In a city like Paris, full of monuments to famous conquests and heroic figures from history, the artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset take a different tack. For a new exhibition at the ...
Does a couple that collects together stay together? Yes and no in the case of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Though the two Berlin-based artists are no longer romantic partners, having broken up ...
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset talk to Ben Luke about their influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped their ...
Few artist duos have reshaped contemporary art’s spatial lexicon as thoroughly as Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961, Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969, Trondheim). We visit Elmgreen & Dragset at their ...
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, the curators of this year’s Istanbul Biennial, stand for a signature approach of narrativistic subversions and installative sleights of hand, a technique they aptly ...
Michael Elmgreen (left) and Ingar Dragset, in their Berlin studio. Elmgreen wears a Loewe T-shirt, jeans, and shoes. Dragset wears a Loewe top, pants, and shoes; his own belt. Photographed by Charlie ...
For an artist duo with global acclaim, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset don’t sound very interested in pleasing the galleries that show their work. The pair don’t mind biting the hand that feeds ...
If the staid monuments to British war heroes in London’s Trafalgar Square could talk, they might order the kid on the rocking horse to settle down. Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, on display on the ...