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HITO STEYERL
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Born in 1966, she lives and works as an artist, filmmaker and essayist in Berlin.
PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna and professor of New Art
Media at the University of Berlin, her essays both written and audiovisual focus
on topics such as feminism, political violence and digital technologies.
‘Hito Steyerl’s films and essays take the digital image as a point of departure for
entering a world in which a politics of dazzle manifests as collective desire. This
is to say that when war, genocide, capital flows, digital detritus, and class
warfare always take place partially within images, we are no longer dealing with
the virtual but with a confusing and possibly alien concreteness that we are only
beginning to understand. Today the image world, Steyerl reminds us, is far from
flat. And paradoxically it may be in its most trashy and hollowed out spots that
we can locate its ethics. Because this is where forms run free. It is where
spectacle and poverty merge, then split, then dance’ (Brian Kuan Wood).
Steyerl’s works have been shown around the world in numerous exhibitions and
at a range of film festivals, most recently in the Kunstmuseum, Basel (2018), the

Institut of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017), the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Ángeles, CA (2016), the Artists Space, New York (2015), the Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2015), the Institut of
Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2014), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
(2014), the Art Institute of Chicago (2013) y the Venice Biennale (2013). In
2007 she took part in documenta 12.

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OLAF NICOLAI
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Born in 1962, he lives and works as an artist in Berlin. A student of the School of
Applied Arts in Schneeberg (Germany), he studied German literature and philology
at the universities of Leipzig, Budapest and Vienna. He is currently Professor of
Sculpture and Fundamentals of Three-Dimensional Design at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Munich.
He has developed a range of interdisciplinary projects that question the elemental
experience of space, time, and physics. Whether it be in a science­fiction novel, a
piece of music, or the processes of industrial arts and crafts, Nicolai acts as a
go­between, mediating between a given space and conceptual forms to tackle
questions of social behaviour in the zone of tension between concrete experience
and abstract contextualization. By working with repetition and sequencing, he
develops his own representational critique and gives visibility to unfamiliar contexts.
He combines the production of artificial landscapes, archival memory, craft practices,
and fictional scenarios with quotidian constellations, and, in so doing, highlights the
variability of our conception of nature.
His work was recently showed in Fondation Lafayette, Paris (2014); Le pigment de la
lumière, interior design for the new Gropius and Moholy­Nagy Masters’ Houses,
Bauhaus Dessau (2014); (Innere Stimme), Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
am Main (2013); Escalier
du Chant, Musée du Louvre, Paris (2013). He took part in
the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 and 2005 and in documenta X (1997).

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PHILIP RIZK, JASMINA METWALY
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PHILIP RIZK
Born 1982, is a film­maker and writer based in Cairo, Egypt. He studied
Philosophy and Anthropology and has been working with video since 2009. His
first film was the short documentary This Palestinian Life (2009).
In 2010, Rizk
completed the short film series Sturm, a two­channel articulation that explores
rural and industrial ruin in Egypt. Together with Jasmina Metwaly, he formed the
video collective ‘intifadat intifadat’ in 2011, producing the series of videos
Remarking January 25. Since 2011, Rizk has been a member of the Mosireen
media collective. His texts have appeared in various readers, the Journal of
Human Geography, and on the websites jadaliyya.com and roarmag.org. His
film work was shown as part of the exhibition Cairo. Open City. New
Testimonies of an Ongoing Revolution in Braunschweig, Essen, and Hamburg,
as well as at various film festivals in Europe and the Middle East, including the
Berlinale. Since 2010, he has regularly worked on projects with Jasmina
Metwaly.

 JASMINA METWALY
Born 1982, lives and works as an artist in Cairo. She studied painting at the
University of Arts in Poznań. She is co­founder of the Mosireen media
collective, which was formed during the 2011 revolution in Egypt in order to
establish a platform for citizen journa­ lism and an archive of the revolution.
Metwaly’s works have been shown at the Berlin International Film Festival
(Berlinale) and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her contributions to
Mosireen took her to the 7th Berlin Biennale in 2012 and were included in the
exhibition Cairo. Open City. New Testimonies of an Ongoing Revolution in
Braunschweig, Essen, and Hamburg (2012/13). She has also had individual
works shown in galleries and art spaces in Cairo, Ramallah, London, and
Wroclaw. Since 2010, she has collaborated on a regular basis with Philip Rizk.
Their joint work is concerned with new ways for people to participate as
subjects of their (hi)stories and with new forms of filmic and political
representation.

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TOBIAS ZIELONY
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Born in 1973, he lives and works as an artist in Berlin. He studied Documentary
Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, and did his postgraduate
studies under the supervision of Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts
Leipzig.
The starting point for his work was the observation of a global youth culture,
often in the abandoned spaces of post­ industrial structures and shrinking cities.
In recent years, his photographs and films have focused on marginalized
groups in capitalist societies. They reflect on traditional photographic narrative
styles and can be read as an alternative to conventional forms of documentary
presentation. Zielony sees the camera as a stage for his protagonists.
His work was recently seen in the following exhibitions: Dream Lovers. The
Films 2008–2014, KOW, Berlin / Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples (2015); Vele,
Esker Foundation, Calgary (2014); Lichtwark revisited, Hamburger Kunsthalle
(2014); Jenny Jenny, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2013); Live Cinema /
Peripheral Stages (with Mohamed Bourouissa), MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle
Arte del XXI Secolo, Rome, and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2012); and Tobias
Zielony: Manitoba, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main (2012).