Trevor Paglen to Curate Art Basel’s Largest Digital Initiative Yet
‘Zero 10’ heads to Switzerland next month, with Hito Steyerl and Andreas Gursky in tow.
Summary
- Artist Trevor Paglen will co-curate Zero 10, Art Basel’s digital arts platform, with returning curator Eli Scheinman at its upcoming main fair next month
- The Swiss edition marks the initiative’s largest presentation to date and will feature 20 exhibitors and artists, including Hito Steyerl, Andreas Gursky, Hauser & Wirth, Almine Rech and more
Zero 10, Art Basel’s platform dedicated to digital art, returns for its third edition at next month’s flagship event, and the fair has tapped artist Trevor Paglen to lead the charge, curatorially speaking.
The initiative debuted at last year’s Miami Beach fair, with a sophomore stop at the Hong Kong in March. The first European iteration is slated to be its largest presentation to date, with 20 global exhibitors in tow.
Co-curated with digital arts strategist Eli Scheinman, the upcoming edition, titled The Condition, probes into our state of digital saturation, exploring life in a world run by computational systems, AI and new technologies.
The lineup features pioneering and engineering voices in the digital, generative and new media space. Booths on our radar include “Green Screen” (2023) Hito Steyerl’s bioelectrical bloom jointly presented by Esther Schipper and Andrew Kreps, alongside Avery Singer’s “Sh*t Coin Maxi” (2025) with Hauser & Wirth and Andreas Gursky’s mesmeric “Ocean V” composite at Sprüth Magers.
Paglen, the 2026 LG Guggenheim Prize winner and a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, has made waves in the digital space through his unflinching investigations into mass surveillance, AI systems and military power.
“Looking across the last 50 years of instruction – based and computational work, from postwar experimentalism through today’s generative practices, I see a continuous thread: a body of work that understands the digital as a medium with its own properties, possibilities, and demands,” wrote Paglen.
“The showcase becomes an intergenerational conversation about what it means to be alive in the digital era, led by artists who were thinking seriously about these questions long before the rest of the world caught up.”
Zero 10 will be in the event hall at Messeplatz from June 17 through 21 as part of Art Basel 2026. Visit the fair’s website to secure tickets and learn more about the next Zero 10.
