Nguyen Wahed
Booth Z7, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel, Switzerland
VIP Days (by invitation only): June 16-17, 11am to 8pm
Public Days: June 18-21, 11am to 7pm
Nguyen Wahed Gallery is pleased to present selected works by Swiss generative artists exploring the code, materiality, and participation in digital art. Leander Herzog's Infinite Garden (2025-26) and Andreas Gysin's Meltdown (2023–26) are both being shown for the first time in Switzerland for the occasion of the fair.
Meltdown (2023–26) by Andreas Gysin departs from a deceptively simple premise: programming languages, though invisible in daily life, carry an inherent rhythm and graphic quality. In this work, code becomes both subject and instrument: the same source text that drives the transformation is itself the material being transformed. As abstract patterns shift and reconfigure on screen, the structural "groove" of the language becomes felt rather than read. Where much contemporary algorithmic art obscures its inner workings, Gysin's practice does the opposite: the mechanics are fully exposed, the wonder arriving not from opacity but from radical transparency, something minimal, yet alive.
XXX (2018-25) by Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti, presents the three pharmacy crosses are synchronised wirelessly with a microcontroller using the default factory protocol of the LED panels.Infinite Garden (2025-) by Leander Herzog is a collective on-chain work that transforms digital materiality through an ever-shifting botanical ecosystem on blockchain where no single moment repeats. Every collector becomes a gardener: assembling, merging, and sharing generative flowers through blockchain protocol, acquiring not static images but living digital flora in perpetual flux.
Where Herzog's Infinite Garden (2025) invites individual collectors to become gardeners: assembling, merging, and sharing generative flowers through blockchain protocol, the Infinite (Botanical) Garden realises something of an entirely different order. It is a master work: a single living image that absorbs and synthesises the entire Infinite Garden ecosystem across 1,900 collectors, 300 million flowers, and 40,000 gardening interactions incorporating smart-contract as a medium and spirit protocol agent, into one continuously evolving composition.
Presented as a 2 x 2 metre floor-level LED installation, the Infinite (Botanical) Garden makes the scale of collective participation physically tangible. What appears as an image is in fact a map, a real-time record of every onchain interaction made across the contract, rendered as botanical form, with the 1,900 gardeners who came before, and with all those who will follow in the infinite collective performance.
Note: Due to the nature of the generative algorithm, each edition is unique and indefinitely evolving where no single moment repeats.
Infinite Garden by Leander Herzog is presented with support from Privy, Shape, Spirit Protocol, and Assembly. Meltdown by Andreas Gysin is presented with support from Daisys Visual and Superlumenary.