Marit Shalem

drawing - video - painting - installation - film

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 in Glasgow and one in Rotterdam, she has moved to Rotterdam. She also works under the name SpOp initiating experimental video works and visual art projects. These projects 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 recently been awarded the Culture Prize South Holland 2022, given by the Prins Bernhard Cultural Fund. Her installation Alterations has been exhibited at the _V2Lab and at the Rotterdam Theater. Her documentary video installation Milk is planned for TENT Rotterdam in 2024.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Contact

    • Human Environment

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 10-02-2023 t/m 05-03-2024
    • Location: H(a)L, Rotterdam
    • An initiative by artist and curator Herman Lamers. Group exhibition. Participation with paintings, drawings and video.
    • https://hilton-art-lab.com/

    Kino klub Split / screening Pale Drops and Knots

    Other

    • 25-05-2023 t/m 27-06-2023
    • Location: Kino club Split, Split
    • Two screenings with a conversation via zoom.
    • https://kinoklubsplit.hr/

    Conveyance at Le Ventre

    Performance

    • 11-06-2023
    • Location: Le Ventre, synagogue project, Hégenheim
    • A SpOp & Bruinsma audiovisual show. This with the participation of artist Androa Mindre Kolo. The space is run by Mimi von Moos and Willem Mes. More about this project and other performances at: www.spop.nl/wp/conveyance
    • www.spop.nl/wp/conveyance

    Tribolumina

    Performance

    • 18-10-2023
    • Location: Tracking Tilburg festival., Tilburg
    • Audiovisual performance, initiated by Dirk Bruinsma who, together with Christian Smith, play a percussion session on found and fabricated metal objects. This in combination with electronics and live video mixing. A set specially filmed and animated by Shalem.
    • https://spop.nl/wp/tribolumina/

    Broken Telephone / Clumped-Dissolved

    Performance

    • 19-04-2024
    • Location: Splendor, Amsterdam,
    • With composers collective Monoták, and through collaboration with musician Dirk Bruinsma as SpOp&Bruinsma. Seven minutes of music followed by video by music in a chain or broken phone.
    • https://spop.nl/wp/spopbruinsma/

    Knots with Monotak

    Performance

    • 23-02-2023 t/m 23-02-2023
    • In collaboration with: Dirk Bruinsma and composers collective Monoták
    • Location: Splendor, Amsterdam
    • Audiovisual performance
    • https://spop.nl/wp/knots-2/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund, Proven Talent

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund, Project

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • Cultural Fund, publication

    • 2024
      Scholarship

    • Municipality of Rotterdam, post-production

    • 2024
      Pricing

    • Cultural Prize Prince Bernhard Fund South Holland

    • 2022
      Pricing

      Publication

    • Recipes for the Future

    • 2020
    • bundling contributions
    • Dutch Embassy, ​​Berlin - Astrid Kaminsky
      Publication

    • unreal

    • 2020
    • catalog
    • Erasmus MC - William Myers
      Publication

    • StoryK

    • 2018
    • artist publication
    • SpOp - Marit Shalem
      Publication

    • KDATCHA

    • 2014
    • artist publication
    • SpOp - Marit Shalem
      Publication

    • Catalog NL=US

    • 2016
    • catalog
    • NL=US gallery - NL=US gallery
      Publication

    • Kbook Round Production

    • 2009
    • art project / artist publication
    • SpOp and North Cape - SpOp / Marit Shalem
      Publication

    • Everything from Warde must go

    • 2005
    • catalog
    • The Cocoa Factory - The Cocoa Factory
      Publication

    • Occupy space

    • 2001
    • bundling/ art project
    • stg. Occupying Space - Stg. Occupying Space
      Publication

    • Kyübik movie

    • 2010
    • anthology
    • Eye Institute - Anna Abrahams
      Publication

    • WORK

    • 2005
    • artist publication
    • SpOp - SpOp / Marit Shalem
      Publication

    • Once More, Unto the Breach

    • 2013
    • catalog
    • Local01 - Local01