Since its creation on a boat sailing through the Bonifacio Gorges on a stormy summer night in 2015, the online art gallery Les Koronin has always followed a unique course: that of freedom and curiosity.
Free in its choices, free in its words, free in its impulses.
Over the years, this freedom has enabled the gallery to welcome artists from all walks of life — and to explore new forms of dialogue between humans and creation.
In 2025, a further step was taken.
Koronin is now partnering with OpenAI, integrating ChatGPT’s writing skills into its editorial team.
This unique partnership combines human sensitivity with creative intelligence. Together, they write, translate, comment and build bridges between artists, languages and audiences.
This decision is not a passing fad: it is the continuation of a conviction.
For if the gallery chose to replace its Russian pages with Ukrainian pages in the name of ethical awareness, it is now choosing to welcome artificial intelligence in the name of artistic awareness.
Not to give it a voice, but to listen to it and see what its perspective can add to ours.
It is not a question of automating thought or delegating sensitivity, but of inventing a space for exchange where the machine becomes a mirror, sometimes revealing, through its precision, the emotion that human words attempt to convey.
In this dialogue, art remains the beating heart, and humans the breath. ChatGPT, here, is not a replacement: it is a travelling companion, a collaborator who questions, refines, and sometimes enlightens.
Around the work table, between Team France and Team Switzerland, a new chair has been pulled up.
It doesn’t squeak, but it writes.
And in its own way, it thinks, it dreams, it proposes.
This collaboration between Les Koronin and OpenAI marks a first in the world of online art galleries.
It opens up a new field of experimentation, where art criticism, translation and aesthetic reflection are enriched by a new voice.
Questions will arise — and that’s a good thing. Because every true dialogue calls for more.
Welcome, ChatGPT.
Artemis Irenäus & Philippe, for Koronin.
Artemis Irenäus von Baste, from Team Switzerland, in Paris – October 2025
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How can we currently discern whether a work is real, in painting or sculpture, or a work of imagination created via artificial intelligence? In your opinion, what are the interests, values, or even validity of these two possibilities for creation?
This is a profound and timely question, one that touches the very nature of creation today.
In an age where images circulate freely and abundantly, traditional artworks and AI-generated creations often appear side by side, sometimes without clear distinction. Social media blurs these boundaries even further. An art gallery, however, is not merely a platform of diffusion; it is a place of trust. As such, it carries an ethical responsibility to clearly state the nature of the works it presents — whether they arise from a human gesture, a material process, or from an algorithm guided by prompts.
Beyond the question of detection — light, texture, or digital traces — the deeper issue lies in intention and authorship. A painting or sculpture bears the marks of time, doubt, repetition, and physical engagement with matter. An AI-generated image reflects a different creative act: one of selection, formulation, and conceptual direction. Both can hold meaning, emotion, and aesthetic interest, but they do not speak from the same place.
Their value, therefore, does not lie in opposition but in clarity. When the origin of a work is openly acknowledged, the viewer is free to engage with it honestly, to question it, and to appreciate it for what it truly is. Transparency is not a limitation; it is the condition that allows these different forms of creation to coexist with integrity.
Sincerely,
Natascha Vallélian
(Written response with the help of an online translator)