Marina Abramović Element (MAE) is a digital art project that extends Marina Abramović’s practice into the digital realm. Through the creation of her avatar, Abramović explores new ways of presence, endurance, and transformation beyond the limits of the physical body. Drawing from her most significant works and structured in releases that mark key moments in the artist’s journey, MAE introduces a new way of engaging with performance art—allowing its works to be collected as artworks in their own right.
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TAEX proudly presents Marina Abramović Element (MAE), a visionary NFT project by Marina Abramović. Central to this project is a digital avatar of Marina. This avatar serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age, working beyond physical limitations.
Marina Abramović Element offers a limited collection of authenticated digital artworks on the Ethereum blockchain. This approach democratises access, inviting a broader, global audience to participate in her evolving artistic journey.
This project marks a pivotal evolution in Abramović’s career — blending her decades-long legacy with the possibilities of the digital frontier.
Avatar
Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Marina Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar as a natural extension of her lifelong exploration of presence, time and transformation. Having used her own body as both subject and medium since the early 1970s, Abramović has continually tested the limits of endurance, consciousness and the relationship between artist and audience. The avatar translates this practice into the digital realm, allowing her artistic energy to exist beyond physical constraints and linear time.
Created at the age of 60, a moment of accumulated experience and heightened awareness, the avatar reflects a pivotal stage in her biography while remaining open to perpetual renewal. It enables new forms of performance that merge advanced graphics with layered narrative, extending her investigations into immateriality and duration. Functioning as a living, evolving archive, the avatar also proposes a radical rethinking of the catalogue raisonné—not as a static record of the past, but as an active, performative space in which Abramović’s work continues to unfold, resonate and generate meaning for future audiences.
Digital ownership
The MAE Project is built on Ethereum, a widely used and trusted digital network chosen for its strong security, transparency and broad acceptance. This makes it a reliable foundation for creating and managing digital collectibles, ensuring that every transaction is clearly recorded and well protected.
Each digital collectible is supported by a digital certificate of authenticity created using recognised, industry-standard tools. These certificates are carefully tested and independently reviewed to reduce risk and ensure they function as intended. This protects all key actions, such as buying, selling and transferring ownership.
The project is regularly updated to maintain high security standards and to reflect improvements in digital technology. Because it is based on Ethereum, the collection is easily accessible through leading digital art marketplaces, without extra technical steps.
Artwork details are stored using a decentralised storage system, ensuring that records remain permanent and available even if individual servers fail, helping to preserve long-term value and trust.
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