Nantianmen No.1 — sample composition
NANTIANMEN No. 1 · Sample composition Macau · 2026

Macau · Silk Art Poster House

Turning the silk poster into a collectible art asset.

SILKLY ART is a Macau-based international silk art poster house and curatorial institution. We license Chinese cultural IP to artists worldwide, weave it into numbered silk editions, and certify each piece through an independent review of domestic and international experts.

75
Editions per series
N° 01
Anti-counterfeit number, every piece
Macao
The China–world crossroads

Who We Are

Curators, not vendors

The core role of SILKLY ART is curation. We invite artists to submit, review, and approve; then release the work as a silk edition and exhibit it physically. Every piece carries a cultural story; every exhibition carries a theme — that is our fundamental difference from pure e-commerce or a print factory.

Role

Standing Curatorial House

We curate at our Macau gallery space; mid-to-large exhibitions are co-presented with the government, universities, and cultural institutions.

Path

From Macau to the World

Rooted in Macau’s unique position as the crossroads of Chinese culture and the international community, we build a world-class IP collaboration and rating platform.

Partners

In Partnership with Artists

Many artists approach us, hoping to exhibit in Macau and publish portfolios — we help raise their value.

Three IP Pillars

Chinese culture, reimagined by artists worldwide.

The same co-creation flow applies to every series — only the licensor differs. Each is woven, numbered, and certified as a museum-grade silk edition.

01 · NANTIANMEN

Celestial gates & deities

Heaven’s Gate, Mazu, Nezha and the broader pantheon of Chinese deities — reimagined by our approved artists under license.

02 · PALACE CULTURE

Forbidden City & courtly craft

Palace imagery, court paintings and the Museum-of-the-Palace archive — interpreted through contemporary silk weaving.

03 · DUNHUANG

Cave murals, silk & the Silk Road

Flying apsaras, sutra illustrations and the visual language of the Dunhuang caves — woven into silk for the first time.

Material & Technique

Top-grade silk weaving + invisible anti-counterfeit numbering

We work with top-grade silk weaving partners (including museum-grade craft) to secure the material foundation of every piece. Each poster embeds an invisible anti-counterfeit number, visible only under special light — globally unique. This is a selling point no one else can replicate, and the technical basis of our provenance.

Material is the basis of value

Top-grade silk weaving determines the hand-feel, colour rendition, and collecting lifespan of the work.

The number is identity

The invisible anti-counterfeit number sits within the silk, traceable piece by piece, forming the first record of provenance.

Editions · Poster-as-Art

Treated as a museum object, not a print.

Every silk poster carries an invisible anti-counterfeit number, woven into the silk, traceable piece by piece. Featured piece shown at reduced scale; the museum label is part of the design. Shown below as sample compositions.

Flying Apsara — sample composition
DUNHUANG · FLYING APSARA
Ed. of 75 · Silk weave · 2026
Anti-counterfeit No.
N° 01 / 75
Nantianmen

Ed. 75 · No. 02

Nantianmen — Heaven’s Gate

Sample composition · Macau · 2026

Flying Apsara

Ed. 75 · No. 07

Dunhuang — Flying Apsara

Sample composition · Macau · 2026

Reserved

Ed. 75 · No. —

Next series to be confirmed

Curatorial proposal under review

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Basis of Trust

An independent review system

The power to rate does not sit with the issuer. SILKLY ART establishes an independent review system composed of domestic and international experts and artists, certifying every released work. We are a third-party “recorder”, not someone who scores our own products — that is the source of collectors’ trust.

Artist submissionApproaches us, hoping to exhibit in Macau
Curatorial reviewAccept · approve — not open to all
Silk edition releaseNumbered + provenanced, registered piece by piece
Independent certificationBy a committee of experts and artists
Collector marketExhibition + secondary circulation
Third-party provenance record: numbering + tamper-evident registry + independent review = the basis of trust. Secondary-market appreciation feeds back into the artist’s reputation.

Understand Provenance & Rating

Get Started

Want to become one of our artists?

We continuously invite Chinese and international artists to reimagine Chinese cultural IP and co-release silk editions. Submissions are open; exhibitions are selective.

Submit a Proposal