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2024

New York

During Frieze Week in New York, the Artworld Passport was introduced as a participatory artwork inviting visitors to collect stamps and record their presence within the city's vibrant art ecosystem.

The activation encouraged visitors to move between exhibitions, galleries and events while documenting their participation in the art world.

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2025

BASEL

In Basel, the Artworld Passport evolved into a cross-institutional cultural tool linking museums, art fairs, and independent art spaces. Artworld Passport holders documented their movement through the city's art ecosystem, transforming the act of attending exhibitions into a living archive.

The Art Basel Week activation highlighted how an artwork can travel and grow across different contexts and continents.

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2026

CAPE TOWN

The Cape Town presentation marked one of the largest public engagements with the project. Hundreds of visitors obtained passports and began documenting their presence across art events, exhibitions, and museums during art week.

The project collaborated with museums and institutions to encourage visitors to experience more cultural spaces across the city.

The response revealed the power of the passport as both artwork and invitation, encouraging audiences to explore the art world more actively.

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2026

VENICE

Arriving in Venice during the opening days of the Biennale, the ArtWorld Passport continues its journey as a conceptual artwork, cultural tool, and living archive of movement through the global art world.


For Venice, the ArtWorld Passport will be issued during the opening period of the Biennale, where it will circulate through exhibitions, forums, collateral events, and independent spaces across the city. This edition extends the project into a landscape where questions of visibility, access, borders, and international participation are especially charged. Venice offers a powerful setting for the passport to operate not only as an object, but as a way of marking cultural presence and mapping artistic exchange in real time.

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The Artworld Passport is a conceptual artwork created by an African artist. It is not a government-issued passport and is not recognised as an official travel or identity document. It is non-national in nature and cannot be used for entry at any ports, borders, or immigration checkpoints.

The Artworld Passport functions as a participatory artistic and cultural archive intended for individuals engaging with art and cultural ecosystems around the world, offering a creative framework through which to document cultural movement, participation, and experience.

It remains the sole responsibility of each individual to ensure full compliance with all applicable legal and travel requirements, including the possession of valid passports, visas, identification, and any other documentation required for international travel.

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