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