Harun Farocki was born in 1944 in Nový Jicin (Neutitschein). He studied at the German Film- and Television-Academy, Berlin. Lectorships in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, München and Stuttgart, from 1993–1999 visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2004 visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He lives and works in Berlin.
| 2008 | Fußballfilmfestival 11mm, Berlin |
| Deep Play, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland | |
| Deep Play, The Greene Naftaly Gallery, New York | |
| 2007 | Harun Farocki, àngels barcelona, Barcelona |
| One Image doesn’t take the place of the previous one, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal | |
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg | |
| Nebeneinander, MUMOK. Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien | |
| 2006 | Screening Harun Farockis Counter-Music, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York |
| Index. The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm | |
| 2004 | Auge/Maschine I–III, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, ZKM, Karlsruhe |
| 2003 | Eye/Machine, ICA. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 2002 | Vernissage de l‘installation vidéo, Goethe Institut Paris, Paris |
| Erkennen und Verfolgen. Filme, Videos und Installationen von Harun Farocki, Oktagon Dresden | |
| Ich glaubte Gefangene zu sehen, SMAK. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent | |
| 2001 | Filme, Videos, Installationen, Filmclub Münster und Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
| New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt | |
| Spuren der Inszenierung – Nicht löschbares Feuer, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
| 2008 | Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg | |
| Máchinas y Almas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| Tekfestival Opificio, Rom | |
| After the Light: Moving Images Displayed at Night, Radialsystem, Berlin | |
| Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, ICP International Center for Photography, New York | |
| Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York | |
| Re-enactments, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Montreal, Montreal | |
| Mimétisme, Extra City – Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen | |
| MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt | |
| Glück – welches Glück?, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden | |
| 2007 | Filmische Wahrheiten, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
| Czechpoint – International Exhibition and Festival of Political Art, Gallery of Arts, Zilina | |
| See us Act, Lund Konsthall, Lund | |
| New Economy, Artists Space, New York |
