The German filmmaker, video artist, theorist and writer Harun Farocki is known for his politicised film-essays, in which he assembles found and original footage to explore issues such as the power of images, the intersections between war and technology, and the role of labour in capitalist society. With a background in drama, sociology and journalism, and influenced by the work of Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, he completed film studies at the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin (1966–68). In addition to producing over 100 films for television and cinema, Farocki – an author, editor of the magazine Filmkritik, curator, and visiting professor at Berkeley, Harvard and Vienna – has shaped the discourse surrounding politics, the moving image, and the politics of images.
The intersections between technology and war played a decisive role in works such as Eye / Machine (2000–03) or Serious Games (2009–10), in which Farocki relates these to conditions of economic production. He sees human agency as increasingly replaced by computers in war and industry alike, with the natural functions of the eye being taken over by machines in both situations. A similar replacement of human labour by mechanical processes can be seen in his later works such as Comparison via a Third (2007) and Re-Pouring (2010). In his films, Farocki uses the devices of split-screen, soft montage and repetition to suggest relationships between images, but leaves these open to interpretation, inviting viewers to draw their own conclusions.
The ongoing workshop Labour in a Single Shot (2011– ) was initiated by Farocki and his partner, curator Antje Ehmann, who collaborated on a number of projects since the late 1990s. Referencing the Lumière brothers' La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (1895), an early film that shows workers leaving a factory in Lyon, they used the same device of a single camera shot to explore the subject of labour. Over the course of four years, they travelled to 15 major cities where they produced over 400 short films with local video artists and filmmakers. Together, this mosaic of films visualises work in the 21st century in all its variety and complexity.
Farocki was born in 1944 in Neutitschein, an area in the Czech Republic that had been annexed by Germany at the time. He lived and worked in Berlin for over 40 years, decisively shaping the history of the political film since the 1960s. The gallery had the privilege of working with him for almost a decade before his death in 2014, and continues to foster his artistic legacy. Farocki's first film created for a museum setting, Schnittstelle (1995), marked a turning point in his career and his work has since been the subject of major institutional exhibitions, including at the Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (2019); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2017); Fundacío Antoni Tapìes, Barcelona (2016); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2014); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2010); Tate Modern, London (2009); and mumok, Vienna (2007), among others.
2022
Harun Farocki against War, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2020
Harun Farocki: Reality Would Have to Begin, Art Encounters Foundation Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania
2019
Harun Farocki. Quem é responsável?, IMS | Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
Harun Farocki: What Ought To Be Done? Work & Life, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2017
Empathie – Harun Farocki, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Harun Farocki: Images contre elles-mêmes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Harun Farocki. Parallel I – IV, MAMAC | Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Harun Farocki and the Music, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Harun Farocki. By other Means, n.b.k. | Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki. Labour in a Single Shot, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithunia
Harun Farocki: Counter Music, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Harun Farocki Schreenshot, Galerie art & essai - Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France
Harun Farocki. 'Deep Play', The Grand Café and LIVE, Ville de Saint-Nazaire, France
Harun Farocki. Parallel I – IV, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2016
Harun Farocki: Something Else Becomes Visible, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Harun Farocki – Antje Ehmann: Arbeitsverhältnisse, aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Empathy, Fundacio Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
What is at Stake, IVAM | Instituto Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Programming the Visible, Paco Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Labour in a Single Shot, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Parallele I-IV, Akademie der schönen Künste, Munich, Germany
Metaphor and Politics: The Tehran Retrospective of Harun Farocki, Ag Galerie, Sazmanab Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Harun Farocki (1944–2014), Neue Sächsische Gallerie, Chemnitz, Germany
Harun Farocki – Zbynek Baladrán, Center for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
2014
Paralelle I-IV, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Visión. Producción. Opresión. MUAC | Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Ernste Spiele, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Parallel I-IV, LOOP FAIR 2014, àngels barcelona-espai 2, Barcelona, Spain
Harun Farocki, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
Harun Farocki: Videoarbeiten, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Serious Games I-IV, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
Àngles Barcelona, Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
Harun Farocki, àngels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Unlimited: Harun Farocki – Kurzfilme 1967-83, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Latest Work | A Tribute, Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Harun Farocki – Politics and Second Nature, Instituto Ling, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Was Zählt! Harun Farocki / Ein Abend, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
