EVENTS IN 2022
December
‘Le monde non objectif’
Solo-exhibition by Swiss artist Eko33, Exhibition Opening, 7th December
Solo show by Eko33
Curated by Kate Vass Galerie in collaboration with unpaired. Gallery
Time: 7th of December
Location: Rigistrasse 2. Zug 6300 unpaired. Gallery
Miami Art Basel, 1-3 December
In the American show, leading galleries from five continents show significant works by masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars.
November
Interview with artist Eko33 & curator Kate Vass
Listen to the Twitter Space Interview from the 28th of November, hosted by ‘Arlt Collector’ with Eko33 and Kate Vass here.
Bright Moments, Mexico City, 14-21 November
In Mexico we will host NFT ART CDMX: A four day celebration at General Prim 32, featuring nocturnal minting of 3,000+ on-chain generative artworks, a celebration of death and the afterlife, daytime educational programming, & local cuisine banquets for guests and minters.
Kate Vass will speak about the history of generative art in Mexico.
CADAF, New York, 11-13 November
CADAF Art Fair returns to New York for its 5th edition November 11th - 13th, 2022. Brought in partnership with Web3 NYC Gallery, CADAF presents a curated selection of global digital artists, galleries, and Web3 innovators!
Kate Vass Galerie showcases works by Ganbrood, Charles Csuri and Lucas Aguirre.
CADAF: Curating Digital Art, Twitter Space, 10th November
Topic: CURATING DIGITAL ART
Speakers: @DianeDrubay, @RainaMehler, @keyvass, @cocodolle, @jessconatser, @matthewkeff, @ErikWinkowski, @eleonorabrizi, @AndreaSteuer
Hosts: @AlexEstorick, @AnnMarieAlanes
Time: 10th November, Twitter Space
Art & Cake: Guided tour, 6th November
Do you want to learn more about digital art and NFTs? Join our 30-minute guided tour of the group NFT exhibition "Liebe Maschine, male mir” with Agnes Ferenczi and Oscar Togninalli on Sunday, 6 November.
All participants will receive a complimentary cake and coffee after the tour. Please note that the number of participants is limited and we recommend that you register in advance.
October
Historic NFT Fest, Barcelona, 28-30 October
Discover and celebrate the history of NFTs with the innovators that made them happen at a historic landmark in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. Hosted by DADA, the First Historic NFT Fest brings together the creators, innovators and thinkers who started it all. This three day event will take a deep dive into the earliest NFT projects on blockchain up to 2019, and will be a fun gathering of the early NFT community.
Kate Vass will speak at the event about Perfect & Priceless, the first blockchain art exhibition at Kate Vass Galerie in 2018. She has been bringing crypto art and the art world closer to each other ever since.
Twitter Space - "Liebe Maschine, male mir" w/ Frieder Nake, Ganbrood, & Espen Kluge
'Human perception is a pure data processing. We analyze, filter, & encode all info around us. Above all, filtering is crucial, cause we have only limited processing capabilities.'
Join us for our talk w/Frieder Nake @CarlCanary, @espenkluge, @ganbrood
Time: 28th October, at 6 pm (CEST)
‘Dear Machine, paint for me’, exhibition opening at The Circle, Zürich, 27th of October
The exhibition, ‘DEAR MACHINE, PAINT FOR ME’ is an international group exhibition with NFTs (non-fungible tokens) by Frieder Nake, Hein Gravenhorst, Alexander Mordvintsev, Herbert W. Franke, Manfred P. Kage, Ganbrood, and Espen Kluge, tracing a broad spectrum of algorithmic art.
Participating artists: Ganbrood, Espen Kluge
Web 3.0 Culture - Ep. I., Twitter Space, 17th October
This is the conversation about whether museums and NFTs are a match made in heaven or if there’s good reason for institutions to remain cautious about their value.
Speakers: @jonippolito, @TinaRiversRyan, @SerenaTabacchi, Colborn Bell
Hosted by Kate Vass
Time: 17th October, 3:30 pm EDT / 9:30 pm CET
Art & Cake: Guided Tour, Zürich, The Circle, 9th October
Guided Tour of the Exhibition “Edges of the Metaverse” with the Curators; Kate Vass and Georg Bak.
