Harun Farocki
(B.1944, Nový Jicin (Neutitschein), Czechoslovakia // D.Berlin, 2014)SOLO SHOWS
2023"Harun Farocki, Consider Labour", Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Scotland
"Harun Farocki. Against War", Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Germany
2022
"Harun Farocki. Against War" Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
"As You See. The works of Harun Farocki", Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
2021
The Physiognomy of Power. Harun Farocki & Florentina Pakosta, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
"Harun Farocki ", Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis | USA
"Harun Farocki: Shaping of our Present", A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava | Slowakei
2020
Harun Farocki. Reality Would Have to Begin, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara
Harun Farocki & Hito Steyerl. Life Captured Still, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London
Harun Farocki. Who is in Charge?, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo
The Counter-Image, Images Festival, Toronto
2019
Par allel I-IV, Cache Space, Beijing
Harun Farocki: Who Is in Charge?, Instituto Moreira Salles, Río de Janeiro
Harun Farocki: Über die Entgrenzung der Arbeit, Goethe Institut Bukarest
Harun Farocki: Who Is in Charge?, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo
2018
Harun Farocki, Retrospective. What Ought to Be Done?. Work and Life, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seul
Men in trouble, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
2017
Harun Farocki und die Musik, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Harun Farocki. Parallel I-IV, MAMAC, Nice
Harun Farocki – O trabalho com as imagens, Cena 15, Fortaleza
Empathie, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
Harun Farocki: Counter-Music, Haus der Kunst München, Munich
Labour in a single shot, CAC Vilnius, Vilnius
Harun Farocki: Harun Mit anderen Mitteln – By Other Means, NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2016
What is at Stake, IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Valencia
Harun Farocki. Programming the Visible, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Harun Farocki. Empatía, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Harun Farocki, Antje Ehmann. Arbeitsverhältnisse, aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck
arbeitsverhältnisse, aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck
Harun Farocki. Parallel I - IV, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Harun Farocki: Something else becomes Visible, Zarya. Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok
Torino Film Festival. Retrospective, Torino
2015
Convertir(se) en imagen, LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón
Serious Games, Nationalgalerie, Staaliche Museen, Berlin
Endless images. Tribute to Harun Farocki, Xcèntric, CCCB's cinema, Barcelona
Electronic Superhighway. Harun Farocki: Parallel I-IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Harun Farocki. Videoarbeiten, Kunstverein Galerie am Markt Schwäbisch Hall e.V., Schwäbisch Hall
2014
Harun Farocki, Kunstverein Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall
Harun Farocki: Serious Games I-IV, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
Parallele I-IV, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Harun Farocki: Visión. Producción. Opresión., MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
Harun Farocki: Serious Games, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Parallel I-IV, LOOP FAIR 2014, àngels barcelona-espai2, Barcelona
Harun Farocki. 4 films from 1967-1997. An homage curated by Antje Ehmann, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
2013
7 dager: Harun Farocki, Curated by Mats Stjenstedt, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Videoart at Midnight, Curated by Olaf Stüber, Kino Babylon, Berlin
Screening and Paneldiscussion Harun Farocki, Curated by Nina Möntmann, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Harun Farocki: Imagination At Work, Curated by Antje Ehmann & Gaëlle Morel, Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Instalaciones y filmes, Curated by Inge Stache & Adriana Rosenberg, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
Blown Up: Gaming and War, Curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul, Gallery 101, Ottawa
Harun Farocki - Workers Leaving the Factory, Curated by Mats Stjernstedt & Cecilia Widenheim, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Spielregeln, Curated by Claudia Gianetti, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
Harun Farocki - Side by Side, Curated by Andrea Cinel, Argos - Centre for Art and Media, Brussels
Harun Farocki: Serious Games I-IV, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
2012
7 days: Harun Farocki, Curated by Mats Stjenstedt, Point Center for the Arts, Nicosia
7 dager: Harun Farocki, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Harun Farocki Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art,, Río de Janeiro
Harun Farocki, Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), Mexico
Imágenes del mundo: Harun Farocki, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires
2011
Harun Farocki. Tres duplas projeccoes, Galeria Palacio Galveais, Lisbon
Harun Farocki. A cruz e a plata., Lumiar cite, Lisbon
Images of War (at a Distance), Museum of Modern Art,, New York
Serious Games, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
Image Works, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Comparison via a Third, Center for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Glasgow
What a distance, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
