Metaheaven, designers (The Netherlands)

Metaheaven (The Netherlands)
Online lecture
22 November 2023

The work of Metahaven encompasses filmmaking, writing, and design. Their films include Capture (2022), Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018) and Information Skies (2016), nominated for the European Film Awards 2017.
Recent publications include Digital Tarkovsky (2018), a book-length essay about cinema. In 2010, they published Uncorporate Identity, co-edited with Marina Vishmidt.

Their forthcoming book on art and cognition is scheduled to appear in Spring 2025 with Verso. They write the “Cognitions” blog with Zora Zine, and are regular contributors to e-flux Journal and Harvard Design Magazine.

Metahaven have presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, ICA London, e-flux, New York, State of Concept Athens, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others, as well as participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, M HKA, Antwerp, the Gwangju Biennale, and the Sharjah Biennial, Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Their work is featured in collections of the Sharjah Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Victoria, M HKA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.

Metahaven are heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at the Design Academy Eindhoven since September 2023, a programme in which they previously taught since its start in 2020. They are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and affiliate researchers at Antikythera, Los Angeles.

Metahaven‘s lecture is part of Fabrica’s “Co-ecologies” residency program curated by Carlos Casas.