metahaven

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Latent Space Realism, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 15, 2026
Palindromes—The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024)
Chaos Theory (2021-24)
Transitional Object—The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024)
Beaux-Arts de Paris, March 17, 2026
EL PAIS interview (2025)

“The same riddle that lies at the heart of modern physics echoes through the recent work of Metahaven: why does it seem that time moves only in one direction? Why are there records of the past but not of the future? Why is it that we can cause events to move ‘forwards’ but not ‘backwards,’ when, as one of the characters in ‘Chaos Theory’ says, ‘there is no now?’”
—Bogna Konior, “Entropy Moves”

Metahaven’s work between filmmaking, design, installation, and writing has been focusing on the foundational role of poetry in both its cinematic and visual, and also its literary and cognitive senses. Pairing research with experimental aesthetics, the collective, founded in 2007 by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, uses poetry to form a linkage between art and science, like in the film work “Capture” (2022-), or as a way to question the mapping between language and feeling, like in “The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object)” (2024)—based on a poetry collection by Eugene Ostashevsky. Metahaven recently co-authored “Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans” (2026) with Nina Beguš, Gašper Beguš, and Riccardo Petrini. This project combines an exploration of the unobserved vector space of neural network language models with a reinterpretation of James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.” Metahaven have 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, 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. The collective’s work is in several international museum and private collections, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Sharjah Art Foundation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Victoria & Albert Museum, M HKA, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie and heads of department of the Geo-Design MA programme at DAE.

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