Bastiaan Ryckaert
Trusted advisor to businesses, Boards, shareholders & investors | Independent Board member, founder & entrepreneur
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Rubey enables you to invest in museum-quality art and collectibles that remain publicly exhibited, not privately stored.
Who are you in Rubey's ecosystem?
Across the cultural world, three challenges keep repeating themselves.
Museums struggle to acquire new works. Most people have no access to art as an investment. And valuable collections face succession and continuity risks.
Rubey brings a single, sustainable solution to all three. By connecting investors, collectors, and museums through regulated co-ownership, we keep masterpieces in public view while creating tangible value for everyone involved.
We believe art should be seen, not stored, and cultural heritage should remain accessible to all.
In 2022 Rubey fractionalised James Ensor’s Carnaval de Binche, marking the world’s first public tokenised sale of a museum-grade masterpiece. More than 250 investors co-own the work, representing €1,4 million in funding.
Ownership continues to evolve as investors trade their tokenized shares on Rubey’s secondary market, keeping the artwork both publicly exhibited and actively owned.
The painting is on long-term public display at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) until 2031, and on temporary exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw until January 2026, sharing its legacy with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Turn cultural passion into lasting impact.
Across the world, cultural heritage continues to grow while public funding to preserve it keeps declining. Rubey explores sustainable ways to bridge that gap by creating models that protect art, empower museums, and engage investors.
Our Advisory Board unites leading experts in culture, management, finance, law, and blockchain. They help shape Rubey’s long-term mission, values, and strategy, ensuring that our purpose is matched by integrity and expertise.
Trusted advisor to businesses, Boards, shareholders & investors | Independent Board member, founder & entrepreneur
Innovation, Change, Culture, New Technologies - Vigilant leader on the crossroads of technology, legal and business challenges. Blockchain Evangelist & Business Architect @ Fujitsu.
Academic Director Masters Program Cultural Management at University of Antwerp
Independent Wealth & Asset Management Consultant / Board Consultant / Interim Manager
Investing in forgotten masteresses. Together with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), we restore the place of female artists in 20th-century art, bringing their works back into museum collections and into the spotlight of public history.