8 Milestones 100 Collectors Achieved in 2025

2025 unfolded through presence. Across cities, fairs, studios, and shared tables, 100 Collectors grew by showing up consistently and with intention. The moments gathered here reflect that movement: a year shaped by encounters, access, and sustained dialogue, where collecting became a practice built together, in real time.
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‍1. WE REACHED OUR FIRST 100 COLLECTORS
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Reaching our first 100 collectors - and growing to 140 members across more than 25 countries - is, above all, a reminder that collecting is not bound to one place. Wherever you are in the world, this community exists to connect, support, and grow together. None of this would exist without you. Collectors play a vital role in sustaining artistic practice, enabling artists to keep working, taking risks, and building long-term careers, and we are deeply grateful to each member who chose to be part of this journey. As part of that commitment, all members have access to 1:1 advisory sessions - if you haven’t booked yours yet, consider it a Christmas gift to yourself and schedule it. And whenever you travel, know that you can always reach out: we’re here to share art tips, exhibitions, and local insights wherever you go. We loved meeting so many of you in person this year, and for those who couldn’t join physically, 2026 will bring new encounters, new formats, and even more opportunities to connect.

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2. WE WERE PRESENT AT THE WORLD'S LEADING ART FARIS AND MAJOR DIGITAL ART EVENTS
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Being present at the world’s leading art fairs is not just about seeing what’s on view, but about understanding context, rhythm, and nuance. Throughout 2025, 100 Collectors followed the international art calendar closely, with on-site coverage, guided visits, and carefully prepared agendas at Art Basel Miami Beach, Paris Photo, Art Basel Paris, Art Dubai, Art Basel Hong Kong, ARCO Madrid & Lisboa, and Art Basel Basel. These moments allowed our members to navigate fairs with more clarity and confidence - identifying key works, emerging practices, and long-term trajectories, while sharing perspectives and experiences together, both on the ground and from afar.
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In parallel, digital and generative art remained a central focus of our programming. We were present at the main events shaping this ecosystem today, including Digital Art Mile in Basel, Nonfungible Conference in Lisbon, NFT Paris, and Art on Tezos. Across these contexts, we explored how digital art is evolving beyond speculation - engaging with artists, platforms, and curators to better understand questions of authorship, technology, community, and value. For our members, this meant access not only to events, but to informed dialogue and tools to navigate a rapidly changing field with critical distance and curiosity.

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3. WE OPENED A NEW CHAPTER IN DUBAI
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Opening a new chapter in Dubai placed 100 Collectors within one of today’s most active cultural regions. With one of our founders, Pauline Foessel, moving from Lisbon to Dubai, we followed the shift in where key conversations in the art world are happening. The Middle East has become home to major initiatives and to many of the figures shaping the global art ecosystem - a reality reflected in ArtReview’s Power 100, the annual list mapping the most influential people in contemporary art worldwide. We are only just beginning this chapter, and 2026 already points to new partnerships, collaborations, and encounters emerging from this presence.

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4. WE HOSTED AT LEAST ONE MEMBER-ONLY EVENT PER MONTH IN LISBON
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Throughout 2025, Lisbon became a consistent meeting point for our community, with at least one member-only event taking place every month. Curated by Delfina Sena, who leads the Lisbon chapter, these encounters combined institutional visits with behind-the-scenes access. Members took part in guided visits to exhibitions at institutions such as MACAM and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, while also engaging in studio visits and private conversations with artists, gaining insight into processes, decisions, and trajectories that are rarely visible in public settings. By moving fluidly between museums, galleries, and artists’ studios, the Lisbon chapter created a space for recurring encounters, deeper dialogue, and a shared way of looking at contemporary art and collecting over time.

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5. WE PUBLISHED MORE THAN 60 EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES FOR OUR MEMBERS
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Our editorial output evolved significantly throughout 2025, expanding both in structure and depth. New sections shaped how content is experienced inside 100 Collectors. Spotlight focuses on conversations with artists, while On View tracks exhibitions currently on view, offering context and insight to keep collectors attentive to what is happening now. Collecting Minds opens space for in-depth interviews with you, collectors, your passions and reasons for collecting. Editorial direction, writing, and editing are led by Julia Flamingo, who also curates these core sections. Alongside this, Curator’s Corner invited curators such as Eleonora Brizi to write from singular, personal viewpoints on digital art, while the Collecting series featured practical guidance on digital and generative art, developed by Fanny Lakoubay. The editorial was further enriched by generous contributions from Marlene Corbun and Diane Drubay throughout the year.

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6. WE PARTNERED WITH KEY PLAYERS IN CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL ART

‍Throughout 2025, 100 Collectors worked closely with a range of art fairs, conferences, galleries, and platforms across contemporary and digital art, including HEFT, Verse, ArtVerse, Inloco, Danaë, 24 Hours of Art, ArtMeta, TAEX, and Tezos. These partnerships shaped how our members experienced the art ecosystem throughout the year, opening doors to contexts, conversations, and opportunities that are rarely accessible otherwise. From privileged access to events and artists to early insight into new projects and releases, each collaboration reinforced our role as a bridge between collectors and the structures that sustain artistic practice today.

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7. WE CURATED INTIMATE, MEMBER-ONLY EXPERIENCES
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One of the most valued aspects of collecting is proximity - and also one of the hardest to achieve. Access to artists, their processes, and their thinking is often fragmented, mediated, or simply out of reach. Throughout 2025, 100 Collectors worked deliberately to create moments where that distance could be reduced. From private studio visits and collector breakfasts to dinners and artist-led conversations, these experiences were designed to foster direct exchange and trust. Highlights included a studio visit with aurèce vettier, presenting Krista Kim during ARCO Madrid, a dinner centered on Mohen Hazrati’s work at Inloco during Art Dubai, and a breakfast in Berlin followed by encounters with ThankYouX and Code + Matter. Members also took part in exceptional Meet the Artist moments with Tyler Hobbs, Nice Aunties, Kevin Abosch, Beeple, among others - encounters that turned names into conversations, and works into lived understanding.

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8. WE BUILT A STRONG TEAM TO RESPOND TO ALL OUR MEMBERS’ NEEDS

Behind everything that happens at 100 Collectors is a small, committed team working closely together. In 2025, the project was shaped day by day by Pauline Foessel, Fanny Lakoubay, Eleonora Brizi, Delfina Sena, and Julia Flamingo - five women living and working across different countries, coordinating time zones, ideas, logistics, and care. Alongside us, our web developer played a key role in patiently translating a growing and evolving platform into something functional, clear, and responsive. This collective effort is what allows 100 Collectors to remain attentive, flexible, and deeply connected to its members.


THANK YOU! AND SEE YOU IN 2026!

None of this exists without you. Thank you for your trust, your curiosity, your presence, and the way you show up for art and for this community. We move into 2026 with new goals, new formats, more collectors, more countries, and more moments to be shared - always with the same commitment to care, access, and dialogue. If you feel that 100 Collectors could also be meaningful for people close to you, invite them in, spread the word, and help this community grow through connection.

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