• About the Project
• Screening Times and Location
• Costs and Tickets
• Assaf Gruber – Biography
• Image Gallery

2025, 16 mm, colour, 15 min
Commissioned by Kunsthaus Dahlem

Subtitles: English, German

Part of the festival programme 10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! to mark the 10th anniversary of Kunsthaus Dahlem

About the Project

An artist is asked to create a work of art about another artist, an early 20th-century local hero.

While accepting the challenge, the first refuses to name the former in the very thing he was invited to reflect upon.

How do we create art in 2025 about the dark past? As if it were still 2012?

Or the second half, or might it be the first quarter of the 20th century?

What meaning can emerge through this process?

What language can carry it?

What emotion might still be accessible? Bearable?

Are we looking for a conclusion or a discussion?

In a new essay film composed especially for the Kunsthaus Dahlem’s 10th Anniversary, Assaf Gruber drowns himself once again in the depths of art history, breathing through his personal account in a quest to find an artistic moral compass. Gruber turns the pointing finger at himself in a new video work entitled Commissioned Confession.

Screening Times and Location

Daily screenings from 12 to 22 June
14:00 – 15:00 and 17:00 – 18:00

Location: Education Room

The film (15 minutes) plays on a loop during the specified time slots.

Costs and Tickets

All anniversary events are free of charge for all visitors.

No ticket purchase required.

Assaf Gruber – Biography

Assaf Gruber is a Berlin-based sculptor and filmmaker born in Jerusalem. His work centres on the dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions, exploring how the values and agendas of established organizations shape people’s lives. Gruber pays special attention to how these institutions choose to represent facts and related artefacts to the public. On the other hand, through film, sculpture, photography, and installation, he investigates the reasons and motives that lead people to obey or rebel against inner or outer circumstances. His projects have been shown at numerous exhibitions and festivals, including a solo exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie (2018), as well as the Berlinale (2016, 2025) and IFFR (2023) festivals.

assafgruber.com

IMAGE GALLERY

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