NFTs | Digital Art | Digital Collectibles
Something is happening in the art world. Crypto art and NFT art are phenomena that are currently on everyone’s lips. Sotheby’s auctioned off a file by the US artist Beeple for just under 70 million US dollars. Are they all just absurdities or is a new, substantial stone actually emerging in the mosaic of art?
I, A(I)rtist – Art in the Age of AI.
Cryptoart and NFT exhibition from January 27 to February 25, 2023.
The first national gallery exhibition on the subject of AI and art at Galerie Greulich. Things are happening in the art world: Digital tools are becoming more and more important and are increasingly influencing art. Galerie Greulich dedicates a special exhibition to this development. We present artists who create Digital Art with the help of AI. The results are NFTs that deal with the topic of AI in very different ways.
Merzmensch (Vladimir Alexeev) | Linda Dounia | Shardcore (Eric Drass) | Sasha Stiles | Ivona Tau | MCHX (Anton Dubrovin) | Memoakten (Mehmet Selim Akten)
The basic thesis of the exhibition I, A(I)rtist – Art in the Age of AI
AI is a tool that influences art. That’s a fact, regardless of what your opinion is. Similar to photography 150 years ago, AI will influence a wide variety of art genres. Architecture, painting, digital art, photography, etc. will be affected. Perhaps its own genres will develop.The exhibition I, A(I)rtist -Art in the Age of AI takes a look at Digital Art/NFTs. The spectrum ranges from non-representational moving images, which have their starting points in color field painting, to image-generated memories created by means of photographs.
Din Burns
Din Burns explores themes of the human psyche in his work. His portraits are often deconstructed and deformed. The Istanbul-based artist sometimes focuses on the state of permanent distractions. Burns seeks to depict the various states of the human soul through visual representations in his paintings. Fear, apathy, despair, shame, loss of identity and introspection, are constant motifs in his works..
NFTs | Digital Art | Digital Collectibles
Something is happening in the art world. Crypto art and NFT art are phenomena that are currently on everyone’s lips. Sotheby’s auctioned off a file by the US artist Beeple for just under 70 million US dollars. Is this all just absurdity, or is a new, substantial stone actually emerging in the mosaic of art?
Pixposure — A Generativ NFT-Art Show the second NFT exhibition, January/February 2022
Art NFTs are - in the broadest sense - computer-generated artworks intended for reception on monitors. Generative art takes the whole thing to the extreme, because here the artists design the programs and algorithms that then independently generate the artworks..
Ivona Tau | Krankarta | Loackme | Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez | Shardcore | Sam Tsao | Adi Oohgaga | Iskra Velitchkova
What hot Shit — the first NFT exhibition of the Greulich Gallery, July/August 2021
For our first exhibition What hot Shit, we have selected 14 artists who show us their entry into the world of Crypto Art. Among them are top-class artists who exhibit in the world's major museums as well as promising young talents.
Lulu XXX | Ruben Fro | Robness | Bjorn Calleja | Burka Bayram | Ivona Tau | Mumu_Thestan |Cryptohamster | Estelle Flores | | | Pointline aka Iskra Velitschkova | Marissa Noana | Quasimondo, Mario Klingemann | Kerim Safa | Satoshi Aizawa
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Lulu XXX
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p(ii)ich # 18, Anna Karina, 2021, Edition 60
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p(ii)ich # 18, Anna Karina, 2021, Edition 60
LuluXXX, works as a CGI/3d artist. Since 2015 she uses artificial intelligence to generate her works. She uses analysis tools to create new moving images from found material. LuluXXX creates the tools with open source programs and her own codes.
Ruben Fro, Atlantis – Drowning in Thoughts # 2, 2021, Edition 20
Ruben Fro is one of the stars of the scene. His works fascinate through their visual appeal. In terms of content, they go far beyond the initial visual appeal. Ruben Fro is very much concerned with the dynamics of becoming and the location of the individual in the world. Light and image spheres repeatedly assemble into something new in the short clips. These spheres are the central carriers of meaning and design elements in the works.
