Infinite Garden, 2025
Leander Herzog
Nguyen Wahed presents Infinite Garden (2025-), a solo exhibition by Leander Herzog, an ongoing, collective on-chain work that transforms digital materiality through an ever-shifting botanical ecosystem on blockchain where no single moment repeats. Herzog's work employs blockchain affordances as a creative medium, building a space where collectors become active participants in the cultivation of living digital flora - works conceived collectively through a smart contract. Each element exists in a state of perpetual evolution, responding to temporal conditions including diurnal cycles and seasonal progressions.
1'841 collectors planted 315'656'399 flowers through 38'505 onchain interactions.
- Infinite Garden is an open edition on Shape, beginning on 17 March.
- First mint generates a composition of various flowers for - ETH.
- More flowers can be added for - ETH.
- They may be combined, creating personal arrangements in one's garden that evolve.
- Flowers can be gifted to other collectors and merged into a new garden.
- To gift or move a flower, click on the flower in the drop-down.
Infinite Garden invites the audience to root for blockchain not merely as a transactional framework but as an expressive medium with distinct properties for generative art.
Presented first at Nguyen Wahed New York in partnership with Shape, and supported by OpenSea, where 50% of the proceeds are donated to Protocol Guild, a collective funding mechanism for Ethereum core protocol maintainers.
In 2026, Infinite Garden is exhibited at Art Basel 2026 in Basel, Switzerland with Nguyen Wahed gallery and is supported by Privy, a Stripe company, Shape, Spirit Protocol, and Assembly.
View contract on Shapescan. Send feedback and questions to ig@leanderherzog.ch.