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07 March 2025
Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse—an exhibition including the artist’s trilogy of monumental, immersive light and sound installations will run from 7 March until 10 August 2025 at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
In this exhibition, Ikeda’s data-verse trilogy, which was commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary in 2019, will be presented alongside new site-specific pieces and several existing works, including data gram, a series of 18 monitors that take apart, analyse, and recombine information Ikeda sourced for his trilogy.
Marking the U.S. debut of Ikeda’s trilogy and representing more than two decades of research by the artist, this exhibition immerses audiences in an endless flow of data and explores the macroscopic depths of the universe and the human relationship to it. His immersive video projections, which will be presented floor-to-ceiling onto the walls of the museum’s largest exhibition space, feature visualizations of data extracted from mathematical theories and the study of quantum physics. Together, the music, video projections, and the museum’s unique architecture will become a dynamically balanced, self-contained whole.
"data-verse" attempts to scan the entire scale of our nature, from the microscopic to the macroscopic … I’m just guiding you, your brain makes everything. You experience, you construct your story.
Ryoji Ikeda
Artist
data-verse has been exhibited around the world and most recently was on view at Copenhagen Contemporary as part of the exhibition Yet, It Moves! (12 May to 31 December 2023) and in the artist’s solo exhibition at the European Capital of Culture Tartu (1 November 2024 to 2 March 2025).
Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse will be on view at the High Museum from 7 March to 10 August.
Address
1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
Visiting Hours
Closed on Monday
Tuesday through Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday 12 noon – 5 pm
Six years after we originally commissioned "data-verse", it is incredible to see the impact this work continues to have. In these years, "data-verse" has travelled to six global cities, and we are thrilled to see the work make its debut in the United States. Every work Audemars Piguet Contemporary commissions is an opportunity for new creation, and each time these commissions travel, new audiences are brought together – in this case to see Ryoji Ikeda’s mesmerising and perfectly synchronised composition.
Denis Pernet
Art Curator, Audemars Piguet Contemporary
Leading composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda explores the essential characteristics of sound and light by means of mathematical precision and aesthetics. By orchestrating sounds, visuals, materials, physics and mathematics, Ikeda goes beyond the conceptual to delve into extremes and infinites, testing the limits of human senses and digital technology. Ikeda’s experimental work engages with frequencies and scales difficult for the human ear and mind to comprehend, visualising sounds and rendering the imperceptible through numerical systems and computer aesthetics.
Ryoji Ikeda’s work has been performed and exhibited in numerous venues worldwide, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Elektra Festival, DHC Art Foundation and Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC) in Montreal, the Festival Grec and the Sonár in Barcelona, the Barbican Centre and The Vinyl Factory in London, the Carriageworks in Sydney. Ikeda is the recipient of the 2001 Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica Prize for the Digital Music Category, the 2012 Giga-Hertz Award in the category of Sound Art at ZKM in Germany and the 2014 Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN.