Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl (born in München, 1966; lives in Berlin) works as filmmaker and author in
the area of essayist documentary film / video, media art and video installation. The
works are located on the interface between cinema and fine arts, and between theory and
practice. They center on the question of media within globalisation and the migration of
sounds and images. She also has written a book about documentary in the artfield and
edited several others.
Selected teaching positions
Professor at UdK Berlin, teaching activities at: Dutch Art Institute, Malmö Art
Academy, Akademie der bildenden Kuenste Wien, Royal Art Academy Copenhagen,
Goldsmiths College London, Bard College, Helsinki Art Academy.
Professional training and education
Visiting professor for Artistic Research Theory at KUVA Helsinki, 2012Professor for Experimental Film and Video (New Media), University of Arts Berlin, 2011 Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen. Visiting professor at the school for conceptual art, 2009 2010
Visiting professor for Experimental Film and Video (New Media), University of Arts Berlin,
2007 - 2009
Visiting lecturer at Bard College, New York, 2008 Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College London. Convenor of MA ́s in
Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, 2004 - 2005
Visiting professor for Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Arts, Berlin, 2001 - 2003
Postgraduate studies in philosophy at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2001-2003
Graduated summa cum laude in Dec. 2003. Topic of thesis: The color of truth.
Documentarism in the artfield.
Studies of documentary filmmaking and filmtheory at Munich filmschool HFF
TV- Journalist and art critic for Fuji TV, and Sankei Shimbun, newspaper, Berlin, 1991
Documentary filmwork, production coordinator, assistant director and technical coordinator
for Wim Wenders, including films "Until the End of the World", and "Faraway, so close", in
Australia, Japan, USA, Italy, Portugal, France and Berlin, Germany 1990-1991
Studies in Cinematography and documentary filmmaking at Academy of Visual Arts, under
the guidance of Imamura Shohei and Hara Kazuo, Tokyo, 1987-1990
Selected one person exhibitions and art biennials
2015
Artists Space, New York (US)
Reina Sofia, Madrid (SP)
Venice Biennial (IT)
2014
MoMA, New York (US) (half year installation HNTBS)
Hito Steyerl, ICA, London (UK)
Hito Steyerl, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven (NL)
Hito Steyerl : HOW NOT TO BE SEEN, Andrew Kreps, NYC (USA)
Hito Steyerl: Junktime, Home Workspace Program (HWP), Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (LB)
35 ways to break through a wall, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (DE)
IMA, Brisbane (AU)
Biennale de Montreal, L’avenir (looking forward), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (CA)
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Muestra Hito Steyerl, Goethe Institut Buenos Aires (AR)
The 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale
2013
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, Venice Biennial (IT)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (US)
13th Istanbul Biennial (TR)
Adorno's Grey, Audain Gallery - Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver (CA)
Minimal Resistance, Between late modernism and globalisation: artistic practices
during the 80s and 90s, Reina Sofia, Madrid (SP), curated by Manuel Borja-Villel,
Rosario Peiró and Beatriz Herráez
Guards, Svilova, Gothenburg (SE)
12x12 Videolounge, Berlinische Galerie (DE)
2012
e-flux New York
Adorno’s Grey, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL)
Copenhagen Overgaden (DK)
Art Institute, Chicago (US)
2011
Studiengalerie 1.357, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam
2010
Chisenhale Gallery London
Picture This, Bristol
Collective, Edinburgh
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Villa Stuck, München
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo
Taipeh Biennial 2010
2009
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Der Bau, Linz Kulturhauptstadt 2009, solo installation in public space
Manon de Boer & Hito Steyerl, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
P74 Gallery Ljubljana
2008
Moderna Museet Stockholm
Kunsthalle Winterthur
Shanghai Biennial
2007
300m3 Gallery, Göteborg
documenta 12, Kassel
2006
Signal Gallery Malmö (with Martin Jacobson)
2005
Manifesta 5, San Sebastian
2004
3. Berlin Biennial
Underground Gallery Athens (with Vangelis Vlahos)
Manifesta 5, San Sebastian
Group shows, film festivals, screenings, performances
2014
The Secret Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)
