Art on Tezos Friday Recap 🔔
→ En plein air reception took place at HEK Basel with @quayola , celebrating another chapter of the ongoing HEK × Tezos Foundation partnership. 🏛️🎶
→ @emikusano’s Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow on view at Basel Social Club with @bygrida and @artontezos_ until tomorrow!👩💼🤖
→ @artcommissiontz opened submissions for the July Vestige edition, with @spike_0124, @328_lad, @NFTipi and @MuhjuArt selecting 20 artists. 🏺✨ Deadline June 26.
→ @ryangtanaka announced that Teia’s on-chain messaging system is now live, introducing direct messages, group chats, token-gated comments, and notifications. 💬⛓️
→ objkt started to officially introduce @kentocards and participating artists, transforming digital artworks into collectible physical cards. Season 01, themed around Web Nostalgia, launches on Kickstarter this August. 🃏✨
→ The Second Guess announced two new releases by @BorisEldagsen. CRUSHED NOW imagines audio performances that never happened through AI-generated moving images, while more AI ART RANTS: Even Angrier expands his video series into cinematic studies of rage, irony, doubt, and tenderness. 🎭🤖
→ @paraxenod revealed the jury for #Art4LifeTez, with @malsheep56, Scott, @LN0ir, @FendelMarc, @CinziaGabrielPH and @paraxenod guiding the event’s selection process. 🩸❤️
→ @TezosCommons announced a special Artz Friday focused on #Art4LifeTez and raising awareness around blood donation through art. 🎙️🩸
→ @fabriziobrarez published a new edition of Seen by Brarez, this time spotlighting @x_mvf_x and supporting Tezos artists through his Substack series. 🔍🖼️
→ artists on objkt celebrated the 39th anniversary of the GIF with #GIFARTDAY 2026, inviting artists to create, mint, and share new loops. 🎞️🎉 Initiated by @tiegenhof_
→ less than a week remains to apply for #TezosPride2026, organized by Malicious Sheep and returning for its fourth year. 🌈✨
→ @accomparts announced Ghost of the Brush, a July auction exploring digital painting, computer art, generative systems, and image-based practices. 🖌️👻
→ @maskaygallery announced a new exhibition featuring 12 artists and 40 works, curated by @stipinpixel and presented in partnership with Art on Tezos. 🌐🖼️
→ @livingarts_eth announced ROOTED, Team Grow’s collective drop on June 23 exploring nostalgia, childhood memories, and shared experiences. 🌱💙
→ CinziaGabrielPH announced ICONÆ - The Scissors, exploring what is preserved and what is cut away. ✂️🖼️
→ Tezos Commons published the June Art on Tezos Spotlight, featuring works by @xicojam, Pamilo Ceirone, @Tengushee and more. 🎨💡
Don’t Miss:
→ minted works from artists exhibiting across Art Basel Week and Zero10: @williamapan, @JanRobertLeegte, @lennyjpg, @jonas_lund, @genekogan, @UBERMORGEN_COM, @john__gerrard, Analivia Cordeiro & @nancybursonart🇨🇭🖼️
→ Voices of Iran Issue 01, releasing today 6:30 PM PST, bringing together 13 Iranian artists and 32 pages of art and writing. 🇮🇷📖 Initiative by @normalistoxic.
→ Provence by @quayola on @objktone, accompanying En plein air, the new outdoor installation presented by HEK Basel and the Tezos Foundation. 🌳✨
→ Algorithm Victims Ruin Art History: AGAIN — Another Era, Another Light, bringing together more than 20 artists from @avsg666. ⚡🎨
→ The sixth collection from @23ArtCollective, A Place to Breathe, reflecting on the places we carry within us - spaces where memories remain, words fall short, and quiet shelter can still be found. 🏡💙
→ New on @bootloader_art:
- city haiku by @opia_aiqo
- Falsified Data by @fauxjebus
- Studies in Signals by @TheCrypThomas
→ New on @dropdotart:
- NIPERO collection by @nefetesudaca
- pretty things by @juujuumama
Image: Steeping the Corporate Protocol by Emi Kusano
✦featured collection✦
Hypomnēmata: Forgetting as a Way of Inventing
by @poetengineer__
A machine learns an alphabet. As its memories fade, it begins creating symbols it was never taught.
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· The Instrument
· Latin VI of VII
· Chinese I of V
· Chinese V of V
Thank you for attending the Quayola: En plein air reception at HEK during Art Basel week.
We were delighted to celebrate this latest chapter of the ongoing HEK × Tezos Foundation partnership with an evening of art, conversation, and music.
En plein air is on view until June 21.
✦featured collection✦
Only 1, by @kenmatsumura_
A series of nostalgic pixel-crafted worlds that celebrate the magic hidden in ordinary moments.
▽ Fishing for Dreams
▽ Starlit Companions ✨
▽ 🌴 Palm Side Story
Meet the artists behind Kento 🎴
✨ Today’s spotlight: @salawakii ✨
If you’ve spent time around digital art, chances are you’ve crossed paths with her work. Nostalgic, playful, and instantly recognizable, Salawaki turns internet memories into visual experiences.
We’re excited to have her as part of Kento Season 01: Web Nostalgia 🔥
NOW LIVE ◨ Provence by @quayola ◧
What the Impressionists found in light, machines now find in data.
⧉ 15 works releasing June 17 on @objktone
Alongside “En plein air”, a new outdoor installation by, presented by HEK Basel and @TezosFoundation
Collect on @objktone ↓
▼ Provence G_01-4
✦ Now on View ✦
Gallery @bygrida presents Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow by @emikusano at Basel Social Club in partnership with Art on Tezos.
Through AI-generated images, Kusano explores labor, identity, repetition, and the systems that shape everyday life.
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