Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been working together as the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset since 1995. Using sculpture, performance, and installation, they explore questions of identity, social relationships, and power structures. They often use everyday items or architectural elements in an unexpected or absurd way, reconfiguring the objects to subvert their intended functions and present them as sculptures. Elmgreen & Dragset’s public artworks often play with their environment to recontextualise it, alter perceptions and create new meanings.

Elmgreen & Dragset have had numerous solo exhibitions at art institutions worldwide. Among their many public sculptures, the most widely known work is Prada Marfa in Texas. Other works include Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime in Tiergarten in Berlin, Han in Helsingør, and Van Gogh’s Ear which has been exhibited in New York and Hong Kong.

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