December 17, 2025: Christmas party at DIEResidenz with artist ANna Tauftest and curator Meta Marina Beeck

In December, DIEresidenz Berlin is showing an exhibition by ANna Tautfest and Krickel Biedermann-Tautfest. In her residency, the daughter works with her mother's artistic legacy and searches for visual, spatial, and emotional connections. The intertwining of the two biographies reveals a lot about the respective opportunities for women to pursue art and careers.

Further information: www.dieresidenz.net

November 12, 2025: at the exhibition "Tension Orchestra" at Kleiner Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg with artist Lisa Premke and curator Nina Marlene Kraus

Lisa Premke's performative installation centers on the performance Tension Orchestra, in which professional female bodybuilders become stringed instruments on which musicians play a composition. The exhibition also includes large-format glass paintings, adhesive film collages and sound sculptures: converted fitness equipment that can be activated by the audience.

Afterwards dinner at Miss Phuong.

Further information: www.lisapremke.de

Oktober 23, 2025: at the exhibition "HOLY SHIT" at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch with artist Alex Lebus

HOLY SHIT is an artistic exploration of the relationship between faith and the body, between devotion and exclusion, between the sacred and the everyday. The starting point is a place that stands like no other for the repressed, the intimate, the devalued: a disused toilet block. A room that once served as a place of need now becomes a temporary sacred space.

Afterwards dinner at W Pizza.

Further information: www.kunstbruecke-am-wildenbruch.de

September 30, 2025: at the exhibition "Sleeping Resistance" at Alte Feuerwache with curator Lena Fliessbach and artist Anne Glassner (SALOON Vienna) 

In a society that demands productivity and constant availability, conscious rest becomes a radical gesture. The Nap Event “Sleep – Resting Bodies” invites us to pause together and explore the transformative power of sleep. What happens when we surrender our bodies to space? How does it feel to surrender to the moment? As part of the exhibition “Sleeping Resistance,” we explore sleep as a collective practice and create a shared rest zone. Through a series of sensory exercises and small rituals, we will explore rest, sleep, and collective relaxation. The workshop ended with a collective nap.

Afterwards dinner at Yancha.

Further information: www.alte-feuerwache-friedrichshain.de

September 18, 2025: at dtb strategic legal advise for art with Adrienne Bauer 

Lawyer Adrienne Bauer introduced us to her work at dtb: from art and trademark law to foundation issues and asset succession planning. This is not just about legal provisions, but about strategic decisions that have far-reaching implications for culture, society, and the economy.

Afterwards dinner at Jolly.

Further information: www.dtb.eu

June 20, 2025: at the exhibition "Fight or Flight II" at StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg with artists Julie Legouez and Evelina Reiter

The exhibition shows artistic works by 33 FINT artists (women, inter, non-binary and trans people) on more than 1000 m² on the subject of money, class and poverty - and the daily balancing act between artistic practice and economic survival. A space of solidarity, a collective statement - political, poetic and personal.

Afterwards summer closing event with picnic in the court yard of StadtWERKSTATT.

Further information: www.fight-or-flight.net

May 26, 2025: at the exhibition „Toad’s Eye View“ at Galerie Hell with artist Mira O’Brien 

HELL invites you to look DOWN,to the floor of the forest and into the generative, unfurling foliage of `Toad ́s Eye View ́ an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Mira O ́Brien. One sees a glowing metamorphosis of matter and knowledge in various representations of plants: explorative observational painting, nature printing, and the turgid tendrils of calligraphic brushwork.

Afterwards dinner at Anomi.

Further information: www.galeriehell.com

April 30, 2025: at the exhibition "Die Ganze Zeit. Eine Ausstellung über die Herrschaft der Zeit und ihre Gegenwärtigkeit" at Schloss Britz with artist and curators Anna Borgman und Sophia Pompéry

The exhibition Die ganze Zeit shows how the culture of time established in the Gründerzeit is still present today - through debates about working hours, care work, the conflict between accelerated globalization and deceleration, and questions of sustainability. It invites us to reflect on who exercises power over our time today and what alternative time culture might be imaginable.

Afterwards dinner at Steakhaus Barbeque.

Further information: www.schlossgut-gutshof-britz.de

April 3, 2025: at the Berlin School of VR for a VR Workshop with Katharina Haverich

During this short and casual workshop at Studio Katharina Haverich / Berlin School of VR, Saloon members were invited to learn some basics about Virtual Reality and try out different VR headsets themselves. Together, they took a look at some of the social virtual reality worlds presented at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival. 

Further information: www.school-of-vr.org

March 13, 2025: at the exhibition „Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000“ at Neue Nationalgalerie with curator Marta Smolinska

The art of the second half of the twentieth century is marked by an enormous diversity of materials, mediums, and methods. At the same time, hardly another era was so characterized by division, rupture, and transformation as the period after the Second World War. In light of this, the Neue Nationalgalerie has chosen the title Extreme Tension for the upcoming presentation of its postwar collection.

Afterwards dinner at Viet Bowl.

Further information: www.smb.museum

March 4, 2025: at the exhibition „Im Verhältnis“ at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung with artist Linnéa Meiners and curator Helen-Sophie Mayr

 The exhibition In Relation (ger.: Im Verhältnis) by Linnéa Meiners and Christof Zwiener features two installations. They are based on specific objects from the foundation's direct geographical and thematic sphere: Rosa Luxemburg's herbarium, which she maintained during her imprisonment in Wrocław despite the high walls that surrounded her, as well as a block-shaped bottle repurposed as a glass brick, which was found on the nearby construction site of the old Postbahnhof at Ostbahnhof.

Afterwards dinner at Terrazza Portofino.

Further information: www.rosalux.de

February 19, 2025: at the exhibition „Glowing Attraction“ at Haus am Kleistpark with artist Marta Djourina

The artist Marta Djourina zeroes in on natural light phenomena and makes them visible in astonishing ways. Djourina intentionally refrains from using a camera, opting to explore the effects of various sources of light on photo paper instead. In her abstract works, light itself turns into color.

Afterwards dinner at Ho Lo Asia Restaurant.

Further information: www.hausamkleistpark.de

January 30, 2025: at the exhibition „YOU OWE ME EVERYTHING“ at Alte Feuerwache with artist Manja Ebert and curator Peggy Schoenegge

OWE ME EVERYTHING shows the complex web of relationships between consumerism, production and data collection in social networks. Ebert's works reflect how global tech giants such as Google and Meta profit from the everyday interactions of users and, in doing so, engage in omnipresent surveillance. At the same time, the artist questions how the interplay of self-expression, technology and surveillance affects our psychological and social lives.

Afterwards dinner at Kos House.

Further information: www.alte-feuerwache-friedrichshain.de

January 9, 2025: at the exhibition „SALT. CLAY. ROCK“ at nGbK with artist Sonya Schönberger and curator Vincent Schier

The two-year artistic-curatorial research project SALT. CLAY. ROCK. On Nuclear Pasts and Radiant Futures(2023-2024) investigates how nuclear industries and infrastructures affect our lives, not only delving into the production of nuclear energy and the storage of radioactive waste, but also how impacted communities coexist with their material, social and economic consequences on a daily basis. The exhibition and public program at nGbK share the results of extensive research done by the participating artists and curators of the nGbK work group, exploring connections between energy, politics, ecology and social movements from a translocal point of view.

Afterwards dinner at Ho Vang.

Further information: www.ngbk.de