Digital Art In Focus: Top Exhibitions Opening Globally This January
In Brief
This list of shows explores the intersection of emerging technologies with human perception and society, reflecting, questioning, and reimagining technological present and future.
In this article, we have selected some of the most compelling digital art exhibitions opening around the globe this January. Each show features artists reflecting on technological progress or actively engaging with emerging technologies, offering insight into their current integration as well as the pressing issues and debates surrounding their development.
Asia
In Asia, Singapore will draw attention with Digital Art Week, opening on January 19th and running through January 26th. Curated by Warren Wee, the group exhibition “99 Years” will be held at Air Raid Shelter and examines the temporal nature of time.
Featuring AI-generated videos, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), photography, and works drawing on real-time data, the exhibition reflects on themes of memory, digital anxiety, society, and humanity’s relationship with nature. The show features Asian artists including Boedi Widjaja, Bianca Tse, Goh Chun Aik, Jake Tan, Jin Jin Xu, Robert Zhao, Samantha Lee, Sareena Sattapon, and Seahee Chang.
Europe
Across Europe, the long-awaited Transmediale will open on January 28th in Berlin and run through February 1 at Kulturquartier and CANK. Under this year’s theme, “By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road – Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring,” the festival engages with alternative ways of understanding systems, cosmologies, and technologies, highlighting geographical and theoretical shifts in contemporary discourse on technology, media, and human conceptions of the internet and the World Wide Web. Curated by Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sousa, the program will showcase artworks installed within temporary architectures and spatial interventions, bringing together artists from the tropical belt, including Aarati Akkapeddi, Kathleen Bomani, Johnson & Jeison, Shaheer Tarar, Hiba Ali, Manthia Diawara, Gladys Kalichini, Lee Tzu-Tung, among many others.
In addition, from January 23rd through March 8th, LAS Foundation in Berlin will present “Liminals,” a new commission by Pierre Huyghe that delves into uncertainty through quantum experiments. The partially AI-generated film will be presented at Berghain and feature a faceless figure attempting to exist, communicate, and escape a single state of reality or consciousness. This liminal space—where multiple states are superimposed—echoes the way a quantum system can exist in several states before measurement, when infinite possibilities collapse into a single version of reality. To create the work, Pierre Huyghe consulted quantum physicist Tommaso Calarco and philosopher Tobias Rees, drawing on the logic and outputs of quantum systems to shape the final piece through sound and image.
USA
In the United States, NODE Foundation—a new space dedicated to exhibiting digital art—will open its doors in Palo Alto on January 23rd with the inaugural exhibition “10,000,” devoted to CryptoPunks, the iconic NFT series created in 2017 by Matt Hall and John Watkinson of Larva Labs. Curated by Amanda Schmitt, the exhibition will present the NFTs across five foundational types—ape, male, female, zombie, and alien—a typology that evokes ideas of evolution, origin myth, contemporary decay, and futurism. The exhibition will also include a new artwork by Beeple, representing another system in which code defines the conditions of creation, circulation, and authorship, and drawing connections between CryptoPunks and millennia of portraiture that precede them.
Meanwhile, in New York, Nguyen Wahed Gallery will open the group exhibition “Transfer Download: AliveNET” on January 16th, running through March 1st. The show will explore the perceptual space between human and machine vision. Through experiments in digital image-making technologies—from game engines and film-rendering software to pixel editors, generative art, and subversive applications of AI—artists interrogate screen mediation and algorithmic embodiment. A series of video artworks by Chia Amisola, Leo Castañeda, Carla Gannis, Huntrezz Janos & Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Fabiola Larios, Rosa Menkman, Lorna Mills, Eva Papamargariti, and Yoshi Sodeoka appropriate and reconfigure digital technologies to generate critical friction and expand possibilities for what comes next. Drawing on speculative simulation, science-fiction storytelling, and experimental world-building, the exhibition engages contemporary anxieties while asserting that reality emerges from the entanglement of on-screen and off-screen experience—and that artists actively shape this convergence.
Online
Beyond physical exhibitions, digital art will also be presented online, in its native environment. This January, Solos Gallery—run by former Tate curator Leyla Fakhr—will present the solo exhibition “Koala Noosphere” by Rhea Myers. The project imagines a flattened cognitive ecology: a locally navigable yet globally unknowable system in which description itself becomes a site of aesthetic production. The show consists of a series of museum-placard–style descriptions of artworks that do not exist. The works are constituted entirely by metadata, defined only through their relationships to others in the series—a network that appears to promise comprehension while deferring it. Ownership is placed in tension with knowability: collectors may possess tokens, but the artworks remain inaccessible, existing solely within a system of dense internal references. This project extends Rhea Myers’s earlier explorations of possession, encryption, and textual equivalence.
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Alisa, a dedicated journalist at the MPost, specializes in cryptocurrency, zero-knowledge proofs, investments, and the expansive realm of Web3. With a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, she delivers comprehensive coverage to inform and engage readers in the ever-evolving landscape of digital finance.
