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The Work of Hito Steyerl

Born 1966 in Munich. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Hito Steyerl, Animal Spirits, 2022, single channel HD video, live computer simulation, sensor devices, glass spheres, organic materials, dimensions variable, edition of 7 (HS 046). Exhibition view: Hito Steyerl, Contemporary Cave Art, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2023). Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin.

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Selected works

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Animal Spirits, 2022

Single channel HD video, live computer simulation, sensor devices, glass spheres, organic materials

Duration: 24 min; simulation duration variable; dimensions variable
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SocialSim, 2020

Single channel HD video and live computer simulations Dancing Mania/Rebellion
Duration: 18:19 min (single channel)
Dancing Mania/Rebellion duration variable
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Power Plants, 2019

Stainless steel scaffolding structures, LED panels (3,9 mm pitch), multichannel video loop (12 channel, color, silent), LED text panels
Installation dimensions variable
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Drill, 2019

3 channel HD video (color, sound), environment (LED stripe, benches)
Installation dimensions variable
Duration: 21:12 min
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FreePlots, 2019

3 custom-built wooden planters (pine and birch wood), plant grow bags, compost, plants, 3 custom-built UV grow lamps (Alu-Dibond, Plexiglas, LED plant grow lights), sound installation
Installation dimensions variable
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Leonardo’s submarine, 2019

3 channel HD video, color, sound
Environment: 3 curved screens made of LED panels
Dimensions variable (reference dimensions 6,5 x 8,2 m)
Duration: 9:30 min
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The City of Broken Windows, 2018

Two-channel video (HD, colour, sound), wooden easels, vinyl sticker, panel painting (environment)
Dimensions variable
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Prototype 1.0 and 1.1, 2017

Foam, aluminum
Two parts: 55,9 x 121,9 x 400,1 cm; 167 x 41,9 x 20 cm
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Tent/Texture III, Kharkiv, 2015

UV pigment print on dibond
100 x 100 cm (unframed)
103,5 x 103,5 x 3,8 cm (framed)
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In Free Fall, 2010

Video HDV, 32', single channel, sound, color
Duration: 33:43 min
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November, 2004

DV, single channel, sound
Duration: 25 min

Gallery Exhibitions

Contemporary Cave Art Hito Steyerl

Contemporary Cave Art

Hito Steyerl
For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023 Esther Schipper is pleased to present Hito Steyerl's first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view will be a site-specific iteration of her 2022 environment Animal Spirits adapted to the exhibition space.
April 28—May 25, 2023
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Esther Schipper is pleased to bring together works by Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Christoph Keller has been with the gallery since 1997; Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui joined our...
June 27—August 17, 2019
Esther Schipper, Berlin

External Exhibitions

Hito Steyerl: Normality Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl: Normality

Hito Steyerl
'Normality' focuses on earlier works by Hito Steyerl. In these, the artist examines the various social dynamics and tensions that emerged following the German reunification in the 1990s and early 2000s. Steyerls...
October 27, 2024—January 19, 2025
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Il morso delle termiti With Hito Steyerl

Il morso delle termiti

With Hito Steyerl
www.palaisdetokyo.com
June 16, 2023—January 7, 2024
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The City of Broken Windows Hito Steyerl

The City of Broken Windows

Hito Steyerl
In her works, the artist Hito Steyerl (*1966, Munich, Germany) often addresses political and social conflicts in a globalized world, interweaving them with local situations, which imparts to her works a special multidimensionality.
June 15—October 15, 2023
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
However Many Times We Ran The Model The Results Were Pretty Much The Same Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl

However Many Times We Ran The Model The Results Were Pretty Much The Same

Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl
A new site-specific and collaborative artwork by Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl has been inaugurated in the village of Roddino, Italy. The brightly colored mural covers the outside walls of the newly established multifunctional space for the village’s community. The...
Ongoing
Roddino, Piedmont
Munch Triennale: The Machine Is Us With Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl and Miloš Trakilovićs

