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SALOON International Meeting at ECC with an introduction by ECC curator Lucia Pedrana and SALOON Munich member Tamiko Thiel presenting the installation “Wilderness” by UMA - United Media Artists. The ECC - European Cultural Centre presents the exhibition “Personal Structures - Confluences” at their site at Palazzo Mora. The exhibition celebrates the intersections of people, stories, and disciplines, a space where diverse perspectives merge to forge new currents in contemporary art. SALOON Munich member Tamiko Thiel and SALOON Paris member Jeanne Susplugas are member of United Media Artists (UMA). Their multi channel video installation “Wilderness” evokes a place that obeys its own laws, an uncultivated mythic world, a place to explore or to hide; an example of the wonders of life – the dichotomy of beauty and danger. On view at ECC, Palazzo Mora, until November 29, 2026.

SALOON International Meeting at the exhibition “Liquid Archives” in Venice with many members from different SALOON cities participating! About Liquid Archives: The exhibition, curated by Maddalena Pelù @maddalena_pelu , explores water not only as a natural element, but also as sensitive memory, the female body, ecological force, fluid mythology, and political matter. Artists: Angela Anzi, Katya Ev Anton, Anna Grebner, Marie-Luce Nadal, Clara Rivault, Kiki Smith, Flaminia Veronesi SALOON member Angela Anzi @angela_anzi uses the mytholgical marine figure of the siren to investigate processes of silencing and domestication of the feminine in the collective memory of Western culture. SALOON member Anna Grebner @annaagrebner uses the mussel as symbol for the progressive acidification of the oceans. Katya Ev Anton @katya.ev_anton works with human milk as artistic matter addressing the idealization and invisibilisation of breast feeding. On show is on until October 22, 2026 Please contact the artists for opening hours and exact location at Campo Santo Stefano in Venice.

SALOON‘s special event organized by former Denniston Hill resident Nadja Marcin at the exhibition CHIMERA at Pavillon of Denniston Hill at the Venice Biennial at the main exhibition “In Minor Keys” at the Giardini. The exhibition brings together 154 former residents of Denniston Hill in the southern Catskill Mountains, within the ancestral territory of the Esopus people of Lenapehoking - a residency program created by Lawrence Chua, Julie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer. @lawrencechuaa @pmp2021 Former resident and SALOON Berlin member Nadja Marcin introduces her work as well as the artists Alex Beriault, Pelenakeke Brown, and Jennifer Montgomery. About Nadja Marcin’s @nadjaverenamarcin work: “The Cube” (video sculpture, 2026) is a life-sized cyborg-like skull, modeled from the artist’s own CT data and fitted with a real-hair wig, contains monitors displaying fragments from Marcin’s earlier performance “The Cube” (2017). Situated on the roof of Denniston Hill’s former farmhouse, the performance reflects on resistance, vulnerability, and socially inherited gender roles, culminating in a leap into a firefighter’s rescue net held by participants below. Location: Giardini main exhibition, next to book shop.

International SALOON Meeting at the Bulgarian Pavillon at Venice Biennial with many members from different cities of the saloon-network.org Bulgarian Pavilion The Federation of Minor Practices Artists: Gery Georgieva, Maria Nalbantova, Rayna Teneva, Veneta Androva 
Curator: Martina Yordanova The Bulgarian Pavilion is conceived as the headquarters of a fictional research lab operating within a post sovereign, care oriented political imagination known as The Federation of Minor Practices. SALOON Member Veneta Androva’s „Spray and Pray“ examines infrastructures of disinformation through the ecology of mushroom websites and algorithmic systems. Rayna Teneva’s „Geography Is Destiny“ traces the entanglement of labour, care, and violence. Maria Nalbantova’s work at the Dragoman Marsh unfolds as a long term practice of ecological care. Gery Georgieva’s film mobilises digital myth and prophecy to question regimes of identity, pleasure, and mediated truth. Bulgarian Pavillon entrance in front of Vaporetto Station Zattere.

