Heft

Art born from machines. It chills the blood and makes you wonder: do ghosts inhabit these artworks? What hand, if any, guided them into being? Artists at Heft don’t flinch from these questions.

Up front, a project space hosts weekly drops of digital works and experiments. The back rooms feature artists who don't just use code or technology. They dance with it, argue with it, and let it talk back.

Exhibitions can feel experimental, like beta tests. That’s because these artists are teaching the machines to see past their programming, to reach for something they weren’t built to understand. The work blurs, glitches, stutters, burns bright, then dims. It’s poetry in circuitry.

Like all the best things at the start, Heft feels restless and searching. No one knows where this kind of art leads. But the story is unfolding in these rooms. The thrill is knowing you're standing at the beginning of something.

Adam "Heft" Berninger started the space in 2025 after years of running agencies and working as a creative director for clients such as Cole Haan, MoMA, and the Public Art Fund. Now he's turned that collaborative, agile energy toward supporting artists who work with systems-based art. The space functions as a studio, laboratory, community, and sanctuary. Each show is a living experiment for testing and discovering. The audience isn't passive. Neither are the artists. Together, they're writing the future in real time.