Andreas Fogarasi
Andreas Fogarasi (*1977, Vienna) is through his installations, sculptures, videos, and photographs concerned with the act of showing and of representation. He analyses how places, cities, political ideas, or historic events become images and questions the role of culture – art, architecture, and design – in this process. Underlying his works is his critical examination of the mechanisms with which political appropriation operates in the field of visual culture today: the process of culturalisation of the economy – be it through „creative“ models of working and remuneration, through culture being the motor behind urban reconstruction, or as a factor in the competition for attracting tourists, investors, and media attention.
Formally informed by Minimal Art and Conceptual Art, Fogarasi’s works are at the same time documentary and autonomous sculptures. The documentary element is consciously fractured and rests on a precise balance between information and openness. The sculptural aspect is strongly architectural, often referencing iconic landmarks, commercial presentations or temporary forms of architecture such as stands at fairs, stage constructions, or pavilions.
Andreas Fogarasi was awarded the renowned Otto Mauer Prize (2016) and in 2007 the Golden Lion for his exhibition in the Hungarian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work was represented in numerous exhibitions internationally, solo exhibitions include City Gallery, Bratislava, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (2017), Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2016), MAK Center for Art and Architecture (with Oscar Tuazon), Los Angeles (2014), Galerie fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2014), Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna (2013), Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2012), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, CAAC, Sevilla (2011), Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2010), MAK, Vienna, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2008), Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna (2006).
Biography
1977 born in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Cities, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
2023
Figur, Kunstfenster Gnas, Gnas
Kyiv, Brussels, Budapest, Vintage Galéria, Budapest
Last Minutes, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag (wit Markéta Othová)
Letting Do, Torula Artspace, Györ (with Adrienn Kiss)
1978, QUARTZ STUDIO, Turin
2028, vai - Vorarlberger Architektur Institut, Dornbirn
2022
Skin Calender, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
Five Ways of Telling Time, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (with Mariana Castillo Deball)
2021
Up and Down, Vi Per Gallery, Prague
2020
MI, Vintage Galérie, Budapest (with Christian Kosmas Mayer)
2019
Nine Buildings, Stripped, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Work, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
Vasarely Go Home, Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris
Kultur und Freizeit, Per Albin, Vienna (with Christoph Ruckhäberle)
2018
Production, FL Gallery, Milan
Kettő / Two, Vintage Galéria, Budapest
Monuments offerts, Galerie Thomas Bernard / Cortex Athletico, Paris
Black Concrete, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (with Martina Steckholzer)
2017
Culture and Free Time, Csili Cultural Center, Budapest
Exhibition/s, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Plan, Galéria mesta Bratislavy/Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava
Copy, Kunstbuero, Vienna
2016
Sculpture, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Book Launch, LAMOA - Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Modelle, Jesuitenfoyer, Vienna
2015
Installation, Tranzit, Iași (Rumania)
Video, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
Photography, amt _ project, Bratislava
Tracks and Traces, City Museum, Belgrade (with Sasa Tkacenko)
2014
Black Earth, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (mit Oscar Tuazon)
Vasarely Go Home, GFZK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Vasarely Go Home, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
1988, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
2013
Année Le Nôtre, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Paris
Kiosk (Buda), Park Galéria, Budapest
Kiosk (Buda), Georg Kargl Permanent, Viennaa
2012
2018, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
180°, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (with Mladen Bizumic)
Vasarely Go Home, Trafó, Budapest
Vasarely Go Home, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
Épitészet / Architecture, Liget Galéria, Budapest
Headlines and Small Print, Galerija Nova, Zagreb (with Maryam Jafri)
2011
La Ciudad de Color / Vasarely Go Home, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Constructing / Dismantling, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
Solo presentation, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Armory Show, New York
2010
Georgetown, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
1998, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2008
Fairview, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Support Surface, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
2008, MAK, Vienna
Információ, Ernst Museum, Budapest
Kultur und Freizeit, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
2007
Kultur und Freizeit, Hungarian Pavilion, 52. Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2006
Norden, Georg Kargl Box, Vienna
2005
Westen (aka Osten), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Süden, Porschehof/Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2004
A ist der Name für ein Modell / Étrangement proche, Liget Galéria, Budapest
2003
ABCity (The Player), Trafó, Budapest (curator)
Welcome to Regions, Display Gallery, Prague
A ist der Name für ein Modell / Étrangement proche, Offspace, Vienna
2002
Kultúrapark, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
Culture Park, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