2010
Harun Farocki, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Umgiessen, Osram Art Project, München
Filme, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
2009
Harun Farocki. Night Ohne Risiko, Sprengel Museum, Blue Box, Hannover
Harun Farocki, Tranzit, Prague
Against What? Against Whom?, Raven Raw
HF I RG (with Rodney Graham), Jeu de Paume, Paris
Harun Farocki, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven
Harun Farocki, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Three Early Films, Cubbit Gallery, London
Harun Farocki, Ludwig Museum, Köln
GROUP SHOWS
2024"Images at Work", Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg
2023
"Ways of Unseeing" Lundskonsthall, Lund, Sweden
"Motherless Daughters", Vin. Vin, Vienna, Austria
"Are you Working Now?" National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
"Rompecabezas" BIENAL SUR. MUNTREF. Centre of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
\"open box\", aut, Innsbruck, Austria
"Worldbuilding. Jeu vidéo et Art à l'ère digitale", Centre Pompidou-Metz | France
"Who we Are. Reflexions on the Country of Immigration", Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn | Germany
"The New Survivors", Three Shwadows, Photography Art Center, Beijing | China
"Planned City", Simian, Copenhagen | Danmark
"Game Society", National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul | South Korea
"Borders and Barriers - Thresholds and Separations", Gabés Cinema Fen, "El Kazma", Gabés | Tunesia
"Workwear: How to wear Utopia" Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museum of Architecture and Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Bitter Sweet", Grand Palais, Bern | Switzerland
"Proxemities", La Box, Bourges | France
"Signals: How Video Transformed the World", Museum of Modern Art, New York | USA
"Tropical. Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America", National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
"Was anderes machen (The home and the movie)", Silent Green Culture Quartier, Berlin, Germany
Agents of Concern, PXL-MAD Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium
"Remember Europe, Borders and Barriers - Tresholds and DistancesSalonul de Projecte", Goethe Institut, Bucharest, Romania
"Potosi Principle Archive" Institut for Studies on Latin American Art, New York, USA
"History Tales Fact and Fiction in History Painting", Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
2022
"Retail Apocalypse", Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA), Montreal | Canada
"Beneath the skin, Between the Machines" HOW Art Museum, Shanghai | China
"Writing the History of the Future Signature", Work of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collectin, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwnagju | South Korea
"Le tour de jour en quatre-vingts mondes", CAPC, Bordeaux | France
"A matter of time", àngels Barcelona, Spain
"Chennai Photo Biennale", Chennai | India
"Les Flammes. L'art vivant de la céramique", Museum of Modern Art, Paris | France
"The Story of M.B. as told by Jef Geys" Frans Masareel Centrum, Kasterlee | Belgium
"Bluff", Lovaas Projects, Munich | Germany
"Holding Pattern", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo | Norwey
"Minerva", Cultural Association, Cluj | Romania
"Vom Stilleben zum Food Porn", Museum für Brot und Kunst, Ulm | Germany
"Inventur – Ist im Keller noch Museum?", Kunstmuseum Bochum | Germany
"Kunst und Krieg. Von Goya bis Richter" Kunstmuseum Winterthur | Switzerland
"SupaStore", A plus A Gallery, Venice | Italy
"When Faith Moves Mountains", PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv | Ukraine
"Fiftteenth-Anniversary Exhibition on Gaming and Art", Julia Stoschek Collectin Düsseldorf | Germany
"Potosí Prinzip Archiv", Galerie der Stadt Schwaz | Austria
"Emplotment" Ludwig Museum, Budapest | Hungary
"Body & Cosmos: The Art of Living Together", Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha City | China
2021
Inquiétances des temps. A journey through the CNAP video collection, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone
The Society of Individuals, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan
Video Games: Play Without End, Tabacalera, San Sebastián
Observing Power, Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallin
The Physiognomy of Power, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Dos Años de Vacaciones, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Anything Goes? Berliner Architekturen der 1980er Jahre, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2020
El gesto como resistencia. Acción y repuesta, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife
WOOD 2020 (Postponed), Open House, Singapore
Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities, Palazzo del Governante, Parma
The many voices of les indiennes, HEAD, Geneva
In Pursuit of Images, AA AA GAllery, London
The Supermarket of Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Feedback #5: Marshall McLuhan, Fonderie Darling, Montreal
Me, Family, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Retail Apocalypse, gta exhibitions, Zurich
Höhenrausch 2020 - Wie im Paradies, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz
Language for Sale, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
The Willow sees the heron's image upside down, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife
El sauce ve de cabeza la imagen de la garza, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife
Bideo-jokoboak. Playing without end, Tabakalera, San Sebastián
Bridging the fragile, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas, Denver Art Museum, Denver
The Society of Individuals, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
