The Tezos art ecosystem achieved a milestone year in 2025 with expanding institutional adoption, new educational initiatives, and record engagement from artists and collectors. More than half a million NFTs were sold across the network, reinforcing Tezos as a leading blockchain for digital art, according to its announcement.
The Tezos Foundation deepened its collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), transforming the museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall into a site for blockchain-based artistic experimentation. Since their first joint exhibition in June 2024, MoMI has introduced over 243,000 visitors to digital art installations. Many created blockchain wallets for the first time through the museum’s free minting experience. The partnership moved into a year-long phase in 2025, commissioning 12 artists to produce works that incorporate FA2 smart contracts. The MoMI x Tezos FA2 Fellowship launched to teach artists and developers how to integrate these contracts into their practice.
Expanding museum engagement and public interaction
Through this collaboration, MoMI reached audiences new to blockchain art and established a standard for institutional participation in Web3. The program connects technical learning with artistic creation, demonstrating how blockchain tools can operate within a museum context. According to the Tezos Foundation, the partnership will continue through January 2027.
Educational and public engagement efforts on Tezos were not confined to museums. The Foundation supported global creative programs, workshops, and exhibitions that introduced new audiences to blockchain technology.
Global showcases highlight the growth of art on Tezos
Major 2025 events underlined the reach of the Tezos ecosystem across continents. In February, NFT Paris featured digital art pioneer Kiki Picasso, who presented a live demonstration on an original 1980s Quantel Paintbox. The “Paintboxed – Tezos World Tour” traveled to New York, Miami, Paris, and Basel during Art Basel, connecting audiences to both the history and future of digital art.
The largest showcase was Art on Tezos Berlin, a three-day festival that turned the city into a global hub for blockchain art. The festival hosted more than 700 visitors, brought together over 500 artists, and featured leading figures exploring the relationship between art, technology, and artificial intelligence. Performances by artists such as p1xelfool, OONA, and poet Franziska Ostermann exemplified how digital interaction and live expression can merge through blockchain-based media.
The event coincided with activations at international art fairs including Paris Photo, where Tezos featured a booth curated by Artverse. Works by artists Niceaunties, Grant Yun, Reuben Wu, Shavonne Wong, Emi Kusano, and Genesis Kai were showcased and made available through objkt one. Strong sales and high visitor engagement reflected growing recognition of Tezos as a platform for collectors and artists alike.
Focus on education and creative skills development
Education remained central to Tezos Foundation’s mission throughout 2025. Beyond the MoMI Fellowship, a strategic partnership with the Processing Foundation, a nonprofit advancing software literacy in the arts, was announced in August. The collaboration aims to develop a complete tutorial series for p5.js 2.0, broadening access to creative coding education.
The initiative follows earlier projects like WAC Labs, which delivered blockchain training to professionals across more than 40 institutions, and Newtro in Argentina, which supported artists through workshops and hands-on training programs. Together, these initiatives form a global education network connecting creative professionals to blockchain literacy.
Market recognition and artistic achievements
Several artistic milestones reflected the rising influence of Tezos-based art. The Francisco Carolinum museum acquired TeleNFT works originally presented at Art on Tezos Berlin, a landmark institutional commitment to on-chain collections. In Berlin, artist qubibi’s generative work hello world sold for 62,000 tez after appearing at his Galerie Met exhibition. Earlier in the year, artist Mario Klingemann’s early AI piece Triggernometry sold for 43,000 tez during the Digital Art Mile event curated by Anika Meier for objkt one. These sales signal a competitive and active market for blockchain-anchored art.
Looking ahead
By the end of 2025, the Tezos art ecosystem had established a foundation for further innovation. Continued cooperation between institutions, artists, and technologists suggests a lasting shift toward blockchain as creative infrastructure. The integration of educational and curatorial programs underscores how the network supports artistic practice at scale.
With extended partnerships such as the MoMI collaboration and the Processing Foundation initiative in progress, 2026 is set to build upon a year defined by collaboration, experimentation, and adoption across multiple sectors.
Oleksii Shumak
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