đ Art Curations at NFC Summit 2026: The Full Program, Spaces, and Exhibitors Revealed !
Lisbon, June 4-6, 2026 | Unicorn Factory Lisboa, Beato
From June 4 to 6, Lisbon hosts the most ambitious edition of NFC Summit to date, with art at its core and at every corner.
Across the Unicorn Factory Lisboa, a former agro-industrial flour mill, art fills an outdoor plaza, four floors of a historic building, murals across the venue, and dedicated spaces with digital art in all the forms it currently takes: generative, immersive, interactive, large-scale, intimate, NFTs, AI-driven, and physical.
Artists will be present throughout, in conversation with visitors.
Highlights include a never-before-seen digital installation by Vhils presented by ETERNO, a new project by Eko33 presented by DANAE, a giant outdoor LED sculpture by Dmitri Cherniak, four artist shows in industrial containers, and an origami station with Bryan Brinkman.
The exhibitions are curated in collaboration with Fanny Lakoubay and 100 collectors, with the support of Arab Bank Switzerland, Cult of Crypto Art, OpenSea, Tezos, and many more.
Why This Year Is Different
NFC has been asking the same question for five years: how do we build a digital art event that is genuinely open? Not just for collectors who already know the names, not just for people already inside the Web3 world, but for anyone who walks through a door and stops in front of something they cannot quite explain.
This year is the most serious attempt yet to answer that.
The FĂĄbrica de Moagem was built as a total system. Grain arrived at the top, moved floor by floor through tubes and machines, and left as flour. For NFC 2026, that same logic shapes how the art is presented.
âOur role is that of meta-curator and puzzle solver: to organize the chaos of a genuinely plural field into something that moves with intention, where each space leads to the next. You might not like everything you see. That is not a failure of the program. It is what an honest experiment in a field this alive looks like.â
- Fanny Lakoubay, art curator for NFC 2026, co-founder of 100 collectors
The Spaces and Exhibitors
The Central Plaza
The plaza is an agora where everything converges. At the center, a new large-scale LED triptych by Dmitri Cherniak, connected to his Ringers series, runs continuously outdoors against the industrial architecture.
Around it, container galleries present dedicated shows by Efdot and JIWA (supported by OpenSea), the Cult of Crypto Art container transformed into a temporary autonomous zone, and sercâs on-chain generative pixel project, NORMIES. Tezos presents multiple community curations on a large LED screen.
NFC Art Factory â FĂĄbrica de Moagem
Four floors. One continuous journey.
Top Floor - SYSTEMS presented by Arab Bank Switzerland
Curated by Nina Roehrs, this exhibition brings together artists who work with systems in the broadest sense.
Ten works from the Arab Bank Switzerland collection by Kim Asendorf, Jack Butcher, Linda Dounia, Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti, Larva Labs and others will be exhibited alongside those of the three ABS Digital Art Prize 2026 finalists: Gretchen Andrew, Jonas Lund and Theo Triantafyllidis.
Ground Floor - Grand Hall
The buildingâs largest volume. At the entrance, 100 collectors runs a welcome desk and meeting point for guided tours and questions about digital art, NFTs, blockchain-based art, and anything else you want to understand better.
Vhils and Boldtron, presented by ETERNO (Lisbon): Vhils is one of Lisbonâs most recognized artists, known for carving faces into walls across the world. Here, for the first time, his historic explosion works are shown in a digital presentation you have never seen before.
Beside them, Boldtronâs AI-generated creatures move through the factoryâs original machinery.
Eko33âs Calculated Skies presented by DANAE (Paris, Milan): You walk into a room and the room reflects the sky. Not the sky outside, but one generated in real time by code, multiplied across mirrored surfaces until it appears to have no edges.
BitArt and Cybersea, presented by Bitcoin Art Society (Dubai, London): two artists working with generative code on Bitcoin. The first residents of the Robert Mallary Art Residency Program.
Bard Ionson, presented by HASH Gallery (London): Balloons In The Sky - a generative AI-driven landscape running continuously. Press the large red button to freeze a moment and claim it as a 1/1 NFT and physical print.
Second Floor - The Rare Art Floor
How many ways can digital art be shown? Each presentation makes a different argument. Solo artists next to galleries next to communities next to platforms.
