‘Fully Immersive’ Beeple Survey Lands in Silicon Valley

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While the NFT boom may have cooled, for digital artist Mike Winkelmann—better known as Beeple—interest does not appear to have slowed.

The artist’s latest project, BEEPLE: / INFINITE_LOOP, opens on 18 April at NODE, a new non-profit space founded by investors and art collectors Micky Malka and Becky Kleiner, and located in the heart of US tech heaven, Silicon Valley. The mid-career survey brings together works spanning nearly two decades, presented in what organisers describe as a “fully immersive” environment.

According to Winkelmann, the exhibition is about more than retrospection. “It’s about showing how daily practice compounds into something larger—how repetition becomes a kind of infinity,” he said in a statement.

Works on view include Human One (2021), a kinetic sculpture featuring a continuously moving digital figure within a towering LED structure, where the surrounding digital environment updates over time. Alongisde this is Diffuse Control (2025), a three-storey tower that unfolds in real time on 12 screens, with imagery produced through an evolving system.

A comprehensive version of Everydays (2007–present), which sees the artist create and post a new digital artwork to his social media every single day, will also be on display. On his website, Winkelmann says of the work: “The purpose of this project is to help me get better at different things.

“By posting the results online, I’m ‘less’ likely to throw down a big pile of ass-shit even though most of the time I still do because I suck ass.”

Winkelmann’s ascent unfolded alongside the market fever for NFT (non-fungible token) art, which reached its peak in around 2021–2022. Editions sold out within minutes on NFT platform Nifty Gateway and a surge of first-time collectors entered the space.

In March 2021, Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million USD (£51.6 million), at the time becoming the most expensive NFT ever sold, and also makiing Winkelmann one of the top three most valuable living artists. That same year, Human One (2021) marked a turn in his practice, expanding into installation, sculpture and generative formats.

Last December, Winkelmann’s Regular Animals (2025), a series of robot dogs bearing the hyperrealistic faces of artists and tech billionaires, drew some of the largest crowds at Art Basel Miami Beach, and sold out on the first day at $100,000 USD (£74,400) each.

NODE, which was founded in 2025, opened as the NFT market receded, in an area better known for technology than contemporary art.

It forms part of a broader effort to establish new formats for digital art beyond traditional gallery- and collector-driven models. Earlier initiatives, including Pace Art + Technology by Pace Gallery, have explored similar territory, albeit often on a more limited or temporary basis.

The NODE foundation was inaugurated in January this year with 10,000, an exhibition by CryptoPunks, in which works were staged as a continuously running system in which the marketplace formed part of the display.

The organisation styles itself as a hybrid exhibition space, learning platform and cultural hub, with a focus on “presentation, education, and preservation”.