SALOON Berlin Board

Board Member (since 2024)

Elisa Duca is a mixed media artist. Her performative installations invite you to suspend binary ideas of the digital and the real, the global and the local, the human and the more-than-human and to explore the potential of the in-betweenness.

She has lived in Berlin since 2004 and often works in Asia. She studied theatre, film and art history at the DAMS Institute of the University of Bologna while training as an actress. She has received funding and residency grants from various Goethe Institutes, the Capital Cultural Fund and the Berlin Senate Chancellery among others. She regularly presents work in Berlin and internationally.

Lena Fließbach, Independent Curator

Board Member (since 2021)

Lena Fließbach is an independent curator, speaker and writer based in Berlin, focusing on ecological and social issues. She has developed exhibitions for institutions such as the Museum der bildenden Künste (MdbK) Leipzig (Zero Waste, 2020) and the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (Fluid Futures, 2024), as well as transdisciplinary programmes for the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart and Urania Berlin. With her projects, which address issues of climate justice and the interrelationships between social and ecological crises, she opens up spaces for counter-movements, new forms of community and more-than-human perspectives.

Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa, curator, director of the municipal galleries Neukölln, division of visual arts and art in urban space

Board Member (since 2023)

Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa is the director of the municipal galleries Neukölln, the division of visual arts and art in urban space in the district of Neukölln. She was curatorial assistant for the Festival of Future Nows 2014 at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin and 2017 at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin and worked for Light Art Space (LAS) in 2018. As a freelance curator, she conceived and organized two art festivals as part of the DRAUSSENSTADT initiative.

Nina Marlene Kraus, Curator

Board Member (since 2024)

Nina Marlene Kraus is an art historian and curator based in Berlin. She holds an MA in art history, having studied in Berlin, Kraków and Santa Cruz, CA. Her research focusses on the narratives of feminist art history, artistic utopias as political strategies as well as institutional critique.

She curated exhibitions at Galerie im Körnerpark and Galerie im Saalbau and organized an open-air festival at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch. Currently, she is working as a curator and coordinator for public art in Berlin Neukölln.

ANna Tautfest

Board Member (since 2024)

ANna Tautfest is an artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. She has a diverse educational background, having studied fine art at the UdK in Berlin, the Art Students League in New York City, and the HfbK in Hamburg. She recently completed her PhD thesis.

ANna´s artistic practice lies at the intersection of fine art and text production. She expresses her ideas through various mediums, including art installations, performances, and book formats. Her performances often involve audience participation and collaboration, creating a sense of communal engagement through activities like eating, reading, writing, and sharing taking place in galleries and project spaces.