About

At a time when exhibition spaces face political and material limitations, and when information flows obscure history and culture, the Open Art Institute aims to open a breach to liberate artworks.

Culture is a vital resource that not only needs to be shared with the widest possible audience, but also protected, so that a human vision may persist in a time increasingly defined by automated systems. We believe that dematerialisation can paradoxically serve the circulation and restitution of art for all.

By granting greater freedom to curators, researchers, and artists, our exhibition formats expose and share knowledge with the public to generate a new kind of archive: an organic archive on the blockchain, intended to redirect its current uses.

The Open Art Institute community seeks to reclaim artworks and ideas by multiplying their presence across networks. More than just culture dissemination, the encounter with art also becomes an experience of liberation.

The Open Art Institute is open to anyone, anywhere, at any hour. There is no admission.

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The works shown here are drawn from the open-access programmes of ten public museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Each record links back to the museum that holds the work, and each image is reproduced under that museum’s own terms.

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