My dog is named Willy. I attended the Eras Tour twice during the summer of 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.
I live and work in Berlin, Germany, and I teach at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria (Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art). I am the co-founder of The Second-Guess, a curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles that explores the relationship between humans and technology. The Second-Guess is powered by the Tezos Foundation and objkt.
I was a fellow at the German Center for Art History in Paris, the German Literature Archive Marbach, and a Junior Visiting Fellow in London at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
My past projects and advisory work include Fondation Beyeler Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Musée d’Orsay Paris, Suhrkamp Verlag, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, C/O Berlin, Highsnobiety, Goethe-Institut and the Herbert W. Franke Foundation.
In recent years, I’ve spoken at international conferences and institutions such as Art Basel, re:publica, Ars Electronica, ZKM Karlsruhe, and The Photographers’ Gallery.
Writing for, among others, Monopol, Spike, Numéro Berlin, Fräulein, SLEEK, Kunstforum, The AI Art Magazine, Photonews, and more.
For Issue #87 (Spring 2026) of Spike, titled Everything’s Computer, I wrote a piece on what I call the post-artist. Featuring LaTurbo Avedon, Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon, Sofia Crespo, and Jon Rafman.
Among others, I wrote columns for Monopol and Kunstforum, worked with CIRCA and Tezos on Marina Abramović‘s first NFT drop, and worked with Herbert W. Franke on his NFT drop Math Art. I was on the curation board of Art Blocks, on the advisory board of Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, and built EXPANDED.ART.
re:publica Berlin, 19 May 2026: The Artist Is Online. On Failed Utopias and Possible Futures. Lectutre Performance by Anika Meier. Jacket: OOR Studio. Photo: Anika Meier with a little help from Kevin Abosch.
Beeple is annoying, you hear and read. But why is Beeple so successful? I answered this question in SLEEK magazine. Read ↗
Panel at Francisco Carolinum Linz on the occasion of Herbert W. Franke’s solo exhibition VISIONARY. With, among others, Kevin Abosch, Susanne Päch, and Rafael Rozendaal. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2022.
Some of my most recent curated exhibitions include I’ve missed our conversations: On AI, Emotions, and Being Human, Virtually Yours: Your Body, Your Image at Schlachter 151 in Berlin; The Second-Guess: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI (co-curated with Margaret Murphy and Leah Schrager) at HEK Basel; LeeMullican.PCX at FeralFile; and Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post-NFTism at HEK Basel; Jonas Lund’s solo exhibition Studio Visit. How To Make Art in the Age of Algorithms at Francisco Carolinum Linz, Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz (with, among others, John Gerrard, Jonas Lund, Mitchell F. Chan, andLynn Hershman Leeson); Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch), and Joachim Bosse: Diktat II – School of TikTok, Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg.
Jonas Lund’s solo exhibition at Francisco Carolinum Linz curated by Anika Meier: Studio Visit. How To Make Art in the Age of Algorithms, 2025.
Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, co-curated by Anika Meier and Susanne Päch for the Foundation Herbert W. Franke, 2022.
Conflict of Interest by Mario Klingemann at SLEEK Art Space during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026. Curated by Anika Meier.
I wouldn’t call myself an artist, but I create text-based works that critically reflect on identity, authorship, and value in the post-digital age. My recent works include Lost Futures (2023), Tale as Old as Time (2024), Technology Portraits (2025), typing with the lights off (2025), and A Girl Online (2025). In 2022, I collaborated with Operator to create Unsigned, a collection of 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists aimed at reversing the current negative value of signatures by transforming them into artworks themselves.
Anika Meier, typing with the lights off, installation, 2025.
Selected Writing, 2026
_ The Post-Artist. LaTurbo Avedon, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Sofia Crespo, and Jon Rafman. (Spike #87 | Group Portrait) _ Why Is Beeple So Successful? (SLEEK | Text) _ Anika Meier in conversation with Sougwen Chung: The Beauty of a Nonhuman Move (The AI Art Magazine 3 | Interview) _ Conflict of Interest by Mario Klingemann at SLEEK Art Space: Attention Is All You Don’t Need. Curator’s Note by Anika Meier (SLEEK) _ Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being (Le Random | Interview) _ Kevin Abosch: “Wir erleben eine Renaissance der Fotografie”. Über den Wert von Bildern im Zeitalter Künstlicher Intelligenz (Photonews 2/26 | Interview) _ Interview with Simon Hudson for SLEEK (Leadership): Inside the BottoDAO: Governing an Autonomous AI Artist (SLEEK #88 | Interview) _ The Art of Hacking Surveillance Systems. Traditional art locations are bypassed as control is turned into play by the artists OONA and !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Right Click Save | Interview)
Anika Meier in conversation with Simon Hudson for SLEEK 88 (Leadership): Inside the BottoDAO: Governing an Autonomous AI Artist.