Munch Triennale: The Machine Is Us

With Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl and Miloš Trakilovićs
Munch Triennale: The Machine Is Us displays works by 25 artists who, in different ways, reflect on how new technology affects us, both as individuals and as communities.
October 1—December 11, 2022
Munchmuseet, Oslo
Animal Spirits Hito Steyerl

Animal Spirits

Hito Steyerl
Directly engaging with the Kunsthaus Graz, Hito Steyerl creates a many-layered, intertwined digital and analogue installation in the dark dome of Space01.
September 22, 2022—January 8, 2023
Space01, Kunsthaus Graz
Locarno Film Festival 2022 With Hito Steyerl

Locarno Film Festival 2022

With Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl presented SocialSim at Locarno Film Festival 2022.
August 3—13, 2022
EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS
A Sea of ​​Data Hito Steyerl

A Sea of ​​Data

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl A Sea of ​​Data MMCA | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 30 Samcheong-ro 5-gil Jongno-gu, Seoul April 29 – September 18, 2022
April 29—September 18, 2022
MMCA | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Color as Program Co-Curator and exhibition architecture by Liam Gillick

Color as Program

Co-Curator and exhibition architecture by Liam Gillick
The exhibition Color as Program addresses color as an artistic medium and its programmatic, political dimension on the basis of art and cultural history exhibits from far more than 100 years.
April 8—August 7, 2022
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
72nd Berlin International Film Festival With Rosa Barba and Hito Steyerl

72nd Berlin International Film Festival

With Rosa Barba and Hito Steyerl
72nd Berlin International Film Festival with Rosa Barba and Hito Steyerl.
February 10—20, 2022
EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS
I Will Survive Hito Steyerl

I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl
The major solo exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive opens at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on January 29, 2022. An artist, cultural critic, filmmaker, writer and professor, Hito Steyerl (1966) is one...
January 29 – June 6, 2022
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
I Will Survive Hito Steyerl

I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist, filmmaker, and author Hito Steyerl. Steyerl is currently regarded as one of the most advanced artists in terms of...
September 26, 2020—January 10, 2021
K21, Düsseldorf
Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl, who artistically and socially reflects our world in times of hypercapitalism, digital lifestyles, globalization, and growing political crises, is one of the most influential artists of our time. In 2009,...
November 23, 2019—January 26, 2020
n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
This is the Future Hito Steyerl

This is the Future

Hito Steyerl
This survey exhibition, the largest of its kind in Canada, brings together a significant number of her works from the last 15 years. Steyerl's playful explorations of technology and power structures result...
October 24, 2019—February 23, 2020
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Drill Hito Steyerl

Drill

Hito Steyerl
This summer, Hito Steyerl reveals her most recent installation in the U.S. to date, commissioned by the Armory and curated by Park Avenue Armory’s visual arts curator Tom Eccles. Steyerl utilizes both...
June 20—July 21, 2019
Park Avenue Armory, New York
May You Live In Interesting Times with Hito Steyerl

May You Live In Interesting Times

with Hito Steyerl
May 11—November 24, 2019
58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Power Plants Hito Steyerl

Power Plants

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl's series of projects at the Serpentine Galleries is positioned around ideas of 'power'. Beginning from the premise that 'power is the necessary condition for any digital technology', the artist considers...
April 11—May 6, 2019
Serpentine Galleries, London
Animal – Human – Robot with Hito Steyerl

Animal – Human – Robot

with Hito Steyerl
Animal – Human – Robot explores the ever-changing relationship between humans and other beings: from animal species to organic and mechanical entities created by humans, such as genetically modified organisms or artificial...
April 6—August 25, 2019
MO Museum, Vilnius
Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2019 Hito Steyerl

Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2019

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl's artistic discourse orbits socio-political processes in theory and practice: post-colonial criticism, abuse of power, violence and the influences of globalisation on the financial, labour and goods markets are visualised in...
February 21—April 14, 2019
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
The City of Broken Windows Hito Steyerl

The City of Broken Windows

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl focuses on the role of media, technology and the circulation of images in the era of digital nativism. The artist creates installations in which film production is associated with the...
November 1, 2018—September 1, 2019
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
War Games Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl

War Games

Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl
The exhibition War Games at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart features early and recent works by Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl. Earlier as well as recent works appear in a dialogical arrangement conceived...
May 5—December 2, 2018
Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
Liquidity Inc. Hito Steyerl

Liquidity Inc.