The Physiognomy of Power, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Übertragung
If a Turtle Could Talk, Overt: Militarization as Ideology, Art Museum of Toronto, Toronto
Me, Family, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Labour in a Single Shot. 15 Cities, HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste |
Schnittstellen. Aus der Sammlung Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum, Blue Box
Beyond the Pain, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Nach dem Beaufsichtigen der Maschinen, LVR-Industriemuseum
Overview Fact, Cursor Gallery, Prague
Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis. Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren
New Ways of World, Arc en reve - centre d'architecture, Bordeaux
Crepuscolo, Bastione Sangallo Loreto
Poröse Städte. Grenzgänge des Urbanen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2019
Video Games, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona
L'attente (Waiting), Galerie de'l UQAM, Montreal
Every Single Day, Galerie UM, Prague
Are you Satisfied?, Aktuelle Kunst und Revolution, Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin
Der Montierte Mensch, Folkwangmuseum Essen, Essen
Case study: 1989, IVAM, Valencia
Christopher Williams. MODEL: Kochgeschirre, Kinder, Viet Nam (Angepasst zum benutzen), C / O Berlin, Berlin
Zwischen Stahlträger und White Cube. 101 Jahre Farbrik, ALTEFABRIK
Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities, Palazzo del Governante
Franz Radzwill und die Gegenwart. Landschaft, Technik, Medien, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
Höhenrausch 2020 – Wie im Paradies, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz
Truth that Lies, Impakt, Center for Media Culture, Utrecht
(with Antje Ehmann) "Das Wesentliche an der Arbeit ist unsichtbar", Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Steyr
Feedback #4 (Detroit). MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND THE ARTS, West
Anozero, Coimbra's Biennal of Contemporary Art
New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Welcome to Jerusalem, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
Play, Stadt-Museum, Aarau
Im Visier. Die Schusswaffe in Kunst und Design, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau
OPEN AIR. Mines, Quarries and Earthly Exploitations, CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza Fundación Beulas, Huesca
Das Wesentliche an der Arbeit ist unsichtbar, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr
“Stasis / Taking A Stance”, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale Of Contemporary Art
A queda do céu (The Falling Sky), Centro Cultural de Caixa, Brasilia
PLAYMODE, MAAT, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon
The Wall and other Stories, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Sarah Schumann. Wirkliche Welt. Collagen und Gemälde von 1958 bis 2008, Van Ham Art Estate, Cologne
The Village, Carriage trade, New York
In this world, we, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale On-Hudson
Fuzzy Dark Spot. Videokunst aus Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Re-working Labor, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
An aural deconstruction of narrative. A selection of video works by àngels barcelona, àngels barcelona-espai2, Barcelona
Me Family, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Serious Games, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
Sarah Schumann, Die zerstörte japanische Botschaft und andere Malerein, Collagen und Zeichnungen, Künstlerhaus, Göttingen
Infancy and History, OCAT Institut, Beijing
Re: Working Labor, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
"In this world, we". Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard Galleries, New York
Stasis / Talking a Stance, Thessaloniki Biennále of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Artistic Intelligence, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
OPEN AIR. Mines, Quarries and Earthly Exploitations, CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza Fundación Beulas, Huesca
Pratiques de la distraction, HEAD, Geneva
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York
Games and Politics, ISELP - Institute Superieur pour l'etude du langage, Brussels
An aural deconstruction of narrative. A selection of video works by àngels barcelona, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
2018
Turbulences, La Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art, CaixaForum, Barcelona
Virtual Insanity, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipiei, Taipei
Klassenverhältnisse - Phantoms of Perception, Kunstverein, Hamburg
2018 - Are you satisfied?, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
Post Institutional Stress Disorder, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
2017
1966-2016, Greene Naftali, New York
Please come back. The world as prison?, MAXXI- National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
Arte para pensar la nueva razón del mundo, BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires
Manipulate the world. Connecting Öyvind Fahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Harun Farocki / Christian Petzold, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2016
What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta, Zurich
Das Kapital: Schuld - Territorium - Utopie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Putting Rehearsals to the test, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal
+ ultra wissen schafft gestaltung, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Kalte Gesellschaft #2, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
