SYSTEMS : Digital Art Prize / Exhibition presented by Arab Bank Switzerland at NFC Summit 2026 🖼️
Arab Bank Switzerland has been one of the defining institutional forces in digital art for the past years - collecting, supporting artists, and bringing rigour to a field that often lacks it.
As a co-organizer of NFC Summit 2026, they brought their most ambitious programme yet. A huge thank you to the Arab Bank Switzerland team for their partnership and commitment to making this edition possible! 🔥
SYSTEMS
Digital Art Prize / Exhibition
Held in conjunction with the 2026 Arab Bank Switzerland Digital Art Prize, SYSTEMS was a thematic exhibition that presents works by the prize’s three finalists - Gretchen Andrew, Jonas Lund, and Theo Triantafyllidis - in dialogue with a curated selection of works from the bank’s collection. Artists who submitted to the open call were invited to respond to the exhibition’s guiding theme, with submissions judged by an independent jury that included Giulia Bini, Armin Blasbichler, Abigail Miller, malte_fr, and Nina Roehrs.
Set within a former bread-production facility whose original machinery remains embedded in the architecture, the exhibition brought together practices that foreground the ubiquitous yet often invisible systems that govern what is made, seen, and valued today. Works encompass simulated worlds, miniature economies, and elaborate mechanical apparatuses, but in all cases, they are concerned less with surface outputs than the underlying processes and protocols that give rise to them.
Artists in show: Gretchen Andrew, Kim Asendorf, Jack Butcher (VV – Visualize Value), Viktoria Binschtok, Linda Dounia, Andreas Gysin and Sidi Vanetti, Larva Labs, Jonas Lund, Cezar Mocan, Operator, Helena Sarin, Paul Seidler, Snowfro x VV, Theo Triantafyllidis.
Curated by Nina Roehrs.
Digital Art Prize 2026 Winner : Gretchen Andrew
Gretchen Andrew is the winner of the ABS Digital Art Prize 2026 with the work Facetune Portraits: Universal Beauty Vietnam.
About ABS
Since 2022, Arab Bank Switzerland has been building a collection of artworks engaging with blockchain technology and digital culture. Through this commitment, the bank plays a vital role in the digital art landscape - via its growing collection, international event and exhibition activities, both at its Geneva headquarters and abroad, and the annual awarding of its art prizes - contributing meaningfully to the evolving discourse on art in the digital age and blockchain technology.
SYSTEMS was a powerful expression of that commitment - and a reminder of what happens when institutions show up for artists with intention.
About NFC Summit
NFC Summit is the world’s first Web3 Pop-Culture Festival since 2022, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal.
June 4-6, 2026 // Unicorn Factory Lisboa // Lisbon, Portugal.
2027 announcements coming soon, stay tuned.