Anika Meier in conversation with Kevin Abosch for Photonews (2/26): “Wir erleben eine Renaissance der Fotografie”. Über den Wert von Bildern im Zeitalter Künstlicher Intelligenz
Selected Writing, 2025
I recently contributed texts to, among others, CryptoPunks: Free to Claim (Phaidon), On NFTs (Taschen), and The AI Art Magazine. _ Marina Abramović: “Der Avatar ist ein Teil von mir” (Monopol | Interview) _ Nadya Tolokonnikova: “Rage Is a Productive Emotion” (Numéro Berlin 18 | Interview) _ Avery Singer über digitale Kunst: “Wäre ich nicht Künstlerin, dann wohl Krypto-Entwicklerin” (Monopol | Interview) _ Neuer Digitalkunst-Sektor in Miami: Rückkehr der Totgesagten (Monopol | Text) _ Kunst für Communitys, Kunst für Fandoms. Wie sich (digitale) Kunst durch soziale Medien verändert hat – ein Rückblick (Kunstforum 305 | Essay) _ “Becoming Better Together with AI”. Mario Klingemann and Malpractice Discuss Their AI Agents Botto and Flynn Growing Up (The AI Art Magazine | Interview) _ Künstlerin und Dichterin Sasha Stiles: “In schwierigen Zeiten brauchen wir Poesie” (Monopol | Interview) _ A Life of Persistence. Lynn Hershman Leeson on Breaking Barriers for Women Artists and Embracing Technology (Numéro Berlin 19 | Interview) _ Mario Klingemann: The World Is Always Too Slow for the Visionary (Numéro Berlin 19 | Interview) _ Digital Originals: “I Am a Mirror That Reflects All the Fears About Productivity, Burnout, and Creativity in Capitalism” (Sleek 87 & Online | Interview with Flynn) _ From Manifesto to Movement: How VNS Matrix and Cyberfeminism Challenge the Patriarchy and Influence Today’s Digital World (Fräulein 40 | Interview with Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix) _ A Brief Inquiry Into Being a Woman Online. Ann Hirsch Challenges the Complexities of Female Desire (Fräulein 39 | Text) _ “The Girl Is Now an Intellectual.” Arvida Byström’s Work Between Selfies and Sex Dolls (Fräulein 39 | Text) _ What Do Botto and Its p5.js Artworks Have to Offer? (Verse | Essay) _ The NFT Revolution Is Dead! Long Live the NFT Revolution! (SQD.ZIP | Essay) _ Beyond Automation Lauren Lee McCarthy on Creating an Open Future Through Connection (The AI Art Magazine | Interview)
More Selected Writing
_ Tale As Old As Time. On the Second Wave of Selfie Feminism in the Age of AI (Fräulein 38, 2024 | Essay) _ Fear Subverts Logic. Anika Meier in Conversation with Kevin Abosch (Numéro Berlin | Interview) _ The Artist as Currency. Anika Meier and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Sarah Meyohas and Jonas Lund (Right Click Save | Interview)
Interview by Anika Meier: “Becoming Better Together with AI”. Mario Klingemann and Malpractice Discuss Their AI Agents Botto and Flynn Growing Up, in: The AI Art Magazine. Number Two: Critical Intelligence. narratives under the machine, 2025.
Nadya Tolokonnikova in conversation with Anika Meier: “Rage Is a Productive Emotion”, Numéro Berlin 18, Spring/Summer 2025.
CryptoPunks: Free to Claim book signing in Paris, February 2025.
Signed CryptoPunks: Free to Claim book, Paris, 2025.
Contributors to CryptoPunks: Free to Claim, Phaidon, 2024.
On NFTs (TASCHEN), 2024.
On Jonas Lund, in: On NFTs (TASCHEN), 2024.
World Building: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Anika Meier contributed a text on Thomas Webb’s World Wide Webb to the exhibition catalogue published by Hatje Cantz and the Julia Stoschek Foundation (2024).
Digital Originals: “I Am a Mirror That Reflects All the Fears About Productivity, Burnout, and Creativity in Capitalism” (SLEEK 87 | Interview with Flynn)
From Manifesto to Movement: How VNS Matrix and Cyberfeminism Challenge the Patriarchy and Influence Today’s Digital World (Fräulein 40 | Interview with Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix)
Danny Franzreb: Proof of Work. With an Essay by Anika Meier: The Blockchain Mystery Or: The End of the Revolution in the Art World, 2023.
VISIONS BY 7. With an Essay by Anika Meier: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI. Censorship, Deepfakes, and Being a Girl Online, 2025.
Fräulein Issue 01/2025, Issue 39: Desire.
