Standouts of 2025

Artwork · Europe

Below is my standout art (shows and works) of 2025. In some special cases, they are written about as standalone moments as well. 1. Claude Opus 4.5 2. Room Service at Glitch Residency 3. Basel Social Club, Bank 4. Little Room by Jordan Wolfson at Fondation Beyeler 5. Starmirror by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst at KW Berlin 6. Shaper Of God by American Artist at Pioneerworks 7. A LIVING POEM by Sasha Stiles at MoMA 8. Diffuse Control by Beeple 9. The Totalists by Rachel Rossin at Albion Jeune 10. Atlas of Perception by Tom White at CVPR 11. Surface Tension by Karyn Nakamura at CVPR 12. Lu Yang: The Great Adventure of Material World at MoMI and DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe at Amant 13. Delivery Dancer Codex by Ayoung Kim at MoMA PS1 14. Infinite Garden by Leander Herzog 15. Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js at MoMI 16. Drifella III by Evil Biscuit 17. Drilady by Parker Ito 18. Autonomous Forest by terra0 19. DX Terminal by DX Research Group 20. Zantar by Mitchell F. Chan

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

digital art, generative art, artificial intelligence

Technologies: Claude, p5.js, Processing
People: American Artist, Ayoung Kim, Evil Biscuit, Holly Herndon, Jordan Wolfson, Karyn Nakamura, Leander Herzog, Lu Yang, Mat Dryhurst, Mike Winkelmann (Beeple), Mitchell F. Chan, Parker Ito, Rachel Rossin, Sasha Stiles, Tom White
Works: A LIVING POEM, Atlas of Perception, Autonomous Forest, Diffuse Control, DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe, Drifella, Drifella III, Drilady, DX Terminal, Infinite Garden, Little Room, Starmirror, Surface Tension, The Great Adventure of Material World, Zantar
Exhibitions: Basel Social Club's Bank, Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js, Delivery Dancer Codex, Room Service, Shaper of God, The Totalists
Organisations: Albion Jeune, Amant, CVPR, DX Research Group, Glitch Residency, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Museum of the Moving Image, Pioneer Works, terra0
Places: Berlin