Dear art-world peers, shy admirers, and other hobnobbers,

We warmly invite you to Spike’s fourth artist talk at Soho House Berlin, a filmic lecture by artist Dani Gal addressing his use of re-staging to complicate given histories and unpacking his motives to challenge the past. A screening of his thirty-minute film »Three Works For Piano« (2020) and a conversation with Spike editor Christian Kobald will follow.

To reserve one of the fifty seats for Spike’s guests, please RSVP until 20 February. (Soho House members are asked to register via the club's app – there’s no cap on how many members can attend.)

We hope to see you there!

Take care, and till then,

Spike

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Hallucinatory Cinema* and dialogical notions of history

For Spike’s fourth artist talk at Soho House Berlin, artist Dani Gal will present clips from his filmography to address how he uses re-staging to complicate given histories and unpack his motives to challenge the past. A screening of his thirty-minute film »Three Works For Piano« (2020) and a conversation with Spike editor Christian Kobald will follow.

Dani Gal is an artist and filmmaker born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin. By subtly manipulating the traces of historical events and reconstructing what has gone unrecorded, Gal questions claims about the mediated “truth” of cultural memory and reveals how such knowledge shapes our ideas about the present. His films have been shown at the Venice Biennale and documenta, as well as renowned institutions like the Jewish Museum New York, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and Centre Pompidou.

Image: Still from Dani Gal, »Three Works For Piano«, 2020, 4k video, 34 min. Courtesy: Dani Gal and Kadel Wilborn Gallery. Camera Itay Marom