Mr Richi (Serbian, b. 1982) is a digital artist based in Belgrade.His practice fuses classical art, street art, crypto art, punk and graffiti culture with web3, blending the timeless motifs of traditional art with the raw energy of rebellion and the fast-evolving digital world.
His series Rise of the Rebel Artist traces phases of market cycle psychology alongside the artist's own creative journey, drawing on Caravaggio and chiaroscuro to move from despair toward triumph. One chapter of the project, Rise of the Rebel Artist: Breaking the Chart, offered a patron tier of ten 1/1 artworks minted on the artist's own contract on Ethereum and indexed on the platform SuperRare.The edition Already Iconic, released as a signed run of 30, pairs a giclée print with an NFC chip that links each physical piece to a personalized digital certificate of ownership.
In 2022, The Bear Chronicles became the first Publisher drop on the platform Nifty Gateway curated by WGMeets, with Mr Richi as its featured artist.The series Crypto Art Stories - Venus de Crypto was released via the platform Transient Labs, with an allowlist sale followed by a public mint.Collectors of a Mr Richi drop on the platform Alias were later granted access to a VIP lounge hosted by 100 Collectors at NFC Lisbon.In 2023, Mr Richi was one of thirty artists chosen for the “Alotta Money Charity Exhibition and Auction” at Castle Party, held in aid of the cancer charity Maggie's.,