Leander Herzog is a Swiss artist who codes generative works, mostly in JavaScript and GLSL that run directly in the browser, building simple rule-based systems that produce complex, often audiovisual results.Herzog started making images with code in 2006, then worked full-time as a web designer and engineer from 2009 to 2021.In 2021 Herzog minted a first NFT, 93e94d456959, on Hic et Nunc.,
Herzog's design career began in the mid-2000s generative art scene, learning Processing through a workshop led by Marius Watz. Before turning to code, Herzog painted graffiti, a practice set aside after growing tired of the physical labor it demanded.Alp comprises 150 minimalistic abstract compositions of Swiss landscapes. Returns, released on fxhash, is an interactive SVG collection of 500 pieces that combines interactivity, color and minimalist sculptural form.Very Large Array pairs WebGL visuals with Web Audio API sound to produce a looping audiovisual generative collection.,Flips (2022) grows a recursive tree structure, branch by branch, placing a colored point at each endpoint, an image built from generative logic rather than any deliberate reference to graffiti's spray-paint aesthetic.
In 2022 Herzog began Gerhard and its Richter follow-up with Richard Nadler, coding real-time animations that layer and rework Nadler's textures and color in a process that mirrors successive applications of paint on canvas.In August 2023, 1,000 True Fans appeared in Fingerprints DAO's Onchain Summer open edition on Base.That December, Herzog joined Kim Asendorf and Andreas Gysin to form AGH, which premiered at the Funkhaus in Berlin with support from Fingerprints Studio.,The group's “AGH1” traveled to Art Dubai in 2024, showing at Foundry.Herzog's work has entered the collections of HEK Basel, ZKM Karlsruhe and the Francisco Carolinum Linz, and has been shown at Transmediale Berlin, DAM Gallery, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Kunsthalle Zürich and SODA Manchester.Infinite Garden (2025) is a blockchain-based generative ecosystem that turns collectors into active participants who assemble and share an ever-changing on-chain garden of digital flora.,Two editions of its 2026 iteration, Infinite (Botanical) Garden, sold for USD 9,000 each through Nguyen Wahed at “Zero 10”, Art Basel's digital art sector in Basel.
