Press release
“Steina: Playback” is the first major retrospective in Germany of Steina (b. 1940, Reykjavík, Iceland), a trailblazer of video and media art. A classically trained violinist, Steina turned to video in the late 1960s and approached the medium with musical sensitivity. Spanning from early documentary experiments to expansive multichannel installations, the exhibition traces Steina’s lifelong pursuit of what she calls “machine vision”: a playful, non-anthropocentric perspective that stretches perception beyond the human.
This exhibition is organised by the MIT List Visual Arts Center in collaboration with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. It is co-curated by Natalie Bell, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Helga Christoffersen, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Coordinating curators for the Haus der Kunst edition of the exhibition are Lydia Antoniou and Marlene Mützel.
Duration
12.6.–7.12.26
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Steina
Summer Salt, 1982 (still)
Single-channel video, with sound; 19:10min.
Courtesy the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
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Steina
Violin Power, 1970–78 (still).
Single-channel video, with sound; 9:46 min.
Courtesy the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
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Steina in her studio in New York, 1975
Photo: Kevin Noble
Courtesy the Vasulka Archive
