Harun Farocki (1944-2014) is one of the most important and internationally best-known German filmmakers. His work includes over 100 experimental films and documentaries, essays, shorts and feature films. From the mid-1990s, he broadened his filmmaking with video installations in the fields of art. The focus of his methods and his body of work is studying the importance of images and their origins.
The exhibition Harun Farocki – By Other Means is the third in a series of exhibitions that Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra have designed. The first two were staged last year at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (January – May 2016), and at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (June – October 2016). The inauguration of this year’s project, at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, coincides with Berlin Art Week, from 13th to 17th September, and looks at the logic of the cinema from Farocki’s perspective.