Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the essay documentary. Her
work interrogates the fields of art, philosophy and politics. Steyerl has exhibited widely, most
recently in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 2022. She is professor for experimental film and
video at the UdK – University of the Arts, Berlin, where she founded the Research Center for
Proxy Politics with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin. Steyerl is the fall quarter spotlight artist in
residence in The Manetti Shrem California Studio.

Organized by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the Department of Art and Art History. Co-
sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.

Photo by Leon Kahane