The climate crisis affects the entire world, but who are the key players who can take action to address it? And how? How can art and curatorial practice address and communicate today’s ecological urgency?  The climate crisis raises both ecological and cultural questions. What role do utopias, dystopias, moralistic or speculative narratives play? What can art really achieve in the face of global crises?  And what structural or cultural policy changes are needed to enable this? NICE TO MEET YOU #18 on “Art & Ecology” invited artists and curators from the SALOON Network to talk about artistic, aesthetic or curatorial strategies, their engagement, or networks to take action against the climate crisis. Today we introduce: Si-Ying Fung, @fung_siying @saloonhamburg Title of her talk: Travellers don't count (they bring stories) Si-Ying Fung is a visual artist and art and culture mediator. In her objects, drawings, and installations, she explores the relationship between place and identity, belonging, labels, and categories, and their failure. The relationship between place and identity and the feeling of belonging are important topics to her. After studying Chinese studies and art history (University of Hamburg), illustration (HAW Hamburg), and fine arts (Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design), and as a guest student at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Si-Ying Fung (she/her) now lives and works as a visual artist and art and culture mediator in Hamburg. She was a scholarship holder of the DAAD, the Claussen-Simon Foundation, Artist in Residence at the Salzamt Linz (AUT), the Totatoga Cultural Cluster in Busan (KOR), and the Sasso Residency in Vairano (CHE). 1. Portrait Photo Credit: Vera Drebusch 2./3. "Der Weg über den Gartenzaun" 2025, Photo Credit: Robert Schlossnickel #saloonnetwork #saloon #saloonmember #togetherwearestronger #womennetwork #womensnetwork #womeninart #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #internationalnetwork #artnetwork #saloonhamburg #siyingfung

The climate crisis affects the entire world, but who are the key players who can take action to address it? And how? How can art and curatorial practice address and communicate today’s ecological urgency?  The climate crisis raises both ecological and cultural questions. What role do utopias, dystopias, moralistic or speculative narratives play? What can art really achieve in the face of global crises?  And what structural or cultural policy changes are needed to enable this?  NICE TO MEET YOU #18 on “Art & Ecology” invited artists and curators from the SALOON Network to talk about artistic, aesthetic or curatorial strategies, their engagement, or networks to take action against the climate crisis. Today we introduce: Anna Pasco Bolta, @apascobolta @saloon.munich Title of her talk: Deep Echos Anna Pasco Bolta explores how life and existence are constructed and sustained through an ecological and relational approach that intertwines art, science, and technology. Her transdisciplinary practice examines systems of coexistence and proposes more intimate and co-creative ways of relating to other species and environments. By combining art theory, popular culture, gastronomy, performance, and scientific collaboration, she challenges Western dichotomies and foregrounds the symbiotic relationships that sustain everyday life. Alongside her artistic practice, she publishes across artistic, cultural, and scientific platforms, including artist books, magazines, and peer-reviewed academic journals. Since 2022, she has been a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, and since 2026 also at the University of Barcelona.  1. Portrait: Sima Dehgani Shahin Hefter 2. Work 1 (Title: To Hold as Letting): Franziska von den Driesch 3. Work 2 (Title: Where Breathing becomes you): Franziska von den Driesch 4. Work 3 (Title: So uoo op that sinks in): Franziska von den Driesch #saloonnetwork #saloon #saloonmember #togetherwearestronger #womennetwork #womensupportingwomen #saloonmunich #annapascobolta

