A provocative and conceptually charged work by Maurizio Cattelan, *Fondazione Oblomov* draws on the literary archetype of inertia and willful inaction embodied by Goncharov's famously idle protagonist. True to Cattelan's sardonic wit, the piece toys with the notion of institutional power and creative paralysis, framing idleness itself as a kind of artistic or organizational mission. The work encapsulates the artist's signature ability to expose the absurdities embedded within structures of authority, ambition, and cultural production.