Valeska Gert Guest Professorship 2026: Eszter Salamon
8 Jul 2026, 7 pm

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.

Together with students from the Freie Universität Berlin she examined Valeska Gerts’ autobiographical and photographic sources and developed new ways of engaging with history – the results of the seminar are now being presented.

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.