The State Hermitage Museum has opened the first ever virtual NFT exhibition entitled “Invisible Ether”. However, on the very first day of the exhibition, the visitor tried to “steal” the work.
As reported on the Hermitage website, on November 10, the opening ceremony of the Invisible Ether exhibition took place. This is the first virtual exhibition of the Hermitage, which will be available until December 10. The “Invisible Ether” project includes 38 works placed in interiors created on the basis of the Stock Exchange building – the architectural ensemble of the Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island.
QR codes located at the entrance to the Hermitage and on the facade of the Exchange building lead to the exhibition. The gallery can be accessed both from the project website and from the Masters digital platform, using a computer, smartphone or augmented reality glasses. However, as the Department of Contemporary Art of the Hermitage reported, on the very first day of the exposition, an attempt was made to steal the virtual object of art.
“One of the guests tried to take the painting away, but our colleagues prevented the incident in time and installed the exhibit in place,” the message says.
According to the curator of the exhibition, Dmitry Ozerkov, the incident is explained by a “bug” – the painting was not fixed on the wall of the virtual room and they were trying to take it out of the gallery unintentionally.
“It turned out that some work was not fixed, and, accordingly, it was removed from the wall by one of the users,” Ozerkov commented.
The exhibition “Invisible Ether” is the second step of the Hermitage to popularize the possibilities of NFT in the Russian museum environment, after the sale of digital copies of paintings from the Hermitage collection on the OpenSea cryptocurrency platform.
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