Looking at models beyond exhibition formats to explore modes of curatorial work that add to the continuing debate and contextualising of artistic and cultural production.  An independent curator and co-founder of The Office www.theoffice.li, Ellen has worked over the past year on Salon Populaire at Kunstsaele Berlin  www.salonpopulaire.de/  Salon Populaire is a meeting point for conversations on art and neighboring topics, for the convergence of different ideas, positions and contexts.  Envisioned both on the basis of and as a departure from the history of the salon, it is a place at which knowledge is generated and exchanged. As a semi-public space it enables multiple scenarios, spanning the privacy of an apartment to the public of an institution.