AMOREPACIFIC MUSEUM OF ART – Curator led private tour

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The Amorepacific Museum of Art is thrilled to present Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces. The internationally-known Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have continually redefined exhibition-making the ways in which art can be experienced. Presenting over sixty works within five immersive installations–a Full-scale family house, a public pool, a restaurant with an adjacent kitchen, and an artist’s studio–this exhibition marks their most extensive presentation in Asia to date.

AMPA | Elmgreen & Dragset, The Screen, 2021. Photo Elmar Vestner

Within Spaces, viewers will experience new installations of unprecedented scale and form. In Exhibition Room 1, visitors can enter a 140 square meter single-family house designed by the Elmgreen & Dragset, explore its various rooms dotted with sculptural works and furniture pieces, and uncover clues about the lives of its fictional inhabitants. In Exhibition Room 2, the duo will install a to-scale public pool emptied of water. This melancholic image–a recurring motif in their oeuvre–suggests the decline of civic gathering spaces and the subsequent loss of community. Finally, visitors will encounter a restaurant name The Cloud. Seemingly caught between its opening hours, the space will be empty except for a lifelike figure of a young woman in the middle of a FaceTime conversation. Other installations will include an industrial kitchen that is reminiscent of a laboratory and an artist’s studio.

AMPA | Elmgreen & Dragset, The Painter, Fig. 2, 2021. Photo Elmar Vestner

Through this expansive survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s spatial practice, the Amorepacific Museum of Arts seeks to provide its visitors with the unique opportunity to uncover unexpected interpretations of everyday realities. Featuring a combination of existing and new works by Elmgreen & Dragset, these architectural interventions will encourage visitors to hunt for narrative threads embedded within the exhibition and become protagonists of the story along the way.

[Exhibition Details]

• Title: Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces
• Dates: Sep. 3(Tue), 2024 – Feb. 23 (Sun), 2025
• Venue: Amorepacific Museum of Art (100, Hangang-daero, Yongsan-gu, Seoul)