The installation presents fragments from Quayola’s ongoing series Pointillisme. A high-precision laser scanner captures complex and vibrant tree formations, yet is unable to fully resolve their intricate geometries and colours. The work documents these failures and chromatic aberrations, drawing a connection between pictorial gesture and new forms of machinic expressiveness.

With «En plein air», Quayola brings digital artistic practice into public space. The installation makes questions of authorship, ownership, and preservation visible in an urban setting, where code becomes experiential and protocols open onto new forms of participation.

Opening hours: 15–21 June 2026, 10:00–18:00

Reception: Wednesday, 18. June 2026 from 7pm at HEK

Quayola uses technology as a lens to explore tensions between seemingly opposing forces, such as the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. Through immersive installations, audiovisual performances, sculptures, and works on paper, he connects historical visual traditions with contemporary technology. Landscape painting, classical sculpture, and iconography often serve as starting points for works that he reinterprets through custom-developed software. His work has been presented internationally at numerous institutions and festivals, including the V&A Museum in London, Park Avenue Armory in New York, the National Art Center in Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, Sónar Festival in Barcelona, and Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.