Hito Steyerl´s installation Hell Yeah We Fuck Die

The LBBW Collection acquired works by female artists at an early stage. In addition to Rineke Dijkstra, Isa Genzken, Asta Gröting and Candida Höfer, new acquisitions in recent years have also focused on the production of artists such as Nevin Aladag, Shannon Bool, Anna Witt and Hito Steyerl, among others. In 2024, her multimedia installation "Hell Yeah We Fuck Die" (2016) will be presented in Mannheim for the first time. The enigmatic title of loosely connected 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 parcours. This is 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 militarization 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 in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebel groups.