Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics. Steyerl’s writing is thematically unified around a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries. Her films and lectures have increasingly addressed the presentational context of art. Steyerl has exhibited widely, most recently in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2022. Her writing has circulated extensively through publication in both academic and art journals.

Steyerl studied Documentary Film Directing at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and at the HFF – University of Television and Film in Munich. She subsequently studied Philosophy at the Academy of the Arts in Vienna, where she received her doctorate. She is Professor for Experimental Film and Video at the UdK – University of the Arts, Berlin, where she founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin. Steyerl lives and works in Berlin.

Organized by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the Department of Art and Art History. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Artist talk: Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 4:30 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum