MARIT SHALEM'S GLOBAL
Points for Production is an overall title for video works, drawing and painting series and audiovisual projects.
Marit Shalem, born in Haifa, Israel, 1971, moved to Berlin in 1989 as an eighteen years old. After studying painting and graduating at the HdK (now UdK), Berlin, an exchange period to Glasgow and to Rotterdam, she has moved to Rotterdam. A place where she has embarked on the path of video and digital techniques. She works these days in both the Netherlands and France and goes also under the name SpOp. Her practice is multidisciplinary in both media and approach, with works often following a certain multiplicity as well as tracing processes of transition.
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 on the project Works on White with audiovisual performances and films.
Shalem has been awarded the Culture Prize South Holland 2022, given by the Dutch Cultural Fund. Her installation Alterations has been exhibited and presented at Parobrod in Belgrade in 2024. Earlier also at the _V2Lab and at the Rotterdam Theater. Her documentary work Milk has lately been exhibited in MU, Eindhoven and earlier at the Goethe inst. in Rotterdam.
She is well into painting again and into her collaboration with musician Dirk Bruinsma as SpOp&Bruinsma with the audiovisuals Knots , Conveyance and Tribolumina.
The works on this website were/are kindly supported by the Mondriaan fund.
Contact: marit[at]spop[dot]nl
See also:www.spop.nl
Read the essay by philosopher Rick Dolpijn about Shalem's Milk project and her work.
Videography:
Tribolumina #2, performances and a film version (in progress) with Bruinsma and Christian Smith.
Who-Cares?, a feature film version of the Milk project, 120 min. , 2025
Knots #3 a series of audiovisual performances in collaboration with dancers 2024---
Clumped-Dissolved, part of a Monoták project and continuing to further audiovisuals.. 2024
Milk, a multi-channel 80min loop installation, an expanded documentary, 2024
Tribolumina, an audiovisual performance with percussion and electronics- Bruinsma and Christian Smith, 2023
Audiovisual performances: Knots and Conveyance in collaboration with Dirk Bruinsma.
Conveyance , 15min. video for a live organ-performance by Dirk Bruinsma, and live performances 2022---
Pale Drops # series and live, with Dirk Bruinsma 2022
KNOTS, a modified dance film with music by Dirk Bruinsma 2021
Alterations, a three channel installation with interaction, 2021
Works on White, live performances and video films, with Badgewearer 2018-2020
DIG, 5min. Music by Guillhem All, 2018
Broom Groom / Sweeping Solo, 14:54, music by Marc Verhoeven, (loop),2018
Duo Painters See Sparks, 09:03 min, Music by Guilhem All 2018
Pale Drops 2:38 min. (loop) 2017
Planban-Hephaestus 12:48min., music by Michel Banabila and Oene van Geel, 2016
Betonno 1st 04:49, music by Marc Vehroeven, 2016
Jutta Mind 17:15min. Soundtrack: Lukas Simonis and Vincent Denieul, 2015
Malnutrition witha Mind 01:58min., clip for Stepmother, 2015
Catch on a Datcha 17:00 min. music: Vincent Denieul, 2014
Frozen Hope 13 min. music: Lukas Simonis 2013
High Brow, Low Leg (video installation) 6 min.music: Tofu Bibles, 2012
The Second Illusion (clip and two channel inst.) 4:00 /11:00min., music: Zoikle, 2012
De Eeuwige Optie [The Everlasting Option] 23:03min. 2011
Casa Incognita 03:03min. with Lenno Verhoog, music film for VRIL, 2010
Phlegm 11:01min. 2010
Enhance Dehance 10:14min. 2009
Points for Production 10:00min. 2007
Living Room 10:00min. 2005
ClearCurves 02:00min. 2003
Taillebloed video for theater during 'het Boulevard festival' (with Lenno Verhoog) 2003
Brain-Care 02:00min. 2002
Leugens (Lies) video for tour 'het Waterhuis' theater (with Lenno Verhoog) 2002
Juist & Joost (3 episodes in collaboration with Lenno Verhoog) VPRO TV 2001
Transits 05:00min. 2000
Tiger & Rabbit 05:00min. 1999