[Opening ]Primavera de Filippi Solo Exhibition Curated by Grida

​Art as Lifeform, Living Systems
A Retrospective of Primavera De Filippi
Curated by Grida

October 10 to 19

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Art has always sought to mirror life. The painted gestures of prehistoric caves captured fleeting motion; Renaissance anatomical drawings probed the body as both scientific object and aesthetic form; the avant-gardes of the twentieth century imagined machines animated with vitality. Throughout art history, new aesthetics have emerged from the shifting boundary between technology and life.

​Primavera De Filippi brings this lineage into the present. She is both an artist and a legal scholar at Harvard University, working at the intersection of art, law, and technology. Internationally recognized for her pioneering research on the legal and political dimensions of blockchain, she gives material form to her insights through the creation of blockchain-based lifeforms—autonomous digital organisms that evolve and reproduce through cryptocurrency interactions. These works bridge conceptual research with speculative aesthetics.

​Her seminal Plantoid breathes and reproduces on the blockchain like a mechanical plant, while Arborithms, Protocolites, and Aminals emerge as new species born from the roots of code and algorithm. Like music without score or conductor, they generate resonances that shift with every moment, traversing the boundaries of law and institution, human and machine, nature and code.

​For this solo exhibition at ArtVerse, a constellation of her works and research-driven projects collectively examines the roots and potential futures of blockchain. By bringing artistic experimentation into dialogue with legal inquiry, the exhibition maps decentralized systems not merely as technologies but as philosophical and cultural paradigms.

​Through her unique vision, De Filippi invites us to reconsider agency, authorship, and the lifeforms of code itself. This retrospective not only gathers decades of her explorations, but also launches new works into the world. Past, present, and future converge here, allowing us to witness art as a living system in perpetual transformation.

​https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/best-digital-art-works-picked-by-experts-1234745683/

https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/infinite-conversations-echoes-of-alias-the-making-of-an-infinite-interview-between-hans-ulrich-obrist-marina-abramovi-and-her-ai-alias-cdca895f