The climate crisis affects the entire world, but who are the key players who can take action to address it? And how? How can art and curatorial practice address and communicate today’s ecological urgency?  The climate crisis raises both ecological and cultural questions. What role do utopias, dystopias, moralistic or speculative narratives play? What can art really achieve in the face of global crises?  And what structural or cultural policy changes are needed to enable this? NICE TO MEET YOU #18 on “Art & Ecology” invited artists and curators from the SALOON Network to talk about artistic, aesthetic or curatorial strategies, their engagement, or networks to take action against the climate crisis. Today we introduce: Tuçe Erel, Curator @tuceerel SALOON Berlin Title of her talk: Curating in the Capitalocene Tuçe Erel is a Berlin-based curator, art writer, musician/sound artist, podcaster, and cultural worker. Her curatorial interests include archiving practices, ecology, the Anthropocene, posthumanism, and post-digital theories. Erel uses her sociology education in her curatorial research, and in her research methodology, she prefers to twist and challenge conventional social science methodologies. In recent years, she has explored hacking as a way to unbox bio-politics, the Anthropocene, ecological crisis, cultures, nonhuman agency, artistic speculation, and imagination. She is currently researching extractivism and deforestation as curatorial and artistic research themes. She studied sociology at METU (2005) and art theory and criticism (MA program) at Anatolian University (2009). She did her second MA in Art Arts Policy and Management (with curating pathway) at Birkbeck College (2015).  1. Portrait: Anil Eraslan 2. Cammack Lindsey, Wem gehört die Welt?, 2023, sound installation, PCB, hydrophone, Microcystis aeruginosa, water samples from Müggelsee, epoxy/ thermoplastic containers, vinyl map. Photo: Tim Deussen. 3. Udo Koloska, AFTERLIFE, 2024, Light and sound installation, Audio composition (3:37min), Spruce slats, perforated tape, lava mulch, LED lamps, cables, electronics. Photo: Matthias Bednasch #saloonnetwork #saloon #saloonberlin #tuceerel

✨ Welcome to the Board, Anastasia ✨ We are excited to welcome Anastasia Kaup (she/her) as a new board member of SALOON Munich as of April 2026. Anastasia is a communications and art professional with a strong focus on building meaningful connections within the art world. In her current role at PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V., the friends’ association of the museum, she shapes strategic communication, digital presence, and audience engagement. She also oversees the association’s PIN. Young Circle, maintaining close ties to Munich’s emerging art scene. With a background spanning communication, media, and art history (University of Vienna and LMU Munich), Anastasia brings a thoughtful and interdisciplinary perspective—combining a deep understanding of networks, formats, and audiences with a genuine interest in how artistic positions are communicated and contextualized. We are especially excited about her experience in developing programs and formats, building, managing, and strengthening networks, as well as her passion for the arts, her warm and professional approach, and her commitment to increasing the visibility of women in the arts—values that lie at the heart of SALOON. Please join us in welcoming Anastasia! 🙌🤩 (@anastasia_emma_ ) @saloon.network #saloonnetwork #saloonmunich

Saloon no.7 Brno in Wien March 2026 🧢 Last weekend, 14 (!) of us took the train to Wien. The two-day program—thoughtfully put together by Táňa @tana.sedovka —felt carefully attuned to Saloon’s @saloon.network shared interests. We moved through the city in a slightly chaotic, enthusiastic rhythm, meeting hosts, organizations, artist-run spaces, old friends, and Saloon Wien @saloon_wien members along the way. 👟 Thank you for your generosity—for the conversations on our practices, equality, gender, space, and the histories of forming associations, as well as feminism and labor. And for speaking openly about the challenges, and the courage it takes to build and sustain collectives in the cultural field. 🌞 We met with (board) members in VBKÖ @vbkoe_ and Kombinage Collective @kombinage , and had the pleasure of spending time with Hannes Groblacher @hannesgroeblacher , Daniell Hill @studio.danielhill , Anne Glassner @anneglassner , Markus Guschelbauer @markusguschelbauer , Petra Hlaváčková @petrahlavackova321 and Nicole Sabella (Gender and Space studio at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna @gender_space_studio ) and Luisa Kasalicky. 🐝 Later, we moved on to Das Weisse Haus @dasweissehaus and met Pia Wamsler, Jana Dolečki, Eva Kovač a Aline Lenzhofer. On Sunday morning, we were warmly welcomed by Christine Bruckbauer at philomena+ @philomena_plus , followed by visits to fjk3 @franzjosefskai3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst and MUSA @wienmuseum_musa Wien Museum (with Vasilena Gankovska @gankovska and curator Jelena Micic @jelena.ljubomir.micic ), and we also met with members of Saloon Vienna, including Nadine Lemke @nadin_lemke and Aline Lenzhofer @alinedezordo and reunited with Aki. Dear Wien, thank you 🫶🏻 and see you in Brno 😉 #saloonnetwork #art #culturalworkers #artscene #network