4 films from 1967 - 1997. An Homage, àngels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Harun Farocki, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Cinema that Expands, Cine Cultura, Samambaia Campus - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia; MIS | Museu da Imagem e do Som - Centro Cultural Marietta Telles Machado, Goiânia, Brazil
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Before Your Eyes: Filme von Harun Farocki im Kunstraum, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA
2013
Serious Games I-IV, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
7 dager: Harun Farocki, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Videoart at Midnight: Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany
Screening and Paneldiscussion Harun Farocki, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Imagination At Work, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Instalaciones y filmes, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blown Up: Gaming and War, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Workers Leaving the Factory, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Spielregeln, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Harun Farocki - Side by Side, Argos, ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium
Against What? Against Whom?, Ergostasio Fine Arts School, Athens, Greece
2012
Imágenes del mundo: Harun Farocki, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
7 days: Harun Farocki, Point Center for the Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus
7 dager: Harun Farocki, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Río de Janeiro, Brazil
MUNAL | Museo Nacional De Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
On the Desperate and Long-Neglected Need for Small Events, Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK
Harun Farocki, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Between Eye and Hand, Former Hotel Pythagorion, Samos, Greece
Ein neues Produkt, Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Haus der Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany
Seven Screens, Osram, Munich, Germany
Harun Farocki First Time in Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2011
Harun Farocki - Recognition and Tracking, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance), MoMA | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Tout autour - Rundherum, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium
Image Works, BAC | Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Harun Farocki: Serious Games, àngels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
War At A Distance, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Harun Farocki : Tres Duplas Projeccoes, Galeria Palàcio Galveias, Lisbon, Portugal
Harun Farocki : A Cruz e a Prata, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal
Harun Farocki, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Harun Farocki. Deep Play, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Harun Farocki. Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, Contact Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010
Seven Screens: Harun Farocki—Umgießen, Osram Art Project, Munich, Germany
Harun Farocki: Soft Montages, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Harun Farocki: Deep Play, Surrey Art Gallery & Surrey Arts Centre, Surrey, Canada
2009
Harun Farocki. Against What? Against Whom?, Raven Row, London, UK
Harun Farocki. 22 Films 1968-2009, Tate Modern, London, UK
Harun Farocki, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Harun Farocki. Nicht ohne Risiko, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2007
Eye / Machine I–III & On Construction of Griffith’s Films, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Harun Farocki, mumok | Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2004
Auge / Maschine I–III, ZkM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2024
24/7. Work between meaning and imbalance, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2022
WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2018
Phantoms of Perception, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Picture Industry, Luma, Arles, France
Die Konstruktion der Welt (Kunst und Ökonomie), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Die Landschaft der Technik, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Der Wert der Freiheit, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Stillleben in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Museum Hundertwasser - Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology, MOCA Taipei | Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
No War No Vietnam, Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
Virtual Insanity, Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany
Kunst in Bewegung. 100 Meisterwerke mit und durch Medien. Ein operationaler Kanon, ZkM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Other Mechanisms, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Kaleidoskop Worpswede. Kunstwerk, Landschaft, Lebensort, Worpswede Museen, Worpswede, Germany
Das Runde und das Eckige. Fußball in der Kunst, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany
7. Triennale der Photografie. Control | No Control, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Ein gemachter Mensch. Künstlerische Fragen an Identitäten, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, Germany
Geld Wahn Sinn, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany
Studio Eine Phantstik, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
A Study in Scarlett, frac île-de-france | Fonds régional d'art contemporain Île-de-France, Île-de-France, France
Das Wesentliche an der Arbeit ist unsichtbar, Museum Arbeitswelt, Steyr, Austria
General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, MMOMA | Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
The Habitat of Time, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Eastern Sugar, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
