Artworks
The Wild Within is an ongoing body of work that reimagines historically significant and often abandoned architectural spaces.
Beginning with research, Koopmans & Wexell travel the world to capture original photography before returning to the studio to digitally sculpt vegetation, model flowers, refine the architectural images, and introduce motion into the scenes, with the intention of bringing life back into the rooms.
The resulting works present a surreal collision between past and future, nature and the human-made, the physical and the digital, and the real and the imaginary.
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Widely exhibited and critically recognized, the series is held in major institutional and private collections.
Chapter 5
2025
Inside the abandoned Church of St. Nicholas in Gullubahce, Turkey, a tree rises within the crumbling nave. Flora intertwines with sacred architecture, tracing cycles of transformation and renewal.
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A New Era reimagines a once-inhabited Bedouin settlement in Sharjah, UAE, where traditional Emirati architecture meets the quiet vastness of the dunes.
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The Grand Aley Hotel, Lebanon, built in 1926, witnessed decades of change before falling silent during the Civil War. Now its weathered walls and peeling paint host gentle overgrowth, symbolizing Lebanon’s enduring spirit and the quiet persistence of memory.
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In an abandoned bathhouse in Baku, Azerbaijan, once adorned with painted ceilings and Romanesque columns, new flora rises through the light.
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Along the shore of Mumbai, India, a pale blue shrine breathes with the rhythm of the sea. Inside, soft flowers unfold like echoes of water, symbolizing maternal grace and renewal amid the ever-changing city.
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Inside a decaying villa in Beirut’s Zuqaq al-Blat neighbourhood, Lebanon, sunlight filters through a collapsed roof onto faded mouldings and painted ceilings.
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Price upon request
Set within the abandoned Yusuf Ä°zzettin Efendi Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey, once home to an Ottoman heir.
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Chapter 4
2024
Collected
Collected for $57, 400 USD
The first artwork ever inscribed on Bitcoin to be auctioned in a live sale at Christie’s, and was the only digital artwork in the October 2024 Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale.
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Collected
A dynamic, time-based artwork set in an abandoned chapel that transitions between day and night according to the local time of the actual site in Italy.
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In the permanent collection of the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria
A dynamic, time-based artwork set in an abandoned villa in Northern Italy that transitions hourly through the day, like a contemporary cuckoo clock, synchronized to the viewer’s location.
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Collected
The artwork shifts between day and night at 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. CEST, aligned with the local time of an abandoned building in southern Poland, dating back to the 1500s.
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Collected
The artwork shifts between day and night at 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. CEST, aligned with the local time of an abandoned building in Genoa, Italy.
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Collected
Inspired by a 10th-century monastery built from volcanic rock in the mountains of Armenia, one of the country’s oldest surviving structures, developed over more than 300 years.
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Chapter 3
2023
Collected via Sotheby's Paris
Based on an abandoned sanatorium in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia, Euphoria was part of the first-ever group of digital artworks to be both sold at auction and physically displayed at Sotheby’s Paris.
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Collected via Christie's
Included in Christie’s Next Wave: The Miami Edit, The Thought of You was exhibited in Miami during Art Basel and later auctioned online, where it achieved the highest sale in the auction.
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Collected
Once Upon a Time debuted in a group exhibition at Lobkowicz Palace, within Prague Castle in the Czech Republic, as part of an exhibition dedicated to the Czech composer Antonín DvoÅ™ák, held from October 27 to November 13, 2022.
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Collected
Sanctuary depicts an abandoned Soviet-era sanatorium in rural Georgia. The work incorporates an immersive three-dimensional experience that allows viewers to enter the space in virtual reality and explore the room.
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Chapter 2
2022
Collected
An old theater in Tbilisi, Georgia, serves as the architectural context for Levitate.
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Desire depicts a 19th-century mansion in Ras Beirut, incorporating the ceiling of a nearby room and featuring a mystical tree emerging from its center.
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Collected
Inspired by the hallway of an old residential building in Tbilisi’s Old Town, Georgia.
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Collected
The pastel hues of the interior of a Soviet-era health facility in Armenia serve as the architectural context for Remedy.
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Chapter 1
2021
Collected
The final artwork in the first chapter of The Wild Within, the piece Devotion resides in the private art collection of actor Jim Carrey.
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Collected
Inspired by the striking interior of an abandoned Soviet-era hotel and sanatorium in Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collected
The first artwork to be released in the series The Wild Within. Based on one of the 22 abandoned Soviet-era hotels and sanatoriums in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia.
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Collaborations
The Wild Within x Collaborations
Collected
​A dynamic artwork that automatically transitions between day and night at 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., based on the viewer’s location.
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Collected
Collaborative artwork created with Canadian landscape photographer Cath Simard.​
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Collected
This work marks the first collaboration between Botto, an autonomous AI artist, and a human artist.
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Collected
​Collaborative artwork created with Italian architect and digital artist Annibale Siconolfi.
