Hito Steyerl is one of the leading artists working in video today. Her work explores the divisions between art philosophy and politics. She has has solo exhibitions at, amongst others, MOCA, L.A.; Reina Sofia, Madrid; ICA, London; as well as participated in the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Documenta and Manfesta. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern. She is the author of The Wretched of the Screen and writes in numerous periodicals. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Steyerl's art is extremely rich, dense and rewarding. . .With Steyerl, you can't always tell fact from fabulation, where the jokes end and seriousness begins, what is truth and what is a lie. A pleasure in art can unhinge us in everyday life, where we are undone by falsehoods at every turn.