SALOON Berlin Board


Lena Fließbach, Independent Curator

Board Member (since 2021, currently on sabbatical leave)

 

Lena Fließbach is an independent curator, writer and mentor for sustainabilityIn 2022/2023 she is co-curating the discourse series Zero Waste - Art and Knowledge for Urania Berlin, combining experiences from science, art and the sustainability movement. Together with Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, Lena was curator of the exhibition Zero Waste, Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK), Leipzig, 2020, an international group show which  kept her own ecological footprint as small as possible and made it transparent. 


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

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 (Poland) and Santa Cruz, CA. Her current research focusses on the narratives of feminist art history, artistic utopias as political strategies as well as institutional critique. During her latest work for the three municipal galleries Neukölln in Berlin, she curated exhibitions at Galerie im Körnerpark and Galerie im Saalbau and organized an open-air festival at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.


Sarah Maske, Independent Curator

Board Member (since 2021)

 

Sarah Maske is an independent curator based in Berlin. She is co-founder of the long term-project Sandstorm - And Then There Was Dust and the French-German cultural festival L'autre rapport a la terre. She has worked on numerous exhibitions internationally, among others at Museum Wiesbaden, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, and Depo, Istanbul.


Petra Ronzani 

Board Member (since 2023)

 

Petra Ronzani  is invested in researching and shaping our current social environments with a focus on the changing realities of togetherness. Throughout her career she has been managing transformation processes, building and leading teams and mediating - between people, hierarchies, between today and tomorrow. After 15 years in leading positions at institutions such as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin Volksbühne or Henn Architects, she founded Ronzani & Partner in 2021. Her company offers advice to those who feel the future is equal to the present and more importantly: to those who respect the uniting potential of fun.




Former Board Members

Tina Sauerlaender

SALOON Berlin Board Member from 2012 to 2022.

 

Ornella Fieres

SALOON Berlin Board Member from 2016 to 2022.

Larissa Fischer

SALOON Berlin Board Member from 2019 to 2021.

Julia Herfurth

SALOON Berlin Board Member from 2018 to 2019.

Alina Heinze

SALOON Berlin Board Member from 2014 to 2018.




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