Ruben Fro (Ruben Frosali), born near Florence, lives and works in Tokyo since 2006. His art is based on dynamic sceneries, which are based on spherical picture parts. Ruben Fro describes himself as an “immersive media developer” and a “real-time VFX artist”, meaning an animator of movies. Besides creating various apps, he lectured at Wellington Victoria University and the University of Auckland on “point cloud rendering” and immersive media.
ROBNESS, Sediment Information and Color Theory, 2021, Edition 8
Robness is one of the most successful crypto artists, from the very beginning. He lives in the US and was heavily involved in the development of NFTs for art. He has published two books on art and NFTs so far and runs a decentralized Telegram clothing line “SadPlanet”. He is a singer, DJ, music producer, sound engineer and poet.
The work we show from him is part of an art system critical experiment. Anonymously, he has published his image on Hic et Nunc.
Bjorn Calleja, Pure Comedy, 2019, Edition 1/1
Bjorn Calleja, born in 1981 in Manila, Philippines, is an interdisciplinary artist. He became known for his paintings, sculptures and installations.
He studied at the Far Eastern University in Manila where he later also worked as a lecturer. In addition to his artistic activities, Calleja also worked as a graphic designer. His work is characterized by a mix of different media and influences. Pop culture of the 90s as well as paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.
Again and again, his works are about small, grotesque figures that seem like outcasts. The whole thing is carried by a whimsical humor.
The NFT we show of him is the narrative of life. Through various paintings of Calleja, the protagonist*in lives through the phases of becoming and dying.
Burka Bayram, Dancing Plague of 1518, 2021, Edition 20
Burka Bayram, art director from Istanbul, is co-founder of the design studio and collective thinking.eye. Burka Bayram is curator of NFT Turkey, a platform for Turkish NFT artists.
We will show Burka Bayram’s work “Dancing Plague of 1518”. It is about the dynamics of obsession. Entirely in black and white, one sees sign-like people endlessly dancing.
The title refers to the “Dancing Plague” that broke out in Strasbourg in 1518, among other places. This was a mass hysterical phenomenon in which large groups of people danced ecstatically until they collapsed, exhausted or injured. In the course of the late Middle Ages, there were several waves of these events, also known as the “dance plague.”
Ivona Tau (mit Mark Pankurst), Electric Sheep #5, 2021
Edition 1/1 exclusively for the exhibition
Ivona Tau (Tautke):
Art and Artificial Intelligence – Who is the Author of the Artwork? Ivona Tau, born in Poland in 1990, lives and works in Warsaw. She is an AI artist. A core element of her work lies in the intersection of art and the new technologies of machine learning.
In addition to completing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics, she has completed a photography degree. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology and studying Professional Photography at the New York Institute of Photography. In 2020, she received the Digital Ars Electronica Award.
The work on view in the gallery was generated by Ivona Tau exclusively for the exhibition.
Mumu_Thestan, Wombat Kiss, 2021, Edition 142
Mumu_Thestan has many names on the internet, sometimes you read Mumu, sometimes MOON HMZ, her real name is Munira. Munira writes short stories and poems, performs on stage and is a visual artist. Mumu-Thestan lives and works in Kuala-Lumpur in Malaysia. Especially her lyrics and writing reflect the role of women in society in Malaysia and in general.
We are showing “Wombat Kiss,” another example of pixel art, in the exhibition.
Originally, “Wombat Kiss” was a visual “thank you” from Mumu_Thestan to all her friends, and supporters in the NFT community, posted on Instagram. “Wombat Kiss” oscillates between artistic playfulness and serious statement. To us, it’s an expression of the lighthearted profundity often found in NFT art. Similar to an Asian waving cat, the little wombat throws us kisses of thanks in endless repetition. What could be more beautiful?
Cryptohamster, Rider in Purgatory, 2021, Edition 20 Expl.
Cryptohamster is an artist who hides his identity behind a pseudonym. He himself reveals only this much: “My name is N.” He lived in Thailand and Vietnam for a long time. Currently, he is stuck in Russia because of the pandemic.
