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Dream Worlds and Reality
Dream Worlds and Reality
May 25, 2022
Hito Steyerl: „How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational“ .MOV File, 2013, single channel high definition digital video and sound in architectural environment, duration: 15:52 min. Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021. Film still © Hito Steyerl
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum dedicates a major retrospective to the oeuvre of German artist Hito Steyerl. The show continues until June 12, 2022.
Hito Steyerl (b. 1966 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin) is a master storyteller. Her narratives – shaped by visuals, sounds, essays, performance, and architectural environments – shift between reality and made-up worlds that appear all-too-real.
For her more recent work, Steyerl developed a completely immersive installation for each of her videos. The project ‘Factory of the Sun’, for instance, which debuted at the 2015 Venice Biennale, takes place in a sci-fi matrix dotted with beach chairs. Her video ‘Liquidity Inc.’ (2014) – which addresses global migration and financial inequality – is viewed from a blue, wave-like seating area.
With the exhibition ‘Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive’, the Stedelijk Museum presents works from every creative phase in Steyerl’s oeuvre – including early works from the museum’s own collection. The showcase marks the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the Netherlands to date.
For further information visit Stedelijk Museum
Hito Steyerl (b. 1966 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin) is a master storyteller. Her narratives – shaped by visuals, sounds, essays, performance, and architectural environments – shift between reality and made-up worlds that appear all-too-real.
For her more recent work, Steyerl developed a completely immersive installation for each of her videos. The project ‘Factory of the Sun’, for instance, which debuted at the 2015 Venice Biennale, takes place in a sci-fi matrix dotted with beach chairs. Her video ‘Liquidity Inc.’ (2014) – which addresses global migration and financial inequality – is viewed from a blue, wave-like seating area.
With the exhibition ‘Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive’, the Stedelijk Museum presents works from every creative phase in Steyerl’s oeuvre – including early works from the museum’s own collection. The showcase marks the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the Netherlands to date.
For further information visit Stedelijk Museum
Hito Steyerl: „How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational“ .MOV File, 2013, single channel high definition digital video and sound in architectural environment, duration: 15:52 min. Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021. Film still © Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl: „Factory of the Sun“, 2015 single channel high definition video environment, luminescent LED grid, beach chairs, duration: 23 min. Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021. Film still © Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl: „Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc.“, 2014, HD video file, single channel in architectural environment, 30 minutes, 15 seconds. Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021. Film still © Hito Steyerl