Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and performer living between Berlin, Paris and Budapest. 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 solos and large scale performances, performative installations, and films that have been presented at international performing arts venues and museums, including Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA in New York City, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Serralves Foundation in Porto, Akademie der Künste Berlin, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela, Fondation Cartier in Paris, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, ING Art Center Brussels, and KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Her exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 (2014) was presented at Jeu de Paume in Paris as part of Satellite, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. In 2022, her performative installation Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion was presented at the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her most recent film Sommerspiele (2023) premiered at Akademie der Künste in Berlin and was presented during Hors Pistes 2024 at Centre Pompidou.

photo Bea Borgers