

A decentralized platform to expand the art market and benefit all actors


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Arteïa is a technology platform set to expand the art market to empower collectors and ultimately benefit to all actors in the sector. It aims to bring more transparency and liquidity to the market, which allows new participants to enter and gives existing participants new opportunities to share, lend and sell.
This platform links a collection management system to a matching platform supported by a provenance tracker on the blockchain and provides an entire palette of powerful, ultra-secure and intuitive cataloguing tools that facilitate inventory, visualisation, logistics, financial optimization and ability to share collections.



After graduating with a master’s degree in management from Paris Dauphine University, Philippe Gellman mainly worked in France in the financial markets. In 1997, after working for several major banks (Crédit Lyonnais, Société Générale), he founded Bourse Direct, which was the first independent online broker to be listed on the Paris stock exchange. He remained at the head of the company for 7 years and then went on to found and direct companies and invest in numerous sectors including the fashion and healthcare industries and several start-ups.
His experience in creating companies, financing packages, business plans and mobilising teams of experts is only equalled by his passion for contemporary art.

Marek Zabicki, Ph. D. in control & optimization of decentralized systems, has more than three decade’s experience in developing complex information retrieval systems, modelling financial derivatives and developing art management platforms.
After a short period of academic career at the Polish Academy of Science, he moved into a start-up world and across the time participated or himself launched eight technology start-ups, among the others he was CTO of CEDROM, the company that developed French first CD-ROM, CTO of the GL Trade, world leader in the financial software. He was the founder of Lex Media and Neurosoft, the company behind Musnet and GCOLL/2 art management systems. During the last 3 years Marek is focused on applying blockchain, smart contracts and crypto economics to diverse real-life problems. He is currently a co-founder and the CTO of the ARTEIA SA.

Holding a computer engineer diploma (EISTI), a Master of Computer Science (Florida Institute of Technology) and Master of Business Administration (Sciences Po Paris), Olivier Marian is an entrepreneur and an investor. After working at Marvin Software (Reuters) and Microsoft, Olivier Marian co-founded e-marketing start-up Endromis in 1998.
For some ten years, Olivier Marian has been investing in various, mainly technological companies. As he was born into a family of art collectors, when he couldn’t find a satisfactory solution on the market he quite logically created his own tool for managing the collection. He joined Arteïa at its creation as a shareholder and was directly involved in its development, applying his IT expertise and knowledge of the art market.

Reine-Marie Fontaine Taittinger was the director of Heal Fashion, a company working in the fashion sector and a children’s furniture design company. She is the founder of the Thaillywood foundation and Thaillywood Artist Residency, which offers residencies to artists from the young Asian scene. She is also a founding member of the Tokyo Art Club. Reine-Marie Fontaine Taittinger has been collecting contemporary art for more than 20 years.

Hugues Taittinger holds a master’s degree from HEC. After 22 years working in the family business, this entrepreneur and collector became the chairman of IP/Nexia, a telecommunications solutions provider in Belgium. He is also a founding member of the Tokyo Art Club and Thaillywood Artist Residency.
Arteïa has a team of 20 IT professionals, who have been working on the development of the platform for the last two years.




Founder and former CEO of ORPEA, a leading European player in global dependency care. A renowned art collector, with interests ranging from Antiquities to Primitive Art, Modern Art and Contemporary Art.



Internationally recognised expert in art, technology and collaborative practices. Co-director of the UK’s first dedicated digital arts organization, Furtherfield. A leader in blockchain development for the cultural sector, she has over 30 years of experience producing public art programs and academic research projects investigating network cultures.

Theoretical physicist and data science practitioner. He brings his experience from working on business-oriented data science projects. He teaches machine learning at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.



Successful entrepreneur and Co-founder and President of GL Trade, the world’s leading provider of financial trading software. A leading figure in European finance, he is also a passionate art collector.



With 10 years of experience in finance markets under his belt, he became entrepreneur and investor. Partner of an aesthetic laboratory and European distributor of their product Silhouette-lift, in charge of team management and sales. Strongly interested in cryptocurrencies and ICOs.










One of the Big Four, providing us with advisory and tax services and facilitating conversation with the regulator.

Havas Group's solution for crypto and blockchain projects, supporting us in strategy and delivery of global communications.

One of the most renowned insurers of the works of art in Europe and our strategic partner.

Luxembourg’s public - private sector initiative dedicated to fintech start-ups, with Arteïa as a member since 2016.

Technology partner, supporting us with issuing digital tokens in a secure, regulation compliant manner.

Renowned community managers, providing instant support to all interested in our project across all channels.

KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurship, a start-up fintech incubator located in Luxembourg, which Arteïa has been a part of since the very beginning in 2016.

French famous artistic and literary journal, a publishing house, and our partner in offering digital catalogue raisonnés of renowned artists on the blockchain.
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