Courtesy of the artist and Asprey Studio
Art Basel is debuting Zero 10, its first dedicated platform for digital art, at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Supported by official partner OpenSea, Zero 10 connects innovative artists, galleries, and collectors with the global art market, marking a new era for digital creativity.
The inaugural exhibition features 12 international exhibitors, including major names like Art Blocks, Beeple Studios, Pace Gallery, and Lu Yang, and will run from December 5–7, with VIP previews on December 3–4. The platform takes inspiration from Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 “0,10” exhibition, symbolizing a leap into a new creative language for the 21st century.
Curated by Eli Scheinman, Zero 10 aims to elevate digital art’s status, supporting artists and galleries while aligning with growing market demand. As digital art gains popularity among collectors—over half of high-net-worth individuals have purchased digital works—Zero 10 positions Art Basel at the forefront of this evolving landscape.
Presentation Highlights
- Fellowship will exhibit No Me Olvides by Itzel Yard (IX Shells), which transforms archival fragments from across Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America into living, algorithmic compositions exploring memory, gender, and cultural inheritance.
- bitforms gallery traces the evolution of generative art through pioneers and innovators — from Manfred Mohr’s early computer drawings, Casey Reas’s neural-network Earthly Delights to Maya Man’s live generative work on online desire — revealing how code has become a language of culture.
- Asprey Studio, an aterlier and London-based gallery, collaborates with the Ethiopian artist collective Yatreda, to resurrect and reimagine an Akodama — a traditional male crown from Ethiopia’s Amhara highlands once worn by chieftains and warriors as a symbol of nobility.
- Pace Gallery presents a focused installation from James Turrell’s Glass series, immersing viewers in light and time and transforming perception itself into the artwork.
- Beeple Studios reinterprets pop portraiture through robotics and blockchain, interrogating the shifting boundary between human and machine agency.
- Nguyen Wahed’s triadic presentation unites XCOPY’s dystopian glitch worlds, Kim Asendorf’s algorithmic minimalism, and Joe Pease’s hypnotic video loops, mapping the architectures of digital consciousness.
- Complementing these presentations, Lu Yang’s DOKU – Heaven (2022), on loan from the UBS Art Collection, extends the dialogue between art, technology, and transcendence. The single-channel video — rendered through motion-capture choreography and vivid 3D animation — immerses viewers in a hallucinatory digital realm where the artist’s avatar meditates on consciousness, transformation, and the search for spiritual awakening in the virtual age