Welcome to the Neftwerk Gallery Portal
Introducing the Neftwerk Effect.
Neftwerk is building an ecosystem for the future of the art market—a catalyst for connection, efficiency, and collaboration that empowers galleries, provides artists with continuous royalties, and allows collectors to access a broader range of artworks worldwide.
As an alternative to Big Tech, Neftwerk protects and honors the integrity and culture of the art market while creating new opportunities for cultural workers who are often excluded from the traditional system. Together, we can build a future that values all stakeholders in our ecosystem.
Join the Movement.
Neftwerk is building a suite of tools for the art market that recognizes and represents the integral aspects of our nuanced ecosystem by building integrated tools for each step of the process.
With Neftwerk’s suite of tools, Collectors can purchase works in person or on their phone with My Pocket Gallery™ and instantly receive a digital certificate of provenance and receipt of sale. Galleries can customize and set up cross-border transactions safely at a fraction of the current cost, saving both time and money. Collectors and Galleries can connect instantly with Art Shipping and movement firms to schedule and pay for shipping. And Artists receive instant payments when their works are sold, and continuous royalties on re-sale.
Building Security and Sovereignty in an AI driven world
Protecting Your Data
When Large Language Models (LLMs) are eating every available data set - the conversation about data sovereignty has moved from who is storing your data to who is actively using it to gain power, influence and profit. We are already feeding these companies with our data, daily.
Data sovereignty is a key aspect of what we are building - the technology exists, for those who want to implement it rather than profit off of your work.
Decentralized Security
Daily breaches of centralized systems are commonplace. No longer is the concept of holding your data hostage just science fiction. With the whip speed advancements in AI - we are beyond the point where upgraded security systems to protect ourselves, our clients and our future are necessary. The central component of Web 3 is advanced security systems. We have the tools to protect inventories and processes from breach. We just need to implement them.
Securing Artist’s IP
Tokenization is coming. What that means is that every artwork will be identified by a unique digital token. Big Tech is investing billions to centralize control of these assets, and investigating the potential of embedding language that will make it legal to break long held copyright and fair usage laws. We need to fight back, protect the artist’s copyright and embed our own language and systems to protect the one thing that makes an individual artist’s work valuable.
Let’s do this together!
Built for the Art Community by the Art Community.
See Action Items Below
ACTION ITEMS
How You Can Participate:
Participate in our Gallery Survey
Help us build tools that work for your needs.
Sign a Letter of Interest
Add your signature to a non-binding letter of interest form. This helps us prove that there is interest from the gallery community for Neftwerk’s offerings. This expression of interest will help us raise funds to build tools for the community.
Participate in our Pilot Program
Would you like to participate in helping Neftwerk understand your specific needs and concerns as we build out Neftwerk Protocol? We are looking for a diverse group of galleries to participate in our pilot.
Attend a virtual info session
Sign-up for our information sessions: “Not your tech bros Web 3” Learn more about these new tools, how they affect the art market, and how we can secure a more equitable future.
Why Now?
For the first time in history, we can build automatic systems that offer artists access to continuous royalties on their work.
Those same systems can be built to shut-out cultural workers and consolidate power for Big Tech, if we don’t act now.
Let’s preempt the Big Tech takeover of the art market by bringing the art community together to build the tools that honor the unique aspects of the Contemporary Art Market and keep the power in the hands of our community.
