Blockchain Revolutionizes Art: Tezos Berlin Merges Digital Assets with Contemporary Masterpieces
Berlin's art scene gets a crypto makeover as Tezos blockchain transforms how we create, trade, and experience contemporary art.
Digital Canvas Meets Distributed Ledger
Tezos isn't just hosting another gallery show—it's rebuilding the entire art market infrastructure from the ground up. Artists mint works directly on-chain while collectors acquire provably authentic digital originals.
The New Patronage Economy
Smart contracts enable revolutionary royalty structures—artists earn automatic percentages on secondary sales forever. No more waiting for galleries to cut checks that never arrive.
Berlin's Creative Underground Goes On-Chain
Local artists bypass traditional gatekeepers, connecting directly with global collectors through tokenized artworks. The city's gritty aesthetic finds perfect expression in immutable digital form.
Meanwhile, traditional art investors still argue about provenance while missing the biggest redistribution of cultural value since the Medici family—typical finance brains prioritizing paperwork over progress.
Artworks to look out for at Art on Tezos 2025:
‘Deeper Meditations #1,’ 2021 by Memo Akten
Created by computational artist Memo Akten, Deeper Meditations #1 is described as an exploration into the minds of an artificial neural network displayed through a generative video. Pictured above is a still image from that video.
A continuation of Memo Akten’s past series’ such as Journey through the layers of the mind (2015), Learning to See (2017) and DEEP Meditations (2018), the piece is featured on the Tezos marketplace objkt and was created using VQGAN+CLIP. His artworks will be on display at Art on Tezos 2025.
Memo Akten (@memoakten)Memo Akten is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and computer scientist working with technologies such as AI, sound, video, performance, and installations. His work incorporates themes of human-machine entanglements as well as the cultural, social, and ecological impacts of contemporary techno-lifestyles.
‘Autumn,’ 2025 by Ilya Bliznets
This piece is part of Ilya Bliznets larger four-part series called “Seasons,” which also features Spring, Winter and Summer which was minted just this year. The digital artwork is described as an AI digital painting and collage. It blends different elements within the frame to FORM the artwork’s unique formation. His artworks will be on display at Art on Tezos 2025.
Ilya Bliznets (@ilyabliznets)Ilya Bliznets is an artist working in the field of digital figurative painting. His practice combines AI-generated imagery with manual post-processing in Photoshop. So far, Ilya Bliznets has about 183 creations on display in the Tezos NFT marketplace objkt, with many of them sporting similar themes of abstract art that blends together AI generated elements with a human touch.
‘Born out of water,’ 2025 by Olga Shpak
According to the digital artwork’s description, this ultra-realistic photograph depicts a human within a watery tank. Olga Shpak dedicated the artwork to women and the creation of new life. The artist uses the image as a medium to envision a future when life is created through plant juice and other water elements. This artwork will be on display at Art on Tezos 2025.
Olga Shpak (@OlgaShpakArt)Olga Shpak is described as a conceptual staged art photography artist, using images to capture everyday moments with a conceptual or symbolic layer. Her photography leans more toward portraiture, fashion or beauty‐oriented, fine art while mixing aesthetic expression with commentary.
‘Chameleon Puzzle,’ by suisoichi
Chameleon Puzzle by digital artist suisoichi is a surreal, dreamlike composition blending celestial motifs, abstract creatures, and cryptic text. The piece features golden, mask-like eyes emerging from cloudy forms, punctuated by vibrant red, blue, green, and yellow orbs. The artwork, which will be featured in Art on Tezos 2025, was conceived through a combination of digital drawing and effects.
suisoichi (@suisoichi)Suisoichi is a digital artist known online for creating pixel art, digital drawings, and GIFs with a surreal, experimental edge often infused with anime-inspired elements. He describes himself as an image and gif Maker working under the alias suisoichi. A site linked to his page features a series of “dirty pixel art” created by suisoichi using MSpaint and GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP.
