2018

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl, a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and writer known for her brilliantly astute explorations of contemporary capitalism, the mechanics of the art world, and the ever-increasing power of the image. ArtReview recently ranked her at the top of their Power 100 list “because she actively attempts to disrupt this nexus of power…her work is everywhere, her ideas have urgency.”

In 2017 alone, Steyerl has been the subject of solo exhibitions at such institutions as The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Artists Space, New York; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, while having her work featured at Skulptur Projekte Münster in Germany.

Co-sponsored by The Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme Focus Group on Contemporary Art and its Publics