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VENET EVENT is a generative art collection by conceptual artist Bernar Venet, featuring 500 unique iterations released by Sotheby’s in 2024. 

The collection delves into the interplay of chance and unpredictability in the digital realm, building on Bernar Venet's six-decade exploration of entropy and gravity across various mediums. Combining his deep understanding of sculpture with the languages of science and mathematics, Venet offers a unique and thought-provoking digital experience. EVENT marks a new chapter in Venet's work, inviting viewers to engage with the captivating dimensions of long-form on-chain creativity.

The VENET EVENT project was initiated by curator Viola Lukács and realized in collaboration with Jiwa, River Davis, Art Blocks Engine and Sotheby’s.

The production team: Bernar Venet, S. Ryan O’Connor (jiwa), Viola Lukács, River Davis, Julia Sandor, Mári Mákó, Anik Maiweg, Jan Bichler, Bernar Venet Studio.

Sotheby’s Head of Sale, Michael Bouhanna.


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Sotheby's Metaverse. Auction house for a selection of rare NFTs and digital art.

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INK speaks to the bold insistence on leaving a trace, a mark that knows it will fade, yet persists. A poetic contradiction lies in each stroke: the pursuit of permanence in a world destined to vanish.

Whether in blue or black, in pencil or rust, each line reflects fragments of human experience – perhaps  figures, animals, or letters – yet none of it is real; it is only experiences, biases, dreams, and demons. Rather than rely on the slow decay of ink, paper, or perhaps one day pixels, we lean on what is within our control: memory, boundless, infinite, and ours alone.

In this quiet persistence, we find our redemption—an echo of those who remain and those who have already gone. INK is a profoundly personal project. As Velitchkova says "Life doesn’t give us what we desire without first demanding something in return". INK is Velitchkova's answer to a year filled with hard lessons, hopes, and losses. Built upon these experiences, each line structure tells its own story, echoing to a song by Travis—a band that knows the artist's steps better than most.

This series traces the history of inks through algorithmic iterations. Each one is reimagined as both a medium and metaphor. Iron gall ink, used in medieval Europe, ironically corroded the manuscripts it aimed to preserve. Blue ink, made practical by the 20th-century ballpoint, serves the demands of modern life. Black ink, from ancient Egypt and China, symbolizes permanence in official records and last words. White ink, an accent in manuscripts and art, was never meant for the mundane. It exists to illuminate, to contrast, used sparingly for highlights on dark surfaces.

INK draws from the simplicity of Picasso’s single-line figures, Chillida’s sculptural weight, Kline’s expressive brushwork, and Basquiat’s chaotic yet precise gestures. Yet it seeks neither homage nor critique, it merely stands as a mirror, reflecting our insistent need to matter. 


The Curated collection is the foundational series of Art Blocks. It represents our vision for the pinnacle of generative art, showcasing projects that embody world-class innovation, technical rigor, and aesthetic beauty. Originally organized into Series 1 through 8 until October 2022, the collection continues without series designations and advances our mission to push the boundaries of the generative art medium.

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The while true (fabric) collection contains four jacquard fabric panels, crafted from an artist-selected hash code, produced to reflect the rich variety of while true. The fabric is paired with a digital artwork, selected by the artist, to correspond with it.

while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?

while true (fabric)

while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?

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