The Reappearances series - formed by the films Reappearance and Sommerspiele - takes reference from two anecdotes Valeska Gert recounts in her autobiographical book ‘Ich bin eine Hexe. Kaleidoskop meines Lebens’ (1968). In one, she dances naked for her lover, a pianist, in exchange for the pieces he composed for her. In the other, which takes place in London in the summer of 1936, Gert tries her hand at writing a film script. For three weeks, she dictated her ideas to a man until she realized he was a drug addict and his transcripts were utterly illegible. Imagined around the lost screenplay and in connection with Gert’s explorations of the media of dance, theatre, cabaret, and film, the series revolves around the issues of transnational and feminist intersubjectivity, the materiality of the female body, and the grotesque.

Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, artist-researcher, and performer. She lives between Berlin, Paris, and Budapest. She is completing a Ph.D. in artistic research at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. Salamon works at the intersection of documentary and fiction using choreography as an activating and organizing agency between various media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement, and actions. She focuses on speculative history-making, transnational, transfeministe, and inter-generational relations. She creates work and conducts research in collaboration with professional and non-professional performers and dancers, dramaturges, musicians, composers, film artists, and friends and family members.

Since 2001, she has created solos and large-scale performances, performative installations, and films that have been presented in performing arts venues and museums worldwide, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, New York City; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; mumok, Vienna; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Museo Centro Gaiás, Santiago de Compostela; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg; Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels; ING Art Center, Brussels; and KINDL, Berlin. Her solo exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 (2014) was presented at Jeu de Paume, Paris, as part of ‘Satellite’curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Her most recent film Sommerspiele (2023) premiered at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in the frame of the exhibition POWER SPACE VIOLENCE. Planning and Building under National Socialism, and it was screened during Hors Pistes 2024 at Centre Pompidou, Paris.