The exhibition is dedicated to the award-winning work of the media artist and author, whose pieces operate at the intersection of art, technology, and social analysis. In her video essays, multimedia installations, and lecture performances, Hito Steyerl weaves together documentary fragments and fictional elements to create narratives that explore historically rooted global power structures in the digital age.
With around 15 room installations—created between 1999 and 2025—the exhibition offers a broad and in-depth insight into Hito Steyerl’s work: a hybrid visual world that addresses algorithmic control, exploitation by technological systems, capitalism, climate collapse, and war unfolds throughout the entire Hall for Contemporary Art.
The works are presented in a bright zone and a dimmed zone, each of which opens up different atmospheric levels of perception. Alongside influential earlier works such as “How Not To Be Seen” from 2013, in which Hito Steyerl humorously demonstrates how people can render themselves invisible in a digitized world to evade total surveillance, the exhibition also presents recent video installations, including "Mechanical Kurds" (2025), which explores modern warfare involving drones and artificial intelligence.
For the first time in Germany, Hito Steyerl's latest film, “The Island”, will be on view. It immerses us in several narratives linked by the recurring element of flooding. Despite its serious subject matter, this playful and entertaining project addresses current AI-fueled authoritarian tendencies, the climate crisis, and political pressure on science.
Hito Steyerl
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