The Museum of Capitalism

The Museum of Capitalism proposes an artistic research project that explores how fiction, irony, and art can reframe the material and symbolic remnants of our economic system. Rather than speculating on future scenarios, the project takes a standstill, constructing a fictitious museum through artistic mimicry and playful re-appropriation. Building on previous research (The Bureaucratic Age), which examined the translation of bureaucratic and economic language into the art world, this project shifts focus towards the materialisation of capitalism’s artefacts.
The research investigates not only the objects themselves but also the curatorial strategies of historical museums, asking how museological formats can be reimagined to critically engage with capitalism’s legacy.

Adoration of the Pie Chart

This stained glass work reimagines the pie chart, a quintessential tool of economic and bureaucratic visualization, as an object of devotion. By transposing the diagram into the medium and aesthetics of stained glass, the work ironically elevates a symbol of rationality, efficiency, and data into the realm of the sacred. The piece reflects on how economic and statistical instruments acquire an almost unquestioned authority in contemporary society.

Souvenirs of Capitalism

This work reproduces credit cards in fuse beads, attaching them to a golden keychain as if they were trinkets from a gift shop. By transforming symbols of financial power and consumer identity into playful, fragile objects, the piece reframes credit cards as relics or keepsakes of a fading system. Both ironic and critical, Souvenirs of Capitalism questions how capitalism’s material icons may one day be remembered as mere souvenirs of an era gone by.

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