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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Michael Elmgreen
Born 1961, Copenhagen.
Ingar Dragset
Born 1969, Trondheim.
Live and work in Berlin.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London/The Power Plant, Toronto.
2005
End Station, Bohen Foundation, New York.
2004
Blocking the View, Tate Modern, London.
2003
Short Cut, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale.
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1, New York.
2005
Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
2003
Utopia Station, La Biennale di Venezia.
2002
25th Sao Paulo Biennial.
The duet of Svandinavian artists, Elmgreen and Dragset, who live and work in Berlin, has been around for over ten years. The modern world is the medium of a constant transfer of information, so saturated in goods and brands that this is what appears in their works instead of the appearance of secret human desires and subconscious fears. The analogical and ironic space of the images created by the artists fascinates the viewer: ‘Fiat’ breaks through the floor of Victor-Emmanuel II’s trade series in Milan, beetles in Prada shoes in the Chihuahua desert, a lonely handbag miserably floats down the baggage conveyor belt in an airport… They are all unclaimed; they are all outcasts, just like a defiled Rolls Royce, covered in tar, slowly rotating on a podium.
Supported by
- Embassy of Denmark in RF
- Embassy of Norway in RF
- Danish Art Agency
- Office for Contemporary Art (Norway)
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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (Denmark / Norway)
Disgrace, 2006
Sculpture (Rolls Royce, mastic, paint, feathers, floater)
Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris / Miami
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