In Brief
The Tezos art ecosystem saw the sale of over half a million NFTs in 2025.
Museums, fairs, and festivals used Tezos to introduce digital art to tens of thousands of visitors.
Education and institutional adoption expanded through long-term programs and partnerships.
The Tezos art ecosystem concluded 2025 as one of the most vibrant environments for digital art, characterized by significant institutional support, strong artist participation, and educational initiatives at an unprecedented scale for blockchain-based art. Throughout the year, more than half a million NFTs were sold, demonstrating robust demand and growing confidence among artists, collectors, and cultural organizations.
A key contributor to this growth was the expanded collaboration between the Tezos Foundation and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. This partnership transformed the museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall into a long-term space dedicated to experimentation with blockchain technology. Since the first exhibition in mid-2024, over 243,000 visitors have engaged with digital artworks, many of whom created blockchain wallets for the first time through a free minting station set up inside the museum.
In 2025, this collaboration evolved into a year-long commissioning program involving 12 artists who are creating new works that integrate FA2 smart contracts directly into their artistic processes. Additionally, the FA2 Fellowship was launched to educate artists and developers on creatively using Tezos smart contracts rather than seeing them solely as infrastructure.
“Contingent” by James Bloom and Gottfried Jäger
Tezos also maintained a prominent presence at major international art events. At NFT Paris in February, digital art pioneer Kiki Picasso demonstrated live work using an original Quantel Paintbox from the 1980s—a historically significant machine for early digital art and television graphics. This activation became part of the Paintboxed Tezos World Tour, which brought the device to New York, Miami, Paris, and Basel, bridging the history of digital art with contemporary blockchain-based creation.
The largest gathering of the year was the Art on Tezos Berlin festival, a three-day event that turned the city into a hub for digital art. More than 700 international visitors attended, along with over 500 artists and dozens of exhibitors. The festival featured live performances and installations that explored generative art, interactive works, and the increasing role of AI in creative practices.
Throughout the year, Art on Tezos activations at events such as Paris Photo and other global festivals reached tens of thousands of visitors. Many participants minted digital artworks for the first time through interactive installations. At Paris Photo, a curated booth showcased works by artists including Niceaunties, Grant Yun, Reuben Wu, Shavonne Wong, Emi Kusano, and Genesis Kai, several of whom released works on Tezos for the first time. Sales through the marketplace Objkt.one attracted new collectors and first-time buyers to the ecosystem.
A glimpse of Art on Tezos: Berlin
— Art on Tezos (@artontezos_) November 25, 2025
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Education remained a central focus. In addition to the FA2 Fellowship at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Tezos Foundation announced a partnership with the Processing Foundation to produce an in-depth tutorial series for p5.js 2.0. This program aims to broaden access to creative coding education worldwide. These efforts build on previous initiatives, such as WAC Labs, which delivered blockchain education across more than 40 institutions, and Newtro in Argentina, which focused on hands-on artist onboarding through workshops.
🖥️🥳 Our latest acquisition brings 15 authentic TeleNFT teletext artworks into the museum’s collection – first unveiled at Art in Tezos in Berlin and broadcast via teletext on ORF and ARD.
— OĂ– Kultur (@ooeculture) November 17, 2025
Created between 2022 and 2025 in native World System Teletext Level 1, these works distill… pic.twitter.com/mJ2Dxw4B5K
Several notable sales and institutional acquisitions marked significant milestones for the ecosystem in 2025. The Francisco Carolinum museum acquired TeleNFT works first shown at Art on Tezos Berlin, representing a pivotal institutional addition of fully on-chain digital art. Artist qubibi’s live-coded generative piece “hello world” sold for 62,000 tez following its presentation in Berlin, while Mario Klingemann’s early AI-based work “Triggernometry” sold for 43,000 tez earlier in the year during the Digital Art Mile.
With the Museum of the Moving Image partnership extending through early 2027 and additional programs already planned, Art on Tezos enters the next year with a robust foundation built on sustained institutional interest, artist engagement, and educational outreach.
