Anika Meier (Unsigned) by Operator & Anika Meier, 2022. In the collection of Kevin Abosch.


Hi.

I’m a writer and curator. This is my newsletter about the internet and pop culture, art, and technology. The history of art is also a history of rejection. I’ve written this somewhere before.

Paris, 2012.
Photographed by Justin Aversano, Moments of the Unknown, 25 April 2024.


I live and work in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and I teach at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria (Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art), and at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Summer 2025). 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.

My dog is named Willy. I attended the Eras Tour twice during the summer of 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.

Among others, I wrote columns for Monopol and Kunstforum, worked with CIRCA and Tezos on Marina Abramović‘s first NFT Drop, and 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

Some of my most recent curated exhibitions include 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; Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz (with, among others, John Gerrard, Jonas Lund, Mitchell F Chan, and Lynn Hershman Leeson); Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch), and Joachim Bosse: Diktat II – School of TikTok, Ernst Deutsch Theater, Hamburg.

Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, co-curated by Anika Meier and Susanne Päch for the Foundation Herbert W. Franke, 2022.

I am also a conceptual artist who creates text-based works that critically reflect on identity, authorship, and value in the post-digital age, including 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.


Recent Writing (Selected, 2025)

I recently contributed texts to, among others, CryptoPunks: Free to Claim (Phaidon), On NFTs (Taschen), and The AI Art Magazine.

_ Avery Singer über digitale Kunst: “Wäre ich nicht Künstlerin, dann wohl Krypto-Entwicklerin” (Monopol | Interview)
_ 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)
_ Fear Subverts Logic. Anika Meier in Conversation with Kevin Abosch (Numéro | Interview)
_ The Artist as Currency. Anika Meier and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Sarah Meyohas and Jonas Lund (Right Click Save | Interview)

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.


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


Past (Selected Talks, etc.)

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