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Valeska Gert Guest Professorship 2026: Eszter Salamon
6/8/2026, 7 PM

OpeningLecture

Opening lecture of the Valeska Gert Guest Professorship 2026 with Eszter Salamon

Eszter Salamon
Eszter Salamon
© Bea Borgers

The choreographer, artist and performer Eszter Salamon will hold the Valeska Gert Guest Professorship for Dance and Performance during the summer semester of 2026. Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organizing agency between various media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement and actions. Her works evolve through various formats and aesthetics, methodologies and poetics, and put to work a wide spectrum of expressions.

Eszter Salamon lives and works between Berlin, Paris, and Budapest. She is recipient of the Evens Art Prize 2019 and winner of “La vie bonne” call for projects by the National Center for Plastic Arts (FR) and Aware: Archive of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, in 2020.

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship

Every semester, a dance or performance artist is invited by the Akademie der Künste, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD) to work together with students in the dance studies master’s programme applying a practice-oriented approach. The content and thematic focus of the seminar are introduced at the beginning of the process in a public lecture, and the outcomes are shown to the audience in a final presentation by the students at the end.