Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer who, often through documentary photography and video, thinks through media circulation. Her work, which examines issues such as globalization, feminism, and postcolonial critique, comprises film, essays, and installations. She has lectured at Goldsmith’s College, London and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, among other institutions. A collection of her essays is recently published in The Wretched of the Screen (2012). Recent exhibitions include: Hito Steyerl, Factory of the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2016; Hito Steyerl, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2014; Hito Steyerl, e-flux, New York, 2011; and focus: Hito Steyerl, The Art Institute Chicago, 2012−2013. Steyerl lives and works in Berlin. [Last updated 2017]