ROSA MAAS
born 2002, Helmond, Netherlands 

Rosa Maas is a visual artist with a deep fascination for the internet: the approximately 3.2 billion photos uploaded every day, the endless media landscape and its images that keep circling around and get intensified in a sea of real and fake
It is in this paradox where Rosa places herself as an artist. Rosa’s work often begins with an image that she finds online and stays with her: the photograph of our Earth taken from the Apollo 8, a selfie in front of the Mona Lisa, the image of a beach with a palm tree, two chairs in the middle and the sea in the distance in a holiday brochure. In her projects, Rosa adopts an investigative approach. She combines a humorous with a critical tone by engaging with these images in an often ironic manner. In doing so, she touches on geopolitical themes such as tourism, cartography and social power structures, posing questions about life in our current society, how we navigate it, how we shape it and who decides how it gets shaped.


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Untitled Street View2024 - ongoing









During an online journey across our planet via Google Earth, I discovered Street Views not only on the mainland and islands, but also in the middle of the oceans. Street Views including garage boxes, shops, restaurants, bedrooms, offices and dental practices. 

These misplaced Street Views, uploaded by users, form an unintended virtual archipelago: a collection of fragments, detached from their geographical origins. I started to collect these misplaced places. In an attempt to respond to this phenomenon, I started placing street views in the ocean herself. 

In this way, I try to raise questions about digital representation, collective cartography and algorithmic error sensitivity. Who uploads these images, and how do they end up in the middle of our oceans?











- UV inkjet prints on plexiglass, map





















Untitled Street View on show at the AG Utrecht, from 07/11 - 29/11/2025

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