At the Centre Pompidou a major retrospective on Hito Steyerl, a big name in world art

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is hosting, from February 3 to June 7, 2021, a major retrospective dedicated to Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966), a German artist among the most original and innovative names incontemporary art. The exhibition, produced in collaboration with the K21 Institute in Düsseldorf, is the first major exhibition on Hito Steyerl to be held in France: visitors will be able to count on a wide selection of the most important works the artist has created throughout his career, along with new productions.

Hito Steyerl’s language starts from a very personal idea of the concept of “documentary film” and brings together satire and criticism, fusing them thanks to the use of new technologies to give life, since the 2010s, to immersive immersive projections and multimedia installations, innovative experiments, which have given her international fame while also earning her numerous awards. At the center of her thinking is the way in which technologies themselves grip people and reform and shape what people themselves perceive as “real.” Works such as 2013’s How not to be seen or 2015’s Factory of the sun satirize issues such as the surveillance we are constantly subjected to around the world, the control of our data by large entities, the future of democracies institutions, and the action of multinational corporations in the social sphere and in the sphere of public discussion.

Born in Munich in 1966, Hito Steyerl studied at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image in Yokohama, and then at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich before graduating with a thesis in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He currently lives in Berlin where he teaches New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts, and where he founded, with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin, the Research Center for Proxy Politics. His works have been exhibited in numerous international contexts, including the most recent Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2017, Hito Steyerl took first place in ArtReview’s “Power 100,” a ranking of the 100 most influential people in world art, and in 2018 he won the Käthe Kollwitz Preis. In Paris, the Musée national d’art moderne holds two of his works, Red alert from 2007 and In free fall from 2010.

Pictured: Hito Steyerl, Factory of the sun, detail (2015)

At the Centre Pompidou a major retrospective on Hito Steyerl, a big name in world art

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