1. Hito Steyerl was born on 1 January 1966 and is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.
17 Facts About Hito Steyerl
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Hito Steyerl has been a professor of Current Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2024.
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Hito Steyerl later studied at the University of Television and Film Munich.
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Hito Steyerl was deeply influenced by Harun Farocki, although she has cited her former professor, the noted film historian Helmut Farber, as having a more direct influence on her work.
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In 2004 Hito Steyerl participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art.
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Hito Steyerl has participated in the 2008 Shanghai Biennale and the 2010 Gwangju and Taipei biennials.
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Hito Steyerl's work pushes the boundary of traditional video, often obscuring what is real beneath many layers of metaphors and satirical humor.
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Hito Steyerl referred to her piece, Red Alert, as "the outer limit of video".
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Hito Steyerl has pushed both the role and the label of fine artist, which is demonstrated through her tendencies and interests in engaging the presentational context of art.
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Hito Steyerl's work is developed from research, interviews, and the collection of found images, culminating in pedagogically oriented work in the realm of forensic documentaries and dream-like montages.
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In recent years, Hito Steyerl's work has expanded to confront the status of images in an increasingly digital world, institutions, networks, and labor.
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Hito Steyerl's work has addressed the topic of corporate sponsorship by engaging with institutions, including Drill in 2019 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, for which Steyerl revealed histories connecting the building hosting the exhibition with the founding of the National Rifle Association.
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Hito Steyerl employs increasingly complex approaches to pixelation within the digital sphere, editing, digital graphics, and video installation architecture.
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In 2013 Hito Steyerl released her video How Not to Be Seen, presenting five lessons in invisibility.
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In 2017, Hito Steyerl was listed by ArtReview as the number one most influential person in the contemporary art world.
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In 2023, Hito Steyerl was again listed by ArtReview as the number two most influential person in the contemporary art world.
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Hito Steyerl is a frequent contributor to online art journals such as E-flux.