SALOON Berlin Board
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.
Lena Fließbach, Independent Curator
Board Member (since 2021)
Lena Fließbach is an independent curator, writer and mentor for sustainability. In 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.
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.
Ornella Fieres, Artist
Board Member (since 2016) (on maternity leave)
Ornella Fieres is a new media artist. Her multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goethe Institut Toronto, Literaturhaus Berlin, NurtureArt Gallery New York, Kunstverein Speyer and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. She has given lectures and presentations at Volksbühne Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and at New Lab New York, where she had a research residency in 2017.
Former Board Members