Date: 9th of October
Time slots with Kate Vass: 13:00-13:20 / 13:40-14.00 / 14:20-14.40
Location: The Circle, Zürich
9th Barcelona Symposium of Talking Galleries, Barcelona, 3rd October
Panel discussion topic: “NFTS: NOW WHAT?”
Date: Monday, Oct 3, 12.15am – 1.30pm
Speakers: Joe Kennedy (Co Founder, Unit London, London), Beatriz Ordovás (International Senior Director and Head of Digital Art, EMEA & Post-War & Contemporary, Iberia, Christie’s), Andrés Reisinger, (Digital artist and founder of Reisinger Studio, Barcelona), Kate Vass, (Founder and Director, Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich)
Moderated by Pau Waelder (Senior Curator, Niio)
September
Lugano Digital Art Week, Lugano, 29th September
Museums, galleries, studios, exhibition spaces, ateliers, stores, and shopping centers can join with their own initiatives or host those organized by the Art Commission. Art installations become means of communication, and around them: conferences, sales, commerce, speeches, round tables, talks, and celebratory and social events arise. The city of Lugano will be featured in a series of events.
Exhibition Opening “Edges of the Metaverse”, Zürich, 28th September!
In the new pop-up art space at the Circle, elementum.art NFT Gallery & Kate Vass Galerie will showcase selected works by pioneers of digital art & contemporary NFT art on 380 square meters, 25 screens, and VR installations.
The gallery opens with the exhibition "Edges of the Metaverse" by the award-winning National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey, feat. works by Harry Yeff, Entangled Other Studio, and Sofia Crespo.
Join us to celebrate the opening on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, from 6PM.
Twitter Spaces: “The Art World Expanded”, 28th September
Topic: The Art World Expanded: Contemporary & Crypto Art Living Together"
Speakers: Kate Vass, Alex Estorick, and Jesse Damiani
Host: Jess Conatser
Date: 28th September, 11:30 am
Twitter Space: “Edges of the Metaverse”, 27th September
A conversation about a new exhibition “Edges of the Metaverse”, in The Circle, Zürich with curators and artists.
Speakers: Georg Bak, Kate Vass, Colborn Bell, Jesse Damiani, Entangled Others, Aaron Huey, Reeps100
Time: 27th September, 7 p.m. CEST / 1 p.m. EST
Curators Talk: retrospective Automat & Mensch, 20th September
Curators Talk w/Jason Bailey and Georg Bak
Please join the “Curator Talk”, where we are speaking about curating generative art in the web3 era and looking back at the historical show: Automat & Mensch hosted by Kate Vass
Save the date: 20th Sep @ 1pm EST / 7pm CET
Berlin Art Week, Berlin, 14-18 September
Special guest: Manolo
August
NFT Art Day, Zug, 25th August, 2022
Date: Thursday, 25 August 2022 NFT LATE SUMMER PARTY
Location: Unpaired. Gallery, Zug
Partners: Elementum.art, unpaired.
“DALLE 2 and the Role of the Artist”, 8th August
Artnet is hosting a series of #TwitterSpaces feat. leading artists, collectors, and builders in the NFT space.
Panel: “DALLE 2 AND THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST”
Speakers: Kenny Schachter, Anne Spatler , Kate Vass, Matthew Stone, Ganbrood
Moderated by: @aljaparis & @TheMerovingian0
Date: 8th August, 7 pm
Twitter Spaces Series by Artnet, 2nd August
Panel: “AI IN ART: BLURRING DEFINITIONS”
Date: 2nd August 15:30
with Alex Estorick, Quasimondo, August Rosedale, Kate Vass, Ivona Tau, Sofia Crespo, Justin Trimble, Jiayin Chen, EMostaque
July
Monaco Art Week, Monaco, 14th July
Panel: “NFT ART: SOLUTIONS FOR COLLECTORS AND ARTISTS”
Moderated by Elena Zavelev
Speakers: Kate Vass (Kate Vass Gallery), Fiorenzo Manganiello (LIAN Group), Alan Smithson (MetaVRse), Irina Tarsis (the Center for Art Law), Jason Bailey (ClubNFT)
Time: 14th July, From 4 pm
Address: Le Panorama, 57 Rue Grimaldi, Monaco 98000 MC
Ex-Machina Auction Preview by Phillips, London, 10th July
Phillips presented Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art, an exhibition and online auction. Curated by Georg Bak, Ex-Machina illustrates the history of Generative art, starting in the 1950s with the pioneers of computer art through to present-day generative NFT artists.
