Eszter Salamon

13 November 2021, at 12.30 p.m. [Barcelona]
Auditori Meier | MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – BARCELONA
Approximate duration: 90 min.

This talk takes place in partnership with La Poderosa – Espai per la dansa i ele seu contaminants, as part of the cycle HACER HISTORIA(S) VOL 4 . CYCLE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND PERFORMANCE.

PRESENTIAL | Free entry, subject to prior enrolment.

ONLINE | Live broadcast to Portugal upon registration to access the link.

Eszter Salamon, artist, choreographer and performer. She lives and works between Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Since 2001, she has created solo and group works, presented at theatres and festivals around the world, including Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Metz, Festival dʼAutomne, Avignon Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Holland Festival, The Kitchen New York, HAU Berlin , Berlin Documentary Forum, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, steirischer herbst, Dance Triennale Tokyo, Manchester International Festival, PACT Zollverein, Nanterre-Amandiers, FTA Montreal.
His work is frequently shown in museums such as MoMa, Witte de With, Fondation Cartier, Serralves, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Akademie der Künste Berlin and Museo Reina Sofia. The exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 was presented in 2015 at Jeu de Paume, as part of ‘Satellite’ curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
Eszter Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organising agent for various media, such as image, sound, text, voice, body movement and actions.
In 2014, she began a series of works exploring both the notion of the monument and the practice of speculating about making history.
She won the Evens Prize in 2019.

Photo © Bea Borgers