<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX proudly presents Marina Abramović Element (MAE)—a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art. </h3>
Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar, which serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age, working beyond physical limitations. This project marks a pivotal evolution in Abramović’s career—blending her decades-long legacy with the possibilities of the technological frontier. 
Presented artworks pay homage to key artworks from her past, recontextualising them for the digital gaze, thus forming a new body of work.
 
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Marina Abramović, in partnership with TAEX, is pleased to announce the opening of its first museum showcase for Marina Abramović Element (MAE), a groundbreaking new digital art project. Located in the NFT room of Moco Museum London, the display will feature a curated selection of unique artworks from the first drop of the collection, ART, dedicated to the vivid symbology in Marina Abramović’s iconic performances and portraits. 
 
Following the successful release of the first installment of the collection, with 70% of the artworks sold within the first 2 weeks, the market welcomed this major intervention by the godmother of performance art.
 
Marina Abramović, known for continuously testing the limits of her body, audience participation, and emotional presence, embarked on the journey to create the most accurate avatar of herself to date in order to extend her experiments to unprecedented levels. In the MAE Project, the very physical practice of Abramović blends with new technology resulting in a deeply intimate and vulnerable interaction with the digital audience. This pioneering project is an invitation to experience performance art on a new level, where the circumstances bend to the will of the artist and the audience becomes co-creators of the limitless archive of the future.
 
MAE was met with initial scepticism from both the art and web 3 communities, as no artist before Marina Abramović has initiated such a large-scale avatar project, involving complex narrative and high-fidelity graphics, which seemed almost an impossible undertaking. However, following successful showcases on the main stage of NFC Summit Lisbon and Taipei Dangdai art fair, the project earned a following and a group of devoted collectors.
 
Released on June 18, drop ART is dedicated to the evolution of Marina Abramović’s extensive practice, incorporating fundamental archetypes and symbolism from her archival portraits. These tokens feature animals and objects, such as snakes, scorpions, and sculls, that create the moments of tension in Abramović’s iconic works, engaging with the audience on a primal, elemental level. 
 
The exhibition will run from July 25 till August 25, 2025.

MAE at Moco Museum

TAEX is delighted to present a special two-fold showcase for the 20th anniversary edition of Contemporary Istanbul 2025. Returning for the third time, the platform will present Marina Abramović Element, a collection by Marina Abramović and TAEX, and REBUILD, an exhibition by Atif Akin and Orkan Telhan curated by Dr Margarita Kuleva in booth A107, Hall A.
REBUILD is a site-specific show that draws inspiration from the richness of Istanbul's cultural layers and its remarkable capacity to rebuild itself after multiple crises. The show echoes the 18th Istanbul Biennale theme of self-preservation and futurities.
 
In the current moment of political upheaval and institutional fragility, the urgency of rebuilding extends beyond metaphor into immediate necessity. As democratic institutions strain under pressure and social contracts fracture, we find ourselves confronting the same fundamental question that has driven Istanbul's continuous renewal: how do we reconstruct not just our physical spaces, but our collective capacity for resilience and dialogue?
 
As part of the show, Orkan Telhan will present Night Sways, but Underground Listens, a meditation on the sediments of Istanbul from a microbial perspective. The sculpture and corresponding digital artworks translate the microbial signature of soil into electrical signals, creating a two-week log of subterranean life, seen on the screens as a series of time-lapses, portraits of microbial rhythms. Atif Akin will exhibit Golden Myths, a site-specific project based on modelling and 3D scanning of the Tersane area, where Contemporary Istanbul takes place. Focused on revealing the complexity of urban cultural layers and myths in connection to the city's twisted relationships with hyper development, the work highlights the richness of the area’s history.
 
Marina Abramović Element (MAE) is a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art, Marina Abramović, powered by TAEX. 
 
Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar, which serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age.
 
Created to be at the age of 60, when the artist felt the most recognised and content with her life and career, this avatar enables performances that blend unprecedented graphics, complex narrative, and present a new kind of catalogue raisonné.
 