The full selection of works was on view at 30 Berkeley Square, London from 11 July - 5 August, with the online auction took place 13 - 20 July on phillips.com.
Bright Moments, London, 7th July
Bright Moments is an NFT art collective, traveling around the world minting CryptoCitizens and empowering artists through live minting events. London is the fifth city in our world tour, and represents the halfway point of our membership PFP collection, the CryptoCitizens.
Artists: NICOLAS SASSOON (JUNE 30), JEFF DAVIS (JULY 2), SPUTNIKO (JULY 7), MATT DESLAURIERS (JULY 14), THOMAS LIN PEDERSEN (JULY 21), EMILY XIE (JULY 28)
Proof of People, London, 7th July
VerticalCrypto Art presents ‘Proof of People’, London’s first immersive 3-day festival showcasing art, fashion, and music through the lens of metaverse culture and NFT-backed technology.
Panel: “Curating and Displaying Art for Web3”
Speakers: Joe Kennedy, Josef, Roxy Fata, and Kate Vass
Moderator: Kenza Kouari
Date: Thursday 7th July, 17.30 PM
Venue: Fabric London, 77A Charterhouse St, London EC1M 6HJ, United Kingdom
Victoria and Albert Museum Visit, London, 5th July
We visited the Victoria and Albert Museum London, with the pioneer Hans Dehlinger, who shared his personal stories about all generative art pioneers Harold Cohen, Vera Molnar, George Nees, Desmond Paul Henry, and Herbert Franke. Thank you both artists & curator for this experience!
Artists & Collectors get together! -
Kate Vass Galerie and DASL Summer Party, London, 5th July
Kate Vass Galerie partnered up with DASL (Digital Art Salon London), who was hosting a Summer party on the 5th of July, which takes place in London.
June
NFT Sundays Podcast with Colborn Bell at DMINTI, 26th June
Colborn Bell spoke with the founder and director of Kate Vass Galerie about linking the physical and the digital at her gallery.
“The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters”, Art Basel, 16th June
Panel: “The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters” - The crypto community offers the chance to hold several roles at once – investor, collector, supporter, artist, and curator – something that is challenging fixed notions of identity. In this talk, we heard from pioneering NFT collectors and supporters about their journey, their interests and concerns, and their vision for the field.
Speakers: B (@beautyandpunk), Fanny Lakoubay, Sarah Meyohas, Kate Vass
Moderated by Anny Shaw
Time: 16th June, 5PM - 6PM, Art Basel
Tezos NFT Speaker Series, Art Basel, 16th June
Panel: “The Collectors Conversation - NFT Art Edition” - Dive into a conversation surrounding collecting art through new mediums.
Time: 16th June, 11:15 - 12 noon, Basel, Auditorium, Hall 1.0 ground floor
Speakers: Kerstin Gold; Kate Vass; Anika Meier, Kevin Abosch
Zürich Art Weekend, Kunsthaus Zürich, 10th June
The program is prepared by the University of Zurich together with Kunsthaus Zurich.
Time: Friday 10 June, Kunsthaus, 16:00-17:00
Panel: “Crypto Art Markets in Practice”
Speakers: Nina Roehrs, Kate Vass, Pierce Wu, Michèle Sandoz
Moderated by Nicolas Galley
May
Christie’s Education Lectures, 26th May
CADAF is excited to partner again with Christie’s Education from April 28 – May 26, 2022, with a 2nd short course on collecting, curating, and displaying NFTs. This course will immerse students into the rapidly changing world of NFT art, focusing on collecting and curating, key players, display solutions offline and in themetaverse/web3, the current state of the market, and more.
NFTs in Context 2.0 Course is organized by Elena Zavelev, Andrea Steuer of CADAF & Jess Conatser of Studio As We Are.
