London, United Kingdom, December 18th, 2025, Chainwire
The Tezos art ecosystem made 2025 a standout year for institutional adoption and artist growth. More than half a million NFTs were sold across the year.
From major museum partnerships to new education programs, Art on Tezos keeps showing that blockchain can support artistic practice at scale.
Museum of the Moving Image Partnership
This year, the Tezos Foundation expanded its partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI). The museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall became a showcase for blockchain-based art experiments.
The first partnership exhibition opened in June 2024. Since then, MoMI has introduced over 243,000 visitors to digital art. Many created blockchain wallets for the first time through the museum’s free minting station.
The new year-long program does two things:
- It is commissioning 12 artists to create new works that use FA2 smart contracts as a core part of their art.
- It has launched the FA2 Fellowship, which teaches artists and developers about Tezos FA2 smart contracts.
Major Art Events in 2025
The Tezos ecosystem showed its reach at major art events throughout 2025.
NFT Paris and the Paintboxed Tour
At NFT Paris in February, digital art pioneer Kiki Picasso gave a live demo on an original 1980s Quantel Paintbox. This is the same $250,000 machine used to create the MTV logo. It was also used for early digital masterpieces by artists such as David Hockney.
The “Paintboxed – Tezos World Tour” took this piece of digital art history to 4 cities: New York, Miami, Paris, and Basel during Art Basel. It showed thousands of people the roots of the medium. It also showed new works by talented artists making art on the blockchain today.
Art on Tezos Berlin
The largest event of the year was Art on Tezos Berlin. This three-day festival turned the city into a global hub for digital art.
- It drew more than 700 international visitors.
- It showed works by over 500 artists.
- It had dozens of exhibitors.
- It featured the world’s leading artists in their fields, exploring where art, technology, and AI meet.
Performances by artists such as p1xelfool, OONA, and poet Franziska Ostermann pushed the limits of live digital art. The works on view ranged from generative art to interactive experiences.
Paris Photo and Global Festivals
Add in successful events at Paris Photo and global festivals, and these events reached tens of thousands of visitors in the year. Many minted their first digital artwork through interactive experiences.
At the Paris Photo fair, Artverse presented a booth with prominent artists Niceaunties, Grant Yun, Reuben Wu, Shavonne Wong, Emi Kusano, and Genesis Kai. Several of them were releasing works on Tezos for the first time.
The curation was available for purchase via objkt one. Strong sales drew many first-time buyers on Tezos.
Education Programs
Education stayed a core focus all year. Besides the MoMI x Tezos FA2 Fellowship, a strategic partnership with the Processing Foundation was announced in August. This non-profit promotes software literacy in the arts and technology.
The joint programme is producing a full tutorial series for p5.js 2.0. It extends access to creative coding education around the world.
This builds on earlier programs supported by the Tezos Foundation:
- WAC Labs, which delivered blockchain education to professionals across 40+ institutions,
- Newtro in Argentina, which focused on onboarding artists through workshops and hands-on training.
Artist Sales and Acquisitions
The ecosystem celebrated several big artistic wins in 2025.
- The Francisco Carolinum made an acquisition of TeleNFT works first shown at Art on Tezos Berlin. This marks a major institutional addition of fully on-chain digital art.
- Also shown in Berlin, artist qubibi’s live-coded generative work hello world sold for 62,000 tez. The sale followed its showing at his Galerie Met solo show.
- Earlier this year, Mario Klingemann’s early AI work, Triggernometry, a generative music video, sold for 43,000 tez. This happened during the Digital Art Mile, where Anika Meier curated it for objkt one.
These sales underline the growing presence of generative art in both the market and in exhibitions. For more on the network itself, read about the Tezos QuantumNet post-quantum testnet.
Looking Ahead
As 2025 ends, the base for further growth looks strong. The MoMI partnership runs through January 2027. Further phases will bring new artists and fresh ways to use blockchain in art. New to the technology? Start with our guide on what a blockchain is.
About Tezos
Tezos is a cutting-edge, energy-efficient blockchain. Thousands of artists around the globe have chosen Tezos to create and sell digital art.
Cultural institutions, including Serpentine, Musée d’Orsay, and LAS Art Foundation, have used it for their innovative approaches to cultural programming.
Contact
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