For CI 2025, TAEX is delighted to present the first phase of the project, ART, which is dedicated to the evolution of Marina Abramović’s artistic practice. A special focus is placed on the use of symbolism especially in Abramović iconic portraits featuring various animals (such as snakes and scorpions) as well the artist’s interaction with certain types of objects within contexts that have become central aspects of the artist’s performances.

Contemporary Istanbul 2025

TAEX is delighted to present Marina Abramović Element at W1 Curates during Frieze Week 2025. Taking over the iconic 167 Oxford Street building, MAE is turning it into an immersive show of digital performance by the avatar of Marina Abramović, reimagining presence on a grand scale!
 
At 6:30, TAEX will host a panel discussion Unseen Selves: Art, Identity, and the Digital Mask, bringing together digital art leaders such as cultural strategist Elle Anastasiou, artist Kevin Abosch, Artistic Director UBS Digital Art Museum &amp; Curator at Art Dubai Digital 2026 ⁠Ulrich Schrauth, and TAEX Director Stefanie De Regel for dialogues on the digital self, taking example and inspiration from the visionary project Marina Abramović Element.
 
MAE is a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art, Marina Abramović, powered by TAEX. Join us to experience the timeline and behind the scenes of the project as well as a sneak peak into the next chapter—METHOD.
 
Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Marina Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar which serves as a vibrant extension of her performance practice into the digital age.
 
Created by the artist to be at the age of 60, when she felt the most complete, this avatar enables the new dimension of performances that blend unprecedented graphics and complex narrative, forming the first chapter of her digital catalogue raisonné.

Unseen Selves: Art, Identity, and the Digital Mask

TAEX is delighted to present series by renowned artists Sasha Stiles and Marina Abramović at Art SG 2026.
Beginning with the exclusive preview of METHOD—the latest digital release by Marina Abramović powered by TAEX—alongside the previous series ART, the showcase offers a rare opportunity to view the works in a live setting.
METHOD is a series dedicated to the famous Marina Abramović Method, the foundation of MAI (Marina Abramović Institute). It presents the synthesis of lifelong artistic research and philosophy of Abramović and looks into the idea of human presence in time and space. The release reframes art as a shared experience rooted in presence, endurance, and heightened awareness. By guiding participants through simple but demanding exercises—often involving stillness, silence, and duration—METHOD shifts focus from the artist as performer to the audience as active co-creator.
The artworks are divided into two symbolic groups: Daily Routines and Experiences. Daily Routines are simple acts, such as watering and plant or ironing clothes, brought to an escalation by their infinite duration. Experiences examine the famous rituals and philosophy of Marina Abramović, depicting energy-transferring gestures. 
Continuing the showcase is HEART MANTRAS—a generative performance by Technelegy, and a perennial poem—an act of autonomous authorship that writes and rewrites itself in real time. Inspired by a core text by Sasha Stiles and enacted through the architecture of poetic imagination, this living manuscript explores how creativity loops and lingers—how language echoes, circles back on itself, and finds new resonance with each return.

Art SG 2026

Experience the exclusive preview of METHOD—the second release of MAE powered by TAEX.

&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;TAEX is proud to present a digital contribution to Transforming Energy, a series of 6 moving image pieces featuring Marina Abramović&rsquo;s avatar, continuing a groundbreaking collaboration that began with the exhibition&rsquo;s first iteration in Shanghai. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;TAEX&rsquo;s contribution unfolds across the exhibition in two distinct forms&mdash;a monumental immersive installation titled Slow Walking and five digital exercises on small screens, that accompany installations Pyramid Portal B, Opening and Closing of Door, Wounded Geode B, Colour Screen, and As Slow As Possible.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;This avatar is a new, completely lifelike digital twin of the artist at the age of 60, enabling an enduring performative presence. Created in 2025 to infinitely enact exercises based on the Marina Abramović Method, the project offers guidance, encounter, and reflection through an immersive installation and accompanying digital works.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

NFC Summit 2025

MAE at Moco Museum

Contemporary Istanbul 2025

Unseen Selves: Art, Identity, and the Digital Mask

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