On the occasion of Bitcoin Week 2026, this exhibition sets a clear intention: to confront contemporary creation with the profound transformations of our time — cultural, economic, and technological.
Bitcoin Week is not just another event. It is a tipping point. A space where practices, ideas, and experiments intersect around new modes of exchange, organization, and autonomy made possible by Bitcoin.
It brings together an international community that no longer limits itself to analyzing the world, but seeks to reshape its underlying structures. A community exploring new forms of trust, value circulation, and cooperation outside established frameworks.
In this context, the exhibition acts as an active extension of this movement. It reveals an artistic scene at the crossroads of urban art, digital culture, and emerging practices, engaging with these transformations not to illustrate them, but to question and détour them.
Here, artworks do not comment on their era — they confront it. They express real tensions: the end of certain models, the friction between legacy systems and emerging architectures, and the rise of alternative possibilities.
Embedded within Bitcoin Week, this project takes place in a period of transition. It highlights a generation of artists who are no longer passive observers, but active participants in the reconfiguration of cultural, social, and economic frameworks.
Through these works, a position emerges: that of an art form that is no longer decorative or illustrative, but operative — an art that accompanies, accelerates, or disrupts ongoing transformations.
Shoot The Bank
Emerging from the urban art scene, Shoot The Bank has developed since 2008 a practice centered on interventions in public space. Through stencils installed in various global cities, he questions contemporary economic mechanisms and the underlying structures of power.
His work belongs to a tradition of critical urban art, where the city becomes a site for reading and exposing social and economic tensions.
Today, his practice also extends into the studio through painting and sculpture, while maintaining a critical perspective on contemporary systems and their ongoing transformations.
http://www.shootthebank.com
103Jean
Under the pseudonym 103Jean, the artist develops a practice situated at the intersection of traditional mosaic craft and contemporary digital aesthetics. His work reflects on the materiality of images in the digital age.
Inspired by the pixel and the visual logic of digital systems, his “phygital” approach combines artisanal production with contemporary certification mechanisms. Each work is conceived as a unique structure, where materials and processes are integral to its definition.
His practice questions notions of originality, value, and image circulation within a context of technological and cultural transformation.
https://www.aladas.org
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