Hito Steyerl
Liquidity Inc. (2014) is a new acquisition to the ICA’s collection and is on view at the museum for the first time. As suggested by the title, this video sculpture uses water...
December 13, 2017—April 22, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Present in Drag with Hito Steyerl

The Present in Drag

with Hito Steyerl
June 4—September 18, 2016
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Factory of the Sun Hito Steyerl

Factory of the Sun

Hito Steyerl
MOCA presents the U.S. premiere of Hito Steyerl’s landmark video installation Factory of the Sun. In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015 German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Steyerl probes...
February 21—September 12, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Hito Steyerl im Heidelberger Kunstverein: Und dieser Feind hat zu siegen nicht aufgehört

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Monopol 100 Featuring AA Bronson, Cemile Sahin, Hito Steyerl, and Ugo Rondinone
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Monopol 100

Featuring AA Bronson, Cemile Sahin, Hito Steyerl, and Ugo Rondinone
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When bottles turn into pixels: Hito Steyerl at Hayward Gallery Monopol
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When bottles turn into pixels: Hito Steyerl at Hayward Gallery

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Artist Talk with Hito Steyerl Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
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Artist Talk with Hito Steyerl

Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
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Hito Steyerl: Contemporary Cave Art The Brooklyn Rail
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Hito Steyerl: Contemporary Cave Art

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Post-internet artist Hito Steyerl on refusing honours, buying her work back – and fighting big tech The Guardian
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Post-internet artist Hito Steyerl on refusing honours, buying her work back – and fighting big tech

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I do find the works of [...] Hito Steyerl quite fascinating. Vogue Korea
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I do find the works of [...] Hito Steyerl quite fascinating.

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The metaverse enters berlin galleries Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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The metaverse enters berlin galleries

Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Public art between Langhe and Roero. New installations by Gillick, Steyerl and Appriou. Artribune
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Public art between Langhe and Roero. New installations by Gillick, Steyerl and Appriou.

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Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates artnet
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Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates

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Letter from Berlin October 2022
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Letter from Berlin

October 2022
Welcome to the Letter from Berlin! This Letter from Berlin should rightfully be titled 'Letter from Paris'! We begin with projects in Paris: Etienne Chambaud's exhibitions in Paris and in Lille, as...
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Hito Steyerl, A Sea of ​​Data – MMCA, Seoul
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Hito Steyerl, A Sea of ​​Data – MMCA, Seoul

Hito Steyerl A Sea of ​​Data MMCA | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 30 Samcheong-ro 5-gil Jongno-gu, Seoul April 29 – September 18, 2022 www.mmca.go.kr Hito Steyerl, A Sea of...
April 29 – September 18, 2022
Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions by Merve Erme in The New Yorker
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Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions by Merve Erme in The New Yorker

The New Yorker Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions By Merve Erme Read the full article here 'It would be wrong to claim that I first met the German artist Hito Steyerl on such-and-such...
Rosa Barba and Hito Steyerl – 72nd Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin

Rosa Barba and Hito Steyerl – 72nd Berlin International Film Festival

Two films by Hito Steyerl,Die leere Mitte (The Empty Center), 1998 and Normalität 1-10(Normality 1-X), 2001, are included in the Berlinale's Forum Special, the 'Fiktionsbescheinigung' series, a section for experimental cinema put...
February 10 – 20, 2022
Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive

