Hungarian Cultural Center in collaboration with Romanian Cultural Institute presents: The Other City, What became of modernist housing.

The result of a collaboration between artists and architects, curators and institutions, The Other City is an international exhibition in two venues. Featuring works made on both sides of the Atlantic, the exhibition explores the ideologies behind the postwar initiatives of public housing projects, the conditions these buildings have provided for their inhabitants, as well as the agenda of those who support or criticize them. The two venues represent two different approaches: in the Romanian Gallery, we show works that deal with social reality, everyday situations, and personal narratives; in the Hungarian Cultural Center, the works address housing projects from a historical and ideological perspective. While the exhibitions mainly discuss the fundamental concepts, historical moments, and the current post-socialist climate, we believe they will also provoke the New York audience to contemplate and question housing projects in the US.

The works are in a variety of media, from films that trace the transformation of the cityscape over decades (Józef Robakowski) to research-based descriptions of personalized spaces (Mircea Cantor, Ágnes Dénes/Zsolt Keserue/Levente Polyák/Borbála Szalai) and installations showing possible future scenarios (Miklós Mécs, Mircea Munteanu). Ideologies appear as critical observation (Michael Rakowitz, Tadej Pogačar), playful speculation (Société Réaliste, Terence Gower) or narratives for reading the city (Florin Tudor and Mona Vătămanu).

Dates
Hungarian Cultural Center: 20 October - 09 December 2007
Romanian Cultural Institute: 26 October - 22 November 2007

Artists
Hungarian Cultural Center: Zbyněk Baladrán, Ágnes Dénes / Zsolt Keserue / Levente Polyák / Borbála Szalai, Terence Gower, Michael Rakowitz, Pia Rönicke, Société Réaliste, Miklós Mécs, Florin Tudor and Mona Vătămanu.

Romanian Cultural Institute: Mircea Cantor, Miklós Erhardt, Mircea Munteanu, Tadej Pogačar, Józef Robakowski, Sarolta Szabó.