The Mass of Money – Exhibition by Quadrature, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026

Opening: September 29, 2026, 7:00 PM
Duration: September 30, 2026 – January 22, 2027
Venue: University Gallery in the Görges Building, Helmholtzstraße 9, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Closed: December 24, 2026 – January 1, 2027
Admission: Free
Flyer "The Mass of Money"

Curatorial team: Gwendolin Kremer, Pauline Hohn, and Andreas Kempe

Beginning on From September 30, 2026, the artist duo Quadrature (Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch) will present „The Mass of Money“, an exhibition showcasing the outcomes of their Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026. The exhibition brings together the processes and questions that emerged during their artistic research residency at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden.

Drawing on economic data, the artistic project translates abstract market processes, hidden concentrations of wealth, and the opaque superlatives of extreme wealth into planetary analogies. In an immersive installation, these interrelations condense into a digital cosmos that opens up speculative perspectives on the dynamics of global wealth distribution. The installation is based on the assumption that wealth has a self-reinforcing power of attraction: capital attracts additional capital, thereby contributing to the ongoing concentration of wealth.

The internationally successful media artists Juliane Götz (*1984, Erding; lives in Heidesee/Linz) and Sebastian Neitsch (*1982, Hamburg; lives in Heidesee/Linz) have been working as a duo since 2015 at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Using data as artistic material, they explore questions related to social and scientific discourses, as well as collective structures of power and inequality.
Sebastian Neitsch and Juliane Götz studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. The duo has received numerous international awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica (2015 and 2018). Additionally they have been awarded a range of grants and residencies from institutions such as Stiftung Kunstfonds, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Hertz Lab at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. From October 2026 onward, they will hold the Professorship for Interface Cultures at the University of Arts Linz.

Research partners of Quadrature at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

• Alexander Kemnitz (Chair of Economics, esp. Economic Policy and Economic Research, TUD)
• Lars Hornuf (Chair of Business Administration, esp. Finance and Financial Technology, TUD)
• Axel Voigt (Chair of Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics, TUD)
• Florian Tschorsch (Chair of Privacy and Security, TUD)
• Nelly Saibel (Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden, TUD)
• David Braun and Felix Reith (student initiative “Critical Economics”)

Accompanying Programme to the Exhibition:
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 7 pm
Exhibition Opening

Words of Welcome
Prof. Ursula M. Staudinger, Rector of TUD
Ingo Smit, Chairman of the Board of THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION
Kirsten Vincenz, Spokesperson for Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden and Director of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, TUD 
Introduction
Gwendolin Kremer and Pauline Hohn, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden | Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, TUD 

Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 1 pm
Thematic guided tour (in german): “You Can’t Imitate Gold”: On the Invisible Hand of the Market and the Gravity of Money

Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 5:30 pm
Curators’ tour (in german)

Wednesday, 11 November 2026, 12 noon
Curators’ tour (in german)

Thursday, 26 November 2026, 6 pm
Artist Talk with the artist duo Quadrature as part of their exhibition The Mass of Money (in german)

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 5:30 pm
Thematic guided tour (in german): “You Can’t Imitate Gold”: On the Invisible Hand of the Market and the Gravity of Money

Wednesday, 20 January 2027, 1 pm
Curators’ tour (in german)