glass exchange

glass as currency - nowadays and in the past

The entire indoor part of the installation ‚glass exchange‘ at Neufert-Bau, in line with the art residency ‚Kollision der Künste‘ in Weißwasser, 2023. It's about glass as a currency in the former German Democratic Republic to get coveted services and materials, and nowadays to survive through the collection of refundable bottles - the installation shows a clash of the magic of high-quality drinking glasses with the banality of refundable bottles. In antiquity, glass was already a means of payment in the form of beads.