ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
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Elmgreen & Dragset (b. 1961 and 1969) are a Berlin-based artist duo who have collaborated since 1995. Initially, their work centred on performances that challenged conventional exhibition formats, but it has since evolved to include immersive installation and sculpture. Through reconfiguration and displacement, their art draws attention to agencies embedded in everyday objects and spaces that define our public and private lives.
The artist duo is well-known for their radical transformations of museum and gallery spaces, as seen in The Collectors at the Danish and Nordic pavilions for the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009), Tomorrow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2013), and Bonne Chance, which spanned nearly the entire Centre Pompidou-Metz building (2023). Among their most significant public sculptures are Short Cut (2003), featuring a Fiat Uno and caravan seemingly emerging from the ground—first exhibited at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan and now in the collection of the MCA Chicago; Prada Marfa (2005), a forever closed Prada boutique situated in the midst of the Texan desert along Highway 90; Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 (2012), depicting a boy astride a rocking horse, commissioned for London’s Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square; and Van Gogh’s Ear (2016), a full-sized swimming pool turned vertically, first displayed at Rockefeller Center, New York. Their sculptures and institutional exhibitions often invoke the audience’s participation, creating unexpected situations and environments. In recent years, they have held solo exhibitions at major art institutions such as the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023), Fondazione Prada, Milan (2022); the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2019); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018), and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2016). In autumn 2024, they will present solo exhibitions at the Amorepacific Museum, Seoul and Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
‘Elmgreen & Dragset focus on the manifold relations between art, its surroundings, and the viewer, and, rather than provide answers, elicit and subvert our responses to contemporary issues such as shifting attitudes toward sexuality and gender, consumer culture, and gentrification.’
K. Jhala, ‘Intimacy and denial in equal measure’, in Art Asia Pacific Magazine, July/August 2022, p. 69
Image: Statue of Liberty, 2018, original section of the Berlin wall, cash machine, stainless steel , 298 x 149 x 148 cm.; 117 3/8 x 58 5/8 x 58 1/4 in. Collection: Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin. Photo: Mathias Voelzke
Selected Works
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Selected Public Works
Biography
VITA
1961
Michael Elmgreen born in Copenhagen, Denmark
1969
Ingar Dragset born in Trondheim, Norway
Live and work in Berlin, Germany
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Art Production Fund, New York
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Bergen Kunsthall
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison
Columbus Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Dokk1, Aarhus
Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo
Espoo Museum of Modern Art
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Equinor Art Programme, Stavanger
Fondation Emerige, Paris
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Naoshima
Fundación Jumex, Mexico City
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Hyundai Card, Seoul
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
KAT – Kunst am Turm, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
Kode Art Museums, Bergen
Københavns Billedkunstudvalg, Copenhagen
KØS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Kunsthalle Bremen
Kunsthalle Prague
Kunsthalle Zürich
Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Kunstneriske Forstyrrelser
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Malmö Art Museum
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
mumok, Vienna
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen
Museion, Bolzano
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Nicola Erni Foundation, Zug
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Park of the School of Agriculture, Ås
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki
Sammlung Boros, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Sculpture International Rotterdam
Soho House, London
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Statoil Collection, Stavanger
Stiftung Denkmal, Berlin
Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
Taguchi Art Collection
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Donum Estate, Sonoma
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Utmykingsfondet, Oslo
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
L’Addition
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Spaces
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Landscapes
Pace Gallery, Geneva
2023
Bonne Chance
Centre Pompidou Metz
READ
Kunsthalle Prague
Room Service
Massimo de Carlo, Milan
David and other sculptures
Perrotin, Paris
2022
Useless Bodies?
