Metahaven.
Talk + conversation with Giulia Colletti
The work of Metahaven it spans cinema, design, installations and writing. Founded in Amsterdam in 2007 by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, it focuses on poetry in both its cinematic and visual sense, and its literary and cognitive one. Combining research and experimental aesthetics, the collective works with jacquard fabrics and embroidery, presented as film stills and thought experiments.
Wednesday 26th May at 18:30 at Scenario Pubblico in Catania (map), Daniel van der Velden is in dialogue with Giulia Colletti.
The event is organised as part of the 2026 spring school of Master CVAD, the 1st level Master's degree in Visual Communication and Art Direction directed by Mauro Bubbico, and of the project NIMI – The New Intelligence of Made in Italy.
Free admission!
Metahaven has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the ICA in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Asakusa in Tokyo, Izolyatsia in Kyiv and State of Concept in Athens, among others. It has participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space in New York, the Gwangju Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale, Ghost:2561 in Bangkok and many others. The collective's films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH:DOX, the Museo Reina Sofía and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Metahaven's works are held in various international museum and private collections, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Victoria & Albert Museum, M HKA and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden are artistic mentors at the Rijksakademie and heads of the MA department in Geo-Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
The event is organised by the Abadir Academy as part of the NIMI Project – The New Intelligence of Made in Italy, funded by the European Union Next Generation EU (NGEU) for the internationalisation of AFAM Higher Education Institutes under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) MISSION 4, COMPONENT 1, INVESTMENT 3.4, SUB-INVESTMENT T5. CUP: H37G24000080001.
