Artist tour

The artist Markus Wörgötter guides visitors through his exhibition “Affektproband”.

The life-size figures that populate the wood-panelled rooms of the Folk Art Museum appear gloomy and grotesque. They are strange figures made of plaster, textiles and bronze. Some of them seem familiar, others terribly strange.

What is body, what is mask, costume?

As “subjects of affect”, these bodies seem permeable to forces that transcend the boundaries of their bodies: Through their presence, the historical ambience mutates into a stage, exposing the parlours as a staging of museum theatre alongside drawings and historical reference works.