Web3 Art Exhibitions
Non-exhaustive list of inspiring art exhibitions in the web3 art space.
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| Resource | Summary | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Why The National Museums Liverpool Turned Personal Connections Into NFTs - Jing Culture & Crypto (July 2021) | In between the Luf boat and the Benin Bronzes, the debate surrounding museum repatriation swirls ever-more urgently, as cultural institutions, under the glare of restorative justice, have been called upon to return historical artifacts that were looted in the shadow of war or colonialism. | July 30, 2021 | |
“The Ethereal Aether” Exhibition by The State Hermitage Museum (Russia) | Exhibition explaining blockchain and NFTs | November 10, 2021 | |
“Out of the Anthropocene” Exhibition by UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (China) | On the afternoon of November 16, 2021 , the "Out of the Anthropocene" Future Science and Art Exhibition was officially opened, to cultivate the mutual learning of science and art. | November 16, 2021 | |
FEELINGS Exhibition in the metaverse by Synthesis Gallery | February 2, 2022 | ||
‘You Literally Got Me Into KAWS Fam’: What Game-Playing Teens Think About the Artist’s New Project on Fortnite Vivienne Chow (January 2022) | Article on younger audiences experiencing the KAWs exhibition through Fortnite | February 2, 2022 | |
Royal Shakespeare Company to Stage Live Play in Virtual Midsummer’s Nights Dream Forest by Jennifer Hahn, Dezeen, (March 2021) | Article on the RCA’s virtual showing of Midsummer’s Nights Dream in a metaverse/VR | February 2, 2022 | |
“Dis/Location” by DiMoDA / Gazelli Art House | Virtual exhibition compromising of three artworks focusing on the theme of Dis/Location | February 4, 2022 | |
EPOCH gallery announcement of ECHOES exhibition in collaboration with LACMA’s Art and Tech Lab (15th Feb) | February 15, 2022 | ||
These Display Startups Are Bringing NFTs Into the Real World, by Andrew Hayward, Decrypt (February 2022) | How NFTs are starting to be exhibited in physical spaces | February 26, 2022 | |
NFtNetArt Exhibition - Panke Gallery | The exhibition NfTNeTArT – from Net Art to Art NFT brings together nine international artists that use algorithmic or generative systems as their artistic language. A group show with Kim Asendorf, LaTurbo Avedon, Sarah Friend, LIA, Jonas Lund, Rhea Myers, Rafaël Rozendaal, Cornelia Sollfrank, Harm van den Dorpel | March 2, 2022 | |
Pieces of Me Exhibition, Left Gallery & TRANSFER Gallery | Pieces of Me is an exhibition that is posed as an offering to the aggregate hype of the emerging global NFT marketplace | March 2, 2022 | |
The Paradox of NFT Curation by India Price, Right Click Save, (March 2022) | In this article, Price interviews Robert Alice, Micol Ap, Kenny Schachter, Sam Spike, and Serena Tabacchi on curating NFTs both physically and digitally | March 9, 2022 | |
This Time, Beeple is Trying His Hand at Artwork for Walls NYTimes (March 2022) | Article on Beeple’s IRL exhibition in New York | March 9, 2022 | |
The Art Galleries Leading the Charge Into NFTs, by Sam Gaskin, Ocula (March 2022) | While many established galleries are taking a cautious approach to NFTs, Pace, KÖNIG GALERIE, and Ora-Ora side-stepped scepticism to embrace the technology. Others will step up in 2022. | March 9, 2022 | |
More Than A Thumbnail Gallery? The Challenges Of Exhibiting NFTs In Physical Space - WAC Weekly (March 2022) | Article discussing The Challenges Of Exhibiting NFTs In Physical Space. | March 14, 2022 | |
The Flowers I Have Never Seen in my Garden by Synthesis Gallery | Exhibition opening 24th March 2022 featuring works by Chris Golden, Sabrina Ratté, Mohsen Hazrati, and Lauren Moffatt.
