Pre-Seed · Pre-Launch
Public-market infrastructure for private, authenticated art.
Global Art Exchange is building the identity, registry, issuance and settlement infrastructure that turns museum-grade art into a transparent, liquid, institutionally-manageable asset class — not a website where people buy fractions of paintings.
Market context, not live trading data — Global Art Exchange is in pre-launch development. Sources: Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2026.
The Problem
Art is a major, established asset class — run on relationships, not infrastructure.
No shared registry
Provenance, authentication, condition and ownership live in PDFs and institutional memory, not structured, auditable systems.
No price discovery
Appraised value and realized market price are routinely conflated — there is no independent, published mechanism separating the two.
No liquidity infrastructure
No compliant fractional ownership, no controlled secondary market, no programmatic settlement — access is gated by relationships, not rails.
Who We Serve
Two sides of the same market — asset owners and investors.
Global Art Exchange builds one piece of infrastructure that serves both the institutions and collectors who hold significant art, and the investors who want access to it.
Museums, galleries, institutions & collectors
You hold art and want liquidity without a full sale.
- Galleries
- Museums & cultural institutions
- Institutional collectors
- Foundations & estates
- Private collectors
Family offices, professional & qualified investors
You want fractional access to museum-grade art and its upside.
- Family offices
- Professional / sophisticated investors
- Wealth-management relationships
- Collectors seeking diversified participation
- Strategic institutional partners
How It Works
How each artwork becomes a tradable, fractional asset.
Artworks reach the platform two ways — GAE's own sourcing, or submission by galleries, museums and institutional collectors — and owners don't have to give up the piece to fractionalize it. Every SPV requires GAE's verification first.
GAE Sourcing Team
Curated direct acquisitions — GAE purchases or is entrusted with the work and holds it directly.
Galleries, Museums & Institutional Collectors
Third parties submit artworks from their own holdings — most stay on exhibition at the owner's premises; only title is fractionalized.
GAE Verification & Valuation
Independent authentication of originality and provenance, plus an independent third-party appraisal — GAE's own art team screens eligibility, but formal valuation is external. No SPV is created until an artwork clears this gate.
SPV Formation
Dedicated per-artwork vehicle — ring-fenced legal ownership.
Primary Issuance
Fractional units offered to investors on the GAE platform.
Secondary Market
Periodic auctions / RFQ — investors trade fractions.
Exit & Distribution
Artwork sale; proceeds distributed pro-rata, plus GAE's success fee.
Each SPV is a distinct legal entity holding one artwork. Physical custody stays with the owner (consigned) or transfers to GAE — investor capital, artwork ownership and GAE's corporate balance sheet remain fully segregated either way.
For Museums, Galleries & Collectors
Unlock liquidity from your collection — without a full sale.
If you hold significant art, artist estates, or collections, Global Art Exchange lets you access liquidity through a controlled, regulated V1 — without deaccessioning the work entirely.
Liquidity without full sale
Raise capital against a work's value while retaining a stake in its upside.
Independent valuation
GAE's team authenticates and appraises every submission before any SPV is formed.
Global investor demand
Reach fractional investors beyond your existing relationship network.
Retained relationship
Your institution's curatorial role and public association with the work continue.
For Investors
Fractional access to museum-grade art — with a route to liquidity.
Global Art Exchange opens up an asset class that has historically been reserved for museums, family offices and the ultra-wealthy — with independent valuation, a disclosed fee structure, and a controlled secondary market instead of a single illiquid position.
Fractional access
Take a position in museum-grade, independently authenticated art without buying an entire piece.
Independent valuation
Every artwork is authenticated and formally appraised by an independent third party before an SPV is formed — not priced by GAE itself.
A route to liquidity
Periodic auctions and RFQ on GAE's secondary market let you trade your position — you are not locked in until the artwork eventually sells.
Disclosed fee structure
Origination, administration and success-fee percentages are published upfront — no hidden spread.
Illustrative example — a €50,000 fractional position
Modelled on the long-run fine-art price appreciation assumption used in GAE's own financial model — not a forecast for any specific artwork.
Hypothetical illustration only — not a specific artwork, an offer, a forecast, or a guaranteed return. We use "an Old Master in the tier of a Leonardo da Vinci" purely as a reference point for museum-grade, masterwork-tier art — GAE has not listed, valued or acquired any specific artwork of this kind, and none should be inferred as available. The 7.6% figure is management's long-run fine-art price appreciation assumption, benchmarked to published art-market indices, used consistently in GAE's financial model — it is not specific to any artwork, and past index performance does not predict future results. Art can lose value, and any investment carries risk. This example shows illustrative asset-value appreciation only; it does not represent guaranteed liquidity — see below for how the secondary market actually works.
Liquidity for investors works the same way it does for owners: through GAE's controlled secondary market — periodic auctions and RFQ where investors can trade fractions before an artwork's eventual exit — rather than a promise of instant, equity-market-style liquidity. Full mechanics on the How It Works section above.
Why Now
No traction claims — a category-ready team and a proof-first plan.
Global Art Exchange has no signed LOIs or live users yet. What it has is a founding team that has already done the planning work most pre-seed companies skip — currently in pre-seed development, with V1 targeted for a controlled launch of an initial 10–30 curated artworks.
Complete engineering baseline
A full V1 architecture — identity, registry, ledger, settlement, surveillance — already specified.
Capital-separation discipline
Corporate, regulatory, client, artwork and liquidity capital modelled as five distinct pools.
18-month, driver-based plan
A costed roadmap through controlled launch, with explicit decision gates.
Regulatory route targeted
EU jurisdiction, partner-regulated route — management's target for speed and capital efficiency, pending counsel sign-off.
Priority Access
Be first in line for V1.
Museums, galleries, institutional and private collectors looking for liquidity — join the list to be contacted before anyone else when V1 opens, and help make your artworks, artists and collections liquid.