Today only: Low Tide, Third Attempt by Noa Vreeland. One of one, gone at midnight.
Noa Vreeland
Low Tide, Third Attempt, 2026
Oil and bitumen on salvaged ship tarpaulin, 120 × 150 cm
€4,800
There is one.
Not a print. Not an edition. One original, by one artist, offered once.
It’s here for 24 hours.
Then it’s gone. Home with you, or back to the artist. Never back here.
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A new artist every midnight
One piece goes up at 00:00. Tomorrow there’s someone new, and today’s piece is gone for good.
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First to buy owns it
No bidding and no waiting list. There’s one, and it goes to the first person who pays for it.
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It gets cheaper, slowly
Every 15 minutes the price drops a little, until it reaches the artist’s floor at 20:00. Waiting saves money. It can also cost you the piece.
Low Tide, Third Attempt
The one Noa almost kept. The first two attempts are still in there: you can see the first horizon ghosting through a hand’s width above where she finally put it. The orange along the top edge is the tarp itself, untouched. Hang it indoors and the room will smell faintly of the harbour for about a month. She considers this a feature.
- Medium
- Oil, bitumen and harbour silt on salvaged ship tarpaulin
- Size
- 120 × 150 cm, with brass grommets for hanging
- Year
- 2026
- Edition
- One of one. Signed and titled on the back, with a certificate.
Noa Vreeland
Nine years as a crane operator in the Port of Rotterdam. Now she paints the river at low tide, on tarpaulin the harbour threw away.
- Born
- Rotterdam, 1991
- Lives
- On a houseboat in Delfshaven
- Studio
- A 40-foot shipping container at Waalhaven, €180 a month
- Until 2025
- Crane operator, Port of Rotterdam
- Works with
- Oil, bitumen, harbour silt, ship tarpaulin
- Sold before
- Never. This is her first sale, anywhere.
Noa Vreeland spent nine years in a crane cab forty metres above the Maas, moving containers she never saw the inside of. She started painting in one of them: a rusted 40-footer the port was about to scrap, which she talked them into renting her instead. She paints with whatever the harbour throws out. Tarpaulin off decommissioned barges. The bitumen crews use to patch the quay walls. Silt she scrapes off the slipway at low tide and grinds into the oil.
Every painting is the same view: the river from the crane, at low tide, when it shows what it’s been hiding. She paints each one three or four times on the same tarp and scrapes back between attempts, so the earlier tides stay underneath like sediment. The grommets stay in. “It was a tarp first,” she says. “It doesn’t get to forget that just because I showed up.”
She quit the port in 2025, after her first show: two weeks in a laundromat in Charlois, where the owner let her hang eleven paintings above the dryers. None were for sale, because nobody had asked. When we did, she set the starting price herself, then lowered the floor twice because she wanted it to go to “someone who’ll actually hang it, not a bank.”
“Every painting is a crane lift. You get one go, and everybody’s watching.”
Three questions for Noa
- Why sell it like this?
- “Galleries wanted a series. I don’t make series. I make one, and then I’m tired.”
- Where should it hang?
- “Low. It’s a low-tide painting.”
- And if nobody buys it?
- “It comes home to the container and I paint the fourth attempt over it.”
Tomorrow
Unveiled in 00:00:00
- Sculptor. Lives in Tbilisi.
- Casts in bronze. Half of every piece starts out as bread dough.
- Has been asked to sell online about forty times. Said yes once.
- Starts at around €5,000. The floor stays secret until midnight.
Move over the picture to peek.
The gone
Five pieces. Five new homes. Not one went back.
The fastest sold in 19 minutes. The slowest with 12 minutes left on the clock. €7,140 has gone straight to the artists so far.
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Drop 5, Monday 26 October
Teodora Ilić
Municipal Blue, acrylic on birch panel
Belgrade, b. 1988. A former city-planning clerk who paints the city’s bus-stop signs from memory and gets them wrong on purpose.
- Sold for
- €2,800
- Gone in
- 4 h 12 min
Started at €3,200. Now in Vienna.
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Drop 4, Sunday 25 October
Kofi Asante-Breuer
Vessel for a Loud Room, glazed stoneware
Leipzig, b. 1995. Throws stoneware in a former bakery and glazes with ash from his neighbours’ wood stoves. He asks first, most of the time.
- Sold for
- €2,580
- Gone in
- 19 min
Started at €2,600. The fastest yet. Now in Copenhagen.
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Drop 3, Saturday 24 October
Mireille Achard
Calanque, 05:41, hand-printed C-type
Marseille, b. 1979. Swims out before dawn with a waterproofed camera and takes one frame per swim. One print, then she cuts the negative in half.
- Sold for
- €1,360
- Gone in
- 9 h 03 min
Started at €1,900. Now in Lyon.
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Drop 2, Friday 23 October
Sun-hee Park
Weather Report (Grid), wool and copper wire
Glasgow, b. 1984. Weaves the radio shipping forecast into wool, one row per broadcast, copper for every gale warning. This one is all of February.
- Sold for
- €1,400
- Gone in
- 21 h 48 min
Started at €3,800. Twelve minutes from going home. Now in Berlin.
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Drop 1, Thursday 22 October
Jonas Feld
Argument With a Staircase, charcoal and ink
Vienna, b. 1990. Draws on the stairwells of buildings due for demolition, then cuts out the plaster. This one is on paper because the landlord said no.
- Sold for
- €2,060
- Gone in
- 1 h 56 min
Started at €2,200. Now in Antwerp.
Never miss the one.
One email a day at 23:55: tomorrow’s artist, the piece and its starting price. Five minutes before it goes up.
You’re on the list. First email tonight at 23:55.
Make one thing. We give it one day.
- You choose the starting price and the floor.
- You keep 70% of whatever it sells for.
- We photograph, crate, insure and ship it.
- Unsold at midnight? It comes back to you, and we pay for that too.
Questions
Is it really one of a kind?
Yes. One original. No prints, no editions, no “similar works available”. The artist signs a certificate saying so, and it ships with the piece.
What if two people buy at the same second?
The first payment to go through wins. The other buyer is refunded straight away.
Why does the price drop?
Because waiting should cost you something. The artist decides where it starts and how low it can go. The clock does the rest.
What does shipping cost?
Nothing inside the EU. It’s crated, insured and tracked. Outside the EU you see the shipping cost before you pay.
Can I return it?
Within 14 days, yes. It goes back to the artist, not back on sale.