The SALOON Berlin is the first SALOON that came into existence. In 2012, independent curator Tina Sauerlaender gathered 10 great women from the Berlin art scene and started the network. Since then, the network in Berlin grew to several hundred members and developed into an international network with 1000 members. Besides organizing the regular internal meetings and events for its members, SALOON Berlin organizes public events in Berlin, like the panel series Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?* in cooperation with Performing Encounters or the symposium and screening Invisible To Whom? Not To Me in cooperation with Distinguished Diva Collective at Literaturhaus Berlin. In 2015, Tina Sauerlaender and Alina Heinze, who at that time had been co-running the SALOON, curated the exhibition SALOON at SEXAUER Gallery in Berlin, presenting 25 artists of the SALOON Berlin network. In 2022, the 10th anniversary took place accompanied by many events. The documentation can be found here.
You find more information on SALOON Berlin's events, members or the application process on its website saloon-berlin.de and instagram.com/saloon.berlin.
Lena Fließbach (she/her) - on sabbatical leave - is an independent curator and writer of contemporary art. She is co-curator of the exhibition Zero Waste, Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK), Leipzig, 2020, an international group show which questioned itself in terms of sustainability and aimed at possible solutions. She continues to explore possibilities of more sustainable exhibitions and art institutions and works as an expert for the training program and network for sustainability in the sector Ki Culture. Lena Fließbach created exhibitions and communication programs for various institutions such as Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Her show Ocean. Now!, was on view at Reinbeckhallen, Berlin.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2021.
Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa(she/her)
is the director of the municipal galleries Neukölln, the division of visual arts and art in urban space in the district of Neukölln. She studied art and cultural history at the University of Augsburg and completed her master's degree in art and visual history at Humboldt University in Berlin. She was curatorial assistant for the Festival of Future Nows 2014 at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin and 2017 at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin and worked for Light Art Space (LAS) in 2018. As a freelance curator, she conceived and organized two art festivals as part of the DRAUSSENSTADT initiative.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2023.
Sarah Maske (she/her) is an
independent curator based in Berlin. She is co-founder of the long term-project Sandstorm - And Then There Was Dust and the French-German cultural festival L'autre rapport a la terre. She has worked on exhibitions at Museum Wiesbaden, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, or Depo, Istanbul.
In her work she is especially interested in the connection of ecological phenomenons to political and social realities, blurring the boundaries among the media, telling feminist stories and immersive art forms through technology and beyond (workshops, life as art, walks etc.). She is currently working for Malia Verlag where she gives birth to books that tell about a better world.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2021.
Petra Ronzani (she/her) is invested in researching and shaping our current social environments with a focus on the changing realities of togetherness. Throughout her career she has been managing transformation processes, building and leading teams and mediating - between people, hierarchies, between today and tomorrow. After 15 years in leading positions at institutions such as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin Volksbühne or Henn Architects, she founded Ronzani & Partner in 2021. Her company offers advice to those who feel the future is equal to the present and more importantly: to those who respect the uniting potential of fun.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2023.
Nina Marlene Kraus (she/her) is an art historian and curator based in Berlin. She holds an MA in art history, having studied in Berlin, Kraków (Poland) and Santa Cruz, CA. Her current research focusses on the narratives of feminist art history, artistic utopias as political strategies as well as institutional critique. During her latest work for the three municipal galleries Neukölln in Berlin, she curated exhibitions at Galerie im Körnerpark and Galerie im Saalbau and organized an open-air festival at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2024.
Elisa Duca (she/her) is an artist works in mixed media. Her artistic practice is characterized by transcultural experiences of foreignness and has its place in post-migrant society. Her performative installations open up to the influences of non-human actors in their creation process and invite us to suspend binary notions of digitality and reality, global and local, human and non-human, and to explore the possibilities of in-between spaces.
She has lived in Berlin since 2004 and works extensively in Asia. She studied film and art history at the DAMS Institute of the University of Bologna and also trained as an actress. Her work has been supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, the Berlin Senate of Culture and various Goethe Institutes, among others. She exhibits regularly in Berlin and internationally.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2024.
ANna Tautfest (she/her) lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. She studied fine arts at the UdK Berlin, the Art Students League of New York and the HfbK Hamburg. She works at the interface between visual art and text production and gives space to these hybrid formats in the art context and in books. Her performative scenarios aim to take visitors with her, to evoke something together with them. While eating, while reading and writing, while bringing something with them. A shared carpet of text is created in the form of oral contributions and recordings, but also in written traces. Queer, feminist texts and theoretical debates are imprinted in Tautfest's artistic work, the art is expressed in her texts. She also passes on this combination of thought and action to students in artistic and academic teaching. ANna Tautfest completed her doctorate in 2022 on the topic of temporal non-linearity and the influence of speculative narratives on the perception of history.
She is a SALOON Board Member since 2021.
Please visit www.saloon-berlin.de to access the member's list.
