“To curate an exhibition about a world where the principal ideal is decentralization involves a certain contradiction because curation demands selection, exclusion, and gatekeeping.”
– Curator
Nina Roehrs, reflecting on the paradox at the heart of her 2022 Kunsthalle Zürich exhibition “
DYOR” (Do Your Own Research), one of the first major institutional surveys of blockchain art. Writing in
OnCurating’s “Paraverse” issue on post-NFT curation, Roehrs unpacks how Web3’s anti-hierarchical ethos clashes with the very act of exhibition-making.
