It’s big news for contemporary art. It’s big news for digital art. It’s a show of faith in a post-medium art world free from artificial separations.

Seven long-established Art Basel galleries, among them the international houses Hauser & Wirth and Marian Goodman, will be showing alongside leading exhibitors with dedicated digital art programs at the largest iteration of Zero 10 to date, Art Basel’s initiative dedicated to art of the digital era, to run at the art fair’s flagship event in Switzerland from June 16 to 21, 2026.

The artist Trevor Paglen joins the digital art strategist Eli Scheinman as co-curator for the Basel iteration of Zero 10, presenting displays by 20 exhibitors under the curatorial theme “The Condition”—a reference to a world saturated by digital imagery, computational systems, and artificial intelligence.

The seven established Art Basel galleries joining Zero 10 for the first time are Hauser & Wirth (showing the work of Avery Singer); Marian Goodman (Agnieszka Kurant); Andrew Kreps Gallery with Esther Schipper (Hito Steyerl); Max Estrella (Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, jointly with the digital art gallery bitforms); Almine Rech (Ryoji Ikeda); and Sprüth Magers (Andreas Gursky).

These mainstream international players are showing alongside bitforms and other leading digital art entities: ArtMeta; Upstream Gallery; Art Blocks (showing William Mapan); Asprey Studio (0xDEAFBEEF); eastcontemporary (Aziza Kadyri); Fellowship (John Gerrard); Gazelli Art House (Harold Cohen); Galerie Oniris jointly with Interface Gallery (Vera Molnar); OFFICE IMPART (Jan Robert Leegte); and Nguyen Wahed (Leander Herzog and Andreas Gysin).

The presence of Marian Goodman gallery at Zero 10 is a poignant reminder of the contribution that the gallery’s eponymous late founder made to the creation of today’s expanded art world with her support of the Belgian poet-turned-artist Marcel Broodthaers in a landmark 1977 exhibition in New York. The importance of that show was captured, by extension, in Rosalind Krauss’s seminal essay “A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition” (1999), which identified the “post-medium age”, the era that has carried through to the hybrid practices celebrated at Zero 10, at the junction of the digital and the physical, and the human and the non-human.

Asked what had convinced so many established Art Basel galleries to join Zero 10, Scheinman tells Right Click Save that Zero 10 has been set up from the beginning “to respond to the local considerations and each region in very different ways. Miami had its own texture that was maybe about spectacle. Hong Kong had a different feel and different type of nuance across the space. In Basel, very explicitly, there was an emphasis for us, because there is in the region, an institutional rigor and ameliorating [of] artificial delineations” between different art mediums. “That context, I think, was very attractive to some of those galleries”.

Scheinman says that Paglen’s role and that of Vincenzo de Bellis, Chief Artistic Officer and Global Director of Fairs at Art Basel, were “critical in building those bridges and working with those gallerists”. It was both a collective effort, he says, and a question of the region being “well suited for this blending of galleries”.

“We are particularly honored to inaugurate Zero 10 in Basel hand-in-hand with Trevor Paglen,” Noah Horowitz, CEO of Art Basel, said: “a pioneering artist trusted equally by the institutional art world and digital communities.”

— Louis Jebb, Managing Editor at Right Click Save