In her installation, Rosanna Marie Pondorf takes on the difficult task of making the increasingly complex monetary system tangible and comprehensible. The starting point of the installation is a massive block of devalued, shredded euro notes and sugar, which stands as a compressed mass in the room and functions as a symbol for the increasingly limited use of the materially existing cash. This is juxtaposed with an earlier work, which was made as a wall object from euro notes using a similar technique. Pondorf‘s artistic development was to be shaped by her 20th birthday, when her father gave her 100,000 cancelled Deutschmark notes as a present. This gag developed into a profound interest in the subject matter, which led her to an ever-increasing exploration of the topic and its direct processing in her art. The step into the digital financial system manifests itself in further objects that the artist presents as part of the installation: In the spirit of the open source idea, she shares information with us on how to print a credit card. She laminates the 200 transparent printing instructions in such a way that a block is created, which loses the suggested transparency due to the density of information. The blank credit cards created by this process are also on display. They are anonymised and stacked on top of each other; the chip and magnetic tape are empty. On the wall there is a discreet indication of how visitors to the exhibition can build a house of cards from them and thus participate interactively in the installation. Despite their small size, the credit cards take up much more space than the cash and thus symbolise the virtual monetary system. The erasure of any individuality creates empty virtual spaces without any information content. (...)

blanko credits_proof

2019
inkjet prints on transparent paper, X-Film, steel 
21 x 29,7 x 5 cm

blanko credits_proof

2019
inkjet prints on transparent paper, X-Film, steel 
21 x 29,7 x 5 cm

blanko credits_

2019
PVC, RFID Chip, magnetic tape
8,56 cm x 5,39 cm
200 pieces

2,3kg_euro_surface_fail

devalued euro notes, glue
25 x 85 cm
2018

The artist duo Rosa Stern is made up of the names of the artists Rosanna Marie Pondorf and Simon Sternal. Both study at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in Peter Kogler‘s class and have been working together in a shared studio since 2017. Rosa Stern sees their collaboration as a continuation and addition to their personal artistic position. They present their works in joint spatial concepts and thus place them in direct relation to each other. The works of both artists are characterised by an interest in complex topics such as money, digitality and data processing. They often mix real and virtual experiences. This results in an attempt to make the personal and the virtual tangible and to translate the complexity of our environment into real spaces. [European Patent Office]