"Hito Steyerl - A Sea of Data" Installation view. Photo: Hong Cheolki. ©MMCAThe renowned Berlin-based media artist Hito Steyerl’s first solo exhibition in Korea will be held in April at the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). Steyerl’s first solo exhibition in Korea, “Hito Steyerl – A Sea of Data” will be on view from April 29 to September 18.
Steyerl investigates how our global society has been inundated with images related to media, digital science, technology, capitalism, and military propaganda. She works in various genres ranging from media art and performance to documentary cinema and essays. As one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, Steyerl topped ArtReview’s annual list of ‘Power 100’ with first place in 2017. Her name appeared again on the list last year, ranking 17th.
The exhibition will be sharing 23 of her most representative works from her early video works in the 1990s, which took the form of film essays with a documentary quality such as Germany and Identity (1994) and The Empty Centre (1998), to her most recent video works reflecting on digital technology (including the internet, virtual reality, robot engineering, and artificial intelligence) within its relationship to human beings and society. In particular, this exhibition will mark the first presentation of Animal Spirits (2022), a new work commissioned by MMCA.
