Metahaven. Courtesy of the artists Vinca Kruk
Metahaven is the author persona for Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, an artist collective based in Amsterdam. Metahaven are known for their filmmaking, writing, and design, their elusive aesthetics, and groundbreaking interdisciplinary research. Metahaven’s current work centers on the foundational role of poetry in its cinematic and cognitive senses. Their new book The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures is out with Verso in August 2026.
Metahaven have created solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York, and State of Concept Athens, among others. They have participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Gwangju Biennale; the Sharjah Biennial; Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Their films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH:DOX, the Museo Reina Sofía, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. Their work is in collections including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Sharjah Art Foundation, Stedelijk Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, M HKA and the National Gallery of Victoria. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, heads of the Geo-Design MA at Design Academy in Eindhoven, and affiliated researchers at Antikythera. Vinca joined the supervisory board of Framer Framed in 2024.
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