On Struggling to Remain Present When You Want to Dissapear, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
Post Institutional Stress Disorder (PISD), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Kunst der Revolte / Revolte der Kunst, Studierendenhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
Faithless Pictures, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Reflections for the Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2017
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Please Come Back. The World as a prison?, IVAM | Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Remastered – Die Kunst der Aneignung, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Newwar. It's Just a Game?, Bandjoun Art Station, Bandojoun, Cameroon
Schöne Neue Welten. Virtuelle Realitäten in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19th Century, Southest Asia Gallery - National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Worl-Wide-Walks / Berlin - Lodz – Sofia, Kreativikum Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany
Manipulate The World. Connecting Öyvind Fahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Open Codes, ZkM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mechanism, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts - CCA | California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Presentation of the Collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Feedback # 1: Marshall Mc Luhen and the Arts, West Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands
Deutschland 8 - Deutsche Kunst in China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. New Literacy, Ural Branch - NCCA | National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie – Farwell Photography, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Objekt Lessons, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany
Im Spielrausch. Von Königinnen, Pixelmonstern und Drachentötern, MAK | Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
Arte Para Pensar La Nueva Razón Del Mundo, Museo de la Universidad Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tech x space. accelerated dislocations and new topologies, Škuc galerija, Llubljana, Czeck Republic
Perspectives on War, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
The New Pantheon, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Will We Work?, AIL | Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna, Austria
Slow Violence: Tracing the Anthropocene, History Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
After the Fact, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Images in Conflict, Galerie für Fotografie, Hannover, Germany
Weapon of Choice, John Jay College Gallery, New York, NY, USA
AAH Room, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal
The Data Battlefield, Fotomusuem Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Bodenlos: Vilém Flusser and the Arts, Gallery of Arts – University of Prague, Czech Republic
Out of Office. Büro-Kunst oder das Büro im Museum, Museum für konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Undead Cinema, Nam June Paik Center, Gyeonggi-gu, South Korea
Evidentiary Realism, NOME Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Friedman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Life World, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
24/7, CentroCentro Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
Please Come Back. The World as a Prison?, MAXXI | Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Art in the Age of Internet, 1989 to Today, ICA Boston | Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Work in Motion. The video camera's eye on social and economic behavior, Fondazione Mast, Bologna, Italy
1966-2016, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2016
Afterwork, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Learning Laboratories. Architecture, Instructional Technology, and the Social Production of Pedagogical Space around 1970, BAK | basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
out of place, out of time, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain
Ficciones y territorios. Arte para pensar la nueva razón del mundo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Räume schaffen, Rupertinum - Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Kunst in Europa 1945-1968. Der Kontinent, den die EU nicht kennt, ZkM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Design and Violence, Science Gallery; MoMA | Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
In Search of the Presence, EMMA | Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Tapiola, Finland
+ ultra wissen schafft gestaltung, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Straub/Huillet/Weiss. Fremdheit gegenüber unserer engen, vertrauten Welt, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Grenzenlos grausam? Bilder der Gewalt in der Antiken Welt, Skulupturhalle Basel, Switzerland
Putting Rehearsals to the test, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal, Canada
Das Kapital: Schuld - Territorium – Utopie, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kalte Gesellschaft #2, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
Manifesta 11. What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, Stichting Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland
Camera(auto)contrôle, Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Border imag(e)naries, àngels barcelona - espai 2, Barcelona, Spain
6x6 Positionen zur Fotografie, Schlossmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
On Limits: Enstrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
THE NEW HUMAN, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden
Security Theatre, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Beachhead's PEACE OF MIND, NZ, Auckland, New Zealand
Lo inconmensurable. Una idea de Europa, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
El mundo fue plano. Ahora es redondoy será un holograma, Museo de Arte De Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
A Sense of History, Nordsternzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
