Elmgreen & Dragset - Hatje Cantz

A minimalist, top-down photograph of a closed, black, hardcover book with a plain cover, positioned vertically on a white background. A soft shadow is visible along its left edge, and the spine is on the right.

A studio photo of a thick, black hardcover book titled SPACES by Elmgreen & Dragset, angled on a white surface. The cover features a photograph of a modern interior viewed from above through a dark, grid-like ceiling structure.

An open book displays a two-page photograph of a sterile, minimalist indoor swimming pool with large concrete pillars. The surreal scene contains three small, all-white figures: one sits on a high lifeguard chair with binoculars, another in a protective suit stands by the water's edge, and a third looks out a door.

An open book on a white background displays a two-page photo spread. On the left, a person hangs from the high ceiling of a modern, white industrial-style building. On the right, a person in pink pajamas lies on their side across a long conference table, with a large pink plush toy sitting in a chair at the end.

An open book displays a two-page photograph of a spacious, futuristic room bathed in pink light. On the polished wooden floor in the foreground, a small white kitten sits on a spotlit, circular platform with a target design. In the background, there is a curved white bar and several glowing, circular targets mounted on the far wall.

A studio shot of two hardcover art books by Elmgreen & Dragset, angled against a white background. The top book, titled Sculptures, features a photo of the Prada Marfa installation in the desert. It lies on top of a darker book titled Spaces, which has a cover with a modern architectural design.

A two-page spread from a book or catalog. The left page has a large, bold heading that reads Foreword and Acknowledgments, with Dr. Seungchang Jeon written below. The right page contains several paragraphs of text introducing an art exhibition by Elmgreen & Dragset at the Amorepacific Museum of Art.

A two-page spread from an art publication. The left page shows a photograph of a modern, concrete museum interior where a realistic sculpture of a young man hangs by one arm from a high wire. He is suspended over a deep, open stairwell. The right page features the title, Spaces, 2024, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, followed by descriptive text about the exhibition.

A black-and-white diptych showing a modern art exhibition in a gallery. On the left, two all-white, life-sized sculptures of men interact with mirrored surfaces on the wall and floor. On the right, one of the sculptures bends to pour a white liquid onto a mirror embedded in the floor, with a view into a bright yellow room in the background.

A page spread from a book about the 2009 Venice Biennale exhibition, The Collectors. On the left is a photo of a man in a grey suit and a woman in a patterned dress posing as real estate agents outside a modern house with a large For Sale sign. The text on the right explains that this was an art installation by Elmgreen & Dragset.

A two-page book spread featuring two contrasting, surreal interior scenes. On the left, a bathroom with wood-paneled walls and large tree trunks growing from a white pebble floor next to modern sinks and a shower. On the right, a minimalist concrete room with a sunken pit of black shag carpet, surrounded by an old television, a pink flamingo statue, and two sculptures on pedestals.

A diptych of photographs showing an empty indoor swimming pool. The large image on the left shows the turquoise pool with a black chair on the deck, a wooden gym ladder on the mint-green wall, and a lit fluorescent tube lying on the dirty pool floor. The smaller image on the right shows a group of schoolchildren in red uniforms standing at the edge of the same empty pool.

An interior view of a contemporary art gallery with concrete floors and an exposed ceiling. The space is filled with angular white partitions, a large dark marble slab with a black sculptural chair, a screen displaying a classical painting on the left wall, and a white abstract foot sculpture on a mirrored pedestal to the right.

An interior shot of an art gallery in a long, tunnel-like corridor with corrugated metal walls. Four people wearing white protective coveralls are looking at black and white photographs displayed along the curved walls, one of which shows a pair of hands holding a small bird.

A two-panel image showing a stark contrast between a public and a private space. On the left, a bright, empty waiting area with white walls and black chairs leads to a dark room. On the right, a Black man in a suit sits in a dimly lit security control room, monitoring a large bank of twelve surveillance screens.

A television studio set for an interview, bathed in a magenta glow. In the foreground, a large professional broadcast camera is pointed towards two empty, modern purple chairs and a small table. On the dark wall behind them, a bright pink neon sign in cursive script reads Bonne Chance.

A two-page spread from an art book about the 2008 installation Too Late by Elmgreen & Dragset. The left page shows a nighttime photo of several men standing outside the Victoria Miro Gallery, which has a pink neon sign above the door reading The Mirror, making it look like a nightclub. The right page contains explanatory text about the artwork.

A page from a book or catalog with a minimalist layout. The title at the top left reads Elmgreen & Dragset in Conversation with Dieter Roelstraete. The body of the text, an interview between the artists and the writer, is set in two columns on the right side of the page, surrounded by a large amount of white space. The page number 277 is visible at the bottom right corner.

Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces

€ 64.00

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By (artist): Elmgreen & Dragset

Preface by: Sarah Yoon, Yookyung Sohn

Interviewee: Dieter Roelstraete, Elmgreen & Dragset

November 2024, 352 Pages, 310 Photos

Hardcover

243mm x 301mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5723-2

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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The large-scale installations of the artist duo

Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces is the first comprehensive publication to focus exclusively on the artist duo's large-scale installations. Since the early 2000s, Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed conventional exhibition spaces into both familiar and unexpected environments. These spaces invite visitors to question the social, cultural, and political structures that pervade everyday life. Art historical essays and comprehensive desriptions of past exhibitions provide an illuminating overview of important aspects of their work.

Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961, Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset (b.1969, Trondheim) are based in Berlin and have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. They have held solo shows worldwide at institutions including the Tate Modern and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Fondazione Prada in Milan, and Centre Pompidou in Metz. They have been awarded several prizes, including the 2002 Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin and a Special Mention in 2009 for their exhibition The Collectors in the Danish and the Nordic Pavilions at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

EXHIBITION

Spaces
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
September 3, 2024-February 23, 2025

L'Addition
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
October 15, 2024-February 2, 2025