1999
Modell Ambient (Bunte Laune), Transit VZW, Mechelen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Loose Ends, Modest Common, Los Angeles
Täterätää! Back with a Bang! KEX Reopens, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2023
Handle with Care, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Coincidence of Wants, Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna
Humans and Demons, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Schau...9, Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt
Here and Now II - Vienna Sculpture 2022, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Wir legen alles Geld zusammen, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf
Verzweigt. Bäume in Fotografien der Sammlung SpallArt, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, Rosenheim
Spectacular City, Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest
2022
On/Off the Grid, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara
Wiener Freiheit, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt
I Had a Dog and a Cat, curated by Hana Ostan Ozbolt, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Lost in Space, Raum, Ding und Figur – Entwicklungen innerhalb der Skulptur seit 1945, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha
2021
CELOK JE MENŠÍ AKO SÚČET JEHO ČASTÍ, City Gallery Bratislava, Bratislava
Mäusebunker & Hygieneinstitut. Experimental Setup BERLIN Architetture di G+M Hänska I Fehling + Gogel, Sala Espositivo Gino Valle, Venice
Haus Wien, Vienna
Zwischen den Dingen, Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
PROSTESTFormen, www.paraflows.at (online)
Frech und Frei, MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna
SHOWING STYRIA: what will be. Towards the Plurality of Futures, STEIERMARKSCHAU / Kunst Haus Graz, Graz
2020
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Gallery for Peace, Umetnostna galerija Maribor
Trafó Galéria, Budapest
2019
40.000 Ein Museum der Neugier, 14. Fellbach Triennale, Fellbach
Im Raum die Zeit lesen, MUMOK, Vienna
Iparterv 50+, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Presencia lúcida, Colección ESPAC, Mexico City
Hommage à 1969, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Panel, MODEM, Debrecen
Textus Ex Machina, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2018
para inglês ver, Post Ford Palace, Porto
Into the City, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Universe of Relations, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok
Seeing artists voices, Metro, Porto
Stúdió’18 - Szalon, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
Reduction, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Ist Eros der eben jetzt von mir beobachtete Planet?, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2017
Wanderings, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon
Traces of Time, Leopold Museum, Vienna
OFF Biennale, Budapest
Gazdálkodj okosan! / Economize!, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Ice Floe – The institutional issue, National Museum for the Visual Arts, Montevideo
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
10 years old, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena
Save As... – What Will Remain of New Media Art?, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
LAMOA presents: Mülheim/Ruhr und die 1970er-Jahre, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr
moi non moi, Wiener Art Foundation in Athens, Athens
2016
The Errors of Beauty, National Gallery, Sofia
The Language of Things – Material Hi/Stories from the Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna
Grenzen der Geste, Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
The Past is the Past, Galerie Thomas Bernard / Cortex Athletico, Paris
Cartography of Artist Solidarity, tranzit.hu, Budapest
Art Capital, Müvészet Malom, Szentendre (Hungary)
2015
Destination Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Nadezhda – The Hope Principle, special project for the 6th Moscow Biennial, Moskow
Wohin gehen wir? Videokunst zur Stadtgesellschaft, Motorenhalle, Dresden
Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Inside Out - Not So White Cube, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana
Sector 17, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
[ ], Schwarzwaldallee, Basel
Close Up, etc. galerie, Prague
El Presente en el Pasado, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
Vienna Biennale – 24/7. the human condition, MAK, Vienna
Der Raum nach dem Raum, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
2014
I Know Not to Know, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
El Teatro del Mundo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York
Turning Points, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Notes from Underground, Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla (Bulgaria)
Frisch eingetroffen – Neuankäufe Fotografie, Landesgalerie Linz des OÖ. Landesmuseums, Linz
Texte in der Kunst, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Urbane Perspektiven - Dark City, Schafhof - Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising
Interieurs, Landesgalerie Linz des OÖ. Landesmuseums, Linz
2013
Word+Work, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Jetztzeit (El tiempo del ahora), Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida (Spain)
Modern Architecture Works, Vivacom Arthall, Sofia
Cinematic Scope, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
De belles sculptures contemporaines – la collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire, Hab Galerie, Nantes
Conceptualism Today – Conceptual Art in Hungary since the beginning of the 1990s, Paksi Képtár, Paks
Die Sammlung 2 / The Collection 2, 21er Haus, Vienna
2012
Ça & Là / This & There, Fondation Ricard, Paris
Montag ist erst übermorgen, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Gallery by Night, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
Bleibende Werte? /Enduring Value?, Kunsthaus, Bregenz
Demnächst, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