A screaming comes across the sky, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón /
Asturias (ES)
Cut to Swipe, MoMA New York (US)
Adorno's Grey, 52nd New York Film Festival (US)
McLaren 2014 Animation in Context, CCA Glasgow (UK)
60th annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY (US)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)
Smart New World, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE)
Time Pieces, Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen
Fotofest, Houston
Insert 2014, New Delhi
Redcat, Los Angeles (USA)
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE)
Circulacionismo, MUAC, Mexico City (MX)
Politics Within, Zavod Celeia Celje, Center for Contemporary Art, Celje (SL)
27th Images Festival Toronto (CA)
9 artists, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge Massachusetts (US)
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong conceived by Cosmin Costinas and
Chantal Wong, Para Site, Hong Kong (CN)
DocLisboa '14 International Film Festival
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires (AR)
Lo Schermo Dell'Arte Film Festival VII Editiion, Florence (IT)
The Execution of Maximilian, MEAD Gallery, Warwick Arts Center (UK)
After Image, Galleria Civica, Trento (IT)
Adorno's Grey, 52nd New York Film Festival (US)
Homing, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL)
Screening HOW NOT TO BE SEEN A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File,
Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
The Darknet, Kunsthalle St Gallen (CH)
Bad Thoughts - Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
2013
Frac Lorraine, Bad Girls (FR)
October Salon, Belgrade
Abron Art Center, Notes for mr. Suzuki, London (UK)
PS1, Image Employment, New York (US)
Nine Artists, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (US)
The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
(US), curated by Dieter Roelstraete
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
ISCP, The field is the sky just in reverse, New York (US)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, performance with Rabih Mroué, Probable title: zero
probability II, Amsterdam (NL)
Momentuous Times, CCA Derry-Londonderry (IE)
Kunstneres Hus, Oslo (NO)
Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES)
The ICP Triennial, New York (US)
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (US)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (US)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, performance, I Dreamed a Dream (NL)
MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam
SBC galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal (CN)
59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects; Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Berlin (DE), curated by Maria Hlavajova and Kathrin Rhomberg
No one lives here, RCA, London (UK)
Schichtwechsel, Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)
Economy, Stills, Edinburgh(UK)
Economy, CCA, Glasgow(UK)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
Little Movements II. self-practice in Contemporary Art, curated by Carol Yinghua Lu
and Liu Ding, Museion, Bolzano
NMCA Bucuresti, Good Girls
Double Identity, Cornerhouse Manchester (UK)
Skill; Deskilling; Reskilling, AUB Art Galleries Beirut
Re-coco, Tel Aviv
2012
Revolution Happened Because Everybody Refused to Go Home, Disobedience Archive,
Bureau Publik Copenhagen (DK)
Copenhagen Art Festival, Overgaden (DK)
In Free Fall, Screen Festival, MACBA, Barcelona
Alternativa 2012, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
Remote Control, ICA, London
Portikus, Frankfurt, Mengele’s Skull with Tom Keenan, Paulo Tavares & Eyal Weizman
Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL) Surplus Authors
1st Tbilisi Triennial "Offside Effect" Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi
Economy, CCA Glasgow, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
Motion - Seventeen Gallery, London (England)
Disobedience Archive (The Parliament) BildMuseet, Umea
Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen
BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM 2 Haus der Kulturen, Berlin (DE)
Tate Gallery, London (Engeland)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
A Peculiar Form of fiction, Site Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
2011
Big Picture II (Zeitzonen), Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
ONE WORLD BERLIN Filmfestival für Menschenrechte und Medien, Arsenal Berlin
Les marques aveugles, Centre d ́Art Contemporain Genève
Schöne Aussichten. Wiedereröffnung der Neuen Galerie, Neue Galerie Kassel
The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989, ZKM Karlsruhe
Seeing is believing, KW Berlin 8.