Cryptohamster animates his drawings digitally. His distinguishing features are the reduced aesthetics and the restriction to the colors red, black and white.
Estelle Flores, Winds of Change, 2021,
Edition 10 Expl.
Winds of Change – a picture painted by an avatar.
At Positivo University in Curitiba, Estelle Flores graduated in graphic design. Still living and working in the Brazilian city, the artist and illustrator co-founded the first risographic printing studio “Selva Press” in Curitiba, through which she publishes her own works, as well as publications by invited artists*.
Wind of Change is a digital painting created by Estelle Flores in the game Sims 4. The artist created an avatar that painted this image in the virtual world of the game. In the end, Estelle Flores makes use of the possibilities that the game developers have given her. The material of the painter is no longer oil paint, but a computer game.
Pointline aka Iskra Velitschkova, Object 45110, 2021, Edition 100
Artist Iskra Velichkova’s work focuses on the current and potential interactions between humans and machines. In doing so, she does not believe that technology should be made more human, but that we need to advance technology in order to better understand ourselves.
Marissa Noana, Skincare Routine, 2021, Edition 23
Marissa Noana is the discovery for the Greulich Gallery.
Marissa Noana is an artist from the north of Ceará, one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is a region that does not make it easy for visual artists. Northern Ceará does not have a well-developed cultural infrastructure, and there is hardly any cultural support from the state. Marissa Noana studied fine arts at the Federal Institute of Ceará and is part of the artist collective “Terroristas del Amor”.
In her works, Marissa Noana deals with the challenges of her own biography as a lesbian, poor, black woman, as she puts it herself. It is about being a woman and femininity. In doing so, the young artist has developed a visual language whose presence lends a universality to the autobiographical approaches of her art.
Indeed, Marissa Noana’s NFTs manifest the great opportunity of Crypto-Art and the digitalization of art. For a few months now, the Brazilian has been represented with her artworks on the NFT platform “Hic et Nunc”. There she was able to reach a worldwide audience. We discovered her there. Marissa invested the first sales in new computer technology to advance her artistic work.
Quasimondo, Mario Klingemann, Deposed 004, 2021, Edition 50
Mario Klingemann is one of the most important – perhaps the most important – thought leaders in Crypto Art.
His fields of work are diverse. Klingemann is interested in the possibilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence to investigate creativity, culture and the perception of art.
Mario Klingemann’s artistic works deal with the creation of art in the age of technical reproducibility. In this respect, his work is the continuation of Walter Benjamin’s thinking in practical work.
Mario Klingemann has received many important international awards for his work and his works, including one of the Ars Electronica, British Library Labs awards. His works are shown all over the world in all major institutions that deal with the latest developments in art. For example, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the British Library in London and at the Mediacity Biennale in Seoul.
The work “Deposed 004” was created with the help of artificial intelligence. This image was generated from a pool of collected photographs by the algorithm developed by Mario Klingemann. In general, the question arises as to who is the artist – the developer of the algorithm or the artificial intelligence?
Kerim Safa, Ambitious Factory of Pointless Reconstruction, 2021
Edition 25
Kerim Safa, born in 1985 in Izmir (Turkey), studied Visual Arts there from 2003 to 2007. He then studied music again for 4 years at Istanbul Bilgi University in Istanbul. Currently the artist lives and works in Utrecht (Netherlands) and “likes to play with pixels and sound”, as he says himself.
Kerim Safa is a typical representative of pixel art. Here, the limited resolution capacity of screens is deliberately used as a stylistic device. Kerim Safa pushes the whole thing so far that individual pixels form the basis of his virtual-visual machines.
Satoshi Aizawa, 2021, Edition 64
Satoshi Aizawa is an NFT artist based in Japan. He also hides his identity behind his work.
Aizawa, is one of the pioneers of generative art. He generates shapes in motion through digital coding of an object-oriented programming language. Basically, it’s drawing using mathematical formulas.
Only recently has he begun generating NFTs.
