Metahaven, a partnership of Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk, is an Amsterdam-based artist collective whose work comprises filmmaking, design, and writing. Metahaven’s film works include Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018), Information Skies (2016), and The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015). Their books include Digital Tarkovsky (2018), and Uncorporate Identity (2010, edited with Marina Vishmidt). The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024) is Metahaven’s forthcoming film. Metahaven’s new book, on the future of the beholder’s share in art, is out with Verso in 2025. Metahaven has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York; Tick Tack, Antwerp, and State of Concept Athens, among others. Metahaven has participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw; the Gwangju Biennale; the Sharjah Biennial; the Busan Bienniale; Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, affiliate researchers at Antikythera, and heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at DAE.
Daniel van der Velden