After Work, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Nervöse Systeme | Nervous Systems, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany
THE NEW HUMAN. Knock, Knock, Is Anyone Home?, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Hacking Habitat – Art of Control, Old Prison Building, Utrecht, Netherlands
TELE-Gen - Die Sprache des Fernsehens im Spiegel der Kunst 1963-2005, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtensein
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
See Without Being Seen: The Contemporary Art of Drone Warfare, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum – Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
All The World´s Futures, Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy
Toys Redux – On Play and Critique, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Overtime : The Art of Work, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Body Politics, àngels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2013
Work Hard Play Hard: the surreal alienation of professional situations, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
Im Bilde: DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE 37 das festival des deutschsprachigen dokumentarfilms, Duisburg, Germany
War and Trauma: Bart Marius & Yoon Hee Lamot, Museum Dr Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Capitalism Catch 22, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, CADVC | Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
International Film Festival, the whole world fits in Lisbon, (curated by Susana de Sousa Dias), Doclisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
International Film Festival, Moving Stills - Photography, Photographers and Documentary Film (curated by Federico Rossin), Doclisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Dream Factory, Exuberant Politics, (curated by Aily Nash & Andrew Norman Wilson), W151 Tippie Auditorium – University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Kino B: Contemporary Cinema by Berlin-based Artists, (curated by Caroline Koebel Mary Magsamen), Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, USA
Games reflexions. Le jeu vidéo comme reflets du réel, (curated by Isabelle Arvers Alexia Bayet), Le Carreau | espace des arts visuels de la ville de Cergy, Cergy, France
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, Spain
Par les temps qui courent (curated by Bertrand Franck & Emeline Coulon), Le Grand Café - centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
1st International Documentary Festival, Aegean Docs, (curated by Chara Lampidou), Story Doc, Athens, Greece
Intervalls, (curated by Chema González), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
The Prose of the World, (curated by Yang Beichen & Hao Jingban), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
93 (curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez), CGAC | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago, Spain
Filmästhetische Forschung (curated by Annette Lingg), Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany
International Documentary Festival (curated by Apolline Caron-Ottavi & Gabrielle Dupont), Montréal, Canada
Spekulantenwahn. Zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und medialer Imagination (curated by Florian Wüst), Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany
Wir stellen ein. Perspektiven und Entwürfe von Arbeit im Film (curated by Corinna Kühn), Filmhaus, Köln, Germany
Festival Cinéma Documentaire: Filmer à tout Prix (curated by Céline Brouwe), Flagey Cinematek, Brussels, Belgium
Brot und Spiele (curated by Milena Mercer), Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
La Otra Bienal (curated by Elisabeth Vollert & Gabriela Salgado), Bogotá, Colombia
International Documentary Film Festival (curated by Mads Mikkelsen), Copenhagen, Denmark
Viennale '13, International Film Festival (curated by Hans Hurch), Vienna, Austria
2012
ArtandPress, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
L’homme de Vitruve, Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Parallele I, Taipei Biennale, Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The World is Not Fair, The Great World’s Fair 2012, Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Germany
2011
Exposed, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870, Tate Modern, London, UK; SF MoMA | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Evento 2011, Strange and Close, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative, Tokyo Metroplitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
29th Bienal des São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
Labyrinth, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Disobey at all costs, Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2010
Platform 2010 “Projected Image,” Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Transitland in Trieste, Studio Tommaseo - Istituto per la documentazione e diffusione delle Arti, Trieste, Italy
Principio Postosí / Das Potosí-Prinzip, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
MyWar. Partizipation in Kriegszeiten, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
2009
HF/RG. Harun Farocki / Rodney Graham, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Bilderschlachten, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany
Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki. Feastings or Flying, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007
Deep Play, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Austria
Generali Foundation, Vienna
mumok | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
LaM | Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Germany
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Collection of the Bundeskunstsammlung
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Berlin
Collection Goetz, Munich
Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Spain
MACBA | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Switzerland
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
UK
Tate, London
USA
MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY