Elmgreen & Dragset. Handle with Care

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Goetz Collection /showcase
Elmgreen & Dragset. Handle with Care
December 5, 2025 - February 28, 2026

With Handle with Care, Elmgreen & Dragset open the new showcase of the Sammlung Goetz in Munich. In combination with works by Rosemarie Trockel, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and Tom Sachs, a multi-layered parcours is created that raises questions about vulnerability, identity and the tensions between private and public space.

Opening hours

Tuesday and Wednesday: 12:00 - 18:00
Thursday and Friday: 14:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 12:00 - 18:00

Admission € 4 | reduced € 3

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Pacellistrasse 5
80335 Munich

The Sammlung Goetz has a new exhibition space for interim use in Pacellistraße in the heart of Munich. It is a room with floor-to-ceiling windows in the row of stores in Sep Ruf's Neue Maxburg. The new location is intended to function as a shop window through which the Goetz Collection will remain visible even during the closure of the main store in Oberföhring. The name "Schaufenster" refers both to the location of the new exhibition space and to the curatorial concept that has been developed for it. It provides for the presentation of important artistic positions from the Goetz Collection in curated temporary exhibitions.

The Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset will kick things off with the exhibition Handle with Care. The ambiguous title refers on the one hand to the well-known warning sign often found on crates used to transport art, but on the other hand also to care in human interaction. Many of Elmgreen & Dragset's works operate within this field of tension. In their expansive installations, they often use life-size, naturalistic images of people in everyday clothing, which they stage in irritating situations. The Berlin-based artist duo, consisting of Michael Elmgreen (*1961, Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset (*1969, Trondheim), have been working together since 1995. They have had solo exhibitions worldwide in renowned institutions such as the Tate Modern and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen and the Fondazione Prada in Milan.

Elmgreen & Dragset are not only known for their subversive, socially critical work and their subtle humor, but also for their curatorial concepts, in which they enter into a dialogue with the respective location. These include their highly acclaimed exhibition The Collectors in the Danish and Nordic pavilions at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009), the exhibition Silent Wishes and Broken Dreams at the Bavarian State Opera (2011) and A Space Called Public (2013), in which they examined the significance of public space in Munich. For the Schaufenster, the Sammlung Goetz's new exhibition space on Pacellistraße, they have developed an exhibition concept with their works from the collection that not only enters into a dialog with the location, but also incorporates works by other artists. With knitted pictures by Rosemarie Trockel, staged self-portraits by Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince and the burnt-in oversized dollar bill by Tom Sachs, they create a course between private and public space, raising questions about the commercialization of art, the fragility of human identities and the increasing loneliness of human individuals in an increasingly harsh world.

Concept: Elmgreen & Dragset; Curator: Karsten Löckemann

Price information:

Admission regular € 4 | reduced € 3