Bilbao,
After passing through the Biennial of Venice, the MoMA, the Center Pompidou, Art Basel or La Casa Batlló, emphasizes in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao the Turkish artist Refik Anadol, author of shocking facilities in which he seeks to merge technological procedures, scientific knowledge and creative impulse; It raises dynamic data visualizations in 3D environment, testing the possibilities of artificial intelligence in public artistic projects (it has collaborated for it with companies such as Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Nasa, Intel, IBM, Siemens or Epson and with universities such as UCLA, Harvard and Stanford).
Director of the study that bears his name in Los Angeles and Teacher of Arts and Media Design in the UCLA, ANADOL takes the data provided by digital devices as raw material, and as a tool a computerized mind that works as a neuronal network: he is interested They already have the ties between the spheres of the physical – the human – and of the digital.
The work that until October exhibits in the Guggenheim Bilbao is entitled Living Architecture: Gehry And it opens a new exhibition program in that museum, called In situwhich will offer proposals from current artists that develop fundamentally in the areas of sculpture, multimedia creations and environmental facilities; As that title indicates, they will be creations developed specifically for this space and focused on the generation of atmospheres and experiences without discriminating media: performance, science, music, technology and, of course, plastic arts.
The piece, of an architectural and immersive nature, is based on images and archive material (free access) linked to the projects of the Guggenheim architect and transforms them into dynamic visual stories that come to reinterpret them through forms generated by artificial intelligence: it has served as to synthesize such processed data on gehry buildings and elaborate nourishing themselves nourishing them, they are ever nourish They evolve continuously. Its presentation is also accompanied with that of a sound landscape designed for this exhibition by Kerim Karaoglu: it favors the sensory and experiential nature of this project and incorporates materials taken from recordings of this same Basque Center.
It’s fruit, Living Architecture: Gehryof Anadol’s previous work developing his Large Architecture Model. Lama model of AI: using it has tried to analyze how diverse architectures can visually converge, but also materials and data, to generate new pieces from the existing. We can consider, to some extent, an antecedent of this work its proposal WDCH Dreamsin which it was questioned, just from a building designed by the Canadian, if it would be possible that the constructions could learn and dream in their own way.
The work is articulated in six connected chapters, which represent the phases of that process that converts information into an architectural fantasy: Data universe (The compilation of file photographs, plans and structural documents in a memory); Data layout (The emergence of patterns as they are processed, in terms of textures …); Data tunnel (These go on to form immersive visual environments, the first symbol for this author of the fruits of collaboration between humans and machines); the aforementioned Large Architecture Modelgeneration by the alternative architectural options transforming Gehry forms; Machine hallucination (stage in which these structures are detached from spatial conventions to display a dream and hallucinatory aspect); And finally Dreams (A complete, constant and real -time reinterpretation of the architecture via ia).
He believes anadol that, in the face of reluctance and in front of the usual opposition between artistic creation (more or less manual) and artificial intelligence, it is possible to use the latter ethically and without its use implying the impersonation of the individual seal; in which it is feasible to use recent technology to investigate the current readings of what was always there – architecture, memory, desire for plastic expression – and amplify them.
“In situ: refik anadol”
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
Bilbao
From March 7 to October 19, 2025
