Yellow Salon
Yellow Salon is a space for conversation and imagination with an invited artist. Through drawing, writing, games, and shared food, we get to know their work in an informal way. The gatherings take place around the large table in the séparée of Café Tiergarten, with views to the garden and nearby park.
In collaboration with Leonie Herweg and hosted at Café Tiergarten.
Altonaer Str. 3, 10557 Berlin
https://cafetiergarten.berlin/
Organized and curated by
Maria Helena Konttinen Nerhus
team@grotto.com
© 2025 Maria Helena Konttinen Nerhus. All rights reserved.
December
#5 A Circle Is the Only Geometric Shape Defined by Its Centre
with Clemente Ciarrocca
13.12.2025, Saturday
20:00-22:00
*Taking place at Ringbar, Schwarzastr. 1,12055 Berlin,S-Sonnenalle
Inspired by Sarah Kane’s play Crave, artist Clemente Ciarrocca hosts an hour of confessions, blurring the lines between the personal, the private, and anonymity. Together we create a durational aural script that will later be pitched down four octaves, anonymised, and paired with a video work showing slow-motion, close-up footage of a mouth speaking.
Clemente Ciarrocca is an artist and theorist based in Berlin. Working across sculpture, printmaking, video, and poetry, he explores intimacy as an embodied and relational way of knowing and perceiving.
#6 The Anti-Calendar: A Reflection on the Year Past
with Bika Rebek/ SOme place studio
17.12.2025, Wedensday
16:00 - 18:00
Together we create twelve small drawings each, an anti-calendar. reflecting on the past year over conversation, tea, and coffee.
Bika Rebek is anarchitect, educator, and founder of Some Place Studio, a practice focused on spaces of social wellbeing. She has collaborated with institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna.
November
#3 Home Is Where the Heart Strives: On the Sonic Fiction of Everyday Life
with Philipp Rhensius/Norient
13.11.2025,Thursday
16:00-18:00
Rhensius will share excerpts from his introduction essay and selected contributions from of the new Norient book Home Is Where the Heart Strives. Before reflecting on sonic fiction, belonging, and the realities and futures of global DIY cultures — between intimacy, resistance, and noise
Philipp Rhensius is an writer, musician, poet, and editor at Norient. He explores the intersections of sound, identity, and cultural politics and currently writes the experimental column Was Macht Mich for taz.
#4 On Memories and Identity
with Juan Almarza Anwandter
27.11.2025, Thursday
16:00-18:00
Participants draw a childhood memory of a place and create a shared collage. Together we explore how architecture, memory, and belonging contribute to identity formation.
Dr. phil. Juan Almarza Anwandteris an Chilean architect and artist based in Berlin. His work is informed by Chilean landscapes and authors like Nietzsche, Hölderlin, and Rilke. He has taught architecture and design for more than 25 years.
August
#2 What happens when we come together? Gestures of hosting: an invitation to being
Rike Glaser and Krishian Rajapakshe
28.08.2025, Thursday
#1 Layer on Layer.
Mahad Alizadeh
21.08.2025, Thursday