Elmgreen & Dragset

• Michael Elmgreen, Born in 1961, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Ingar Dragset, Born in 1969, Trondheim, Norway
  Live and work in Berlin, Germany
  
  Collaborating since 1995

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2023
  READ, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
  David and Other Sculptures, Perrotin, Paris, France 
  Bonne Chance, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  
  2022
  After Dark, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
  Blue Jeans, Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
  Useless Bodies?, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
  Every Moment Counts – AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
  Art in the Elevator, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
  Stand by Me, Massimo de Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris, France
  
  2021 
  The Nervous System, Pace Gallery, New York, USA 
  New Tenants, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France 
  Elmgreen & Dragset (14th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation), Würth Museum 2, Künzelsau, Germany
  Short Story, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  2020    
  Elmgreen & Dragset, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, US
  Elmgreen & Dragset: 2020, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Espoo, Finland
  Short Story, Koenig Galerie, St. Agenes (Berlin), Germany
  
  2019    
  Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US
  It’s Not What You Think, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
  Adaptations, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Overheated, Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Hong Kong
  City in the Sky, part of Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
            
  2018    
  Elmgreen & Dragset: It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  To Whom It May Concern, FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris, France
  This Is How We Bite Our Tongue, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  Elmgreen & Dragset, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  We Are Not Ourselves, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
  
  2017    
  A Good Neighbor (curators), 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  Die Zugezogenen, Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany
  
  2016    
  The Others (curators), König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Elmgreen & Dragset present Galerie Perrotin at the Grand Palais, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  Changing Subjects, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
  Van Gogh’s Ear, Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, US
  Powerless Structures, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  The Well Fair, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
  
  2015    
  Self-Portraits, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
  Lot, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  Aéroport Mille Plateaux, Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Stigma, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy; Massimo de Carlo, London, UK
  Past Tomorrow, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, New York, US
  
  2014    
  Biography, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark
  Editions and Ephemera: 1995-2014, Studio Hugo Opdal, Flø, Norway
  The Old World, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong
  
  2013    
  A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich (curators), Munich, Germany
  Tomorrow, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  
  2012    
  The Critic, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Harvest, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
  Omnes Una Manet Nox, Louis Vuitton Maison, London, UK
  Han, Kulturværftet, Helsingør, Denmark
  Change, Hotel Fornebu, Oslo, Norway
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, The Fourth Plinth 2012, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
  Happy Days in the Art World, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Bergen International Festival, Bergen, Norway
  
  2011    
  The One and the Many, Submarine Wharf, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, Sculpture International, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  The Afterlife of the Mysterious Mr. B, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  Amigos, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  Odd Size, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Happy Days in the Art World, Performa 11, New York University Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, US; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
  Elmgreen & Dragset, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Silent wishes and broken dreams, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany
  
  2010    
  Celebrity: The One and the Many, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2009               
  The Collectors (curators), Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Drama Queens, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Supermodels, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Trying to Remember What We Once Wanted to Forget, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
  
  2008    
  Too Late, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
  Drama Queens, Old Vic Theatre, London, UK
  Home is the Place You Left, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
  Gedenkort für die im Nazionalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen, Berlin, Germany
  
  2007               
  This Is The First Day Of My Life, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  Ti sto pensando, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano di Codroipo, Italy
  A Change Of Mind, Kunst am Bauzaun, Museion Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
  
  2006    
  The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
  Disgrace, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, US
  Would You Like Your Eggs A Little Different This Morning?, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
  The Incidental Self, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2005    
  Prada Marfa, Art Production Fund, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, US
  The Brightness of Shady Lives, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  End Station, Bohen Foundation, New York, US
  The Welfare Show, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Bawag Foundation, Wien, Austria
  Forgotten Baby, Wrong Gallery, New York, US
  Linienstrasse 160, Neue Mitte, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
  Open House, Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel - Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey
  