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Stand By Me
Massimo de Carlo,Pièce Unique, Paris
After Dark
By Art Matters Museum, Hanghzhou
2021
The Nervous System
Pace Gallery, New York
New Tenants
Perrotin, Paris
Würth Museum 2, Künzelsau
Life Rings
Princess Estelle Foundation, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm
Van Gogh’s Ear
K11 Musea, Wuhan
Livredderen
Tarnby, Copenhagen
Short Story
Copenhagen Contemporary
2020
The Hive
Moynihan Train Hall, New York
2020
Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Short Story
König Galerie, Berlin
Pool, No. 8
Josun Palace, Gangnam, Seoul
Van Gogh’s Ear
K11 Musea, Hong Kong
Pace Gallery, East Hamptons
2019
Bent Pool
Pride Park, Miami Beach Convention Center
Sculptures
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
It’s Not What You Think
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona
Adaptations
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Overheated
Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Hong Kong
2018
This Is How We Bite Our Tongue
Whitechapel Gallery, London
To Whom It May Concern
FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris
Galerie Perrotin, Paris
We Are Not Ourselves
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
2017
Die Zugezogenen
Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Dilemma
Ekebergparken, Oslo
2016
The Well Fair
UCCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Van Gogh’s EarPublic Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York
Powerless Structures
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Elmgreen & Dragset present Galerie Perrotin at the Grand Palais
Grand Palais, Paris
Changing Subjects
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2015
Aéroport Mille Plateaux
PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Self-Portraits
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Stigma
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, London
Stigma
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Past Tomorrow
Perrotin, New York
Lot
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2014
Biography
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Biography
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Old World
Perrotin, Hong Kong
2013
Tomorrow
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2012
Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London
Han
Kulturværftet, Helsingør
Harvest
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Critic
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Happy Days in the Art World
The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen / Bergen International Festival
International Festival
Bergen
2011
The One & The Many
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Happy Days in the Art World
Performa 11, New York University Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York / Tramway, Glasgow
It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry
Sculpture International Rotterdam
The Afterlife of the Mysterious Mr. B
Perrotin, Paris
Amigos
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen
Silent wishes and broken dreams
Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
2010
Celebrity – The One & The Many
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
2009
The Collectors
Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale
Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
Drama Queens
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
Gedenkort für die im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen
Berlin
Too Late
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Home is the Place You Left
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Drama Queens
Old Vic Theatre, London
2007
This Is The First Day Of My Life
Malmö Konsthall
Ti sto pensando
Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano di Codroipo
A Change Of Mind
Kunst am Bauzaun, Museion Bozen, Bolzano
2006
The Welfare Show
Serpentine Gallery, London / The Power Plant, Toronto
Disgrace
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
The Incidental Self
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning?
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
2005
Prada Marfa
Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa
The Welfare Show
Bergen Kunsthall / BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
End Station
Bohen Foundation, New York
Forgotten Baby
Wrong Gallery, New York
2004
Somewhere in the World It’s Four O’Clock
Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London
2003
Short Cut
Fondazione Trussardi, Milan
Spaced Out
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Constructed Catastrophes Fig. 2
CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu
Don’t Leave Me This Way
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Paris Diaries
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2002
How Are You Today?
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Powerless Structures, Fig. 229
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Museum
Sala Montcada, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona
2001
Taking Place
Kunsthalle Zürich
Powerless Structures, Fig. 111
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
A Room Defined by its Accessibility
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2000
Zwischen anderen Ereignissen
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
1999
Powerless Structures, Fig. 57–60
The Project, New York
New Works
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1998
Dug Down Gallery/Powerless Structures, Fig. 45
Galleri i8 and NIFCA, Reykjavik
1997
12 Hours of White Paint
Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense
Powerless Structures
Gallery Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen
To Ken Ishii...
Galleri Struts, Oslo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Museum in Motion – A Collection for the 21st Century
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Namedropping
Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale
The Swimmer
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Nurture Gaia
Bangkok Art Biennial
Wenns gut werden muss
Kunstverein Wiesen
2023
Beyond a Certain Point There is No Return
A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
BUTTERFLY!
