Image series 27 / 2026: Elmgreen & Dragset
Artist Duo since 1995
28 June 2026
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By: Bettina Pfleging
The Scandinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, who have been working together as a duo in Berlin since the mid-1990s, are in demand worldwide. Their works challenge familiar spatial structures and various patterns of behaviour and perception. In large-scale installations, they frequently use life-size, naturalistic depictions of people in everyday clothing, which they stage in unsettling situations with subtle humour.
For their current project, Elmgreen & Dragset were invited to engage in a dialogue with the collection at the Städel Museum. Their works are distributed throughout the museum, where they play with perceptions and expectations, reference existing situations, subvert them and humorously take them a step further through their own artworks.
„Elmgreen & Dragset. Stillleben mit Gemüse“
20 May 2026 until 17 January 2027, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Elmgreen & Dragset. End of Natural Behaviour, Ausschnitt, 1996, 303 × 444 mm, Copenhagen; Statens Museum for Kunst
Elmgreen & Dragset. Prada Marfa, Ausschnitt, 2005, 4,6 × 7,6 m, Jeff Davis County; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Elmgreen & Dragset. It`s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, Ausschnitt, 2011, 160 × 70 × 70 cm, Rotterdam; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Elmgreen & Dragset. Han, Ausschnitt, 2012, 190 × 140 × 90 cm, Elsinore; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Elmgreen & Dragset. Van Gogh`s Ear, Ausschnitt, 2016, 900 × 500 × 240 cm, New York; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Elmgreen & Dragset. Dirty Socks, Ausschnitt, 2019, 119 × 62 × 80 cm; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Elmgreen & Dragset. Masculinity, Ausschnitt, 2023, 40 × 27,5 × 32 cm; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Elmgreen & Dragset. Ausstellungsansicht „Elmgreen & Dragset. Stillleben mit Gemüse“, Ausschnitt, 2026, Frankfurt am Main; Upload-Datenbank, prometheus – Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre
