With «404_LAND», HEK launches the first virtual exhibition of its 2026 partnership with the Tezos Foundation on virtual.hek.ch.
Curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti, the group exhibition explores overlooked spaces, thresholds and hidden territories of the internet.
Its starting point is the familiar digital error message 404: not found. Yet instead of leading into emptiness, it opens up a speculative space: a landscape of failed coordinates, broken paths, imagined archives, disappeared files and places that cannot be clearly located.
The website becomes a virtual landscape through which visitors do not simply navigate, but drift. Orientation does not emerge through clear menus or fixed paths, but through traces, signals, atmospheres and ruptures. Each artistic position forms a temporary territory: unstable, permeable and only graspable for a moment.
404_LAND asks what remains hidden online, what gets lost, and what new spaces emerge where systems reach their limits. The exhibition turns errors, gaps and digital ruins into starting points for other ways of seeing, searching and remembering.
Online opening: Friday, 12 June 2026, 17:00 on virtual.hek.ch.