Rotem Berlin Salon is an independent, experimental platform for dialogue through artistic research. Responding to the turbulent landscape of the early 21st century, it weaves together hosting, art, history, identity, society, and feminism within an intimate setting. At this particular moment in history, when liberal-democratic society reveals its fragility, I open my doors.

The Salon hosts intimate public gatherings with artists who have participated in its residency programme, extending it into a shared space of reflection and public encounter.

The Rotem Berlin Salon residency programme provides artists with time for focused creative work alongside close professional exchange. Each residency is tailored to the needs and interests of the invited artist.

As an integral part of the programme, and as a culmination of each residency, a documentary essay is produced. These texts unfold the residency as a whole: the dynamics of the host–guest relationship, the artist’s creative process, and intimate encounters with the audience during Salon gatherings. The essays engage with the urgent questions that arise from this exchange - questions of identity, place, belonging, and history. Together, they form an evolving body of thought on the human condition in the present moment.
In an era marked by uncertainty and rising extremism, Rotem Berlin Salon confronts the present directly, facing the monsters of our time and the ghosts of the past, and delving into the visceral core of the human condition.

I work within and out of the circumstances of my life. The more unstable the ground, the stronger my urge to create and to question becomes.
Rotem Berlin Salon brings together the questions that preoccupy me as an artist, writer, and curator. It continues a conceptual thread initiated in Apart.Art, a gallery I ran in my private home in Tel Aviv’s Florentin neighborhood between 2009 and 2011. By exposing my personal life as part of the artistic and curatorial practice, the project explored the condition in which the private becomes public, and the living room becomes a site for contemporary art.

Inspired by the Jewish salonnières of Berlin who hosted gatherings of thought and debate in their homes and played a subversive role in shaping liberal culture and advancing women’s presence in public life from the late 18th century until the First World War, the Rotem Berlin Salon continues this tradition in a contemporary form.

I am a woman, a mother, a migrant, an Israeli, and a secular daughter of Jewish people and culture.
My work as an artist, curator, and lecturer in architecture has faced economic decline since the COVID pandemic.
As a woman, I am still fighting for an equal place in society.
My Israeli and Jewish origins provoke either curiosity or dismissal.
The society I come from is deeply traumatised, and my country of birth is undergoing profound change.
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Through my artistic actions, I seek to create space for insight, articulation, and solace, and to foster a sense of healing.