Au Revoir 2025. Cheers 2026.

figgirl
Jan 4
2 min read

2025 was pretty hectic, but I have a feeling 2026 is going to be even crazier, especially in the next six months. We've been secretly working on something new, and I can share a bit about what's got me excited. The rest will unfold gradually, so make sure to keep up with us on Instagram or Twitter.

PROTO.logue — Opening Spring 2026

Exhibition One: COLLECTED + CREATED

Prologue

PROTO.logue begins where most stories end: at the moment of discovery. Four years ago, before I understood blockchain, wallets, or what a “drop” even was, I fell headfirst into a new world—one where artists from every corner of the globe gathered online to experiment, support one another, and build something that felt impossibly new. This was the early NFT era, the Hic et Nunc / Tezos community, where we were all learning in real time. We exchanged ideas in Clubhouse rooms late into the night; we tried to understand cryptocurrency together; we shared our triumphs, our failures, and our first mints with equal parts fear and exhilaration.

I entered first as a curious observer, and then—very quickly—as a collector who wanted to support these artists as they figured out what digital value, ownership, and creative sovereignty could look like. Nothing was expensive then. Most artists hadn’t yet come to grips with how to price their work in a market that didn’t resemble any market they’d known. I collected not because of speculation, but because the work pulled me in—quietly, urgently, insistently.

In four years, I’ve collected thousands of pieces of digital art across the expanding ecosystem: from early Tezos mints to pieces discovered on platforms like ZeroOne, Rodeo, Objkt, Revel (now gone), and Emergent Properties. These platforms shaped an era—each one offering its own approach to editions, auctions, and the cadence of creation. Artists experimented with one-of-ones, limited editions, open editions, timed drops, Dutch auctions, and surprise “drops” that felt like mini-holidays inside our community. Every format held a different kind of energy; every release carried a different kind of story.

COLLECTED + CREATED, the first exhibition of PROTO.logue, gathers ~275 works from 90 international (mostly emerging) artists from a much larger archive. These selected pieces are black-and-white or monochrome—artworks that, as a collector, have always anchored me. Stripped of color, what remains is essence: form, line, shadow, emotion, intention. As a curator, these pieces form a narrative of the early digital art renaissance—the rawness, the experimentation, the generosity, the unknowns we all stepped into together.

This exhibition is not the full story; it is only the beginning.But like any good prologue, it sets the tone for what follows.

PROTO.logue exists because artists took risks. COLLECTED + CREATED exists because I wanted to remember.

And this is only Chapter One.