792 artists · 1,000 positions · 90 remain
Physical Gallery
THE LINE GALLERY
318 HERETAUNGA STREET W · HASTINGS · NEW ZEALAND
Artist Retreats
The Line Gallery sits in Napier, New Zealand — one of the world's most architecturally distinctive small cities. Coming here isn't a holiday. It's a deliberate step away from the feed, the screen, the constant noise of the market. Time and space to develop your practice without distraction: to think about what you're making, why, and where it's going next.
Join waitlist→Screen Takeovers
The Line Gallery runs a programme of screen takeovers — dedicated periods where a single artist's work fills every screen in the space, 24 hours a day. For a digital artist, this is genuine exhibition. Artists who participate can add The Line Gallery, Napier, New Zealand to their exhibition record. These aren't honorary listings — your work is in a physical gallery, being seen.
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All stories →Sept 2026
Who Collects What
686 boards, ten categories, 129,937 wallets. Who actually collects The Line... and the seats nobody has claimed.
Sept 2026
The Loss of History and New Digital Archival Techniques
A 30-minute chat at The Line during Fotofest, on the fragility of digital archives and what the blockchain offers photographers and historians. Saturday 3 October, 2pm.
Sept 2026
The Collectors of The Line
Every artist on The Line has a board. Put all 686 side by side and a different question becomes answerable: not who collects an artist, but who collects The Line. 129,937 wallets, ranked widest, deepest and heaviest.
"One of my favourite places to display art is The Line."
Tylers Journey · The Line 15
"The Line metaverse gallery is pretty dope when you've got six years of work."
Robness · The Line 193
"It really is the Matrix, but with art."
Slowhed · The Line 247