Speaker lineup: Kevin Abosch, Rob Anders, Serena Tabacchi, Kate Vass, Fanny Lakoubay, Roxy Fata, and Joe Saavedra.
Our founder, Kate Vass, will be talking about connecting with collectors and collecting digital art on 26th May at 1 pm EDT.
“Collecting Art in the Metaverse”, 24th May
Panel: “COLLECTING ART IN THE METAVERSE”
Date: Tuesday, 24th May 2022, 4:30 - 5:00
Speakers: Niclas Genovese, Tom Rieder, Saqr Ereiqat, Gaurav Dubey, Kate Vass, Harry Yeff
World Economic Forum, Davos, 24th May
Join the event, co-hosted by shechain.co, Unit Network, and RollApp.store, to network with women who are dedicated to advancing the industry!
Panel: “Diversity Redefined - The Future of Women's Economic Empowerment in Web3”
Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 10:30 AM
Speakers: Valerie Halter, Irina Heaver, Yuree Hong, Sandra Tusin, Thy-Diep Ta, Kate Vass, Natalia Toporkova
SYZ Bank, Zürich, 11th May
Art ownership in the digital revolution —Turning the art world on its head.
Kate Vass spoke about the early beginnings of NFTs back in 2018-2019 to their recent rise in popularity
SPEAKERS: Kate Vass , Ralf Glabischnig; Dr. Daniel Diemers, Sergio Tarantino, Charles-Henry Monchau
April
PHYGITAL, Exhibition Opening, 18th April
PHYGITAL exhibition is, above all, an intent to explore important works by generative artists with various implementations, generated by the machine, bit by bit, infusing the pieces with more and more real-world complexity.
The exhibition takes place at www.phygital.codes dedicated web-based created by Kate Vass Galerie to bring online interaction with the artworks to the fore, where, afterwards, physicality (as a sculpture or plotter drawing) of the code adds value to the realism from the inclusion of the texture and materiality to evoke sensory experience.
March
Block/Talks, SXSW Conference, 12th March
Kate Vass spoke at the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals at the 36th edition of its annual Conference, in Texas, Austin.
Panel: “The Digital Art Market”
Date: Saturday, March 12, from 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM CT
Speakers: Kate Vas, Felix Xu, Reid Yager,
Full program on https://tezos.com/events/sxsw22/
Mentorship program, Art Dubai, 11-13 March
January
Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association, 27th January
Kate Vass spoke at the Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association event.
Panel: "The magic and exciting world of NFTs: Art, Gaming and beyond" - With our experts, among other topics, we will discuss if the NFTs are really an art and if it is a myth that "old people" do not understand Metaverse.
Speakers: Katharina Lasota Heller, Kasia Pieniadz, Artur Pszczólkowski, Christoph J. Ebell, Kate Vass, Marcin Rzetecki, Pawel Sobotkowski, Ian Simpson, Xenia Heller, Michal Scislowski
AssetRush Talk, 25th January
Kate Vass was interviewed as a special guest for the GenTwo AssetRush TALK series.
AssetRush is not just a live event, but since September 21 also an online platform: www.asset-rush.com. Leading innovators and other notable personalities are invited to the GenTwo Stage Studio for a one-on-one exchange with GenTwo CEO Philippe A. Naegeli.
NFT Paris, 22nd January
NFT Paris was organized by big names in the crypto ecosystem (Ledger, Atka, etc.) and the X-HEC Entrepreneurs master, the interactive NFT Paris event will plunge you, for one day, into the heart of the bubbling world of NFTs by tackling various topics: metaverse, security, art, luxury, and technology.
Panel: “TOWARD BROADER DEMOCRATIZATION OF ART”
Speakers: Kate Vass, Diane Drubay, Micol Ap, Pierre-Etienne Pommier
VerticalCryptoArt, 12th January
Panel: “Discussing Art NFTs: Ways of Curating”
Date: 12th January, 8PM
Speakers: Artnome, Kate Vass, Alfred Weidinger, Tina Rivers Ryan, Addie Wagenknecht, María Paula
Co-hosting with Jesse Damiani, Anika Meier