Paris Advent Calendar Show: 2 NFTs per day until New Year 2024

4 min readDec 16, 2023

The NFT Factory Gallery hosts the best curators and digital and AI artists in front of Pompidou Museum

France, Paris, — December 16, 2023 — The Christmas “Advent Calendar” exhibition in Paris brings together prominent figures in digital art and artificial intelligence. Each day, a unique artwork is revealed at the unique venue NFT Factory Gallery, creating a countdown to the new year. Among the selected curators are Objkt, Artpoint, John Hamon, Pauline Faieff, Braw Haus, and more.

Paris “Advent Calendar” brings together prominent figures in digital art and AI at the NFT Factory Gallery, Dec, 2023.

About the NFT Factory

Installed in the heart of the Beaubourg district at 137 rue Saint-Martin, facing the renowned Centre Pompidou Museum, the NFT Factory opened its doors in October 2022 in the presence of the Minister Delegate for Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Jean-Noël Barrot. The NFT Factory is a unique space to discover NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), network, and build projects in Web3 for entrepreneurs, artists, corporates, investors, and the public. Spread across three floors and 400 square meters, the NFT Factory aims to help structure the NFT industry and bring together key players in NFTs, not only in art but also in gaming, luxury, finance, and the metaverse.

The NFT Factory was created in Paris by a collective of 128 tech and crypto leaders. Image courtesy of Exquisite Workers.

The NFT Factory was created by a collective of 128 tech and crypto leaders, artists, investors, and executives from companies including Allianz Accelerator, Arianee, Blackpool, LaCollection, Dogami, Ethereum France, Galeries Lafayette Group, Ledger, Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA), NFT Morning Podcast, RTFKT, The Sandbox, and Sorare. Benoît Couty, one of the co-founders of the venue, previously created MOCA and is considered one of the largest collectors in France.

The digital screen exhibition at the gallery offers a unique advantage — the flexibility to change the collection every week on both the first and second floors. The second floor not only provides a dedicated space for showcasing artworks but also serves as a communal area for engaging in discussions on art, regulations, technology, entrepreneurship, and crypto, and incubating Web3 startups in the future.

Installed in the heart of the Beaubourg district, the NFT Factory faces the renowned Centre Pompidou Museum. Image courtesy of Exquisite Workers.

About the “Advent Calendar” show

In the weeks leading up to December 31, 2023, the “Advent Calendar” exhibition at the NFT Factory showcases around sixty digital and AI works on the ground floor. The screens display green screens with numbers corresponding to the dates until December 31. The gallery opens its doors from Wednesday to Saturday, welcoming visitors from 11 am to 7 pm. Each day begins with the unveiling of new works, adding an element of surprise for the audience.

In daily life, the “Advent Calendar” is a special calendar used to count the days of anticipation and excitement leading up to Christmas. Typically, each day of December is marked by opening a numbered door or window, revealing a small gift, treat, or piece of artwork.

From left to right: John Hamon and Anna Dart, curated artworks at the “Advent Calendar” exhibit at the NFT Factory Gallery, Dec, 2023.

The featured artworks from the “Advent Calendar” exhibition are available to collect on Ethereum blockchain on the Foundation marketplace as unique and timed open and limited editions. Renowned artists such as Anna Condo, Makeitrad, Anna Dart, members of the digitally native collective Exquisite Workers, have been invited to contribute to this captivating holiday showcase, which is totally unique for the art and NFT scene.

First Guests at the “Advent Calendar” Show

Prominent collectors wasted no time exploring the gallery, and an anonymous collector based in Paris, known as AI Collection, expressed enthusiasm: “The Advent Calendar was reinvented by NFT Factory, 0 calories, only great art. Fantastic event with legendary goodies at their X-mass market.” AI Collector embarked on their collecting journey 1.2 years ago, accumulating hundreds of AI artworks on Tezos and approximately 100 on ETH in 2023 alone. Remarkably, over 99% of the collector’s extensive portfolio is dedicated to AI art, with the Advent Calendar being a valuable addition.

“The Advent Calendar was re-invented by NFT Factory, 0 calories, only great art. Fantastic event with legendary goodies at their X-mass market,” admits the anonymous collector who goes under AI Collection.

The first edition of Anna Dart’s Advent Calendar AI artwork titled “Code Rebirth” curated by Artpoint, was secured by AI Collection before even visiting the gallery through the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where the NFT community is extremely active. “I think such exciting events like the “Advent Calendar” can bring the public closer to the AI and NFT worlds beyond the X bubble,” says Dart. Multidisciplinary artist and curator, she has over 10 AI art shows globally under her belt, only this year, including Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Milan, Copenhagen, New York, Barcelona, and Miami.

“Advent Calendar” NFT collection is available via this link.