Hito Steyerl (b. 1966, Munich) is a German filmmaker, artist and writer. Steyerl’s prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a highly discursive position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics, constituting a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries.
Sha had participated in biennials all over the world and his work is part of major contemporary art collections and museums. She has had solo exhibitions in museums and cultural centres such as, among others: Portland Art Museum (2023); the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2022); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2019; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2018); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2018); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2015); ICA, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); E-flux, New York (2012). Group exhibitions include Vasos comunicantes, Collection 1881 - 2021, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2022); May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice Italy; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Cut to Swipe, Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Darknet, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; documenta 12, Kassel (2007) and Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004).
 
A selection of her essays, published in various places, are summarized in four books: Die Farbe der Wahrheit (The Color of Truth; Vienna: Turia Kant, 2008), The Wretched of the Screen (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012), Beyond Representation (Berlin 2016), and Duty Free Art – Art in the Age of Planetary Civil Wars (London: Verso, 2017 / Zurich: Diaphanes, 2018).