  2004    
  Intervention 37, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  Blocking the View, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Moving Energies, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  
  2003    
  Short Cut, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy
  Spaced Out Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
  Paris Diaries, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  Phone Home, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
  Constructed Catastrophes, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
  Please Keep Quiet!, Galleri Nicoli Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Don’t Leave Me This Way, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  
  2002    
  How Are You Today?, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano, Italy
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 229, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela Museum, A Coruña, Spain; Fundaciò La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
  Suspended Space, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Please, Keep Quiet, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  2001    
  Taking Place, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 111, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
  Opening Soon, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
  A Room Defined by its Accessibility, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Linienstrasse 160, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
  Elmgreen & Dragset, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  2000    
  Zwischen anderen Ereignissen, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 99, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  1999    
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 57-60, The Project, New York, US
  New Works, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  1998    
  Dug Down Gallery / Powerless Structures, Fig. 45, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
  
  1997    
  To Ken Ishii..., Galleri Struts, Oslo, Norway
  Powerless Structures, Gallery Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark
  12 Hours of White Paint, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
  Sophie Calle. À toi de faire ma Mignonne, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
  Houses of Tove Jansson, The Community, Paris, France
  Jing'an International Sculpture Project, Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China
  Taguchi Art Collection: Your Compass in the “Incredible” Contemporary Art World, Nariwa Museum, Okayama, Japan
  Summer Festival, Taguchi Art Collection, Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan
  Chewing Gum VI, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, China
  Teamwork. 30 Years of CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago, Spain
  French Delights, Perrotin, Bodrum, Turkey
  Looks Alive, Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome, Italy
  Chapter Four: From the APMA Collection, Amore Pacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
  A Journey, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
  Room Service, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan, Italy
  Design for Life: Art and Architecture: Part 1, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, UK
  Their Volumes – Works from the Cristella Collection, Gruppo Cristella, Cortemaggiore, Italy
  BUTTERFLY!, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
  Beyond a Certain Point There is No Return, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  
  2022
  125 Years of Noack, Foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin, Germany
  Impossibles architectures, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nancy, Nancy, France
  CASH on the Wall, Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Berlin, Germany
  MARMOR (MARBLE), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
  Matrix of Gender, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
  HEM (HOME), Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  Why can’t we live together, Collection Peters-Messer, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
  And Now the Good News, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  Politics in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland 
  Homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l'Europe nazie, Metz City Hall, Metz, France
  And I Trust You, Miettinen Collection, Charlottenburg, Germany
  
  2021
  At the End of the Rainbow, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  Statements, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy
  Tempo! All time of the world, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Heilbrunn, Germany
  Work It Out, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark 
  Psychopathia Sexualis, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Monuments for a gravestone, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea 
  SkultpurOdense21, Hollufgård Skultpurparken, Odense, Denmark
  Wild/Schön, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
  Gravmonumenter, Kunthal Aarhus, Arhus, Denmark
  
  2020    
  I Put a Spell On You: Artist Collaborations, SCAD Savanna Museum of Art, Savannah, US
  Walking. Movements North of Bolzano, The Erling Kagge Collection, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  Wände I Walls, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  STUDIO BERLIN, organized by the Boros Foundation, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
  Szene Berlin, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneberg, Holle, Germany
  On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: From the Taguchi Art Collection, Shimonoseki Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
  Friendships as a Way of Life, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
  OH! MY CITY, Paradise Art City, Incheon, Korea
  New World – The Power of Dreams, Iwaki Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
  Shapeshifters, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  Mythologies – The Beginning and End of Civilizations, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Animals in Art, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
  
  2019    
  Feelings - Art and Emotion, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  Art’s Biggest Stage, Clark Institute, Williamson, US
  Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, US
  Art & Porn, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Blickachsen 12, Bad Homburg, Germany
  Political Affairs - Language is not innocent, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Hammershøi (curators), Statens Museum fur Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark
  A Cool Breeze, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  La Source, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
  Tainted Love, Villa Arson, Nice, France
  
  2018    
  Space, Light and Object, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
  Beyond Bliss, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
  Zeitspuren – the power of now, Kunsthaus Biel, Switzerland
  Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, The Met Breuer, New York, US
  Soziale Fassaden, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
  Talk Show Festival, La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, France
  A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, Germany
  Ngorongoro II, Ngorongoro II, Berlin, Germany
  A Good Neighbor, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  No Place Like Home, Museu Coleca Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
  
