Six robotic dogs wearing the faces of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and the digital artist Beeple wandered an exhibition space in Berlin earlier this year, photographing visitors, reworking the images with AI, and printing the results from their rear ends. The installation, titled Regular Animals, ran at the Neue Nationalgalerie from 29 April to 10 May 2026 as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin, after its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2025.
Each machine has a hyperrealistic silicone head and moves autonomously through an enclosed space. Its onboard camera captures whatever it sees — including you — then an internal computer reinterprets the photo in the style attached to that head. The Picasso dog produces fractured, Cubist-leaning versions of reality; the Warhol dog applies repetition and pop-commercial aesthetics; the tech moguls get their own visual treatments too. Visitors walk away with physical prints, and some come with QR codes to claim free NFTs.
The point of the strange casting is a comparison Beeple wants viewers to sit with. Warhol and Picasso transformed how people understood images; Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg now own the platforms and algorithms that decide which images people actually see. "Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk own algorithms that control what we see and decide how we see the world," Beeple said in the exhibition description. The museum framed the work as a sociopolitical allegory of contemporary power — technology, algorithms and cultural influence in one uncomfortable menagerie. It also raises a live question about authorship: if a machine photographs you and an AI restyles the result, who made the art?
Beeple — real name Mike Winkelmann — has form here. His digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold at Christie's for US$69.3 million in March 2021, the sale that pushed NFTs into the mainstream art market. Regular Animals extends his move from screen-based work into physical, performative installations, and the crude punchline of prints emerging from robotic backsides is part of the appeal: heavy ideas delivered with a laugh.
For travellers, this is the kind of show worth timing a city break around. Berlin's Gallery Weekend each spring packs the city's galleries with new work, and the Neue Nationalgalerie — Mies van der Rohe's glass temple on the Kulturforum — is a destination in its own right. Whether Beeple's dogs resurface elsewhere is unknown, but his installations tend to follow the big art fairs, so keeping an eye on Miami Beach in December and Berlin in spring is a decent bet for digital-art fans planning trips.
