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This immersive experience unfolds through six interconnected
WORLD-CLASS ART in situ: of data into spatial imagination. Complementing the visuals
chapters, each representing a stage in the transformation

is an enveloping soundscape composed by Kerim Karaoglu,
REFIK ANADOL
seamlessly blending AI-generated audio with material
recordings from the Museum.
Refik Anadol’s approach positions data as a primary artistic
medium, utilizing neural networks to generate striking
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proudly presents in visualizations of digitized memories. His work integrates
situ: Refik Anadol, an innovative exhibition exploring the architecture, AI, and contemporary art, expanding the
intersection of artificial intelligence and art, inspired by the possibilities of interdisciplinary creativity and prompting
Museum’s iconic architecture. This marks the debut of in audiences to reconsider their relationships with the
situ, a series dedicated to site-specific installations that physical world, public spaces, and emerging decentralized
challenge and expand contemporary artistic practices. The technologies. His AI-driven sculptures, performances, and
exhibition brings together artists working across visual art, installations redefine notions of authorship, perception, and
technology, music, and performance to explore new ways of materiality in art.
perceiving and inhabiting space. As the inaugural exhibition of the in situ series, Living
At the heart of the exhibition is Living Architecture: Gehry, Architecture: Gehry exemplifies Anadol’s vision for AI-driven,
an audiovisual installation that reimagines Frank Gehry’s site-specific art, where data becomes material and space
architectural legacy through AI and generative art. Refik evolves as a constantly shifting canvas. Built upon ethically
Anadol Studio has developed the Large Architecture Model sourced data and powered by sustainable computing practices,
(LAM), a custom-built AI system trained for months on open- the installation reflects a forward-thinking approach to digital
access imagery, sketches, and blueprints. The AI transforms creation, where innovation and responsibility coexist.
Gehry’s architectural language into fluid, ever-evolving Euskaltel, as Technology Partner, is proud to support
landscapes of form, color, and motion, projected onto the cutting-edge art that fosters new conversations on today’s
gallery’s vast fourteen-meter-high walls. most relevant issues. In this exhibition, the fusion of art,
architecture, and artificial intelligence offers audiences an
Refik Anadol Studio | Render for exhibition at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,
2024 © Refik Anadol, Bilbao 2025

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