  2017    
  Commissions from Performa’s Archives, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  Open at Night - Festival of Lights, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
  The Garden - End of Times; Beginning of Times (The Present & The Future), ARoS Triennial, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
  The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, US
  Meet Me in Heaven, Schloss Tüssling, Tüßling, Germany
  Rohkunstbau XXIII, Die Schoenheit im Anderens—The Beauty of Difference, Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose, Germany
  Waiting: Between Power and Possibility, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  JUMP, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  2016    
  Protest, Victoria Miro, London, UK
  Animality: Animals and Art, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
  No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Staged! Spectacle and Role Playing in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
  Fetich: Begærets Objekter, Holsterbro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark
  Gartenschau, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  ta.bu, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
  Roppongi New Space Inaugural Exhibition: MOVED, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Inside Out, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  MetaModern, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, US; Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, US
  
  2015    
  Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
  Little Is Left To Tell (Calvino after Calvino), Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
  Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968 - 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
  Inspired by Soane: I found this and thought of you…, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
  Diamonds Always Come In Small Packages, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
  Homosexualität_en, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Globale Digitale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Slip of the Tongue (curated by Danh Vō), Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy
  Panorama, High Line Art, New York, US
  Days push off into nights, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
  Infinite Eternity, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  All the World's a Stage: Works from the Goetz Collection, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
  No Hablaremos de Picasso, Palacio Municipal Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña, Spain
  More Konzeption Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
  MetaModern, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, US; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, US; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, US 
  
  2014    
  Schamlos? Sexualmoral im Wandel, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Status - 24 Contemporary Documents, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur, Zürich, Switzerland
  Late Harvest, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, US
  Power Memory People – Memorials of today, KØS, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  GOLD, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Miami, US
  Do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  Côté Intérieur, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Germany
  
  2013    
  Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin / 25 ans, Tripostal, Lille, France
  Mom, am I barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  Status - 24 Contemporary Documents, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  Forever Young, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
  For the Time Being, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  Uno Sguardo Sul Mondo Opere Da Una Collezione Privata, Polignano a Mare, Italy
  Love me Gender, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  
  2012    
  But I’m on the Guestlist Too!, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
  Nackte Männer, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
  Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town, Tsunan, Japan
  Fremde überall - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Pomeranz, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Im Raum des Betrachters - Skulptur der Gegenwart, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  Im Raum des Betrachters - Treffpunkt Berlin, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
  TRACK â A Contemporary City Conversation, S.M.A.K., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
  You Are Not Alone, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand
  
  2011    
  Happy Days in the Art World, Performa 11, New York, US
  Street Life and Home Stories, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
  Open House, 3rd Singapore Biennale, Old Kallang Airport, Singapore
  8 ½, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence, Italy
  Portraits, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
  
  2010    
  Fourth Plinth Commission, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK
  Let’s Dance, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
  The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
  Seconde main, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
  Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
  Mask Games, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
  Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Shelf Life, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
  Play it Again!, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
  
