DATALAND: An Immersive AI Art & NFT Museum by Refik Anadol Studio

Refik Anadol Studio, co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç in 2025, is launching an immersive AI art & NFT museum called DATALAND at The Grand LA

Renowned media artist Refik Anadol, known for his mesmerizing AI-driven digital artworks, is set to launch DATALAND, an immersive AI art and NFT museum, at The Grand LA in downtown Los Angeles. The museum will feature cutting-edge AI art experiences, taking immersion to new heights with the integration of AI-powered scents throughout the galleries.

“We aren’t yet revealing the details about DATALAND’s artistic programming, but there will be many moments for sharing/exhibiting AI artists’ work both physically and virtually so people who cannot travel to LA have access to the AI art creations,” Anadol told nft now in an exclusive interview.

Visitors to DATALAND will be able to purchase AI art work NFTs minted on an Ethereum-based platform and other sustainable chains for exciting art and culture activities. The museum will also host a variety of educational programs and workshops to introduce attendees to the fundamentals of AI art and NFTs.

Anadol, who co-founded Refik Anadol Studio with Efsun Erkiliç in 2025, highlighted Los Angeles as the ideal location for DATALAND, given its forward-thinking spirit and strong support for the fields of art, science, technology, and AI research, to which he has dedicated his career.

“As LA has long been a city that looks to the future in art, music, cinema, architecture, and more, it feels natural to open DATALAND here. To have a permanent space for us to develop a new paradigm of what a museum can be—by fusing human imagination with machine intelligence and the most advanced technologies available—is a realization of one of my biggest dreams. To do so in a building designed by one of my heroes, Frank Gehry, is almost unbelievable,” Anadol said.

DATALAND will utilize millions of photos and other records from partner museums, including the Smithsonian and London’s Natural History Museum, to create its installations. “We already have three major collaborations with museums in the works and are very confident to join forces across the world,” Anadol added.

The museum’s inaugural exhibitions will be developed in collaboration with the Large Nature Model, an open-source AI model trained solely on nature data, to generate unprecedented immersive AI-powered digital environmental artwork.

Anadol's studio initially presented such installations at the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and subsequently at the United Nations in New York during the 2024 UNGA to promote environmental awareness.

“Refik Anadol’s artwork is a testament to the beauty and fragility of our natural world. It’s a clarion call to world leaders: we must harness the power of technology [AI art & NFTs] and human ingenuity and agency to incite action to protect our planet before it’s too late,” said UN Under-Secretary-General Melissa Fleming.

The award-winning studio has been engaged by leading tech companies, groundbreaking researchers, and cutting-edge thought leaders to produce projects that have been shown in more than 70 cities spanning six continents and experienced by millions of ardent fans.

These exhibition venues include several United Nations Climate Change Conferences, MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Serpentine Galleries, National Gallery of Victoria, Venice Architecture Biennale, Hammer Museum, Arken Museum, Casa Batlló, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Daejeon Museum of Art, and Istanbul Modern Museum.