Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Kim Asendorf

Nguyen Wahed is pleased to present a solo presentation of Kim Asendorf at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, premiering the artist's latest development in pixel-based digital sculpture: the PXL Duo Pod series. Displayed across a large-scale interactive interface, the presentation positions audiences as active participants in the ongoing transformation of digital materiality, where individual economic choices generate immediate spatial consequences within blockchain-mediated ecosystems.

PXL Duo Pod emerges from Asendorf's expanding pixel ecosystem, which began with PXL DEX's decentralised exchange for pixel-based NFTs and anticipates PXL NET's crowd-sourced collective sculpture. The new series advances the artist's investigation into radial formations that replace cubic geometries, exploring how individual pixels aggregate into complex spherical phenomena. Through the large-scale display, usually invisible pixels become monumental sculptural elements, transforming technical specifications into aesthetic encounters that reveal screens' fundamental material properties.

Each PXL Duo Pod functions simultaneously as individual artwork and node within a larger network of relationships. Asendorf's approach reveals pixels as both atomic units and collective phenomena—individual points of light that achieve meaning only through aggregation into larger formations. The spherical configurations test computational rendering limits while creating visual experiences that exceed the sum of their constituent elements, suggesting organic rather than architectural spatial logic where growth proceeds through expansion rather than accumulation.

The work interrogates fundamental questions about digital ownership within collective creation frameworks. While individual interactions generate personal aesthetic experiences, these choices contribute to shared visual environments that transcend singular ownership models. This tension between individual agency and collective formation reflects broader questions about how decentralised systems mediate between personal input and communal outcome, particularly relevant as digital art increasingly operates through blockchain-mediated participation where economic transaction becomes sculptural intervention.