Marina Abramović’s first blockchain-based project: an exploration of identity, presence, and duration beyond the body.

Central to this project is a digital avatar of Marina. This avatar serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age, working beyond physical limitations.

The monumental collection, led by the artist in partnership with TAEX, rethinks the heritage of the performance artist through a series of digital art releases.

Based on Legend, a fictional story written by Abramović and developed by TAEX derived from her philosophy and life journey, the collection features three exclusive NFT drops inspired by different facets of Abramović and her celebrated work: Art, Life, and Marina Abramović Method (MAM). Within each unique drop, token rarity influences the format of the never-before-seen artworks: “common” tokens feature still images, “Rare” tokens include looped animations, and “Epic” tokens feature looped animations that adapt to the Moon cycles in real-time. The artwork and the rarity of the token are revealed once collected. Layered throughout Marina Abramović Element, the Transformation Crystals increase the project’s gamification and offer collectors a subsequent opportunity to generate (mint) limited edition 5D MAE Performance or 5D MAE Avatar video NFTs. Crystals — a crucial element of the artist’s practice that act as energetic guides — act as aids when participants reach the project’s culmination. Both 5D MAE NFTs and Crystals are derived from Abramović’s extraordinary philosophy; she states that to enter the fifth dimension, one’s body must transform: “You will be able to carry your body to the fourth dimension, but not to the fifth dimension because your body is too heavy. You will have a crystal in your body in the fifth dimension.”

Image: Portrait with Scorpion. Courtesy of TAEX

“Working today with technology and creating my own avatar is a way to develop a new relationship between the performer and the public. The public’s interaction provides the process through which immateriality can be transformed into energy.”

Marina Abramović

  • Expanding Presence: MAE in Motion

    The first drop, Art, launched on June 18, 2025, and explores the evolution of Abramović’s artistic language through symbolic portraits, archetypes, and performative gestures. It transforms analogue photographs into digital experiences, blending the immaterial with the tangible.

    The second drop, Life, will delve into the artist’s biographical terrain — memories, locations, and moments that shaped her identity and performance. The third and final drop, Marina Abramović Method (MAM), arriving in November 2025, will immerse collectors in the artist’s philosophy of self-exploration and endurance, culminating in the founding of the Marina Abramović Institute.

    Since its launch, MAE has been presented in a curated exhibition at Moco Museum in London, and showcased at One Masters Monaco (July 9–11). A global livestream conversation with Marina aired on June 12. On June 27, the Art Joker was revealed, and the project was also featured at NFC Lisbon (June 23) and at a private collector’s dinner co-hosted by TAEX and White Jaguar at Six Senese Hotel in Ibiza.

    MAE continues to expand Abramović’s presence into a new dimension — one that transcends the physical, inviting audiences into a visionary field of performance and transformation.

  • Following the final drop, Marina Abramović Element culminates with The Great Mint in January 2026, the ultimate stage in the project that offers participants the opportunity to mint the most valuable and rarest NFTs in the collection.. The 5D MAE tokens are video artworks or extended animations that present new versions of her famous pieces, performed by Marina Abramović’s avatar. In these acts, the digital artist transcends the boundaries of physicality, enabling impossible performances. Transformation Crystals will play an important role in the minting of 5D MAE Performances and Avatars. To obtain Transformation Crystals, participants can play two games, Maze and Counting Crystals – introduced in drops two and three, respectively – or acquire a crystal in a specialised drop ,or participate in giveaways on TAEX & MAE social platforms. .


    Marina Abramović Element brings viewers closer than ever to the visionary artist known for incorporating audiences into her work. Commenced with a preview at the Moco Museum in London on April 8, 2025, the project will span eight months, with The Great Mint taking place in January 2026.

“With Marina Abramović Element we are honoured to bring her visionary practice into the digital realm, creating an immersive experience where participants from the worlds of art and Web3 become active co-creators of her legacy.”

Inna Bazhenova, Founder of TAEX

The monumental collection, led by the artist in partnership with TAEX, rethinks the heritage of the performance artist through a series of digital art releases.

Abramović was one of the first performance artists to become formally accepted by the institutional museum world with major solo shows taking place throughout Europe and the US over a period of more than 55 years. In 2024, Marina opened her first solo exhibition in China, Transforming Energy, at the Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai. In 2023, Abramović was the first female artist to host a major solo exhibition in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This show will tour throughout Europe and Asia through 2026. Her first European retrospective ‘The Cleaner’ was presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017, followed by presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, Henie Onstad, Sanvika, Norway (2017), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2018), Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (2019), and concluding at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia (2019). In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 1997, Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion Award for Best Artist for her performance Balkan Baroque at the Venice Biennale. In 2006, Abramovic received the U.S. Art Critics Association Award for Best Exhibition of Time Based Art for her performance Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim in New York City. In 2008, Abramović received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art in Vienna. In 2011, she was awarded Honorary Royal Academician status by The Royal Academy in London. In 2013, Abramovic was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officer for her work in Bolero, Paris and in 2022, she was promoted to Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commander. In 2014, Abramovic was named one of The 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine. In 2021, Abramovic was awarded the Princess de Asturias Award for the Arts, in Spain and the Golden Medal for Merits from the Republic of Serbia. In 2023 she was awarded the Sonning Prize from the University of Copenhagen, and officially received the award in 2024.

Image: Portrait with Snake. Courtesy of TAEX

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