Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
Born Hito Steyerl
(1966-01-01) January 1, 1966
Munich, Germany
Nationality German
Known for filmmaker, visual artist, writer
Awards Yanghyun Prize

Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.[1] 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.[1] 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 .[1][2]

Life and career

Steyerl was born in 1966 in Munich.[3] Steyerl attended the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.[4] She later studied at the University of Television and Film Munich.[5] Steyerl has noted that studying film during the rise of New German Cinema had an effect on her as a student.[5] She was also deeply influenced by Harun Faroki[6], though she has cited her former professor, the noted film historian Helmut Färber, as having a more direct influence on her work.[4]

In 2004 she participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art.[7] She has also participated in the 2008 Shanghai Biennale[8] and the 2010 Gwangju and Taipei biennials. In 2007, her film Lovely Andrea[9] was exhibited as a part of documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany.[10] In 2013 her work was included in the Venice Biennale[11] and the Istanbul Biennial.[12] In 2015, her work was included in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale.[13]

Hito Steyerl’s work pushes the boundary of traditional video, often obscuring what is real beneath many layers of metaphors and satirical humor. Steyerl even went so far as to refer to her piece, Red Alert, as "the outer limit of video"[14] which consisted of three monitors playing a video of pure red, representing Lovely Andrea, as well as symbolizing the extreme danger and lust that had become a normality.

Her work concerns topics of militarization, surveillance migration, the role of media in globalization, and the dissemination of images and the culture surrounding. Steyerl has pushed both the role and the label of fine artist, demonstrated through her tendencies and interests in engaging the presentational context of art. Her work is developed from research, interviews, and the collection of found images, culminating in pedagogically oriented work in the realm of forensic documentaries and dream-like montages.

Solo exhibitions

Steyerl has had numerous solo exhibitions, including:

Group exhibitions

Steyerl has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including:

Notable Works

  • Lovely Andrea (2007)[9]
  • Red Alert (2007)[14]
  • How to Not Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013)[31]
  • Is the Museum a Battlefield? (2013)[32][33]
  • Liquidity Inc. (2014)[34][35]
  • Factory of the Sun (2015)[36]

Awards

In 2010 Steyerl was awarded with the NEW:VISION Award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival for her film In Free Fall.[37] In 2015 Steyerl won the inaugural EYE Prize, a collaboration between EYE Film Institute Netherlands and the Paddy & Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund. The aim of the award is to support and promote an artist or filmmaker who have made outstanding contributions to their field.[38]

Select writings

Steyerl is a frequent contributor to online art journals such as E-flux. She has also written:

  • 2007. Steyerl, Hito. "Documentary Uncertainty," in A Prior Magazine Issue #15.
  • 2009. Steyerl, Hito. Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique. Mayflybooks/Ephemera. ISBN 978-1906948023
  • 2009. Steyerl, Hito. "In Defense of the Poor Image," in E-flux Issue #10.
  • 2010. Steyerl, Hito. "A Think Like You and Me," in E-flux Issue #15.
  • 2012. Steyerl, Hito, and Berardi, Franco. The Wretched of the Screen. Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-1-934105-82-5.
  • 2014. Steyerl, Hito. Hito Steyerl: Too Much World. Sternberg Press. Edited by Nick Aikens. ISBN 9783956790577
  • 2016. Steyerl, Hito. Beyond Representation. Walther König. Edited by Marius Babias, contributions by Thomas Elsässer and Simon Sheik. ISBN 978-3865608932
  • 2016. Steyerl, Hito. "If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms," in E-flux Issue #76.
  • 2017. Steyerl, Hito. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. Verso. ISBN 978-1786632432

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hito Steyerl", e-flux, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Research Center for Proxy Politics". rcpp.lensbased.net. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  3. ↑ "document 12", documenta 12, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 Steyerl, Hito. "Life in Film" Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine., e-flux, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  5. 1 2 Gray, Maggie. "Artist profile: Hito Steyerl", thisistomorrow, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Beginnings - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  7. ↑ "Manifesta 5 artists" Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine., Manifesta, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Hito Steyerl DeriVeD (2008) 7th Shanghai Biennial", vimeo, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  9. 1 2 "U B U W E B - Film & Video: Hito Steyerl - Lovely Andrea (2007)". www.ubu.com. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  10. ↑ "documents 12: overviewd", documents 12, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Hito Steyerl: Biography", Andrew Kreps Gallery, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  12. ↑ Milliard, Coline (December 1, 2013). "13th Istanbul Biennial". Modern Painters.
  13. ↑ Christian Sinibaldi, "In-yer-face art: the best of Venice Biennale 2015 – in pictures," The Guardian, May 7, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/07/best-of-venice-biennale-2015-jeremy-deller-amazon-exorcist-in-pictures
  14. 1 2 dmovies.net (2013-06-12), Hito Steyerl, interview at Documenta 12, retrieved 2017-03-29
  15. ↑ "Archive Past Exhibitions Hito Steyerl", Chisehale Gallery, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  16. ↑ Cotter, Holland. "Hito Steyerl Has New York Solo Debut at e-flux", The New York Times, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  17. ↑ "focus: Hito Steyerl", Art Institute of Chicago, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  18. ↑ "Van Abbemuseum: Detail", Van Abbemuseum, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  19. ↑ "What's On: Hito Steyerl", ICA London, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  20. ↑ Exposición: En defensa de la imagen pobre Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine., Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  21. ↑ Proyecciones: Arte, control y dominación. 3 películas de Hito Steyerl Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine., Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  22. ↑ Gallery, Andrew Kreps. "Andrew Kreps Gallery". Andrew Kreps Gallery. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  23. ↑ "Hito Steyerl", Artists Space Exhibitions, Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  24. ↑ "Hito Steyerl - Exhibitions - KOW". www.kow-berlin.info. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  25. ↑ "Hito Steyerl. Duty-Free Art". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  26. ↑ "Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  27. ↑ "Cut to Swipe | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  28. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  29. ↑ "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  30. ↑ "Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing". EYE. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  31. ↑ "MoMA | Hito Steyerl's HOW NOT TO BE SEEN: A F**king Didactic Educational .MOV File". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  32. ↑ "Is the Museum a Battlefield". Vimeo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  33. ↑ "Selected Works - Hito Steyerl - Artists - KOW". www.kow-berlin.info. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  34. ↑ "Liquidity Inc. | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  35. ↑ "Selected Works - Hito Steyerl - Artists - KOW". www.kow-berlin.info. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  36. ↑ "Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  37. ↑ Knegt, Peter. "Thinking Outside the Doc Box", Indiewire, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  38. ↑ "Hito Steyerl wins the inaugural EYE Prize". e-flux. e-flux. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

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