⎯⎯ Edition 01 · Angeli & Scheibl · Verified Onchain

Culture belongs to everyone.

Building Culture transforms real-world fine art ownership into a transparent community experience. One thousand tickets. One physical painting. One verifiable winner — and a story shared by all.

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⎯⎯ The Story

For decades, the finest art lived behind closed doors.

A private viewing. A whispered price. A signature in a ledger no one else could read. Building Culture is the opposite of that room — a public, verifiable way to stand beside a work you believe in.

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Transparency

Every ticket, every sale, every winner — written onchain. No backroom deals. A public ritual of ownership.

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Participation

Forty-five euros instead of forty-five thousand. Seventy instead of seventy thousand. The patron is all of us.

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Physical art

One canvas. One winner. Climate-controlled vault until the final ticket. Then the work travels to a real wall.

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Culture, not speculation

We fund art, not derivatives. Hold it in your home — not in a spreadsheet. No casino. No hype.

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The story remains

Not everyone wins the canvas. Everyone becomes part of the cultural record — witnessed, timestamped, real.

⎯⎯ Edition 01

Two works. Two masters. One transparent ritual of ownership.

Both paintings are held in professional storage — climate-controlled, insured, documented — until the final ticket of each edition is sold.

⎯⎯ Edition 01

The Works.

Two museum-scale paintings. Two Austrian masters. Enter each work below — or acquire a ticket now.

Die Insel Santo Spirito und ein Licht
Work 01 · 2022Verified ⌁ Onchain

Eduard Angeli

Die Insel Santo Spirito und ein Licht

Alone at dawn — somewhere between memory and the sea.

Medium
Pastel auf Leinwand
Dimensions
150 × 150 cm
Est. value
45.000 €
Tickets
1,000 × 45 €
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Nicotine on Silverscreen
Work 02 · 2019/2020Verified ⌁ Onchain

Hubert Scheibl

Nicotine on Silverscreen

Weather, memory, smoke — colliding on a surface that will not stay still.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
195 × 140 cm
Est. value
70.000 €
Tickets
1,000 × 70 €
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⎯⎯ One thousand people. One painting.

This is not crowdfunding. It is collective patronage — written onchain, witnessed publicly, resolved with verifiable randomness. Culture, funded together.

Work 01 · 2022

Alone at dawn — somewhere between memory and the sea.

Die Insel Santo Spirito und ein Licht

Eduard Angeli

Die Insel Santo Spirito und ein Licht

Verified onchain

45.000 €

estimated value

The artist

Eduard Angeli

Vienna

Angeli paints silence the way others paint sound — architecture dissolved into atmosphere, memory held at the edge of a horizon that may never arrive.

Why this work matters

In an age of noise, Angeli offers the rarest luxury: stillness you can inhabit. This work does not perform for a room — it recalibrates it.

Before the world decides to speak, there is this: an island, a light, and a silence so complete it feels architectural — as if the air itself were holding its breath.

Santo Spirito floats in a haze that is not picturesque distance but psychological distance — the kind you measure when you wake before anyone else and the room still carries yesterday.

Pastel on linen gives the surface a powdery tenderness, as if the painting could be lifted away by a single honest wind. Forms are present, yet they refuse to dominate. They wait.

One light — neither theatrical nor sentimental — holds the composition the way a sustained note holds silence. You step closer. The horizon does not sharpen. It deepens.

You are not viewing a landscape. You are standing inside a threshold — alone at dawn, between what was and what has not yet been named.

“Stand here long enough and the horizon stops being a line. It becomes a question.”

The moment before ownership

Before ownership, there is only presence. A square metre of linen holding an island, a light, and the quiet conviction that beauty need not announce itself to be absolute.

The final ticket changes everything

One thousand tickets. One island of light. When the final ticket is sold, verifiable randomness selects a single holder — and the physical work leaves the vault for a wall that will never forget the silence it brought.

Not everyone wins the canvas. Everyone becomes part of the story — nine hundred and ninety-nine people who stood inside a work that refused to rush them.

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1.000 tickets at 45 € each. One winner receives the physical work.

