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The two artists, who used to be a couple but are now just artistic collaborators, recently bought an imposing former water-pumping station from the 1920s in the leafy Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln, renovating it into an airy, unusual live-work space.

“Both privately, and within our art practice, we love spatial challenges," said Dragset, "so we were looking for somewhere we could apply the concepts we had been working with in our art.” The old industrial building, which provides plenty of living space for both artists as well as enough room to create artworks with the help of assistants, cost about the same as a two-bedroom apartment in Oslo, Dragset said.

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