Elmgreen & Dragset
Stillleben mit Gemüse

The Contemporary Art Collection will feature two immersive installations that, together with sculptures and interventions by the artists, will radiate throughout the entire building and into the neighbouring Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung. On their tour, visitors will experience how works of art from the Städel Museum spanning over 700 years enter into dialogues and formerly hidden connections become visible. These encounters subtly alter the flow through the Städel, creating a series of almost-surreal constellations and placing the visitors themselves at the centre of the experience.

Since 1995, Elmgreen & Dragset have worked internationally at the intersection of architecture, installation art and performance, deconstructing seemingly fixed spatial structures and transforming public and institutional spaces. With the exhibition, the duo reflects on how the ideological control mechanisms embedded in familiar spatial designs, such as office landscapes, can influence our behavioural patterns. By redirecting visitors’ gazes, Elmgreen & Dragset draw attention to moments that are easily overlooked, creating poetic scenes imbued with equal measures of scepticism and humour.

Curator
Svenja Grosser (Head of Contemporary Art Collection, Städel Museum)
Project Manager
Maja Lisewski (Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art Collection, Städel Museum)

Sponsored by 
Gemeinnützige Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain GmbH, SEB, Städelscher Museums-Verein e. V.
With additional support from 
New Carlsberg Foundation