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
Their Volumes
Cristella Group, Cortemaggiore
Chapter Four: From the APMA Collection
AmorePacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Looks Alive
Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome
Zustandbericht
Kunstrraum Potsdam
French Delights
Perrotin, Bodrum
Teamwork. 30 Years of CGAC
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Summer Festival, Taguchi Art Collection
Kagoshima City Museum of Art
Taguchi Art Collection: Your Compass in the “Incredible” Contemporary Art World
Nariwa Museum, Okayama
Jing’an International Sculpture Project
Jing’an Park, Shanghai
Houses of Tove Jansson
The Community, Paris
Paravents
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Sophie Calle. À toi de faire ma Mignonne
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Liquide Liquide
Patinoire de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
NGV Triennial
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2022
Broken Music Vol. 2, 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Politics in Art
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
Every Moment Counts – AIDS and its Feelings
Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden
Art in the Elevator
Salzburg Museum der Moderne
CASH on the Wall
Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Berlin
MARMOR / MARBLE
Kunsten, Aalborg
Matrix of Gender
Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal
HEM / HOME
Konstgalleriet Slottsholmen, Malmö
Why can’t we live together
Marburg Kunstverein
Blue Jeans – Myth and Marketing
Museumsquarier Osnabrück
And Now the Good News
Pera Museum, Istanbul
Exposition homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l’Europe nazie
Metz City Hall
Impossibles architectures
Musees des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
Heroic Bodies
Rudolph Tegners Museum, Dronningmølle
Performa Archive
LGDR, New York
Summer Sculpture Park
Castle Bechyně
Figures
Gallery Pilevneli, Bodrum
125 Years of Noack
Foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin
2021
Statements
Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo
Work It Out
Kunsten, Aalborg
Psychopathia Sexualis
Overgaden, Copenhagen
Tempo
Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
SkultpurOdense21
Hollufgård Skultpurparken, Odense
Wild/ Schön
Kunsthalle Emden
Grave Monuments
Kunsthal Aarhus
Monument for the Cemetery
Sonje Art Center, Seoul
OASIS
Tallin Architecture Museum
Sobressalto: Coleção Norlina e José Lima
CAA, Portugal
It’s Just a Phase
KUK, Trondheim
2020
Mythologies - The Beginning and End of Civilisations
ARoS Triennal, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Wände | Walls
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Studio Berlin
Berghain, Berlin
Shapeshifters
Mälmo Konstmuseum
Animals in Art
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
I Put A Spell On You: On Artists Collaborations
SCAD, Savannah
“WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano” - The collection of Erling Kagge
Museion, Bolzano
On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: From the Taguchi Art Collection
Shimonoeseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi
WANTED!
Grand Palais, Paris
Szene Berlin
Schloss Derneburg, Hall Art Foundations, Holle
OH! MY CITY
Paradise Art Space, Incheon
Who Am I
Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Friendship as a Way of Life
UNSW Galleries, Paddington
A Greater Perspective
The606, Damen Arts Plaza, Chicago
2019
There I Belong. Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset
Statens Museum fur Kunst, Copenhagen
Sculpture Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Art & Porn
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Art & Porn
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Political Affairs - Language is not innocent
Kunstverein Hamburg
A Cool Breeze
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Feelings - Art and Emotion
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Grand Hotel Abyss
Steirischerherbst’19, Graz
Art’s Biggest Stage
Clark Institute, Williamson
Blickachsen 12
Bad Homburg
La Source
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles
Tainted Love
Villa Arson, Nice
Schöne Sentimenten
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
Museum Of Modern Art And Western Antiquities, Section II Department Of Carving And Modeling: Form And Volume, curated by Jens Hoffmann
Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon
2018
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
The Met Breuer, New York
Beyond Bliss
Bangkok Art Biennial
It’s Never Too Late To Say Sorry
Aspen Museum of Art
Soziale Fassaden
MMK Frankfurt am Main
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.
