In 1976, the filmmaker and writer Harun Farocki (1944–2014) envisioned an institution that ‘we can also organize’ as ‘an assembly of working people, not from an abstract understanding but from the contact points of their work’. The Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI), founded in September 2015 as a non-profit organisation, seeks to realise Farocki’s proposal in the shape of a platform for researching his visual and discursive practice and supporting new projects that engage with the past, present and the future of image cultures.

At the beginning of May 2019 Alex Klein and Tausif Noor conducted a conversation with Tom Holert about the HaFI for the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia in their online series “I Is for Institute.” The transcript is available here.

Some activities and projects from the first three years of the Institut are compiled here: