Eszter Salamon: Voices & Witches – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Eszter Salamon:
Voices & Witches
Voices & Witches
10€/15€/20€/25€
German premiere
As part of Gallery Weekend 2025
In Voices & Witches, artist, choreographer and performer Eszter Salamon explores her connection with history, directly engaging with the work and life of the avant-garde artist Valeska Gert. Gert’s work fearlessly defied the dominant aesthetic and ideological norms of the 1920s and 1930s, strongly influenced by German romanticism and nationalism – including its standards for female beauty. In this lecture performance, Salamon boldly challenges the boundaries of canonical art history, giving voice to a feminist genealogy.
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Early boarding
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Concept, performance: Eszter Salamon
Outside eye: Arantxa Martinez
Voice recording, editing: Sibi Abhimanue, João Carvalho
Production, organization: Botschaft GbR / Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES / Elodie Perrin, Institute of Speculative Narration and Embodiment (Berlin)
Thanks to Grazyna Kulczyk, founder of Muzeum Susch, and Joanna Lesnierowska, curator of Acziun Susch.
Special thanks to Boglàrka Börcsök for her collaboration in the research and development of the Valeska Gert Monuments, initiated by Eszter Salamon in 2015.
Voices & Witches is inspired by Valeska Gert’s works such as Humoreske (1916), Modedame (1917), Kupplerin (1920), Pause (1920), Das Baby (1920s), Salome (1921), Orgasmus (1922), Clown (1922), Zärtlicher Walzer (1924), Grüsse aus dem Mumienkeller (1926), Komödie (1927), Koloratursängerin (1928), Tragödie (1929), Schlafwandlerin (1930), Zauberer (1931), Versammlung (1931), Autohypnosis, KZ-Kommandeuse Ilse Koch (1951), Jubile (1951), as well as by Gert’s autobiographical book Ich bin eine Hexe. Kaleidoskop meines Lebens (1968).
Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and performer. She works and lives in Berlin. Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organising agency between various media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement and actions. Since 2001, she has created performances, performative installations, and films that have been presented in performing arts venues and museums internationally, including Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA New York City, Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona, Serralves Foundation Porto, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Kunstinstituut Melly Rotterdam, Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela, Fondation Cartier Paris, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation Brussels, ING Art Center Brussels, and KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin, Tanz im August Berlin, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg, Ruhrtriennale, Festival d’Automne Paris, Avignon Festival, Wiener Festwochen Vienna, KunstenfestivaldesArts Brussels, Holland Festival Amsterdam. Her exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 (2014) was presented at Jeu de Paume Paris as part of Satellite, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Her performative installation Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion (2022) was shown at the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her film Sommerspiele (2023) premiered at Akademie der Künste Berlin and was presented during Hors Pistes 2024 at Centre Pompidou. Her solo performance Dance for Nothing (revisited) (2024) was presented at Grazer Kunstverein, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, MCBA Lausanne, and during the 15th Baltic Triennale at CAC Vilnius.
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