Portrait of Michael Elmgreen (left) and Ingar Dragset (right) © the artist. Courtesy The Louisiana Museaum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Photography: Kirsten Pieroth Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset Untitled "Untitled" is a series of eight-week displays focusing on a particular theme or tendency in contemporary art practice. The first year's programme, "The Public World of the Private Space", considers the human condition in public and private environments, and in particular, the representation of space in these spheres. A new display space has been created on Level 2, with a window on the north facade, by architects Herzog & De Meuron. Michael Elmgreen was born in 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark and Ingar Dragset was born in 1969 in Trodheim, Norway. They live and work in Berlin. Elmgreen and Dragset have collaborated since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. This is particularly evident in the series of works entitled "Powerless Structures" in which they transformed the conventions of the "white cube" gallery space, creating galleries suspended from the celing, sunk into the ground or turned upside down. For "Untitled" Elmgreen and Dragset have created a site-specific work. Recent exhibitions include "Short Cut" at the Foundazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2003), "Spaced Out", Portikus, Frankfurt (2003) and "Utopia Station" at the fiftieth Venice Biennale (2003). Exhibition: 12 May - 4 July 2004 Opening hours: Sun-Thu 10am - 6pm, Fri/Sat 10am - 10pm Tate Modern (Untitled gallery, Level 2) Bankside UK-London, SE1 9TG Telephone +44 020 7887 8000 www.tate.org.uk |
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