CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM is an ongoing critical research and art production platform by Anne Katrine Senstad
Money is that materially existing concept, a vast system of common interest and mutual dependence formed among great people, a self-propelling life of the dead, which moves hither and thither, blind and elemental, and, like a wild animal, it stands in constant need of being tamed and kept under control.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Jena lectures 1802-03
CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM is an ongoing research and art production platform established by Anne Katrine Senstad in 2015. CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM seeks to examine ethics, aesthetics, and philosophical ways to approach social political criticism through engaged, thoughtful and prolific art practices.
In 2023, the CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM project’s new chapter, presented Anne Katrine Senstad’s solo exhibition Mal Educación that presented an environment of critical neon text sculptures, abstract neon sculptures, video text installation, not-for-sale minted NFT’s and prints,, at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans curated by Christopher Saucedo, a founding member of the gallery collective. In 2025, CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM created a 4 month temporary artist run gallery entitled TEMPORAL SPACES in a historic 4 story building on the lower east side of Manhattan, transforming the built environment into an art work in totality and a place of community engagement. The project encompassed Senstad’s spatial neon sculpture installation The Pink Room Has No Walls, curated film screenings, talks, and cooking together events under the community umbrella, I LIKE MONDAYS. TEMPORAL SPACES is a continuation of Senstad’s 2015 multi-site project on the lower east side and Chinatown, entitled Soft Geometry Liquid Commodity, in collaboration with the nomadic gallery Solivagant on the commodification of art and the gentrification of the cultural tapestry of New York’s working class neighborhoods.
The exhibition Mal Educación was supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway and The Norwegian Government Artist Grant – Kulturdirektoratet. Temporal Spaces was supported by The Royal Norwegian Consulate New York.
Other ambitious ongoing projects under the CAPITALISM IN THE PUBLIC REALM umbrella includes cinematic projects by AKS Studio/GGM Holdings. GGM Holdings, also utilizes speculative markets for the placement of interactive interventional, suggestive text based art as commodity and aesthetic production, essays and critical text collaborations, and incorporated, conceptual large scale spatial neon installations.
Capitalism in the Public Realm 