Commissioned for the Sculpture Garden, Eight extends the artists’ decades-long preoccupation with the pool motif. Upended, empty and eternally unswimmable, the 28-foot-tall sculpture emblematises the artists’ mastery of displacement — excerpting familiar objects from people’s surrounding and presenting them as new and strange.
Image: Elmgreen & Dragset, Eight, 2026
Stainless steel, lacquer, lights, stone and concrete
859.2 × 419.1 × 419.1 cm, 338 1/4 × 165 × 165 in
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund with generous support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, 2026
Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Photo: Rick Coulby
October 31 2026
