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Danish-Norwegian artist duo

Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995.

Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.

Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin. They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses social and cultural concerns.^[1][2]

Life and work

The duo met in Copenhagen in 1994, when Michael Elmgreen, who was born in the city in 1961, was writing and performing poetry, and Ingar Dragset, a Norwegian born in 1969, was studying theatre.^[3] They started collaborating in 1995 and moved to Berlin in 1997.

In 2006, they bought a large 1000m² former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln borough from the city^[3] and converted it into a studio.^[4] In 2008, Elmgreen moved to London, and in 2015, he mo