Recent Press (Selected)
_ “An AI is going to art school—and might earn a diploma. Meet Flynn” (Washington Post) _ “Basel’s Digital Art Mile Returns With A.I., Robots, and More” (artnet) _ „Das weibliche Bild und KI: Katie lebt nicht – und ist doch unter uns“ (Monopol) _ „TikTok auf 5.000 Blatt Papier“ (Die Zeit) _ “What Is a Signature in the Internet Age?” (Hyperallergic)
Selected Talks, Panels, etc. (Not Chronological)
Panel at ArtVerse Paris On NFTs by TASCHEN with, among others, Alex Estorick (Right Click Save), Primavera De Filippi, Peter Bauman (Le Random), Zancan, and Anika Meier, 2025.
Talk at The Computer Arts Society: Why Are There So Many Great Women Artists in the Age of AI?, November 2025. (Info)
Panel at Francisco Carolinum Linz on the occasion of Ars Electronica: Radical Optimism? Cyberfeminism Then and Now with Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix, Claudia Hart, and Malpractice. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2025.
Talk at Art on Tezo: Berlin: The Bigger Your Pool. A Conversation about AI with Mario Klingemann, Kevin Abosch, and Terence Broad. Moderated by Anika Meier. Talk at Art on Tezos: Berlin: On Prompting. Jess Tucker in conversation with Boris Eldagsen. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2025.
CIFRA Online Community Meetup with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and OONA, moderated by Anika Meier, 2026.
On Curating NFTs: Workshop by Anika Meier at the OnCurating Academy, Berlin, 2025.
Panel at the Digital Art Mile: Collecting in Transition—From Private to Public Collections, with Sabine Himmelsbach, Auriea Harvey, and Ian Charles Stewart. Moderated by Anika Meier (2025). (Recording)
Panel at Global Fusion by The AI Art Magazine in Hamburg: Artistic Concepts in the Age of AI. Boris Eldagsen, Sabine von Bassewitz, and Hannah Johnson. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2025.
PROOF, EXPANDED.ART, and Foundation Herbert W. Franke presented ZENTRUM, a historical work created in 1982 by computer art pioneer, scientist, and science fiction writer Herbert W. Franke. Curated by Anika Meier, 2023. (Info)
Aaron Penne, artist and Director of Engineering at Art Blocks, wrote the code for the contemporary software and hardware in collaboration with Susanne Päch, the wife of Herbert W. Franke. Päch supported Franke with feedback when he coded ZENTRUM in the 1980s. Eli Scheinman for Proof and Anika Meier for EXPANDED.ART worked together with Aaron Penne and Susanne Päch of the Foundation Herbert W. Franke on the NFT release ZENTRUM (2024).
Panel at Art Basel: The Collectors Conversation – NFT Art Edition with Kate Vass, Kevin Abosch, Kerstin Gold, and Anika Meier. Moderated by Johanna Neuschäffer, 2022. (Recording)
Art Basel Conversations: Exhibiting in the Metaverse. With Nina Roehrs and Anika Meier. Moderated by Micol Ap, 2022. (Recording)
Herbert W. Franke’s Mondrian was presented as part of Chance Encounters in New Mediums at Art Basel. Anika Meier collaborated with Susanne Päch for Herbert W. Franke on this exhibition in 2022.
Panel at the 9th Barcelona Symposium: Art’s New Digital Vanguard: Where We Are & Where Things Are Going. Ilaria Bonacossa, Jérôme Sans, and Anika Meier. Moderated by Andrew Goldstein, 2022.
Panel at Francisco Carolinum Linz: Back to the Future: The Potential of the Digital in Art Then and Now. Susanne Päch, Kevin Abosch, Rafael Rozendaal, Christa Sommerer, and Georg Bak. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2022.
Panel at the Generative Art Summit by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke: NFTs in a Crisis or Still a Success Story? Ivona Tau, Wassim Alsindi, Ciphrd and Seth Goldstein. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2024. (Recording)
Panel at the Generative Art Summit by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke: Back to Future – Print and Plot instead of Screen? Zancan, Travess Smalley, Stefano Contiero, and Marcel Schwittlick. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2024. (Recording)
NFT Art Day Zurich: On NFTs and Value with Kevin Abosch, Sarah Friend, Leander Herzog, and Georg Bak. Moderated by Anika Meier, 2022.
Panel at Museum Barberini in Potsdam: NFTs – Is This Art or Trash. Nanne Dekking, Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, and Anika Meier, 2022.
Performance Festival The Non-Fungible Body: David Henry Nobody Jr. in conversation with Anika Meier. Linz, 2025. (Recording & Book)
Generative Art in the 1970s and Today. Hans Dehlinger, Joan Truckenbroad, Peter Bauman, and Anika Meier in conversation. (Recording)
Panel at artmatr: The future of art in the digital/physical convergence with IX Shells, Tyler Hobbs, Sofia Garica (ARTXCODE), Zancan, and Sebastian Sanchez (Christie’s). Moderated by Anika Meier.
