Hito Steyerl
HNTBS
23 May - 13 Jul 2014
Hito Steyerl: How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational. MOV File (2013)
HD video file, single screen, 14min., still
HD video file, single screen, 14min., still
HITO STEYERL
HNTBS
23 May - 13 July 2014
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart proudly presents the first solo presentation of Berlin based artist, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl entitled “HNTBS” in Stuttgart in its summer program with a lecture during the opening of the exhibition.
Departing from her recent video work, “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File” (2013), the artist intends to transform the exhibition space into an active form of a learning environment recreating some visual elements from the narrative structure of the work. The work operates as a mockery of a verbal guide with performative acts, and deals with digital spaces, politics of representation and the presence of the individual in the context of image circulation, control mechanisms, and the tradition of cinema. Responding to abstract, conceptual, graphic and sculptural layers in the work, and considering her research based performative practice, the exhibition program will also include another video work “Strike”(2010), which is based on a gesture of smashing a LCD screen for abstracting a frozen moment of reality and a lecture (“35 ways to break through a wall”) held in English during the opening after an introduction by Misal Adnan Yildiz.
Steyerl is one of the leading voices of contemporary art today and has such a unique position through her filmic language and writing practice which juxtapose at diverse levels of controversial arguments, critical thinking plus feminist and anti-militarist statements.
Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?
Hito Steyerl is a Berlin based film maker, video artist and writer. In addition to different (solo)exhibitions, her work was shown at the 2013 Venice and Istanbul biennales, the 2010 Gwangju and Taipeh biennales, the 2008 Shanghai biennale, documenta12 in Kassel in 2007 and Manifesta 5 in 2004. She is a professor of Art and Multimedia at the University of Arts in Berlin.
HNTBS
23 May - 13 July 2014
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart proudly presents the first solo presentation of Berlin based artist, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl entitled “HNTBS” in Stuttgart in its summer program with a lecture during the opening of the exhibition.
Departing from her recent video work, “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File” (2013), the artist intends to transform the exhibition space into an active form of a learning environment recreating some visual elements from the narrative structure of the work. The work operates as a mockery of a verbal guide with performative acts, and deals with digital spaces, politics of representation and the presence of the individual in the context of image circulation, control mechanisms, and the tradition of cinema. Responding to abstract, conceptual, graphic and sculptural layers in the work, and considering her research based performative practice, the exhibition program will also include another video work “Strike”(2010), which is based on a gesture of smashing a LCD screen for abstracting a frozen moment of reality and a lecture (“35 ways to break through a wall”) held in English during the opening after an introduction by Misal Adnan Yildiz.
Steyerl is one of the leading voices of contemporary art today and has such a unique position through her filmic language and writing practice which juxtapose at diverse levels of controversial arguments, critical thinking plus feminist and anti-militarist statements.
Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?
Hito Steyerl is a Berlin based film maker, video artist and writer. In addition to different (solo)exhibitions, her work was shown at the 2013 Venice and Istanbul biennales, the 2010 Gwangju and Taipeh biennales, the 2008 Shanghai biennale, documenta12 in Kassel in 2007 and Manifesta 5 in 2004. She is a professor of Art and Multimedia at the University of Arts in Berlin.