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Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.Art on Tezos closed 2025 as a breakout year, marked by major museum partnerships, global art events, and strong institutional and artist adoption across the ecosystem.The Tezos art ecosystem recorded a strong 2025, marked by growing institutional adoption and artist participation, with more than half a million NFTs sold. This year, the Tezos Foundation expanded its partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), transforming the museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall into a showcase of blockchain-based artistic experimentation.Since the first partnership exhibition in June 2024, MoMI has introduced over 243,000 visitors to digital art. The new year-long program is commissioning 12 artists to create works using FA2 smart contracts as an integral part of their artistic practice and has also launched the FA2 Fellowship, designed to teach artists and developers about Tezos FA2 smart contracts.&nbsp;The presence of the Tezos ecosystem at major art events throughout 2025 demonstrated its reach. NFT Paris in February drew attention with digital art pioneer Kiki Picasso’s live demonstration on an original 1980s Quantel Paintbox. The “Paintboxed – Tezos World Tour” brought this device from digital art history to 4 cities: New York, Miami, Paris, and Basel during Art Basel.The largest event of the year was Art on Tezos Berlin, a three-day festival. The event attracted more than 700 international visitors, exhibiting over 500 artists, dozens of exhibitors, and featuring the world’s leading artists in their fields exploring the intersection of art, technology, and AI.Education remained a core focus throughout the year. In addition to the MoMI x Tezos FA2 Fellowship, a strategic partnership with the Processing Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes software literacy in the arts and technology, was announced in August.The ecosystem celebrated several significant artistic achievements in 2025. Recent highlights include the Francisco Carolinum’s acquisition of TeleNFT works first presented at Art on Tezos Berlin. Also presented in Berlin, artist qubibi’s live-coded generative work hello world sold for 62,000 tez following its presentation at his Galerie Met solo show. Earlier this year, Mario Klingemann’s early AI work, Triggernometry, a generative music video, also sold for 43,000 tez during the Digital Art Mile, where it was curated by Anika Meier for objkt one.As 2025 concludes, the foundation for continued growth appears strong. The MoMI partnership extends through January 2027, with additional phases bringing new artists and experimental approaches to blockchain integration.&nbsp;Read more: <a href="https://crypto.news/nft-sales-show-modest-77m-ethereum-nft-sales-drop-13/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> NFT sales show modest $77M, Ethereum NFT sales drop 13% </a>Disclosure: This content is provided by a third party. Neither crypto.news nor the author of this article endorses any product mentioned on this page. Users should conduct their own research before taking any action related to the company.

Tezos art ecosystem records strong institutional adoption, artist growth in 2025

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