Harun Farocki (1944, Novy Jicin – Berlin, 2014). The work of the artist and film-maker has had a decisive influence on the history of the political film since the late 1960s. Besides over 100 productions made for television and cinema, Farocki – as long-time author and editor of the magazine Filmkritik, curator, and visiting professor in Berkeley, Harvard and Vienna – has conveyed his reflections on the relation between society, politics and the moving picture. His huge significance for the visual arts is reflected in retrospectives in institutions such as Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, the Tate Modern London, as well as in solo exhibitions at MUMOK Vienna, Jeu de Paume Paris, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Kunsthaus Bregenz and more recently at MUAC Mexico and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. His work sets out a constant research on the conditions of production of the audiovisual image, visual resources and narratives, and the subtexts contained in the production and distribution of moving images. 

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Updated October 2021

Antje Ehmann is a curator, author, and artist

Curatorial projects (selection):
Harun Farocki: Who is in Charge? (with Heloisa Espada), Instituto
Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, IMS Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018 | Harun
Farocki. What ought to be done. Life and work, (with Eunhee Kim),
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South-Korea,
2018 | Harun Farocki Retrospective (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 |
By other Means (with Carles Guerra), NBK, Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki.
Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 2016
| Harun Farocki. What is at Stake (with Carles Guerra), Institut Valencia
d’Art Modern | Harun Farocki. 4 films from 1967-1997, Angels Gallery
Barcelona 2014

Artistic projects (selection): How shall I name what I am missing? (with
Jan Ralske), Forum Expanded 2015 | Labour in a Single Shot. A Project
together with Harun Farocki, 2011 – 2014, with Eva Stotz, since 2017 |
War Tropes, (with Harun Farocki), Gorki Theater, Berlin 2011 | Feasting
or Flying (with Harun Farocki), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 2009
Publications (selection):
Harun Farocki, What Ought to be Done? Work and Life (with Eunhee
Kim), Seoul 2018 | Harun Farocki, 10, 20, 30, 40. Fragment einer
Autobiographie (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki,
Another Kind of Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Cologne 2016 | Serious
Games. War – Media – Art (with Ralf Beil), Ostfildern 2011

Last update: November 11th, 2019