Planete Doc FF, Warsaw
espressofilm – kurzfilm einen sommer lang, Wien
Signal + Noise, Media Art Festival, Vivo Arts Centre, Vancouver HORS PISTES
TOKYO, Another Motion of Images | Art and Images Festival, Tokyo
Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully, KunstFort Asperen, Acquoy
All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism, QUAD Gallery, Derby
Antiphotojournalism, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Independent, 548 West 22nd Street, New York
SERIOUS GAMES - Krieg – Medien – Kunst, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
Parallel Worlds, Arsenal Berlin
2010
CPH: DOX, Copenhagen international Documentary Film Festival
Hangi Insan Haklari? Documentarist, Istanbul Un lugar fuera de la historia, Museo
Tamayo, Mexico City
Antiphotojournalism, La Virreina, Barcelona
Vectors of the Possible, BAK, Utrecht
1st Ural Industrial Biennial, NCCA Ekaterinburg, Russia
Taipei Biennial 2010, Taipei, Taiwan
Cromocronias - Poéticas del color en la imagen-tiempo -Centro José Guerrero, Granada
The storyteller, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Curated by_Vienna 2010: Clemens van Wedemeyer, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Loop Festival, La Virreina Centre de l‘Imatge, Barcelona
Art Sheffield 2010 - Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum
A History of Irritated Material, Raven Row, London
Auto-Kino! Presented by Phil Collins,
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Im Moment des Verdachts, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Everyday Ideologies - Zeitläufe, Lebenswege, Kloster
Unser Lieben Frauen, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
2009
Copenhagen Dox Artspace, Auckland New Zealand
Cultural memories/recits paralells, Galerie Fabienne Leclerc
Urbi et Orbi Museu da Imagem et do Som Sao Paolo,
Museo do Chiado, Lissabon
FallMauerfall, Statmuseum Berlin
The Red House , Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
Transmediale - Transitland Destination Berlin, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney Festival
artistique et scientifique Neuchâtel FID Marseille
Under Control, Krannert Museum of Art, Illinois
El pasado en el presente, LABoral, Gijon Florida
Experimental film festival The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien
Best of Kunstfilmbiennale, Kunstwerke Berlin, Centre Pompidou Paris and Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid
Clermont Ferrand short film festival
The storyteller, ICI Audio video disco Kunsthalle Zürich
Pratt Gallery New York „Zones of conflict“
2008
Dispersion, ICA London
Videozone 4, Tel-Aviv
Duisburger Filmwoche 32 October Salon 2008 U-Turn
Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen
Pancevo biennial 2008
Shanghai Biennial 2008
Der blinde Fleck, NGBK Berlin
Mobile Archive, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg Schengen,
Feinkost Gallery, Berlin
Hito Steyerl, Kunsthalle Winterthur
Strom des Vergessens, OK Linz
This is how history is written, Casa Encendida, Madrid
Documentary Uncertainties, Toronto
Vertrautes Terrain, ZKM Karlsruhe
Galerie der Schwarze Punkt, Konstanz
Das Prinzip Monochrom, Museum für Lackkunst Münster
2008 The Greenroom, Hessel Museum NY
Videoex festival Zürich
Bochum Int‘l filmfestival
New York Underground filmfestival
Femme totale, Dortmund
EMAF Graz
Cine Ambulante. Mexico
Hot docs, Toronto Images Festival Toronto
Intl. Filmfestival Rotterdam
Diagonale, Graz
Human rights Film Festival Zagreb
Punto de Vista, Navarra
Intl. Filmfestival Filmfestival Triest
2007
If you can‘t dance... Muhka, Antwerp
documenta 12, Kassel
Last news, CCA Laznia, Gdansk
If you see something, say something, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Kunstfilmbiennale, Köln
FID Marseille
Documentary FilmPlatform ZONE, Ghent/ Antwerp/ Kortrijk
Indie Lisboa, Lissabon filmfestival
Cinema du reel, Paris
The Country of the Endangered Body, Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2006
2. Sevilla Biennale Periferic 06,
Iasi biennial
40 Jahre deutsche Videokunst, ZKM Karlsruhe
Videozone, Biennale für Videokunst, Tel Aviv
A fiesta of tough choices, IASPIS, Stockholm
Archaeology of today; Pristina National Museum
A picture of war is not war, Wilkinson Gallery London
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Videoex Festival, Zürich, honorary mention for film November Viper, Basel Int.
Competition 03/06
1st Preis intl. Wettbewerb
New York UNDERGROUND FILMFESTIVAL
2005
Archaeology of today; Underground Gallery Athens
Symptome der Überforderung, Kunstverein Potsdam
Fokus Istanbul, Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin
New Feminism - New Europe, Cornerhouse Manchester
Contour, 2. Video Biennial Mechelen
Die Regierung, Sezession Wien
Berlin exhibition, Kopenhagen, Nicolai Centre for Contemporary Art
Communism, Dublin,
Project Das Neue Europa, Generali Foundation, Wien
Impaktfestival Utrecht
PEK festival, Den Haag
IDFA, International documentary film festival, Amsterdam
Dokumentarfilmfest Kassel
Leipzig International film festival, international programme
Exis Experimental film festival South Korea
Sheffield Int. Documentary film festival FID
documentary film festival Marseille
Brisbane Int. Filmfestival
Krakow Int. Filmfestival
Int. Melbourne Filmfestival
28th Norwegian short film festival
Toronto Images Festival
Cinema du reel, Paris
Diagonale, Graz
2004
ETHNIC MARKETING Art, Globalisation and Intercultural Supply and Demand
Exhibition at the Centre d’art contemporain, Geneve
Aarhus, Minority Report
New York Based on a true story;
Artists Space Amsterdam, W139 gallery
Museo del Arte Contemporaneo de la Reina Sofia, Madrid
Duisburger Filmwoche
Argos festival, Brussels Ghent, International Film Festival Flanders, special screening
organised by SMAK, Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent
2003
City of Women, Ljubljana
ABCity, trafo, Budapest
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren, Kunstverein München
Show your wound, Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv
Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Borås Konsmuseum Bildmuseet in Umeå
Stockholm, Museum of Modern Art
Vienna, Museum of Modern Art
2002
Geschichten, Salzburger Kunstverein
games fights videos, Kunsthalle Bremen
Toronto, Images Festival
Ismaylia, Int. Film Festival
2001
Wiener Festwochen
Dokumentarfilmfestivals, München; Amsterdam; Kiev; Lissabon; Bradford etc.
