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Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Dragset lives and works in Berlin; Elmgreen lives in London and works in Berlin.〔(May 27, 2011) (24 Questions for Elmgreen & Dragset ) ''blouinartinfo.com''.〕 They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses serious cultural concerns. ==Life and work== The duo met in Copenhagen in 1995, when Michael Elmgreen, who was born in the city in 1961, was writing and performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theater.〔Daniel Kunitz (November 22, 2012), () ''Art+Auction''.〕 For the first 10 years of their artistic collaboration, they were a couple. They moved to Berlin in 1997. In 2006, they bought a large 1000m2 former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin’s Neukölln borough from the city〔 and converted it into a home and studio.〔Wenin, Samila, "Art through irony", in ''The Bangkok Post'', 15 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-08.〕 For a time both men lived in the building, each occupying one of the five stories that make up the rear section of the pumping station.〔 In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London. Since 1997, the artists have presented a great number of architectural and sculptural installations in an ongoing series of works entitled 'Powerless Structures'〔(Elmgreen/Dragset, 20 October 2001 - 24 November 2001 ) Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.〕 in which they transformed the conventions of the 'white cube' gallery space, creating galleries suspended from the ceiling, sunk into the ground or turned upside down.〔(Untitled: Elmgreen & Dragset, 12 May - 4 July 2004 ) Tate, London.〕 For the Istanbul Biennial in 2001, they constructed a full-scale model of a typical Modernist Kunsthalle descending into the ground while located outdoor among ancient ruins. Their work has also been shown in the Berlin, São Paulo, Gwangju, Moscow, Singapore, and Liverpool Biennials. Further exhibitions include transforming the Bohen Foundation in New York into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004; their best-known project Prada Marfa, a Prada boutique inaugurated in 2005 and sited in the middle of the Texan desert; and their exhibition ''The Welfare Show'' in 2005-2006 at Serpentine Gallery, London / The Power Plant, Toronto / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, which was critically acclaimed.〔 In 2007, Elmgreen & Dragset developed ''Drama Queens'', a theatre play about Twentieth Century art history with six remote-controlled fiberglass versions of iconic sculptures, for Skulptur Projekte Münster.〔(Elmgreen & Dragset: Silent wishes and broken dreams..., June 01 - July 31, 2011 ) Goetz Collection, Munich.〕 During the 2008 Frieze Art Fair, they staged ''Drama Queens'', this time enlivened by the voices of leading stage stars such as Kevin Spacey, at The Old Vic in London. Elmgreen & Dragset won the German Government's competition in 2003 for a memorial in Tiergarten park in Berlin, in memory of the gay victims of the Nazi regime, which was unveiled in May 2008. For the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 they curated the exhibition ''The Collectors'' in the neighboring Danish and Nordic Pavilions (which include Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), an unprecedented merging of two international exhibition venues. For their show, they invited fellow artists Maurizio Cattelan, Tom of Finland, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, William E. Jones, Terence Koh, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Nina Saunders, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. In 2011, their sculpture ''Powerless Structures, Fig. 101'' was chosen as the winner of the Fourth Plinth Commission to be displayed on the fourth plinth of London's Trafalgar Square. Their bronze sculpture of a boy astride a rocking horse questions the tradition for war monuments to celebrate either victory or defeat.〔(Fourth Plinth: the work of Elmgreen & Dragset ) ''The Telegraph''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elmgreen and Dragset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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