Large-scale painting is one of the core aspects of their practice. However, they often expand their work by creating large installations with sculptural elements where performances are staged or films screened. In addition, they make drawings as well as collages with texts and photographs.
In their work, Muntean/Rosenblum mix references to art history and present-day popular culture. They mostly depict groups of apparently lethargic or melancholic young people in idle situations, which are either ordinary and everyday or mysterious and ambiguous. The often-dreamy scenes take place in rooms, public spaces or landscapes as if part of a film, presenting unresolved situations in the making. The characters seem to adopt postures copied from fashion magazines, or from paintings originating from the renaissance to the nineteenth century. Their work is frequently accompanied by captions or texts not-directly relating to the depicted scene, adding another layer of complexity. The artists themselves described their work as ‘precise ambiguity’. By playing with visual codes from the past and the present, Muntean/Rosenblum scrutinise the power of images and how these constitute an overwhelming collective memory.
Their work is included in the most prestigious public collections, such as MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York / Albertina, Vienna, Austria / Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (MAK), Vienna, Austria / MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna, Vienna / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria / Neue Galeri, Graz, Austria / Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien|Sammlung BA-CA, Vienna / Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany / Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany / Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel / MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakau, Poland / MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemoráneo de Castilla y Léon, Léon, Spain / Zabludowicz Collection, London, New York / Susan and Michael Hort, New York / Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami / Rubell Family Collection, Miami / Dicke Collection, Ohio / The Progressive Art Collection, Ohio / Burger Collection, Hong Kong / Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria / ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Spain / Coleccion Inelcom Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
