Vigee.art is the world’s first Artist Marketplace focusing on Community and Solidarity. Artists can exhibit and trade Digital Artwork on a carbon-negative platform with the aim of Contributing to the Artist Community. Artists can make a difference by Proposing and Voting for Global Artist Projects and Cultural Initiatives to receive Funding.
The Digital Art Landscape
It is difficult to ignore the press coverage of digital art, which has been traded as NFTs on various marketplaces. The media highlights that some artwork by artists was sold for exorbitant sums through well-known auction houses and marketplaces. This in turn caught the attention of many artists and art lovers who want to exhibit and trade digital artworks.
Collectors buy and trade artworks with an eye on profit, which is also true for marketplace platforms. Unfortunately, there is insufficient interest and focus on giving back to the global artist community, such as donating a portion of profits, which could support exceptional projects or artists.
Vigee.Art
is a non-commercial digital art ecosystem with built-in solidarity for the artist community, where digital art can be tokenized, exhibited, auctioned and sold. Artists can set their expected royalty fees and tokenise their artwork with the benefit of very low transaction fees and donate a portion of their sales profit to a charity chosen from a list, which was initially proposed and voted for by the Vigee community. . This differentiates Vigee.art from current marketplaces focusing solely on profits rather than community building, solidarity and long-term vision.
Features and Benefits
– Access to a solidarity focused marketplace & community
– Immutable protection of property rights
– Artists receive royalties for each artwork sale
– Proposals and votes drive art projects and initiatives forward
– Simple, low-cost tokenisation on a carbon-negative network
Why Now
The art community has shown great interest in NFT marketplaces to publish and sell artworks, as access to physical galleries and trading venues has been limited. Particularly in recent times where many artists have lost the opportunity of being able to present their art and earning money from it.
Publishing artworks on digital art marketplaces also has some disadvantages such as high publishing and transaction fees due to the high traffic and demand on blockchain networks.
Time to give Back!
It could be said that it has become very costly for artists to showcase and trade their artwork. The cost of publishing digital art is 100+ USD, which is quite high considering that a digital artwork has not even been sold yet, resulting in artists having to make significant upfront investments with no guarantee that it will ever be sold.
Current marketplaces do not focus on building communities and giving back solidarity nor supporting them. There are many great artists and projects, which could be supported by initiatives from the latest trending platforms and blockchain technology providers. The goal should also be to encourage creativity and support change, not just focus on short-term profits!
The Eco System