The major solo exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive opens at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on January 29, 2022. An artist, cultural critic, filmmaker, writer and professor, Hito Steyerl (1966) is one...
January 29 – June 6, 2022
Post Nature: Dear Nature with Hito Steyerl | 히토 슈타이얼 참여전시
Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan

Post Nature: Dear Nature with Hito Steyerl | 히토 슈타이얼 참여전시 <포스트 네이처: 친애하는 자연에게>

Post Nature: Dear Nature, the inaugural exhibition of the Ulsan Art Museum, evokes a complex sense of history and cultural politics, rather than an ecology that mankind can change. The exhibition will...
January 6 – April 10, 2022
Spotlight: Hito Steyerl
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Spotlight: Hito Steyerl

For our Spotlight this week we present Hito Steyerl's SocialSim, 2020. SocialSim, 2020, is a site-specific video installation that premiered at K21 in Düsseldorf and now on view at the Centre Pompidou, Paris,...
Hito Steyerl – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Hito Steyerl – Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Centre Pompidou presents, in collaboration with K21 in Düsseldorf, I Will Survive: the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the work of Hito Steyerl in France. Spreading out over the entire space of the Galerie...
through July 5, 2021
'The Challenge: We are in this together' – Esther Schipper for The New Institute
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"The Challenge: We are in this together" – Esther Schipper for The New Institute

For its December newsletter, titled 'The Challenge: We are in this together', The New Institute asked Esther Schipper – among other thinkers and practitioners – to share her insights and analysis on the current...
Hito Steyerl's 'We Will Survive TV'
November 15, 19, 21, 26, 2020

Hito Steyerl's "We Will Survive TV"

What happens to the art at the museum at night? A weird-ass visual podcast During the corona-related shutdown in November 2020, Hito Steyerl’s exhibition I Will Survive at K21 (September 26, 2020—January 10, 2021)...
Hito Steyerl's 'SocialSim' Live Stream
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Hito Steyerl's "SocialSim" Live Stream

Hito Steyerl's simulation Social Sim screening live from a locked down K21 to reflect the current political climate.⁠ Watch the live stream here!
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Hito Steyerl at K21
K21, Düsseldorf

Hito Steyerl at K21

Hito Steyerl⁠ I Will Survive September 26, 2020 – January 10, 2021⁠ ⁠ The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist, filmmaker, and author Hito Steyerl. Steyerl...
September 26, 2020 – January 10, 2021⁠
Film Screening with Hito Steyerl
This Human World Film Festival Top Kino, Vienna

Film Screening with Hito Steyerl

Helin Celik, Nathalie Borgers, Tina Leisch and Hito Steyerl, four unlike filmmakers, initiated the film series Women Rise up For Rojava and want raise awareness for solidarity with mult-ethnical, multi-ideological and feminist...
December 9, 2019, 5:30 pm
Film Screening with Hito Steyerl
Bar Laika, 224 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, New York

Film Screening with Hito Steyerl

In Free Fall incorporates a trio of works: Before the Crash, After the Crash and Crash, which tell the story of the current global economic crisis through the example of an aeroplane...
Wednesday, November 27, 9 pm
Hito Steyerl at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hito Steyerl at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Online Presentation MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BELANCIEGE Stream of the lecture by Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl, and Miloš Trakilović November 21, 2019, 7 pm Stream at www.nbk.org Panel Discussion Image and Representation in the...
November 23, 2019 – January 26, 2020
Hito Steyerl at Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Hito Steyerl at Art Gallery of Ontario

Artist Talk with Hito Steyerl Wednesday October 23, 2019, 6:30 pm Tickets Hito Steyerl is an artist, theorist and acute observer of our contemporary world. This survey exhibition, the largest of its kind...
October 24, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Hito Steyerl at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory, New York

