[ART] elmgreen and dragset

Throughout their career, Elmgreen & Dragset have redefined the way in which art is presented and experienced. Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance and architecture, in their sculptures and installations the artists reconfigure the familiar with characteristic wit and subversive humour. From the transformation of New York City's Bohen Foundation into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004, to the siting of a Prada boutique in a Texan desert in 2005, and the insertion of institutional spaces within the architecture of a public gallery, as in the Serpentine Gallery's critically acclaimed The Welfare Show in 2006, their work raises issues around social models and social spaces, and prompts a re-thinking of the status quo.

Based in London and Berlin, Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969, Norway) have worked as a collaborative team since the mid-1990's. Major solo exhibitions include MUSAC, León, Spain (2009), Malmö Konsthall (2007), Serpentine Gallery (2006), MCA Chicago (2005), Tate Modern (2004), and Kunsthalle Zurich (2001). In 2003, Elmgreen & Dragset won the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and were awarded both the Danish and Nordic Pavilions for the 2009 Venice Biennale, for which they curated The Collectors.

Reposting some of my favourite artists atm, was lucky enough to see a stunning work

by Elmgreenand Dragset during the SCAPE 2008 Biennial in Christchurch, I still think back to

it today.

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