Harun Farocki Retrospective
Sep.14, 2017–Jan.28, 2018
September 14, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Opening: September 13. 2017, 6pm
Harun Farocki (1944-2014) is one of the most important and internationally influential German filmmakers. His œuvre comprises more than 100 experimental and documentary films, essay, short and feature films. However, his complete œuvre goes far beyond that. Farocki left behind extensive works of film and media theory, still to be discovered, and for decades worked as a lecturer. Since the mid-1990s, he expanded his cinematic practice with video installations in fine art spaces. Farocki was an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. Vital to his approach and his œuvre is the examination of the meaning of images, their genesis, and, in particular, the power structures inscribed in them. In order to pay tribute to the significant œuvre of Harun Farocki, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, the Harun Farocki Institute, Harun Farocki GbR, Savvy Contemporary and Silent Green Kulturquartier, initiated the first comprehensive retrospective of Farocki’s work.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is showing the exhibition Harun Farocki: Mit anderen Mitteln – By Other Means, which assembles his film installation works. Simultaneously the first retrospective of Harun Farocki´s complete cinematographic work takes place at the Arsenal Cinema. Dedicated to the question about the influence and permanence of Farocki’s aesthetic and intellectual practice is the event Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy, organized by the Harun Farocki Institute, taking place on several days at Silent Green Kulturquartier, with an opening event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Savvy Contemporary presents the group exhibition El Usman Faroqhi Here and a Yonder – On Finding Poise in Disorientation, that reflects on the politics and cultures of naming, as it takes its cue from Farocki’s name change and usage of pseudonyms. The exhibition features Candice Breitz, Ariani Darmawan, Fehras Publishing Practices, Shilpa Gupta, HO Tzu Nyen, Samson Kambalu, Olaf Nicolau. And Michael Zheng. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne publishes a multi-volume edition of the writings by Harun Farocki, the first volume being the previously unpublished autobiography. The Harun Farocki Retrospective is accompanied by an extensive lecture program and the educational programs Großes Kino, Kleines Kino and Arsenal Filmatelier.
Artistic directors: Marius Babias and Antje Ehmann
Curators: Antonia Alampi, Carles Guerra, Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, Volker Pantenburg, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Project manager: Eva-Maria Gillich
Project coordinators: Ulrike Hasis, Annette Lingg and Elsa de Seynes
The Harun Farocki Retrospective is a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, the Harun Farocki Institute, Harun Farocki GbR, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Savvy Contemporary and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, as part of the Berlin Art Week, supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
September 14, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Opening: September 13. 2017, 6pm
Harun Farocki (1944-2014) is one of the most important and internationally influential German filmmakers. His œuvre comprises more than 100 experimental and documentary films, essay, short and feature films. However, his complete œuvre goes far beyond that. Farocki left behind extensive works of film and media theory, still to be discovered, and for decades worked as a lecturer. Since the mid-1990s, he expanded his cinematic practice with video installations in fine art spaces. Farocki was an ethnographer of capitalist living environments, which he dissected and analyzed. Vital to his approach and his œuvre is the examination of the meaning of images, their genesis, and, in particular, the power structures inscribed in them. In order to pay tribute to the significant œuvre of Harun Farocki, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, the Harun Farocki Institute, Harun Farocki GbR, Savvy Contemporary and Silent Green Kulturquartier, initiated the first comprehensive retrospective of Farocki’s work.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is showing the exhibition Harun Farocki: Mit anderen Mitteln – By Other Means, which assembles his film installation works. Simultaneously the first retrospective of Harun Farocki´s complete cinematographic work takes place at the Arsenal Cinema. Dedicated to the question about the influence and permanence of Farocki’s aesthetic and intellectual practice is the event Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy, organized by the Harun Farocki Institute, taking place on several days at Silent Green Kulturquartier, with an opening event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Savvy Contemporary presents the group exhibition El Usman Faroqhi Here and a Yonder – On Finding Poise in Disorientation, that reflects on the politics and cultures of naming, as it takes its cue from Farocki’s name change and usage of pseudonyms. The exhibition features Candice Breitz, Ariani Darmawan, Fehras Publishing Practices, Shilpa Gupta, HO Tzu Nyen, Samson Kambalu, Olaf Nicolau. And Michael Zheng. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne publishes a multi-volume edition of the writings by Harun Farocki, the first volume being the previously unpublished autobiography. The Harun Farocki Retrospective is accompanied by an extensive lecture program and the educational programs Großes Kino, Kleines Kino and Arsenal Filmatelier.
Artistic directors: Marius Babias and Antje Ehmann
Curators: Antonia Alampi, Carles Guerra, Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, Volker Pantenburg, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Project manager: Eva-Maria Gillich
Project coordinators: Ulrike Hasis, Annette Lingg and Elsa de Seynes
The Harun Farocki Retrospective is a project by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, the Harun Farocki Institute, Harun Farocki GbR, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Savvy Contemporary and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, as part of the Berlin Art Week, supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.