Marit Shalem, born in Haifa, Israel, 1971, moved to Berlin in 1989 as an eighteen years old. After studying painting and graduating at the HdK (now UdK), Berlin, an exchange period to Glasgow and to Rotterdam, she has moved to Rotterdam. A place where she has embarked on the path of video and digital techniques. She works these days in both the Netherlands and France and goes also under the name SpOp. Her practice is multidisciplinary in both media and approach, with works often following a certain multiplicity as well as tracing processes of transition. 

Between 2014-2016 she has curated the film series Layers in WORM, Rotterdam. In 2018 she has produced the three channel installation Broom-Groom. In the period 2018-2020 she has collaborated with musician Badgewearer on the project Works on White with audiovisual performances and films. 

Shalem has been awarded the Culture Prize South Holland 2022, given by the Dutch Cultural Fund. Her installation Alterations has been exhibited and presented at Parobrod in Belgrade in 2024. Earlier also at the _V2Lab and at the Rotterdam Theater. Her documentary work Milk has been exhibited in MU, Eindhoven and earlier at the Goethe inst. in Rotterdam. 
She is well into a new documentary project titled Friendly Architecture and meanwhile also painting and collaborating with musician Dirk Bruinsma as SpOp&Bruinsma on the audiovisuals Knots, Conveyance, Tribolumina and Cymph.

The works on this website were/are made possible with the kind support of the Mondriaan fund.

Read the essay by philosopher Rick Dolphijn about Shalem's Milk project and her work.

Contact: marit[at]spop[dot]nl

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