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Biography
Hito Steyerl (b. 1966 in Munich) is filmmaker and writer, based in Berlin. Steyerl started out as an essay filmmaker and successively moved into the art field. She works as a professor for New Media in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Arts Berlin.
Recent solo exhibitions include: focus: Hito Steyerl, Art Institute of Chicago (2012), e-flux, New York (2012), Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2011), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2010), After the crash - Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2010), Ricochet #3. Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2010), Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden (2010). Group exhibitions include Remote Control - ICA Arts London (2012). K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf, Les Marques; Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve; Neue Galerie, Kassel; Kunst-Werke Berlin (all 2011); Antiphotojournalism - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Biennial; 1st Ural Biennial; Gwangju Biennial; Antiphotojournalism, La Virreina, Barcelona; Horizons, BAK, Utrecht (all 2010).
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HITO STEYERL
Texts written by artist
Index of Potential - The Wretched of the Screen
eipcp - Aesthetics of Resistance? Artistic Research as Discipline and Conflict
eipcp - L'articulation de la contestation
eipcp - Le documentarisme en tant que politique de la vérité
eipcp - Critique post-coloniale
eipcp - Truth Unmade. Productivism and Factography
eipcp - Can Witnesses Speak? On the PHilosophy of the Interview
eipcp - Can the Subaltern speak German? Postcolonial Critique
eipcp - The Institution of Critique
eipcp - The language of things
eipcp - The Empire of Senses. Police as art and the crisis of representation
eipcp - The Articulation of Protest
eipcp - Politics of the archive. Translations in film
eipcp - Documentarism as Politics of Truth
e-flux - Freedom from Everything: Freelancers and Mercenaries
e-flux - In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
Articles
eipcp - "Is this for real?" A Close Reading of In Free Fall by Hito Steyerl. - David Riff
Afterall - For a Populist Cinema: On Hito Steyerl's November and Lovely Andrea - Pablo Lafuente
Video
YouTube - PREOCCUPIED Conference: Hito Steyerl on Art as Occupation
YouTube - Hito Steyerl interview at Picture This
OCA - Film as a critical practice: Politics of the Archive