💭🦋Elisa Duca’s 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 (2025) imagines the autonomy and agency of objects when liberated from their functional significance in daily life. They emancipate themselves from the labour value assigned by humans, subverting urban routines and queering infrastructure. From where and how do dreams arise? 💜 Elisa Duca is a Berlin-based artist whose multimedia installations examine transcultural experiences and post-migrant identity. Her practice invites a rethinking of binaries—digital versus real, global versus local, human versus other-than-human—to explore the possibilities of in-between spaces. Trained as an actress and a graduate of DAMS at the University of Bologna, Duca has received grants from the Goethe-Institut, the Capital Cultural Fund, and the Berlin Senate. Her work has been shown at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Haus am Lützowplatz, and Sophiensaele in Berlin, and internationally at Gallery 1 Shanthi Road (Bangalore), Eaton Workshop (Hong Kong), and SET UP Art Fair (Bologna). In 2025, her work was presented at KINDL Berlin and the IFA Berlin technology fair. @ducaelisa @saloon.hongkong @saloon.network #SpoiledSystemSlowSabotage Venue courtesy of @goetheinstitut_hk

For our #9 SALOON Düsseldorf gathering, we had the pleasure of visiting the inspiring exhibition “Community” at Kunstpalast. @kunstpalast A special highlight was the personal tour led by curator Linda Conze. Her insights, thoughts, and background perspectives on the exhibition left a lasting impression on us and opened up new ways of thinking. Many thanks, dear Linda @_lindamary_ , for this enriching experience – it was truly fantastic! Another highlight of the evening was the visit from Tina Sauerländer @tinissima , founder of the SALOON Berlin, the first SALOON of the network. Dear Tina, we were so happy to see you, exchange ideas, and spark new ones together. Foto 5: "Territory" by member Yvon Chabrowski @yvonchabrowski @saloon.berlin @saloon.network @saloon.dusseldorf @saloon.berlin #womennetwork #womeninart #togetherwearestronger #womenpower #saloonnetwork #womenindüsseldorf

Dear SALOON community, We are thrilled to embark on a new chapter of SALOON Hamburg together with you. SALOON is an international non-profit network for women-identifying art professionals — a space for exchange, solidarity, visibility, and mutual support. At this moment, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Franziska Storch and Charlotte Gaitzsch for their dedication in founding and shaping SALOON Hamburg — for their many ideas, the time and energy they invested, and above all for the trust they placed in us to carry this work forward. The next (and last) board member we would like to introduce today is Andrea Richter: Andrea Richter is a journalist, author and director specialising in visual arts and contemporary culture. She has been working for public broadcasters such as NDR and ARTE for many years, contributing to formats including NDR Kultur – Das Magazin, ttt – titel thesen temperamente and the ARTE culture magazine TWIST, where she also serves as head author. She studied Visual Communication as well as Art Theory and History at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, graduating with distinction. Richter’s work combines art-historical expertise with strong visual and media literacy, focusing on contemporary artistic practices and cultural discourse. Since 2024, she has been pursuing a part-time Master’s degree in Digital Journalism at Hamburg Media School. #saloonhamburg #saloonnetwork #newboard @andrearichter_artpoorart