  2009    
  Where do we go from here? Selections from La Coleccion Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
  Romantische Maschinen, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
  The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Public, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Millan, Italy
  Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
  New Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
  Entre’acte: Five Nordic Artists at Kukje Gallery, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Home is the place you left, Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
  U-Turn Copenhagen Quadriennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
  Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark
  DRESSing the MESSAGE, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
  Sammlung / Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  Peer to Peer (P2P), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
  The teardrop explodes, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
  Ad Absurdium / Energien des Absurden- von der Klassischen Moderne zur Gegenwart, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
  Walls in the Street, Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia
  Other Than Yourself: An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, Austria
  Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: Sammlung als Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
  La marge d'erreur, Centre d'art contemporain - la Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
  S.T.O.R.A.G.E: Ludovica Gioscia, The Agency Gallery, London, UK
  Schöner Bauen - Besser Schauen, Arcjitektur - und Denkbilder, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
  All Inclusive: A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  2007    
  Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, Münster, Germany
  Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Double Vision, Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, US
  Cuestión Xeracional, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  When We Build Let Us Think We build The Future, BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, UK
  Gjensyn & Fremtiden, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Pensa/Piensa/Think, Centre D’art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
  La cittá che sale, ARCOS, Sannio Contemporary Art Museum, Benevento, Italy
  Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
  Silly Adults, Galeri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Bodypoliticx, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  Mapas, cosmogonías e pumtos e referencia, 2nd Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  This Is Not For You, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, Austria
  Absent Without Leave, Victoria Miro, London, UK
  Into Me / Out of Me, Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (MACRO), Rome, Italy
  Cross-Border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  Un Fair/trade- Die Kunst der Gerchtigkeit, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  
  2006    
  This is not for you: Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, Austria
  All Our Tomorrows, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
  Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
  Group Therapy, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
  Culture Bound / East Wing Collection VII, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
  Surprise, Surprise, ICA, London, UK
  Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1, New York, US
  Anstoß Berlin – Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
  Why pictures Now, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
  Kontracom 06, Contemporary Festival, Salzburg, Germany
  Wrong, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
  Broken Surface, Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
  Elmgreen & Dragset: The Incidental Self, Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2005    
  Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, US
  Monuments for the USA, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US; White Columns, New York, US
  Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel – Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey
  Kiss the Frog. The Art of Transformation, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Oslo, Norway
  Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2004    
  Modus Operandi, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, Austria
  Artists’ Favourites, Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
  Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
  A arañeira. A colección., Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
  Works and Days, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Reordering Reality, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, US
  
  2003    
  Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Living Inside The Grid, New Museum, New York, US
  Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
  Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  The Living Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
  Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Münster, Germany
  Spectacular, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
  
  2002    
  25th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Pause, 4th Gwangju Bienniale, Gwangju, Korea
  Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  Beyond Paradise, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
  Exposition Collective, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
  Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
  No return. Positionen aus der Sammlung Haubrok, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  
  2001    
  Egofugal, 7th International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey
  AUDIT, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  The End of All things, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano, Italy
  Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
  Hortus Conclusus/Breeze of Air, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Inside Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
  TV Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  
  2000    
  Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  What If..., Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Sporting. Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Century of Innocence, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
  Leaving The Island, Busan Contemporary Art Festival, Busan, Korea
  Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Echigo Tsumari, Japan
  
  1999    
  Signs of Life, Melbourne Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
  Extinction des Feux, Art & Public, Geneva Opening, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Germany
  
  1998    
  Junge Szene, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
  Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
  Pakkhus, Momentum, Moss, Norway
  Nuit Blanche, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, US
  Warming, The Project, New York, US
  Cool Places, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
  
  1997    
  The Louisiana Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  6a Muestra de Performance Internacional, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  1996    
  Between You and Me, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Projects

• 2023
  Life Rings, Fig.2, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, US (permanent)
  
  2021
  It’s Just a Phase, K.U.K. Kjøpmannsgata Ung. Kunst, Trondheim, Norway 
  Van Gogh’s Ear, K11 Art Mall, Wuhan, China
  Life Rings, Princess Estelle Foundation, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden (permanent)
  Livredderen, Vestamager Swimming Hall in Tårnby, Denmark (permanent)
  
  2020
  The Hive, Commissioned by Empire State Development in partnership with Public Art Fund for Moynihan Train Hall, New York, US (permanent)
  Pool, No. 8, Commissioned for the Renaissance Project, Gangnam, Seoul, Korea (permanent)
  Van Gogh’s Ear, K11 Musea, Hong Kong
  
  2019
  Bent Pool, Pride Park, Miami Beach Convention Center, City of Miami Beach, US (permanent)
  Point of View, Part 1, Kistefos Museum, Norway (permanent)
  Point of View, Part 2, Kistefos Museum, Norway (permanent)
  