Medium
Pastel auf Leinwand
Dimensions
150 × 150 cm
Value
45.000 €
Tickets
1.000
0 of 1000 sold0%
Acquire ticket · 45 €

⎯⎯ Culture should not live behind closed doors.

For decades, the finest works were acquired in rooms most people never entered. Building Culture opens the door — without diminishing the art, the artist, or the seriousness of ownership.

Work 02 · 2019/2020

Weather, memory, smoke — colliding on a surface that will not stay still.

Nicotine on Silverscreen

Hubert Scheibl

Nicotine on Silverscreen

Verified onchain

70.000 €

estimated value

The artist

Hubert Scheibl

Austria

Scheibl does not depict emotion — he enacts it. Layer upon layer until the canvas becomes weather, nerve, and aftermath.

Why this work matters

Scheibl occupies a rare territory between abstraction and raw human charge. Museum-scale, unapologetic — it does not ask for approval, only your full attention.

Some paintings hang on walls. This one arrives — a front moving in, the last frame of a film you are not ready to leave, nicotine and silver light still burning in the air.

Oil moves differently here. It drags, smears, lifts and falls in ridges that catch light like fractured glass. Scheibl works the surface until it behaves less like an image and more like a body under pressure.

Nicotine on Silverscreen is not a title but an atmosphere — cinema’s silvered flicker, the chemical calm after intensity, the colour left behind when something burned beautifully.

You cannot view it from a safe distance. It pulls at the periphery of vision. Violet into ash, ember into void — as if the canvas were still deciding what it wanted to become when the artist finally stepped away.

There is violence in it — not the cheap kind, but the violence of feeling too much and surviving. Of memory that will not settle. Of beauty that refuses to be polite.

“You feel it before you understand it. That is how you know it is real.”

The moment before ownership

Before the final ticket, the painting exists in suspension — insured, climate-controlled, alive with a tension only a crowd can complete.

The final ticket changes everything

One thousand people fund a single monumental canvas. One verifiable draw. One winner receives a work that cannot be reproduced — only inherited, hung, and lived with.

Not everyone wins the canvas. Everyone becomes part of the story that surrounded it — the transparent, onchain record of a cultural moment that actually happened.

Participate

Acquire a ticket

1.000 tickets at 70 € each. One winner receives the physical work.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
195 × 140 cm
Value
70.000 €
Tickets
1.000
0 of 1000 sold0%
Acquire ticket · 70 €

⎯⎯ A transparent ritual of ownership.

Every ticket minted. Every sale visible. The final draw immutable. The winner public. The painting real. This is what trust looks like when it does not need to whisper.

⎯⎯ The Mechanism

A transparent ritual of ownership.

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Acquire a ticket onchain

Connect any wallet. Mint your ticket on Base. Your participation is signed, timestamped, and public — instantly.

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Watch the edition fill

Every sale is visible. Every wallet verifiable. The progress bar is not marketing — it is the contract.

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One ticket wins the physical work

When the final ticket sells, verifiable randomness selects the holder. The painting ships — insured, documented, real.

⌁ VRF winner selection⌁ Open contract source⌁ Base L2⌁ Self-custody⌁ No KYC for tickets

⎯⎯ Why Building Culture

We're not selling JPEGs.

Building Culture is a bridge — between the hand of an artist working pastel or oil onto linen, and a community that funds, witnesses, and ultimately holds the work.

Angeli and Scheibl are paid through the edition. Participants experience ownership as story — not as a trade. The work is physical. The community is real. The chain is the ledger everyone can read.

"Culture should be participatory, not extractive."

⎯⎯ Community

Collectors, artists, witnesses — one wall of culture.

Community wall

“First time I've stood inside a painting I helped bring into the world.”

— lia.eth

“Watching the edition fill in real time — strangely moving.”

— 0xC0…2af

“One ticket for me. One for my mother. She doesn't know yet.”

— moss.eth

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Early ticket holders are recorded onchain — a permanent witness to Edition 01.

⎯⎯ The Invitation

The final ticket changes everything.

45 € or 70 €. A wallet. A place in cultural history — whether or not the canvas hangs in your home.

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