FLINTA* KULTUR SALON #2

Historically, Berlin salons were spaces for intellectual and cultural exchange outside rigid social and political structures. Led by salonnières —mostly Jewish women— they brought together artists, writers, and thinkers often excluded elsewhere, offering a home for the exiled and the shunned. Yet, these spaces remained largely elite, inaccessible to working-class people, migrants, queer and trans individuals, and those lacking social or educational capital.

This event series fundamentally expands the legacy of historical salons by creating access and participation for artists and audiences affected by intersectional disadvantages and discrimination. It continues the intent of the salonnières, not by replicating their spaces, but by realigning their purpose, to establish conditions in which collective rethinking and joint action become possible, preserving Berlin’s role as a vibrant, accessible European cultural hub that hosts and supports artists from both Germany and abroad.

This is particularly crucial at a time when these conditions, affordable living and working spaces, artistic freedom, equal participation, gender justice, and more, are increasingly threatened or politicized.

FLINTA* KULTURSALON #2

This event focuses on transgenerational trauma, mental health, and the search for belonging from queer-feminist and post-migrant perspectives. Poetic experiments and hybrid formats (text, image, sound, performance) are used to explore alternative narratives and altered states of consciousness through rural imaginaries, multispecies relationships, and anthroposophy. Key questions include: How do trauma, body memory, and alienation shape poetic voice and form? How can language, sound, and image convey unspeakable or non-linear experiences as therapeutic interventions? What alliances and solidarities emerge across species, borders, and psychogeographies?

Participants:

Victoria Hohmann, Meri Koivisto, Ana Rocío Jouli, Julieta Rollhaiser (JURO), IEVA, and Cecilia Pez

FLINTA* KULTURSALON is a project by FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for migrant and exiled womxn artists, in cooperation with Lettrétage, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, recommended by The Reader Berlin and presented by tip Berlin.‍