Elmgreen & Dragset
Michael Elmgreen, born in Copenhagen
Ingar Dragset, born in Trondheim
They live and work in Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2006 “The Welfare Show”, Serpentine Gallery, London; The Power Plant, Toronto (catalogue)
2005 “Prada Marfa”, Art Production Fund/Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
“The Welfare Show”, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Bawag Foundation, Wien (catalogue)
2004 “Blocking the View”, Tate Modern, London
“Short Cut”, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan
“Spaced Out”, Portikus, Frankfurt A.M. (catalogue)
2001 “Taking Place”, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (catalogue)
“Powerless Structures, fig. 111”, Portikus, Frankfurt A. M.
“A Room Defined by its Accessibility”, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (catalogue)
2000 “Zwischen anderen Ereignissen”, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig (catalogue)
1998 “Dug Down Gallery/ Powerless Structures, Fig. 45”, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (catalogue)
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2005 Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel – Karakoy, Istanbul
2004 Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
“Utopia Station”, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
2002 25th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (catalogue)
Bibliography (selected)
2006 exhibition catalogue “Not A Drop But The Fall”, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Revolver
The Guardian, January 31, 2006, “The lost world”, Adrian Searle, p. 18-20.
The Times, January 24, 2006, “We were only being boring”, Rachel Campbell-Johnsto, p. 17-18.
2005 exhibition catalogue “The Welfare Show”, Verlag Walter König .
Monopol, No.6, December 2005-January 2006, “Die Wüste Bebt”, Silke Hohmann, p.22-41.
2004 “Coupling. Gender Identity in Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s Art”, Text by Jenny Lund, in: ARKEN Bulletin 2004, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, Ed. Christian Gether, p. 64-72.
2003 exhibition catalogue “Spaced Out. Elmgreen & Dragset”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Ed. Daniel Birnbaum / Jochen Voltz.
2002 exhibition catalogue, “Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset: Taking Place”, Ed. Beatrix.
Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich / Hatje Cantz
Artforum International, April, “White on White, Daniel Birnbaum.
2001 Trans> Arts. Cultures.Media, #9/10, “Small Twists – Bigger Splashes! A conversation with Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset”, Jens Hoffmann, pp. 294-304.
2000 Frieze, issue 53, “White Out”, Lars Bang Larsen, pp. 100-103.
1999 NU: The nordic art review, issue 1, “Signifying Structures”, Franklin Sirmans, pp. 76-81.
1998 monography, Elmgreen & Dragset: “Powerless Structures”, M.Kremer, H.U.Obrist, S.Kofod Olsen, Nifca.