Die Sammlung / The Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna
State of Affairs, amt _ project, Bratislava
2011
Erschaute Bauten / Envisioned Buildings, MAK, Vienna
Beziehungsarbeit, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Monument Valley – Jaegerspris Revisited, UFO presents, Berlin
5x5 2011, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló (Spain)
Shift and Flow, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York
alter///scrinium – Ten Theses of Architecture, 9th International Film Festival, Vladivostok
In Between, Austria Contemporary, CAC, Vilnius
Magáért beszél, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Where is my Place, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
Passion of an Ornithologist. On Myth Making, BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz (Poland)
NeoSI #2: neue Situationistische Inter......nationale, Kunstraum Schattendorf (Austria)
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
2010
Related Spaces, Ernst Museum, Budapest
There has been no Future, there will be no Past, ISCP, New York
Architecture and Context – Breuer in Pécs, Fuga – Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest
La Ciudad Interpretada, Public Space/CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
Paisatge. Paisatge?, Angels Barcelona
Over the Counter, Mücsarnok, Budapest
Le présent du passé, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Gétigné-Clisson
Unmistakable Sentences, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Transitland, Space Gallery, Bratislava
Art Always has its Consequences, (former) Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Arrivals and Departures_Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
A Pair of Left Shoes, MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2009
TypoPass, Labor, Budapest
History, Memory, Identity, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
BC 21 Art Award, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
A Pair of Left Shoes, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
Új szerzemények – rég nem látott művek, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Reduction&Suspense, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
El Pasado en el Presente, Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon
Reading the City, ev+a Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick
Fifty Fifty, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna
Figure/Ground, Transit, Mechelen
Rewind, Fast Forward – Video Art from the Collection, Neue Galerie, Graz
Expanded Box – Cinema, ARCO, Madrid
2008
Moirés, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Colección Pecar. Atemporalidad, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Santander
In Between, Austria Contemporary, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
6th International Biennale, Gyumri (Armenia)
Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel
50, Studio Galeria, Budapest
Islands+Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstverein
Scene Missing, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Scene Missing, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Phantasies of the Beginning, Billboard Gallery, Bratislava
Undiszipliniert, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Am Puls der Stadt – 2000 Jahre Karlsplatz, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna
2007
Cine y casi cine, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Kapitaler Glanz, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Models for Tomorrow: Cologne, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
2006
This Land is my Land, NGBK, Berlin
Center, MAK Center, Los Angeles
wood, photographs, aluminium plate, LED, table, book, silkscreen, personal computer, monitor, web connection, nivea cream, video, paper, graphite, pencil, acrylic, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
How to do Things?, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
This Land is my Land, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Der Raum zwischen zwei Bildern, Fotohof, Salzburg
Geschichte(n) vor Ort, Volkertviertel, Vienna
How to do Things?, Trafó, Budapest
2005
Re:Modern, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Brutal Ornamental, Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna
Reading in Absence, Trafó, Budapest
Utopie : Freiheit, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Alice Creischer/Andreas Siekmann, Andreas Fogarasi, Dorit Margreiter, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (permanent)
Storyboards – Trapped in the escape, Vector Gallery, Iași (Rumania)
citysellingcitytelling, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2004
Images of Violence/Violence of Images, Biennale of Young Artists, Bucharest
Living Room, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Wiener Linien, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna
Video as Urban Condition, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Formate – (re-)constructing the city, Galeria Noua, Bukarest
2003
Gegeben sind... Konstruktion und Situation, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Balkan Konsulat proudly presents: Budapest, Rotor, Graz
GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Gravitation, Moszkva tér, Budapest
Grosser Sommer an der Thaya, Drosendorf
2002
Site-Seeing: Disneyfication of Cities?, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London
Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
Double Bind, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
Gallery by Night, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
2001
Szerviz, Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
Real presence, Studentski Kulturni Centar, Belgrade
A table, an office, a building..., Semperdepot, Vienna
January Show, Passagegalerie Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2000
block, Apex Art, New York
99/00, Semperdepot, Vienna
1998
Clarice Works, Zentnerstrasse 18, Munich
1997
Új stúdiósok, Duna Galéria, Budapest
1995
Odyssee today, University of Athens, Athens
Odyssee today, Depot, Vienna
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