WHAT
The professional moniker of Mike Winkelmann, Beeple is a leading digital artist and designer active over the past twenty years. His rapid rise to public prominence in recent years helped to highlight the growing influence of digitally generated art. The current exhibition is a kinetic video sculpture, which shows the first human born inside the metaverse, a 3D virtual world accessible only through the internet. The traveller in an astronaut suit treks forward in an endless, evolving virtual landscape shown in a spinning box-like structure with four LED screens. The journey is a metaphor for human progress, which reminds us of the continued blurring of our own digital and physical existence.

WHY
Beeple will remotely update the virtual landscape from time to time with elements from the internet and his own practice. The artwork is an ongoing conversation in response to current events and interests over the course of the artist’s life. Diverse in style, Beeple’s work incorporates references from pop culture, science fiction, and politics, often with a sardonic edge.\
Fact: Central to his artistic practice is his ‘Everydays’ NFT project, which sold for a record USD69 million at auction in 2021.