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At the Salon, artists, curators and cultural practitioners come together to test ideas, share practices and develop new formats across disciplines.

Exhibitions, Screenings, Discussions, Performances, Readings, Dinners, Workshops, Panels, Literary Launches, Seminars, Makers Markets, Receptions, Experiments and more.

 

A salon is a setting between public and private; projects here invite participation, exchange and collective experience in an open and welcoming environment.


Since 2013, Salon am Moritzplatz has become a point of reference and network for open exchange, at the intersection of experimental cultural production and lived experience.

 

 

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The building at Moritzplatz has had many lives. A bustling bank in the 1920’s, still standing after Moritzplatz was a target for allied attacks in WWII, home to the Junge Wilde in the 1970s, and known for it’s cultural and urban projects in the 1980s. As Berlin moved through substantial changes, this space became a beacon for those looking for rebellious expression, wild experimentation, and belonging.


In the 1970s, with the Wall to the east drawn blocks away, the artists who would become known internationally as the Junge Wilde settled in the rear building, part of the same Kreuzberg scene that Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave moved through.

 

At the end of the 1980s, the architect Otto Steidle moved his practice into the premises. One of the defining figures of postwar German architecture, known for housing developments, cultural buildings and urban projects across Germany and Europe that consistently put collective life at the centre of design.

 

Now a cultural space with traces of its past still visible today, Salon am Moritzplatz has been running here since 2013. The original vault door still hangs downstairs, and the glass front still opens onto the platz. The question of what this area should become is still not fully answered but we are part of that conversation.