Harun Farocki

Czech | 1944 - 2014

Harun Farocki was a Czech Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1944. His work is currently being shown at Trautwein Herleth in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg have featured Harun Farocki's work in the past.Harun Farocki has been featured in articles for ARTFORUM, China Daily and e-flux. The most recent article is “Shelf Life” at Trautwein Herleth, Berlin written for MOUSSE Magazine in February 2025. The artist died in 2014.

Current Exhibitions

Shelf Life

Trautwein Herleth

Berlin | Germany

Jan 18,2025 - Mar 01,2025

Past Exhibitions

24/7: Work Between Meaning And Imbalance

Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum

Graz | Austria

May 01,2024 - Jan 19,2025

On Television

Carriage Trade

New York | USA

Oct 10,2024 - Dec 15,2024

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Articles

“Shelf Life” at Trautwein Herleth, Berlin

MOUSSE Magazine 13/02/2025

The four-person exhibition, Shelf Life, features artists utilizing moving image. Via appropriation, juxtaposition, documentary and abstraction, the works included offer glimpses into the conditions that shape contemporary life.

Harun Farocki

ARTFORUM 01/11/2024

Writing on the tenth anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, Walter Benjamin described the author as a producer of parables.

Award-Winning Chinese Curator Presents New Work in Singapore

China Daily 24/10/2024

Chinese curator Wang Shuman, recipient of the 2022 Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image, presented Letter, Testimony, a screening of four works on Sunday at Singapore's Lasalle College of the Arts

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Coverage

“ ..Farocki's research and analysis of media and images offer new perspectives onto other aspects of labor, war, and technology... ”
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul

“ ..Through both montage and the deliberate composition of filmed and found materials, Farocki opens up the technical, socio-political, and cultural contexts of meaning in the production, distribution, and... ”
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The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

“ ..For these new video installations, each lasting eight minutes, Farocki made recordings in US military bases and combined his own sequences with excerpts from computer simulations... ”
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Villa Kast

“ .. “My path” states Farocki “is to search for buried meaning and to clear the rubble covering the images.” Farocki draws his imagery from a variety of sources including found industrial, surveillance... ”
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Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

“ ..hantments with labor practices across the world, combined with the mass displacement of workers which have taken place under the guise of globalization have added renewed urgency and energy to Farocki’s... ”
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