The floor opens with Bryan Brinkmanâs new series Azulejo Galo, a generative work inspired by Lisbonâs tilework and Portugalâs rooster, launching at NFC Summit. Book a 10-minute slot to make origamis, spend time with the artist, and collect a work from the series. Link coming soon.
Also on the floor: solo shows by Maryam Hassani, Alan Bolton, Paradigmstories, and VEXA by Shils; Crash One by Cycol Gallery powered by Exchange Art; community displays by PEPEVAULT, DEGEDOG, Moon NFT, and SUPERNOVA; an NFT preservation project by the Digital Rescue Lab; and the presentation of Valerie C. Whitacreâs new book on art and blockchain.
The Inksea art lounge runs throughout the festival as a space to slow down. It features winners of the Inksea x NFC open call alongside guest curations, with timed takeovers by Hivemindâs Digital Culture Fund, Arthemort, and artists Coldie, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Ann Ahoy & Neurocolor, Hackatao, George Boya, Mattia Cuttini, Laurence Fuller, and Andrea Chiampo.
Basement - The AI Cave
The basement is where the millâs transformation used to end. For NFC 2026, RnA Studio, a Lisbon-based creative studio, has turned it into a fully immersive space where art and machine intelligence take over the architecture. MOODSCAPE will present works by 204.ai, Jas Black, Cezar Mocan, Emmanuelle Collet & Giulio Trichilo from GLITCH Collective & Symbients, Trail of Angels VR, Lisbon Loras Community, and Juliette Studios. More details here.
Spirit Protocol, with the support of VTV, presents an immersive installation that needs to be experienced in person. The artist presenting is GANCHITECTURE, an AI architect who builds worlds without buildings. Through agentic interactions with the audience, the installation reacts and evolves in real time, allowing visitors to shape the experience: Bring your own terminal!
The Tunnel Murals
With the support of the City of Lisbon, street art enters the Unicorn Factory as a permanent addition to the site. Masnah creates two new murals (supported by OpenSea), serc creates the worldâs first normies mural, and the winner of the mural open call, Giorgio Mussati, unveils a triptych.
The BOTTO Pop Up Shop
ElevenYellow hosts a McBotto pop-up experience: a playful, fast-food-inspired world built around collectible Botto toys, or Bottoys. The experience treats Botto as a pop-cultural icon, translating elements of its creative output into physical collectibles and immersive retail design.
The Crypto Stamp Corner
National postal services from around the world gather here to show what they are doing with digital collections and blockchain-based authentication. This year: Adphile & La Poste, The Austrian Post, Liechtensteinische Post AG, Swiss Post, and the Universal Postal Union, with new releases and exclusive editions debuting during the summit.
Participate to the special Hackatao treasure hunt via the5ource app to find Hackataoâs fragments and win a special stamp from their new collection with the Austrian Post.
The KAWAII Summit
Inside the same venue, a completely different world: pop culture, collectibles, cosplay, gaming, and kawaii culture. Live painting by Emily Teillaud, digital art by Polygon1993, major trading card tournament finals for PokĂŠmon, Magic: The Gathering, and One Piece, cosplay showcases, workshops, and curated merch.
Many Art Side Events
Itâs impossible to get bored.
Alongside the many exhibitions, side events will unfold across the site throughout the week: MEEBITS, CRYPTOPUNKS, NORMIES, and XCOPY community gatherings, the Mr Richi brunch, the Botto AI Slop Party, The Tonight Show by Benny Redbeard (2nd edition), and more.
Donât miss a thing by regularly checking the side event Luma calendar here.
Join two Twitter Spaces next week to hear from the art exhibitors and artists
đ Wednesday, May 20 6PM CET | NFC Art Curations Part 1 - Special Art Happenings
Discover the various curations in unexpected places: SYSTEMS by Arab Bank Switzerland, Dmitri Cherniakâs LED sculpture, container galleries, tunnel murals, and more.
đ Thursday, May 21 6PM CET | NFC Art Curations Part 2 - The NFC Art Factory & Side Events
Exhibitors from the 4 floors of the NFC Art Factory will reveal some of the activations and shows they have planned along with more details on how to access the art side events.
About NFC Summit
NFC Summit is the worldâs first Web3 Pop-Culture Festival since 2022, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal.
Next edition: June 4-6, 2026 // Unicorn Factory Lisboa // Lisbon, Portugal.
More announcements coming soon, stay tuned.