Kim Albrecht
Kim Albrecht is a German data artist, media artist, information designer, and scholar known for his critical and investigative data visualizations. He is a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts, principle of metaLAB Harvard, and co-founder of metaLAB Berlin. Albrecht earned his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam and is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature's 10 in December 2023.Biography
Born on a North Sea island, Kim Albrecht is a renowned researcher at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture. After earning a bachelor's degree in graphic design and a master's in interface design, he completed his PhD in media theory at the University of Potsdam under Jan Distelmeyer and Birgit Schneider. Throughout his career, Albrecht has served as a research associate at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási and as Principal at the metaLAB Harvard with Jeffrey Schnapp. Albrecht is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Between 2023 and 2024 Albrecht has been a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Since 2025 he is professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in information design.Exhibitions
Albrecht's works have been exhibited worldwide in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York, the ZKM Center for Art and Media, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, the Kunsthaus Graz, and the Ars Electronica Center. Albrecht has won numerous international awards in the field of information design and his works are part of the permanent collections of the ZKM, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum und des Ars Electronica Center.