Grenzenlos grausam? Bilder der Gewalt in der Antiken Welt, Sklupturhalle Basel, Basel
In Search of the Presence, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Tapiola
Territories and Fictions. Thinking a new Way of the World, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Each fighting its own little battle in happy ignorance, Pump House Gallery, London
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Afterwork, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
TELE-Gen - Die Sprache des Fernsehens im Spiegel der Kunst 1963-2005, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Hacking Habitat - Art of Control, Old prison building, Utrecht
THE NEW HUMAN. Knock, Knock, Is Anyone Home?, Moderna Museet, Malmö
Nervöse Systeme, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
After Work, Para Site, Hong Kong
A Sense of History, Nordsternzentrum, Gelsenkirchen
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen
El mundo fue plano. Ahora es redondo y será un holograma, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan
Lo inconmensurable. Una idea de Europa, Centrocentro, Madrid
Beachhead's PEACE OF MIND, NZ, Auckland
Security Theatre, Or Gallery, Vancouver
THE NEW HUMAN, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
On Limits: Enstrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York
6x6 Positionen zur Fotografie, OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz
Border imag(e)naries, àngels barcelona-espai2, Barcelona
Camera(auto)controle, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
2015
What cannot be used is Forgotten, CAPC Musée d´Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Body Politics, àngels barcelona-espai2, Barcelona
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice
A REPUBLIC OF ART french regional collections of contemporary art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2014
Labor in a single shot, Mills Gallery (Boston Center for the Arts), Boston, MA
@LOOP Fair & Festival, àngels barcelona-espai2, Barcelona
Black Box: Art & Cinema. Seattle International Film Festival, Art Museum Seattle, Seattle
Datascape: Nuevos paisajes en la era tecnológica, Curated by Benjamin Weil, LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón
2013
Par les temps qui courent, Curated by Bertrand Franck & Emeline Coulon, Le Grand Café Centre for Contemporary Art, Saint-Nazaire
1st International Documentary Festival, Aegean Docs, Curated by Chara Lampidou, Story Doc, Athens
Intervalls, Curated by Chema González, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
The Prose of the World, Curated by Yang Beichen & Hao Jingban, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal,, Shenzhen
93, Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Filmästhetische Forschung, Curated by Annette Lingg, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
International Documentary Festival, Curated by Apolline Caron-Ottavi & Gabrielle Dupont, Montréal
Spekulantenwahn. Zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und medialer Imagination, Curated by Florian WÜST, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
Capitalism Catch 22, Curated by Florian WÜST, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Wir stellen ein. Perspektiven und Entwürfe von Arbeit im Film, Curated by Corinna KÜHN, Filmhaus, Köln
Festival Cinéma Documentaire: Filmer à tout Prix, Curated by Céline Brouwez, Flagey Cinematek, Brussels
Brot und Spiele, Curated by Milena Mercer, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin
La Otra Bienal, Curated by Elisabeth Vollert & Gabriela Salgado, Bogotá
International Documentary Film Festival, Curated by Mads Mikkelsen, Copenhagen
Viennale '13, International Film Festival, Curated by Hans Hurch, Vienna
Work Hard Play Hard - the surreal alienation of professional situations, Curated by Helena Kritis, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Im Bilde, Curated by Werner Ruzicka, DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE 37 das festival des deutschsprachigen dokumentarfilms, Duisburg
War and Trauma, Curated by Patrick Allegaert, Bart Marius & Yoon Hee Lamot, Museum Dr. Guislain,, Gent
Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Curated by Niels Van Tomme, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
International Film Festival, the whole world fits in Lisbon, Curated by Susana de Sousa Dias, Doclisboa, Lisbon
International Film Festival, Moving Stills - Photography, Photographers and Documentary Film, Curated by Federico Rossin, Doclisboa, Lisbon
Dream Factory, Exuberant Politics, Curated by Aily Nash & Andrew Norman Wilson, W151 Tippie Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Kino B: Contemporary Cinema by Berlin-based Artists, Curated by Caroline Koebel Mary Magsamen, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Games reflexions. Le jeu vidéo comme reflets du réel, Curated by Isabelle Arvers Alexia Bayet, Arts visuels - Le Carreau, Cergy
Minimal Resistance. Between late modernism and globalization: artistic practices during the 80s and 90s., Curated by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2012
EntreVues Festival du Film, Cinéma Pathé, Belfort
Festival des deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilms 36, Duisburg
Doubles Économies, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
Video & Film selection for LOOP, Espai 2, Barcelona
L'image témoin: l'après-coup du réel, Jeu de Paume, Paris
time(less) signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2011
Video & Film selection for LOOP, Espai 2, Barcelona
Serious Games, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
The Workers, MASS MOCA, Mass
PUBLIC WORKS
2019Harun Farocki: Über die Entgrenzung der Arbeit, Goethe Institut Bukarest