Solo Harm van den Dorpel ABMB Zero | 10 & Vera Molnar ArtBasel Zero | 10 Specialized in (early) digital art /advisor/curator/gallerist/digital art/
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Interface Gallery, in collaboration with LohausGallery, presents *Entfaltung* (2026) by @harmvddorpel at @ArtBasel Miami Beach 🖥️ Zero 10: Generation
36 unique generative works + 12 hand finished plotter drawings.
4–6 December 2026
VIP: 2–3 December
A blockchain choreography sets the rhythm of Entfaltung, @harmvddorpel ’s living generative drawings. Three ethereum blocks rotate the structure. The fourth transforms it. Then the cycle begins again. Here’s how this four block dance works. 🧵/1
Colour follows the geometry. As the points move, the program recalculates the faces they form. Some surfaces change shape; others fade out as new ones appear. /4
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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻.
𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘨 by @harmvddorpel
36 unique generative works + 12 plotter drawings
Zero 10 · Art Basel Miami Beach 2026
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Heading to Paris Photo today. Looking forward to catching up with familiar faces, meeting collectors, and spending time in the booths. Always curious to see what people are showing and what makes me stop and look.
An archive preserves the past, but its real promise lies in the questions still to be asked. At @zkm_collections @Rosen__ , Herbert W. Franke’s letters, experiments and manuscripts offer new ways to trace the connections between art, science and science fiction.
🟪Foundation Board gathered at the ZKM 🟪
Meeting and visit of the exhibition and the Archive Herbert W. Franke II
The Board visited the extensive ZKM Herbert W. Franke Archive. This archive, presented by Felix Mittelberger, holds many treasures, including correspondence, marketing materials spanning seven decades, Franke’s collection of sci-fi fanzines, project documents, his books, and the doctoral thesis by Mariangela Sala on Herbert W. Franke’s science fiction.
The German studies student earned her doctorate with this thesis at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in 1975. In the work, she wrote a beautiful dedication to the author of utopian works, who always intended his stories to provide readers not just with an exciting read, but also with a contribution to coping with the future: “The novels of your life are not science fiction, but TRUTH – If people reflected upon them, the world would be much better.” @Foundation_HWF @zkm_collections @Rosen__
To understand @harmvddorpel’s place in digital art, look at what he was building over a decade ago. Not just images, but networks, software and new ways for digital art to circulate. His generative work today belongs to that longer engagement with the medium. /1
In 2015, he co-founded Left Gallery with Paloma Rodríguez Carrington to produce and sell downloadable artworks.
It addressed a question that still matters to collectors: how can digital art be collected and distributed? /3
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That spirit runs through Harm’s generative work today.
The focus has shifted, but the curiosity remains: what can software make possible, not just in how an artwork looks, but in how it behaves, circulates and becomes part of a collection? Entfaltung at @ArtBasel Miami Beach this december
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The best collectors of (early) digital art I know are almost never the loudest ones online. They’re asking about the paper, the code, the exhibition history. Looking for old catalogues. Following a lead that might take months. Their collections tell you more than their feeds.
From the browser to the building. The Whitney’s survey of internet art, curated by @ChristianePaul2.
Over 100 commissions from two and a half decades of artport, presented online and in the galleries as floating browser windows. A history of how artists have used the internet as medium and subject. Start November 21. Link in the photo.
It is a privilege to see this work enter a collection so carefully attuned to the longer history of digital and generative art. Thank you @TristanSpits for acquiring Entfaltung by @harmvddorpel
New in the collection ✨: Entfaltung (⏣) by @harmvddorpel, through @Interface_art & @LOHAUSGALLERY . Soon also at Art Basel Miami
Generative art did not begin with the computer.
For @harmvddorpel, it begins with rules that let a work take shape beyond its author’s full control. His new series Entfaltung is inspired by Emma Kunz’s pendulum guided drawings. /1
Entfaltung also includes twelve unique plotter drawings, finished by hand. Van den Dorpel fills the slivers between plotted lines with pencil and coloured pencil. Screen and paper works evolved together, each informing the other. /5
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Where Kunz invoked a “higher order”, van den Dorpel lets unforeseen possibilities emerge from within the system.
Entfaltung
@ArtBasel Miami Beach · 2–6 December 2026
Zero 10: Generation
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