Premiere: Hito Steyerl in Mannheim

LBBW and Kunsthalle Mannheim have been close partners since 2019. This cooperation is currently making a presentation of the expansive, multi-media installation by internationally renowned artist Hito Steyerl possible. The work entitled ‘Hell Yeah We Fuck Die’, which was acquired by the LBBW Collection in 2019, is being presented to the public for the first time. The enigmatic title made up of related terms is a list of the five most frequently used words in the English-language music charts of the 2010s.

This lettering appears in several places in the installation, in videos or framed in concrete elements reminiscent of training modules for a sporting discipline that has evolved from the military obstacle course. Hito Steyerl, who works at the interface of art, media theory and film, once again refers in her installation to the complex relationship between militarisation and civilian life, between technical innovation and everyday culture. In ‘Hell Yeah We Fuck Die’, the themes of artificial intelligence, robotics and their use in military operations are interwoven.