  2018              
  To Whom It May Concern, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France (permanent); commissioned by FIAC Hors les Murs; previously installed at Place Vendôme, Paris, France, 2018
  Forventning, Trondheim, Norway (permanent)
  Van Gogh’s Ear, K11 Art Foundation, Guangzhou, China
  Zero, East Asiatic Building, Bangkok, Thailand (permanent)
   
  2017              
  Dilemma, Ekebergparken, Oslo, Norway (permanent)
   
  2016              
  Van Gogh’s Ear, Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, US
   
  2015              
  Magic Mushrooms, Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark (permanent)
  A Greater Perspective, Previously installed at “PANORAMA”, High Line Art, New York, USA, 2015-2016; “Sculpture Milwaukee”, WI, USA, 2019; “The606”, Damen Arts Plaza, Chicago, USA, 2020
   
  2013              
  The Weight of Oneself, Rives de Saône, Lyon, France (permanent)
   
  2012              
  Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (permanently installed at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark since 2016)
  HAN, Kulturevaerftet, Helsingør, Denmark (permanent)
  
  2011
  It‘s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, Coolsingel, Sculpture International Rotterdam’s (SIR) public art program, Rotterdam, Netherlands (permanent)
   
  2008              
  Gedenkort für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen, Berlin, Germany (permanent)
  
  2007              
  Ti sto pensando, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy (permanent)
   
  2005              
  Prada Marfa, Art Production Fund / Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, US (permanent)
  Tid til mer, plass til fler, Kunstneriske Forstyrrelser, Nordland Fylke, Norway (permanent)
  
  2003
  Short Cut, Previously installed at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy, 2003; “Art Unlimited”, “Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye”, MCA Chicago, USA, 2005
   

Selected Public and Private Collections

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst), Vienna, Austria
  TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemiza Art Contemporary), Vienna, Austria
  Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium
  Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Belgium
  National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
  Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
  BYARTMATTERS, Hangzhou, China
  He Art Museum (HEM), Foshan, China
  K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong SAR, China
  Arken Museum, Ishoj, Denmark
  ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark
  Kobenhavns Billedkunstudvalg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  KOS- Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Koge, Denmark
  KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
  Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhargen, Denmark
  Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
  Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
  Centre Pompidou - Museé national d‘Art moderne, Paris, France
  Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
  Dragonfly Collection, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France
  Fondation Emerige, Paris, France
  Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
  European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Koln, Germany
  Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
  Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Germany
  KAT_Kunst am Turm, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, Germany
  Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
  Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
  me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
  Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Museum Morsroich, Leverkusen, Germany
  Olbricht Collection, Düsseldorf, France
  Pinackothek der Moderne, Munchen, Germany
  Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
  Sammlung Goetz, Munchen, Germany
  Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin, Germany
  Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Stiftung Denkmal, Berlin, Germany
  Würth Museum, Künzelsau, Germany
  Burger Collection, Hong Kong
  Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
  Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
  Museion, South Tyrol, Italy
  Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
  Fukutake Collection, Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan
  Taguchi Art Collection, Japan
  Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts, Anyang, Korea
  Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Hyundai Card, Seoul, Korea
  SpaceK, Seoul, Korea
  Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
  Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR), Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
  Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
  Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway
  Equinor Art Programme, Stavanger, Norway
  Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
  Kode Art Museums, Bergen, Norway
  Kunstneriske Forstyrrelser, Norway
  Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
  Park of the School of Agriculture, Norway
  Statoil Collection, Sandsli, Norway
  Trodheim Kunstmuseum, Trodheim, Norway
  Utsmykingsfondet, Lofoten, Norway
  Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts, Anyang, South Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
  Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain 
  CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea), A Coruña, Spain
  Fundación Maria José Jové, A Coruña, Spain
  Fundación Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
  Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
  MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon), Leon, Spain
  Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Prinsessan Estelles Kulturstiftelse, Stockholm, Sweden
  Nicola Erni Foundation, Zug, Switzerland
  Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
  Soho House, London, UK
  Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  Art Production Fund/Ballroom Marfa, New York, US
  Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, US
  Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, US
  Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  The Contemporary Austin, Texas, US
  The Donum Estate, Sonoma, US
  Gateway Arts Foundation, Las Vegas, US
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, US
  New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, US