The Neutral Capital currency and Neutral Capital Collections parallel the banking industry’s practices of currency rating,
economic speculation, and investment through art collecting and display. In 2005, Peter Simensky initiated Neutral
Capital with the Swiss Institute Of Contemporary Art for the Armory Show in New York. Sampling bills from countries
with unstable economies, he created a set of hand-collaged bills that were later printed and used as currency for collectors
and art dealers to purchase art works. Based on trust and speculation, Simensky began compiling his own collections with
an international roster of artists whom have traded their art for Neutral Capital. These pieces are housed in movable
galleries-in-a-box and include the Neutral Capital Collection I and II. Neutral Capital functions both as art and commerce
- cohabitating in a territory where the distinction between the two blur. It addresses the often changing parameters of
value and the interchange of possibility that exists in all things that experience fortune and decline.