Rotem Berlin Salon is an independent, experimental platform for dialogue through artistic research. The Salon hosts intimate public gatherings with artists who have participated in its residency programme, extending the experience into a shared space of reflection and public engagement.
Rotem Berlin Salon responds to the turbulent landscape of the early 21st century by weaving together hosting, art, history, identity, society and feminism within an intimate setting. In this era of liberal-democratic fragility, I open my doors.
At the Salon event, I host the artists who participated in the 'Rotem Berlin Salon' residency programme as my guests. Together, we create an intimate public gathering that extends into a shared space of reflection and public encounter.
The residency programme provides time for focused creative work alongside close professional exchange. Each residency is tailored to the needs and interests of the invited artist.
In an era of uncertainty and rising extremism, the Rotem Berlin Salon confronts the present head on. It tackles the monsters of our time and the ghosts of the past, delving into the visceral core of the human condition. As an integral part of the programme, a documentary essay will be produced. It will capture the essence of the residency by exploring the dynamics of the host–guest relationship, the artists' creative processes, and their intimate encounters with the audience during salon gatherings. It will address the pressing questions that emerge from these interactions, such as those concerning identity, place, belonging, and history, and it will constitute an evolving body of thought on the human condition in the present moment.
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 traumatized, and my country of birth is undergoing profound change.
Through my artistic actions, I seek to create space for insight, articulation, and solace, and to foster a sense of healing.
At the Salon event, I host the artists who participated in the 'Rotem Berlin Salon' residency programme as my guests. Together, we create an intimate public gathering that extends into a shared space of reflection and public encounter.
The residency programme provides time for focused creative work alongside close professional exchange. Each residency is tailored to the needs and interests of the invited artist.
In an era of uncertainty and rising extremism, the Rotem Berlin Salon confronts the present head on. It tackles the monsters of our time and the ghosts of the past, delving into the visceral core of the human condition. As an integral part of the programme, a documentary essay will be produced. It will capture the essence of the residency by exploring the dynamics of the host–guest relationship, the artists' creative processes, and their intimate encounters with the audience during salon gatherings. It will address the pressing questions that emerge from these interactions, such as those concerning identity, place, belonging, and history, and it will constitute an evolving body of thought on the human condition in the present moment.
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 traumatized, and my country of birth is undergoing profound change.
Through my artistic actions, I seek to create space for insight, articulation, and solace, and to foster a sense of healing.