Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin.
During the corona-related shutdown in November 2020, Hito Steyerl's exhibition I Will Survive at K21 (September 26, 2020—January 10, 2021) transforms into a livestream format. The project "4 Nights at the Museum," developed by the artist, filmmaker, and ...
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As part of an art installation, Steyerl uses AI technology to create a garden of the future that emulates the Venetian landscape of elevated walkways. Viewers walk among digital flowers that cycle through their lifespan without ever actually existing. Thro ...
Watch NowThe German artist Hito Steyerl has used her work in the Venice Biennale to call out one of the world's biggest weapons companies for appropriating Leonardo da Vinci's name. ...
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The last film in Vidokle's trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on the museum as the site of resurrection-a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, scientists and avant-garde artists. Filmed at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Zoological Museum, The L ...
Watch NowSteyerl's immersive installation focuses on the making of the video game "Skyscraper: Stairway to Chaos" by the Ukrainian company Ace3D, based on Saddam Hussein's unrealised plans to reconstruct the Tower of Babel in Babylon, the ancient capital that he be ...
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A three-channel video that begins with the animation of a fragmented sentence: HELL YEAH WE FUCK DIE—which, according to Billboard magazine, are the most frequently used five words in the English language music charts of the past decade. They provide the ...
Watch NowThe film uses footage from south-eastern Turkey of the Kurdish town of Cizre on the Syrian border, which now resembles a ghost town following numerous skirmishes of escalating intensity between the government and the PKK footage from south-eastern Turkey o ...
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The second installment of Anton Vidokle's trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was ...
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In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015 German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Steyerl probes the pleasures and perils of image circulation in a moment defined by the unprecedented global flow of data. Ricocheting between genres—news reportage ...
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Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle's film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, "because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is ...
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Steyerl's new lecture, produced for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, takes as its departure point her March 2013 talk 'I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production' and focuses on the arms industry, a phenomenon constantly re-conceptualized b ...
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The film mocks an instructional film on the idea of becoming invisible in the digital world. ...
Watch NowUsing video, sculpture and archival material, the work gives form to a dramatic event that took place in 1993 during the war in Bosnia, when a paramilitary unit abducted 20 people from a train. Hito Steyerl has made her mark on the international art scene ...
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In Strike II, the artist and her daughter hit the camera with a pair of hammers, attacking image-making apparatus and representation. ...
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Abstract (2012) is a return to the contested narrative of Andrea Wolf's death, with Steyerl traveling to Kurdistan in search of information about her friend's murder. The work links cinematic shooting and military warfare together, implicating Germany's ro ...
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The exhibition „Mengele's Skull" is structured around a specially commissioned book of the same title co-authored by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman. Artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl has been commissioned to respond to the proposition laid out in this bo ...
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A film about museum guards with a background as law enforcement officers or military personnel. ...
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Adorno's Grey features a single-channel video set in the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, where German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno famously taught. It shows two conservators scraping the walls of a lecture hall, looking for the legendary grey that Adorn ...
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The space of the junkyard allows various 'crash' narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual crashes and the remnants and afterlife of these machines becoming metaphors for economic decline. This is an investigation of planes as they are parked during ...
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It begins with a blank screen. The word 'STRIKE' appears across it, in white capital letters against a black background. Then a woman appears, dressed in black. She approaches an empty LCD monitor and strikes its undifferentiated surface once with a chisel ...
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If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or associationhow would it be possible to fasten down a picture? Hito Steyerls light-hearted pic ...
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In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Communist bloc, this newsreel was lost in the confusion of the fighting in Yugoslavia. In Journal No. 1 Hito ...
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What is declared normal by some and accepted as such by the majority sometimes represents a concrete threat to others. Normality 1-10, a series of short video essays, registers everyday neo-fascist violence as being an instrument of such "normalization." ...
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Steyerl's film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocati ...
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The story of the good citizen and postworker Bernhardt Stachoviak, who ends up running amok. Others would say: Out of his immense hatred towards mankind. He would say: Against his own will. ...
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An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews over a 45 ...
Watch NowIn Strike II, the artist and her daughter hit the camera with a pair of hammers, attacking image-making apparatus and representation. ...
Watch NowThe space of the junkyard allows various 'crash' narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual crashes and the remnants and afterlife of these machines becoming metaphors for economic decline. This is an investigation of planes as they are parked during ...
Watch NowIf all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or associationhow would it be possible to fasten down a picture? Hito Steyerls light-hearted pic ...
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