"Contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital plus the internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up histories, growing income inequality. Let’s add asymmetric warfare... real estate speculation, tax evasion, money laundering, and deregulated financial markets to this list. (Duty Free Art, Hito Steyerl)"

“As such, young artists, those yet to establish a name for themselves or a price for their work, are left to the mercy of the market. Sink or swim. The reality of course is that the vast majority sink; only a tiny fraction with the material resources or exceptional good fortune and tenacity needed to keep afloat will survive to remain practising artists without taking on substantial additional employment. (Structurally F--cked, Industria)”

“We are not only symbols of the rewards of the current regime: In this art market, we are its direct material beneficiaries. (From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique, Andrea Fraser) ”

“In addition to delivering works, artists, or more generally content providers, nowadays have to perform countless additional services, which slowly seem to become more important than any other form of work. The Q&A is more important than the screening, the live lecture more than the text, the encounter with the artist more important than the one with the work. (The Terror of Total Dasein, Hito Steyerl)”