Constructed in the free-floating space of Mozilla Hubs, the works on view utilize this programmable backdrop to examine how gardens might appear in the wake of ecological and social cataclysms. | March 15, 2022 | |
New Art City Festival 2022 | A celebration of the work that has pushed the boundaries of the toolkit provided by the platform | March 23, 2022 | |
The Artist is Online: Decentraland, Konig Galerie | NFT auction part of the group exhibition ‘The Artist is Online’ | March 23, 2022 | |
The Wrong Biennale | ‘Sound becomes site: symphony for the metaverse | March 23, 2022 | |
News that the Ministry of Digital Transformation in Ukraine has initiated a ‘Museum of War’ to document the events of the Ukraine-Russia War | March 25, 2022 | ||
Exhibiting New Media Art In The Many Worlds Of The Metaverse - WAC Weekly (March 2022) | A discussion around the exhibition Terms of Service, New Art City, and its dual role as an artist-run virtual space and a piece of technical infrastructure | March 28, 2022 | |
ULYSSES IN THE METAVERSE - Curator Stina Gustafsson and artist aurèce vettier explore Cryptovoxels in search of a more tangible future, RIGHT CLICK SAVE (Feb 2021) | Curator Stina Gustafsson and artist aurèce vettier explore Cryptovoxels in search of a more tangible future. | June 15, 2022 | |
CryptoPong - Radar Contemporary (September 2022) | “CryptoPong” is a group exhibition that presents Danish and international artists who have in common that they are pioneers in various ways in the field of XR art. The exhibition is curated by Radar Contemporary. Read more here: https://nikolajkunsthal.kk.dk/en/exhibitions/cryptopong-radar-contemporary | September 17, 2022 | |
Frank Stella Enters The Metaverse (2022) | The article talks about how Frank Stella, an American artist, has collaborated with Arhead and ARSNL to bring his artwork into the Metaverse. | October 3, 2022 | |
Do Your Own Research: New Ways to Help Museum Workers and Audiences Understand Web3 - WAC Weekly (November 2022) | Discussion on the issue with Nina Roehrs, curator of the Do Your Own Research exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, which touched on several issues around web3 and the exhibition space. | November 15, 2022 | |
Artist Gabriel Massan uses video game world-building and the blockchain to reimagine the meaning of 'Third World' - The Art Newspaper (November 2022) | The Brazilian digital artist is creating a multi-level collaborative game as part of the Serpentine Galleries' Artist Worlds programme, and minting tokens with the Tezos Ecosystem blockchain. | November 30, 2022 | |
Géraldine Honauer on Artist Fees, Blockchain and the Future of Documentation - Share.Hek (2023) | Boris Magrini, curator and head of Program at HEK, interviews artist Géraldine Honauer. Honauer’s works are exhibited at HEK as part of the «Performing Traces – Regionale 23» exhibition until 01.01.2023. | December 20, 2022 | |
The First NFT Biennial: Reimagining Art Events In Person And The Metaverse - WAC Weekly (January 2023) | A talk with curator Julie Walsh and artist Rahim Unlu who talked about what they learned running the NFT Biennial in 10 cities and virtual spaces in the Spatial platform. | January 24, 2023 | |
Introducing METAVASARELY and An Empty Room, A Two-Part Digital Work by Casey Reas (2023) | Technology Lab presents METAVASARELY and An Empty Room, a simulation and homage to Victor Vasarely’s unrealized proposal for LACMA’s original Art & Technology Program (1967–71), which defined a machine composed of lights arranged in a grid that would generate millions of different visual patterns related to his paintings. | February 13, 2023 | |
Where the Metaverse Meets the Theatre - Jing Culture & Crypto (March 2023) | March 9, 2023 | ||
The Quilters of Gee’s Bend Head to the Blockchain, Collaborating With a Young Generative Artist on a Series of NFTs | Four Gee’s Bend quilters have collaborated with the generative artist Anna Lucia on a series of works that blend the digital and physical, the old-fashioned and the neoteric. | May 10, 2023 | |
From Choreography to Code: Art Blocks’ Latest Brings Emotion On Chain - NFT Now (May 2023) | ArtBlocks release its latest collaboration, a unique, multi-stage NFT project with the Lumen Prize-winning artist duo Operator. The project, titled Human Unreadable, is a 400-piece avant-garde exploration of art, choreography, and technology exploring themes of transparency and privacy in Web3. | May 23, 2023 |