“AN ACCUMULATING TALE”

For Spike’s 14th artist talk at Soho House Berlin, and occasioned by the world premiere of his film Miraculous Accident at the Berlinale, Assaf Gruber will score the ebb and flow of local and global social change across his work, as he tries to balance the weighty histories of art and cinema and the utter madness of life in 2025. Q&A with Spike editor Christian Kobald to follow.

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 at 7pm
Soho House, 10119 Berlin
In “Torstraße 1”
The bar will be open until 9pm

Assaf Gruber (b. 1980 in Jerusalem) is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. Juxtaposing materiality, narrative, and the fictional spaces that arise in between, his art-making is a language of tensions between movement and stillness, spoken to pull apart the thick, opaque mass fusing people and culture to the institutions that might represent them. Solo exhibitions include Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018) and the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2015). His films have been featured at the Berlinale Film Festival (2016) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023).