About Me
One half of the artist duo ELMGREEN & DRAGSET aka MICHAEL & INGAR who since 1995 have been responsible for some fuck ups in museums, biennials and at other arty farty events around the Globe....RECENT PROJECTS BY ELMGREEN & DRAGSET:"SIDE EFFECTS", GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN, PARIS in collaboration with various designers on the occasion of the Men's Wear Fashion Week"MAPPING THE SELF" , MCA, CHICAGO /"BODYPOLITICX, WITTE DE WITH, ROTTERDAM/"A CHANGE OF MIND", MUSEUM BOZEN, ITALY /"THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE", MALMÖ KONSTALL /"DRAMA QUEENS", SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MÜNSTER 07" / Art Basel 39 June 2008 - SOON GOIN' TO THE OLD VIC IN LONDON WITH KEVIN SPAEY AS THE RABBIT /"LA CITTà CHE SALLE", MACRO MUSEUM, ROMA /"I AM THINKING OF YOU", VILLA MANIN, ITALY / ANYAN ART FESTIVAL, KOREAHOME IS THE PLACE I LEFT, TRONDHEIM ART MUSEUMMega Gay Party at museo MUSAC in Leon in July which was great great fun... the trash and the leftovers from that party will be cast in bronze and blown in glass and remain as a permanent sculpture in the museum atrium so it will look like it was never properly cleaned up after our little event - those guys there rock!!!!!MAY 27th 2008 the memorial for the homosexual victims during the nazi regime was finally inagruated in Tiergarten - located opposite the Holocaust Memorial - in Berlin....This is the offical apology by the German state for the past. With our project we have tried to make something which pays the respect to the historic facts but at the same time won't traumatize future generations of same sex lovers...A new 320 pages book (THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE) on our works published by Hatje Cantz is just out NOW - so check ur local book store, yeah yeah !Other easy access publications: Art Now and Art Now volume 2, Architecture Now (last edition 2007) by Taschen, Cream 2003 by PhaidonThese are the galleries we work with & where you can find more info: Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris / Massimo de Carlo, Milano / Victoria Miro, London / Taka Ishii, Tokyo / Helga de Alvear, Madrid / Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
