Lecturer: Anika Meier

On Curating NFTs

In 2021, NFTs were making headlines around the world. However, the initial hype faded quickly, leading to the impression that NFTs were no longer relevant. But the goal was never to continuously break auction records like Beeple’s—it was to establish a new online art world.

Today, there are numerous international platforms, galleries, art fairs, and curators who specialize in digital art and NFTs.

In the two-day workshop On Curating NFTs, curator and digital art expert Anika Meier offers a deeper insight into this emerging online art world and shares practical tips on how to curate NFTs.

Anika Meier is a writer and curator specializing in digital art. She lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art), and at Bauhaus University Weimar. She is the co-founder of The Second-Guess, a curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles that explores the relationship between humans and technology.

Among others, she wrote columns for Monopol and Kunstforum, worked with CIRCA and Tezos on Marina Abramović‘s first NFT Drop, and with Herbert W. Franke on his NFT Drop MATH ART. She was on the curation board of Art Blocks, on the advisory board of Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel and built EXPANDED.ART.

She is also a conceptual artist who creates text-based works that critically reflect on identity, authorship, and value in the post-digital age, including LOST FUTURES (2023), TALE AS OLD AS TIME (2024), and TECHNOLOGY PORTRAITS (2025). In 2022, she collaborated with Operator to create UNSIGNED, a collection of 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists aimed at reversing the current negative value of signatures by transforming them into artworks themselves.

Her most recent curated exhibitions include The Second-Guess. Body Anxiety in the Age of AI at HeK Basel (Virtual), LeeMullican.PCX at FeralFile, Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post-NFTism at HEK Basel (Virtual), Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz, and Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch).

Her exhibitions have been written about, and her writing has been published in, among others, artnet, Hyperallergic, Monopol, Kunstforum, Spiegel, Tagesschau, and Right Click Save.

Instagram: @anika

Twitter: @postanika

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Image: Anika Meier, River (Technology Portraits), AI-generated image, 2025.