Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Pixel Pioneers at The Depot in Rotterdam, its first exhibition devoted entirely to digital art, featuring Geert Mul, Suzanne Treister, Claudia Hart, Feng Mengbo, and Christopher Kulendran Thomas.
Horizons (2008) by Geert Mul anchors the exhibition, an interactive installation not shown since its original commission nearly twenty years ago. It assembles more than two hundred artworks from the museum's own collection, each containing a horizon, into a projected landscape that shifts with every movement of a visitor.
Suzanne Treister's Hexen series maps hidden technological and financial power structures, tracing internet history and blockchain alongside the rise of artificial intelligence. Cryptocurrency symbols and corporate logos fold into ruins of a technological empire in Claudia Hart's Empire Failure, a wall-painting installation built from failed currencies.
Retro gaming supplies the visual language for Feng Mengbo's Long March: Restart, a playable video game that restages Chinese revolutionary history.
