By team KochxBos
185 billion dollars. 185 cubic metres. An orange space the size of the fortune of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post.
The installation ‘Wealth Shown to Scale’ put absurd inequality into perspective. Visitors were able to step into a space as large as the fortune of one of the world’s richest men – an invitation to reflect on the distribution of wealth.
Entrance via Stand 8, KochxBos Gallery
PROGRAMME Wealth Shown to Scale
Friday 2 May
17:30 – Tessa Posthuma de Boer – Talk about her work, Stand 8
18:30 – Dadara – Talk about the sculpture ‘Brave New Social Media World’, Sculpture Square 19
19:30 – Eric Smit, Follow the Money – Talk with Hans Bos about Money and power in the installation Wealth Shown to Scale, Entrance via stand 8
Saturday 3 May
13:00 – Job Kühlkamp, NUT, Mart Veldhuis, artist and Esther Koch, KochxBos Gallery – Panel discussion Up Next in Art: Value of art, Sculpture Square
What role does art play in visualizing the often invisible systems around money, property and inequality? This question goes beyond the familiar functions of art, such as aesthetics, criticism and agenda-setting, and raises another: How does art help us think about value, wealth and the impact of money on everyday life?
14:00 and 15:00 (English) – Michel Scholte, Impact Institute/ True Price and Bouke de Vries, climate finance expert engage in conversation, instalation Wealth Shown to Scale, entrance via booth 8
In this conversation, inequality takes centre stage: we discuss examples of income inequality, its impact on climate problems, and the connection with our ecological footprint. We also explore alternatives: how can we design the economic system to be fairer and more sustainable, with an emphasis on long-term thinking? And why is imagination essential in this?
Michel Scholte is involved in Rotterdam’s ‘A Bridge Too Far’ initiative, which arose in response to plans to temporarily dismantle the historic Koningshaven bridge, better known as De Hef, for the passage of Jeff Bezos’ superyacht. A co-founder of True Price and the Impact Institute, and a social entrepreneur and activist, Scholte spoke out against these plans. In the end, the permit was not granted and the ship was finished at another yard.
Sunday 4 May
12:00 and 14:00 – Chantal van Binsbergen, Strategy for Social Added Value.
Workshop ‘Your capital to scale’. Make your own cube of your income and experience inequality in 3D in the installation