fig.101 icon Elmgreen & Dragset Powerless Structures, Fig.101 $56 [Edition of 5,000]
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