National Gallery of Singapore
Far From Home
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
No Place Like Home
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
Zeitspuren – The Power of Now
Kunsthaus Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel / Bienne
Talk Show Festival
La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier
Ngorongoro II
Berlin
2017
WAITING. Between Power and Possibility
Hamburger Kunsthalle
No Place Like Home
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Cool, Calm and Collected
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Commissions from Performa’s Archives
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Kuss. Von Rodin bis Bob Dylan
Bröhan Museum, Berlin
OVER THE RAINBOW
Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles
Die Schönheit im Anderen/The Beauty of Difference
Schloss Lieberose
Meet me in Heaven
Schloss Tüßling
THE GARDEN: End of Times; Beginning of Time
ARoS Triennale, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Physical Mind Restless Hands
Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2016
The Others
König Galerie, Berlin
Animality
Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Protest
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Moved
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Staged! Spectacle and Role Playing in Contemporary Art
Kunsthalle München
ta.bu
Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels
2015
Slip of the Tongue
Punta Della Dogana, Venice
Panorama
High Line Art, New York
What We Call Love
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Homosexualität_en
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
The City is the Star – Art at the Construction Site
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Days push off into nights
Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
Little is Left to Tell (Calvino after Calvino)
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona
Diamonds always come in small packages
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968–2015
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Infinite Experience
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)
All the World’s a Stage. Works from the Goetz Collection
Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
No Hablaremos de Picasso
Palacio Municipal Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña
more Konzeption Conception now
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2014
Attention Economy
Kunsthalle Vienna
GOLD
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX II, Art AIDS Activism from 1995 until today
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
do it Moscow
Independent Curators International, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Power Memory People – Memorials of Today
KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge
Secret Passions
Lille 3000
Late Harvest
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
As I run and run, happiness comes closer
La Collection de Laurent Dumas vue par Jérôme Sans, Paris
KIK Three Dizzyland
Kino International, Berlin
Man in the Mirror
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Archeological Festival_ a 2nd hand history and improbable obsessions
Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Salon distingué – Hausrat in guter Gesellschaft
Museum Langmatt, Baden-Baden
Do Not Disturb
Gerhardsen Gerner Gallery, Oslo
Côté Intérieur
Kunstpavillon Innsbruck
2013
A Space Called Public
Munich
Mom, am I barbarian?
13th Istanbul Biennial
auf Zeit
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Out of the Blue
Cortesi Contemporary, Lugano
Forever Young
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
For the Time Being
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Love Me Gender
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
2012
Hospitality
Liverpool Biennial
Echigo Tsumari Triennial
Tokamachi and Tsunan
Common Ground
Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York
Migros meets Museion. 20th Century Remix
Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
You Are Not Alone
BACC – Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Wonderful – Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection
Me Collectors Room, Berlin
Fremde überall – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Pomeranz
Jüdisches Museum, Vienna
Status – 24 Contemporary Documents
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Treffpunkt: Berlin
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
Struggles
Maison Particulière, Brussels
Im Raum des Betrachters – Skulptur der Gegenwart
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Modern and Contemporary Sculpture at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
TRACK – A contemporary city conversation,
S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent
Group Show
Perrotin, Paris
2011
Open House
3rd Singapore Biennale
Untitled
12th Istanbul Biennial
4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
TSUM & Artplay, Moscow
Monodrome
3rd Athens Biennial
You Are Not Alone
Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, travelled to:
MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Destello, Fundación/Colección Jumex
Ecatepec, Estado de México
Produced by Migros
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Now: Obras De La Colección Jumex
Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara
8 1/2
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence
Odd Size
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Wax – Sensation in contemporary sculpture
Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen
Street Life and Home Stories
Villa Stuck, Munich
Private/Corporate VI
Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Berlin
The Last First Decade
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
Among Heroes. Pre-images in contemporary art
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Zwei Sammler – Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falkenberg
Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Il Belpaese dell'arte, etch ed estetiche della Nazione / The Wonderful Land of Art – The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Nation
Nomos Edizioni, GAMeC – Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Unter Helden – Vor-bilder in der Gegenwartskunst
Kunsthalle Nürnberg im KunstKulturQuatier
Private/Corporate VI – The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires, in dialogue with the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
2010
The New Décor
Hayward Gallery, London
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Seconde main
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Sexuality and Transcendence
PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming
Ludwik Grohman Villa and Book Art Museum, Łódź
Margins of Silence
Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Invisible Shadows – Images of Uncertainty
MARTa Herford
Exhibition, Exhibition
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli
Let’s Dance
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Glimmer
Fondatión/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
PowerGames
Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Shelf Life
Haifa Museum of Art
The Philosophy of Money
Lisbon City Museum
Coup de Ville
WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas
2009
10th Havana Biennial
Havana
New Aquisitions
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Where do we go from here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen
The Making of Art
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main
The Porn Identity
Kunsthalle Vienna
Scorpio’s Garden
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2008
Time Crevasse
3rd Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art
SCAPE
Christchurch Biennale of Art and Public Space
All Inclusive
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
U-Turn
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
This Is Not a Void
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Art on Stage
Theater Basel / Art Basel
Ad Absurdum – Energien des Absurden von der Klassischen Moderne zur Gegenwart
MARTa Herford
An Unruly History of the Readymade
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
The Sickness of the Hunting
Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice
Walls in the Street
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Extraordinary Rendition
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2007
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07
Münster
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Moscow
Into Me / Out of Me
Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany / MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma
Gruppentherapie
Museion, Bolzano
Mapping the Self
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Double Vision
Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York
Cuestión Xeracional
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Bodypoliticx
Witte De With, Rotterdam
The Zabludowicz Collection: When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead
Made in Germany
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection
Museum Folkwang, Essen
This Is Not For You
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Cross-Border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien
mumok, Vienna
Pensa/Piensa/Think
Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2006
Fever Variations
6th Gwangju Biennale 2006
Into Me / Out of Me
MoMA P.S. 1, New York
Surprise, Surprise
ICA – The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Faster! Bigger! Better!
