Jun 15, 2026
Review: The Mass of Money - Strategies from Art and Science on Capital and Inequality
What remains when money is seen not only as a means of payment, but also as a social force? The workshop "The Mass of Money" opened up perspectives on capital, power and inequality.
What remains when money is viewed not merely as a means of payment, but as a social force? The two-day workshop “The Mass of Money – Strategies from Art and Science on Capital and Inequality,” held as part of the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026, brought together perspectives from art, science, and society to renegotiate questions of wealth, power, and inequality. From the faculty, Prof. Dr. Alexander Kemnitz (Chair of Economics, esp. Economic Policy and Economic Research) and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf (Chair of Business Administration, esp. Finance and Financial Services) helped organize the workshop.
The event takes as its starting point the artistic research project “The Mass of Money” by the internationally active artist duo Quadrature (Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch), which examines global financial flows, capital accumulation, and social inequality using artistic methods and translates them into data-based and audiovisual formats. The focus was on the question of how the often abstract and invisible dynamics of capital can be made visible, tangible, and open to critical reflection.
The workshop was organized by Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch (Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026, artist duo Quadrature) together with Nelly Saibel (Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden), David Braun (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) and Felix Reith (University of Bonn), as well as Pauline Hohn, Gwendolin Kremer, and Celina Wagenknecht (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden).