Projects
Der Menschheit ist die Kugel...
Normalcy
SocialSim
Green Screen
Contemporary Cave Art
Animal Spirits
I Will Survive
Mission Accomplished: Belanciege
This is the Future
Power Plants
Drill
The City of Broken Windows
The Tower
Duty Free Art
Factory of the Sun
Liquidity Inc.
How Not to Be Seen
Is the Museum a Battlefield?
Guards
Abstract
In Free Fall
Adorno's Grey
Red Alert
Lovely Andrea
Journal No. 1
November
Die leere Mitte
Deutschland und das Ich
News
Mechanical Kurds: l’automazione autonoma non è mai esistita
· Art News Italia
Zoom In: Hito Steyerl – «Animal Spirits» im Kunstmuseum Bonn
· Deutschlandfunk Kultur
25 Most Important AI Artworks
· ARTnews
Post-İnternet Çağında Hito Steyerl’in Video Pratiklerinde Veri-Beden ve Dijital Gözetim
· International Social Sciences Studies Journal
You’ve Heard About the New Museum’s New Building. The New Show Is Even Better.
· Cultured Magazine
Ein neues Paar an der Bowery
· Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The New Museum Reopens, Asking, ‘What Is Human?’
· The New York Times
Les réseaux de la colère
· La Strada
Hito Steyerl / Realismo artificiale
· Pulp Magazine
Quando l'arte hackera l'IA e la realtà
· Finestre sull'Arte
Hito Steyerl. Mechanical Kurds — Villa Arson, Nice
· Arts-Spectacles
Lectures
Keynote · Jan 2026
Crafting Data: Material Practices in Art and AI
Talk · 2025
Art in The Age of Authoritarian Chatbots
Lecture
Bubble Vision
Lecture
The Language of Broken Glass
Lecture
Why Games? Can People Change?
Lecture
The Terror of Total Dasein
Lecture
Live from the Van Abbemuseum
Keynote
Keynote Presentation
Conversation
Hito Steyerl × Trevor Paglen: Universal/Remote
Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Panel · DLD 18
Tech Colonialism: Too Much World
Lecture
Avant Museology
Conversation
What is Contemporary?
Talk · 2013
89plus Marathon
Artist Talk
Liam Gillick & Hito Steyerl
Lecture · 2010
In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment
New on Carrier Bag
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2026
Conferences & Talks
Crafting Data: Material Practices in Art and AI — Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna Conference
Recent Texts
Recent & Current Exhibitions
Solo
2025–2026
The Island — Fondazione Prada, Milan
2025–2026
Der Menschheit ist die Kugel... — MAK Museum, Vienna
2026
Mechanical Kurds — MACRO — Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2026
Mechanical Kurds — Villa Arson, Nice
2025
Quicksand — Festival Panoràmic, Granollers
2026–2027
Zoom In: Animal Spirits — Kunstmuseum Bonn
2026–2027
Hito Steyerl — Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Group
2026
INDEX Biennial 2026 — Monserrato, Braga
2026–2027
Energies of AI — MAAT, Lisbon
2026
Global Equality and Hospitality — Trenčín ECoC 2026
2026
The World Through AI — Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2026
6th Kyiv Biennial — KW Institute, Berlin
2026
New Humans: Memories of the Future — New Museum, New York
2025–2026
Challenged Togetherness — Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
2025–2026
Bells and Cannons — CAC, Vilnius
2025–2026
Data Dreams: Art and AI — MCA, Sydney
2025–2026
Near East, Far West — Kyiv Biennial — Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2025
This is a Shot — Serralves Museum, Porto
2025
The Lure of the Image — Fotomuseum Winterthur
2025
Le monde selon l’IA — Jeu de Paume, Paris
2025
Prism of the Real — National Art Center, Tokyo
2025
Everything is Interaction — Kunstfestival Begehungen, Chemnitz
2025
Converging at the Summit — Hengqin-Macao Digital Art Expo
2025
Mission Accomplished: Belanciege — Berliner Festspiele
2024–2025
Access Kafka — Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
2024
Big Brother Blockchain — Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin
Publications
Publication · 2025
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
IT Italian
Publication · 2025
Medium Hot: Intelligenza artificiale e immagini ai tempi del riscaldamento globale
Publication · 2025
Edition 46 — Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Publication · 2017
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
Publication · 2012
The Wretched of the Screen
Publication · 2008
Die Farbe der Wahrheit: Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld
Publication · 2011
A Magical Imitation of Reality
About
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. Her work addresses media, technology, and the global circulation of images through video installations, digital environments, and writing. She is Professor for Emergent Digital Media at Munich Art Academy. Her research platform at AdbK Munich, run with Francis Hunger, is at www.carrier-bag.net. She is represented by Esther Schipper (Berlin) and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York).