Krypto-Kunst

Once again, an avant-garde is launching an assault on established art and its institutions. Accompanying it is a nostalgic video game aesthetic and a new type of commodity with gigantic profit promises. With the boom of NFT-certified crypto art, a flood of digital folklore is pouring into an art world that sees its hard-won values being called into question. Kolja Reichert demonstrates that it is less about art and more about history itself that is being wagered here - and how the boundaries between audience and work, art and money, blur in this context.