Art Basel launches new digital art platform Zero 10

Art Basel unveils a new curated platform for digital era-artworks called Zero 10, which features 12 international exhibitors including Asprey Studio, Beeple Studio and more.

According to a press release sent to crypto.news, the initiative will make its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 with support from NFT marketplace giant OpenSea. The platform blends together the established structure of the international art market along with the ever-evolving digital art community.

For a limited time, Zero 10 will be on display for public viewing at Art Basel Miami Beach from December 5 to 7, 2025. Though, a VIP preview will also be available from December 3 to 4, 2025. Afterwards, the project will expand to global art fairs across the globe by 2026, including Art Basel Hong Kong which is set to take place next year.

The inaugural exhibition will feature 12 intrnational exhibitors curated by digital art strategist Eli Scheinman. The presentation will include digital artists, studios, galleries and digital innovators renowned throughout the art world. These include AOTM, Art Blocks, Asprey Studio, Beeple Studios, bitforms gallery, Fellowship, Heft, Visualize Value, Nguyen Wahed, Onkaos, Pace Gallery, and SOLOS.

In addition, there will also be a presentation of an artwork by 3D animation artist Lu Yang called Doku – Heaven (2022) which is on loan from the UBS Art Collection. The piece is presented in the form of a single-channel video, rendered through motion-capture and 3D animation, which transports viewers into a digital realm.

Zero 10 gets its name from Kazimir Malevich’s seminal 1915 exhibition in Petrograd dubbed 0,10. The piece is considered as a significant milestone for avant-garde art that transformed creative language, ushering in a new era. The platform aims to capture that same spirit by redefining how digital art can be exhibited, contextualized and collected in today’s new art economy.

According to data from the the Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025 , digital art collection has gained momentum over this past year especially among high-net-worth collectors. The report shows that 51% out of 3,100 respondents have bought a digital art work sometime between 2024 and 2025.

In fact, digital art now ranks in third place based on total money spent on collecting art and has seen its share in private collections more than quadruple over the past year.

Art Basel CEO, Noah Horowitz stated that the launch of Zero 10 marks a shift in the larger artistic landscape, in which digital processes and new media are expanding how artists create and how the audience can engage with the art.

“With Zero 10, we’re creating a platform that delivers tangible outcomes for new and established artists, galleries, collectors, institutions and entrepreneurs alike, bridging creative experimentation with sustained market development,” said Horowitz in his statement.

Here are three pieces from Zero 10 that are set to debut at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025:

Twenty-First Century Akodama (Asprey Studio)

Yatreda, Twenty-First Century Akodama, 2025. Digital artwork by the artist paired with silver sculpture by Asprey Studio | Source: Yatreda and Asprey Studio

Atelier and London-based gallery Asprey Studio collaborates with Ethiopian artist collective Yatreda to reconstruct an Akodama, which is a traditional male crown native to Ethiopia’s Amhara highlands. Pictured above is a digitally reimagined headpiece that was once worn by chieftains and warriors as a symbol of nobility.

Eva Bonnier (#2) (Fellowship)

Ix Shells, Eva Bonnier (#2), Still from Video, 2025 | Source: Ix Shells and Fellowship 2025

Depicted here is a still captured from a video exhibit called No Me Olvides by Itzel Yard, also known as Itzel Yard. Presented by contemporary art gallery Fellowship, the piece transforms fragments originating from Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America into living, algorithmic compositions that explore themes of memory, gender, and cultural inheritance.

Appropriate response (Onkaos)

Mario Klingemann, Appropriate response, 2020 | Source: the outpost

An installation created by German AI artist Mario Klingemann, Appropriate Response is described as an interactive work where a the viewer can trigger AI-generated sentences on a display, reflecting on meaning and AI. It is presented by contemporary art platform Onkaos.