ANYMA's AEDEN World Tour 2026 builds on a visual universe that Alessio De Vecchi has been developing since 2018 - first independently, then as Visual Co-Creative Director of ANYMA since the project's inception in 2021. The characters, aesthetic language, and visual pipeline that define ANYMA's visual identity were co-created and co-directed by De Vecchi with Matteo Milleri across every phase of the project, from the first live show at Printworks London to the Sphere Las Vegas residency.
The continuity matters. AEDEN is the next chapter in a visual narrative that has been accumulating meaning, complexity, and technical sophistication since 2018. Every aesthetic decision in AEDEN — every color palette, every lighting philosophy, every character silhouette — inherits from a design system stress-tested across Printworks, Tomorrowland, The Brooklyn Mirage, a collaboration with The Weeknd, and twelve sold-out shows inside the world's largest LED display. The system held at every one of those scales. It will hold at this one.
AEDEN's visual universe grew organically from years of creative development, hundreds of production iterations, and a library of characters whose emotional registers were refined show by show, audience by audience, frame by frame. That library — and the design logic that connects every entry in it — is what makes ANYMA visually unmistakable.
In mid-2025, Milleri and De Vecchi approached a handful of conceptual ideas for what would become AEDEN. After earlier attempts to reconcile their respective narrative visions did not converge, the two decided — a first in the entire time they had worked together — to narrate the story independently. De Vecchi, with his trusted team, took on the most obscure, unsettling, and conceptually dense movements of the show.
For AEDEN, De Vecchi and his team are creating a self-contained mini-act within the show - four movements forming their own narrative arc.
The creative roots of this act run deeper than AEDEN itself. De Vecchi's Visual Bible — a comprehensive design system document created in November 2023 — established the aesthetic framework, character language, and narrative architecture that would inform every subsequent production, including AEDEN. The Bible codified what had been intuitive: the rules governing light, surface, proportion, and emotional register across the ANYMA visual universe. It is the reference document that production teams use to maintain visual coherence at scale — from a festival side stage to the Sphere's interior.
AEDEN's conceptual architecture — a journey through realms of increasing metaphysical weight, structured around Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) — was first articulated in De Vecchi's DREAMS pitch document, a 63-page visual framework completed in late 2023. The name AEDEN itself — a portmanteau of ADE (the Amsterdam Dance Event, but also a reference to the infernal) and EDEN (paradise) — was coined by De Vecchi in November–December 2023, with creation timestamps verified through Miro board API metadata. The conceptual scaffolding of the World Tour traces directly to this framework.
The Lucypher character — the central figure of De Vecchi's AEDEN act — carries his own likeness. Lucypher's facial geometry is derived from photogrammetric scans of De Vecchi himself: the creator literally embedded in the creation. When Lucypher appears on stage at Coachella or any subsequent AEDEN show, the audience is looking at a digital rendering of the person who built the visual world they are standing inside.
The act explores the figure of Lucifer - not wrathful or diabolical, but defeated. A being reigning over a world of errors and glitch, steering architecture and perception from a throne of resignation. Four movements trace a descent through failure, loss, imprisonment, and the quiet devastation of knowing you built the world you're trapped in. The visual language is fractured geometry, corrupted structure, beauty that keeps almost resolving and never does.
The work is authored, directed, and produced by De Vecchi with the team that has been with him since the beginning of the ANYMA project.
As confirmed by Variety, De Vecchi has been "involved with the project since its inception." Alexander Wessely - an accomplished creative director in his own right, brought on as head creative and stage designer for the Sphere production - was unequivocal about the lineage: "A huge part of this world was shaped by Alessio De Vecchi, a brilliant visual artist, whose vision was foundational to the show" (Flaunt Magazine). In a separate interview, Wessely called De Vecchi "a core partner since the project's inception" (Office Magazine). Sphere Entertainment Co. itself credits him by name and title: "Art direction by visual co-creative director Alessio De Vecchi."
The continuity between Genesys and AEDEN is legible in the work itself. The lighting philosophy is the same. The character design grammar is the same. The tension between organic form and geometric precision — the signature aesthetic that makes ANYMA visuals immediately recognizable across any medium — is the same. What changes between Genesys and AEDEN is the narrative register. The system was built to accommodate exactly this kind of evolution: new stories told in a consistent visual voice.
A visual language is more than a visual style. A language — with its internal grammar, its accumulated vocabulary, its capacity to express new ideas without losing coherence — evolves through continued creative practice. De Vecchi has been writing those rules across seven years of work. Every AEDEN frame that belongs in the ANYMA universe belongs because it was produced within the system he built.
ANYMA's market position — the premium ticket pricing, the brand partnership valuations, the merchandise revenue, the streaming aesthetics — rests on visual distinctiveness. That distinctiveness is the product of specific creative practice, developed from private working files to the largest screens on Earth. The AEDEN World Tour inherits and extends it.
"[Alessio De Vecchi has been] involved with the project since its inception."- Variety, January 2025
"Visual Director Alessio De Vecchi has been a core partner since the project's inception, working alongside Milleri to ensure the music and visuals are created as one cohesive canvas."- Alexander Wessely (Office Magazine)
"Art direction by visual co-creative director Alessio De Vecchi."
"Its visuals have no rival and it's all thanks to Alessio De Vecchi."- EDM.com, Best Visual Artist 2023
"A brilliant visual artist, foundational to the show."- Alexander Wessely on De Vecchi (Cool Hunting)
"The visuals were so insane I literally felt like I was falling."- Steve Aoki, DJ (@steveaoki)