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Protections
Kunsthaus Graz
Why Pictures Now
mumok, Vienna
Kontracom 06
Contemporary Festival, Salzburg
Broken Surface
Sabine Knust Matthias Kunz Editions, Munich
2005
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Monuments for the USA
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco / White Columns, New York
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
EN/OF 001-030
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2004
Lofoten International Art Festival
Interventionen 36 und 37: Monica Bonvicini: Elmgreen & Dragset
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Modus Operandi
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Artists’ Favourites
ICA – The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Die Zehn Gebote
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Works and Days
Louisiana Museum of Moderne Art, Humlebaek
Reordering Reality
Columbus Museum of Art
2003
Utopia Station
50th Venice Biennale
Spectacular
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Skulptur Biennale Münsterland
Münster
Living Inside the Grid
New Museum, New York
Nation
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The Living Museum
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Outlook
Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
2002
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
25th São Paulo Biennial
Pause
4th Gwangju Biennial
XXVII Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra
Beyond Paradise
National Art Gallery, Bangkok
Exposition Collective
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Shopping
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
4pokoje / 4rooms
The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow
Rent-a-bench
Los Angeles
Strike
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2001
Egofugal
7th International Istanbul Biennal
Inside Space
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts
Sets: Performing Surfaces
49th Venice Biennale
AUDIT
Casino Luxembourg
Neue Welt
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Hortus Conclusus
Witte de With, Rotterdam
2000
Borderline Syndrome
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana
Echigo Tsumari Triennial
Tokamachi
Leaving the Island
Pusan Contemporary Art Festival
What If...
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Sporting. Life
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Century of Innocence
Rooseum, Malmö
1999
Signs of Life
Melbourne Biennial
Extinction des Feux
Art & Public, Geneva
1998
Berlin/Berlin
1st Berlin Biennale
Nuit Blanche
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Junge Szene
Wiener Secession, Vienna
Momentum
Moss
Nordic Nomads
White Columns, New York
Warming
The Project, New York
Cool Places
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
1997
The Louisiana Exhibition
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
6. Muestra de Performance Internacional
Mexico City
1996
Between You and Me
Overgaden, Copenhagen
Videos
Selected Press
The New York Times Style Magazine April 2024
Berlin Art Link Magazine January 2024
HUBE Winter 2023
Wallpaper* October 2022
Art Asia Pacific Magazine July/august 2022
CAP 74024 June 2022
Elephant Magazine June 2022
AnOther Magazine May 2022
Artnet News April 2022
Public Art November 2020
The Art Newspaper October 2020
Nomad Magazine October 2019
Sculpture September/October 2019
Wallpaper* August 2019
Artnet News June 2019
Forbes May 2019
Sleek September 2018
The Telegraph September 2018
The Guardian September 2018
Financial Times September 2018
Art Unlimited October 2017
Interview Magazine October 2016
ArtReview Asia Spring 2016