Andreas Fogarasi


Kultur und Freizeit, 2006

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Obenmarspforten, Tue 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, Wed–Fri 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sat–Sun 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

In his videos, installations, and objects, Andreas Fogarasi (*1977) works with specific cultural practices and forms of institutional representation. For the duration 
of the exhibition, he will present 
a video installation titled “Culture and Leisure Time” in the foyer 
of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. It deals with an accessible black box, a miniature cinema, where Fogarasi’s film on cultural centers in Budapest will be shown. The sculptural quality of the cube, its practical function, and its narrative content – three important props 
for institutional settings – permit 
a number of ways to receive “Culture and Leisure Time.” The video works themselves are about the intriguing field of representative Socialist architecture as one of Hungary’s cultural legacies, and the redefined purposes of today’s cultural club. Fogarasi thus refers to various historical and social levels of the public and its divergent understandings of culture.