Hito Steyerl at Park Avenue Armory

Artist Talk: Drill Hito Steyerl Park Avenue Armory, New York June 20, 2019, 6 pm This summer, Hito Steyerl reveals her most recent installation in the U.S. to date, commissioned by the...
June 20 – July 21, 2019
Artist Talk with Liam Gillick & Hito Steyerl
e-flux, New York

Artist Talk with Liam Gillick & Hito Steyerl

e-flux journal presents: Art After Culture? cumulative conference in New York featuring Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl. For more information and tickets click HERE.
June 14, 2019, 7-9 pm & June 15, 2019, 10:30 am - 8 pm
Film Screening with Hito Steyerl
Bar Laika by e-flux, New York

Film Screening with Hito Steyerl

Film Screening: Lovely Andrea (2007) Bar Laika by e-flux, New York Thursday June 13, 2019, 9 pm Lovely Andrea follows the artist’s quest to find a bondage photograph she posed for while...
June 13, 2019, 9 pm
May You Live in Interesting Times with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tomás Saraceno and Hito Steyerl
58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

May You Live in Interesting Times with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tomás Saraceno and Hito Steyerl

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tomás Saraceno and The Work of Hito Steyerl, are participating in the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph...
May 11 – November 24, 2019
Hito Steyerl at Serpentine Galleries
Serpentine Galleries, London

Hito Steyerl at Serpentine Galleries

⠀ Hito Steyerl’s new project for the Serpentine Galleries considers power and inequality in society, mapping unequal wealth distribution in the communities surrounding the Serpentine which has been recorded as one of...
April 11 – May 6, 2019
Artist talk with Hito Steyerl
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin

Artist talk with Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl in conversation with Marius Babias⁣ Steyerl’s artistic discourse orbits sociopolitical processes in theory and practice: postcolonial criticism, abuse of power, violence and the influences of globalization and digital life visualized...
April 9, 2019, 7 pm
Animal – Human – Robot with the Work of Hito Steyerl
MO Museum, Vilnius

Animal – Human – Robot with the Work of Hito Steyerl

Animal – Human – Robot will explore explores the ever-changing relationship between humans and other beings: from animal species to organic and mechanical entities created by humans, such as genetically modified organisms...
April 6 – August 25, 2019
Hito Steyerl Receives the Käthe Kollwitz Prize, 2019
Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Hito Steyerl Receives the Käthe Kollwitz Prize, 2019

We are delighted to announce the exhibition opening and award ceremony of Hito Steyerl for the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Read more about the exhibition here.
February 21 – April 14, 2019

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Contemporary Cave Art Hito Steyerl

Contemporary Cave Art

Hito Steyerl

In this film we experience Hito Steyerl's Contemporary Cave Art, a site-specific iteration of her 2022 environment Animal Spirits adapted to the exhibition space. Animal Spirits is a video installation consisting of a film and a live computer-generated animation as well as spatial installation elements.

Apart from plants, the glass spheres also contain sensors that measure proxies for plant health as well as react to proximity of visitors in the space. The data gathered by the sensors influence a light-sparkling cloud of particles, travelling through what looks like a natural cave.

 

 

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Publications

Hito Steyerl I will survive

Hito Steyerl

I will survive
The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are...
2020
Hito Steyerl The City of Broken Windows

Hito Steyerl

The City of Broken Windows
“This catalog accompanies the exhibition The City of Broken Windows at Castello di Rivoli, Turin (November 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) and features previously unpublished essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marianna...
2018
Hito Steyerl Duty Free Art

Hito Steyerl

Duty Free Art
A conversation between Hito Steyerl and João Fernandes, curator of the exhibition, an essay by Carles Guerra and Steyerl herself, introduced us to one of the most relevant contemporary artists in the...
2015
Liam Gillick Like a Moth to a Flame | Come una falena alla fiamma

Liam Gillick

Like a Moth to a Flame | Come una falena alla fiamma
Like a Moth to a Flame draws on the experience of the exhibition of the same name at the OGR in Turin, between 2017 and 2018, to recount how, over time, individual...
2021