For Spike’s eleventh artist talk at Soho House Berlin, Omer Krieger did a show-and-tell of some of his legendary, controversial, and altogether beautiful actions in public spaces. These organized catastrophes, prophetic compositions, and disruptive ceremonies, which touch on Israel-Palestine and Europe, violence and joy, activism and state-building, memory and future, are as painful as they are fun.

___

Omer Krieger (born 1975 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, lives in Berlin) studies the public experience and performance of the nation state in order to create performative actions, political situations, and civic choreographies in public space. He co-founded and led the performative research body Public Movement from 2006 to 2011, before founding and leading as artistic director the 1:1 Center for Art and Politics, Tel-Aviv, from 2018 to 2020. His performances and video works have been shown recently in Berlin at the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Jewish Museum (both 2023), and are included in the exhibition “Noa Eshkol: No Time to Dance” at the Georg Kolbe Museum, which opened in March.