Diagonale, Graz
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen
Du bist die Welt, Wiener Festwochen
2000
Heimat Kunst, Berlin
Continental Shifts, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Duisburger Filmwoche Viennale 2000, Wien
Feminale, Köln
1999
Translocation, Wien
Public collections
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Sydney University Museums
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
MoMA New York
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Art Institute of Chicago
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
n.b.k. Berlin
C.N.A.C. Paris
FRAC Lorraine, Metz
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
Documenta Archive
Catalogues, writings, essays and lectures
Monographic Catalogues
Too Much World, The Films of Hito Steyerl, edited by Nick Aikens (Sternberg Press,
2014).
Jenseits der Repräsentation. 04 n.b.k. Diskurs, edited by Marius Babias (Köln: Verlag
Walther König, 2014).
The Wretched of the Screen (New York: Sternberg Press and e-flux, 2012).
Die Farbe der Wahrheit Dokumentarische Praxen im Kunstfeld (Wien: Turia und Kant,
2008).
RICOCHET #3: Hito Steyerl, edited by München Museum Villa Stuck (Bielefeld:
Kerber Christof Verlag 2010).
Hito Steyerl, Seven seconds from the exhibition, Henie Onstad Art Centre, 2010
publisher Torpedo press.
n.b.k. austellungen 5: Hito Steyerl, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010
Writings
The Green room, reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1 (eds. Maria
Lind and Hito Steyerl), Sternberg Press, CCS Bard, 2008
Es kommt darauf an, Books series, 7 volumes with texts by Neundlinger, Spivak,
Holloway, Raunig, Mouffe, Virno, and Marchart (Wien: Turia und Kant, 2005).
Tester, edited by Fondacion Rodriguez, Marina Grzinic, Jose Maria Mariategui, Marcus
Neustetter, Oliver Ressler, and Hito Steyerl (San Sebastian: Arteleku 2004).
Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Postkoloniale Kritik und Migration, edited by Hito
Steyerl and Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Münster: Unrast Verlag, 2003).
Writings / E-flux journal
e-flux journal #7, Is a museum a poor factory? 06/2009 (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/
is-a-museum-a-factory/)
e-flux journal #10, In defense of the poor image, 11/2009 (http://www.e-flux.com/
journal/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/)
e-flux journal #15, A thing like you and me, 04/2010 (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/athing-like-you-and-me/)
e-flx journal #21, Politics of Art, Contemporary Art and the Transition to PostDemocracy, 12/2010 (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/politics-of-art-contemporary-artand-the-transition-to-post-democracy/)
e-lux journal #22 , Right in Our Face, 01/2011 (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/right-inour-face/)
e-flux journal #24, In Free Fall: A Thought Exeriment on Verical perspective, 04/2011
(http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-verticalperspective/)
e-flux journal #30, Art as Occupation: Claims for an autonomy of Life, 12/2011
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-as-occupation-claims-for-an-autonomy-of-life-12/
e-flux journal #32, The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation, 02/2012
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-spam-of-the-earth/
e-flux journal #38, Missing People: Entanglement, Superposition, and Exhumation as
Sites of Indeterminacy, 10/2012 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/missing-peopleentanglement-superposition-and-exhumation-as-sites-of-indeterminacy/
e-flux journal #41, Freedom from Everything: Freelancers and Mercenaries, 01/2013
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/freedom-from-everything-freelancers-and-mercenaries/
e-flux journal #45, International Disco Latin, 05/2013 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/
international-disco-latin/
e-flux journal #49, Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?, 11/2013 http://www.eflux.com/journal/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead/
Writings / EIPCP Online (selection since 2002)
EIPCP, Aesthetics of Resistance? Artistic Research as Discipline and Conflict. 01.2010
EIPCP, The Language of things. 06.2006
EIPCP, The Institution of Critique. 01.2006
EIPCP, The Articulation of Protest, 09.2002
Writings/ Online
Kobanê Is Not Falling http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/kobane-is-not-falling/
The Art of Negotiation, The Danish group Space campaign. Springer-in, 01.2003