Marit Shalem, born in Haifa, Israel, 1971, moved to Berlin in 1989 just two months before the wall went down. After graduating at the HdK (now UdK), Berlin, an exchange period to Glasgow and to Rotterdam, she has moved to Rotterdam. She works these days in both the Netherlands and France and goes also under the name SpOp. Her art works follow an artistic research into recent visual culture and the impact of commerce on human communication. 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 for the project Works on White with international performances. 

Shalem has been awarded the Culture Prize South Holland 2022, given by the Dutch Cultural Fund. Her installation Alterations has been lately exhibited and presented at Parobrod in Belgrade. Earlier also at the _V2Lab and at the Rotterdam Theater. Nowadays she is well onto presenting her new work Milk, a documentary installation - due in December in MU, Eindhoven. Meanwhile also painting, drawing and collaborating with musician Dirk Bruinsma on audiovisual projects such as Knots, Conveyance and Tribolumina.

The works on this website were made possible by the kind support of the Mondriaan fund.

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

Contact: marit[at]spop[dot]nl
See also: www.pointsforproduction.org