Richard Nadler is a German artist and trained financier whose glitch and AI-driven generative work grows out of memories of his father, who died when Nadler was eighteen, and the two passions he inherited from him: Japan and wine.,His practice moves between painterly glitch compositions, AI-diffusion collections and Bitcoin-inscribed work, rendered in vivid, dense colour and layered texture.,,
Nadler entered the hic et nunc ecosystem on its second day, at first as a collector who amassed several thousand works, focusing especially on artists including Laurence Fuller and Jon Karel. A friend encouraged him to mint his own sketches, and his earliest pieces were built around wine, a subject he later studied formally, qualifying as a sommelier after inheriting a wine collection. He moved next into glitch-based work that echoed the painterly logic of Gerhard Richter in sharper, more acidic colour, and those pieces became the basis for Gerhard, a 2022 fxhash collaboration with Leander Herzog in which Herzog built real-time generative animations from Nadler's textures and colour while neither fully understood what the other was doing.The pair followed it in 2023 with a second fxhash collection, Richter.
Nadler's Japanese GenArt Collection drew on his childhood travels to visit his father there, and was praised by curator Shunsuke Takawo for its rigorous research into Japanese visual traditions.,Yamabushi's Horizons, a 128-piece AI collection released via Verse in 2023, took its name and imagery from Japan's mountain ascetic tradition of Shugendō.Izanami Islands followed later that year.,Rōnin 浪人, released on Ethereum through gmStudio in December 2024 and inspired by Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, reimagines samurai in ō-yoroi armour and caps a trilogy of AI-driven collections rooted in Japanese tradition.
In Memento Mori, inscribed on satoshis from Bitcoin's historic Block 9 and released in March 2024, Nadler trained an AI model on skulls for six months, mixing skeletal imagery with flowers and fungi to honor his father and explore themes of death and digital immortality.
