During the months of November and December of 2001, we found a space on Martínez de la Rosa street in the neighborhood of Gràcia in Barcelona. It was an old carpentry workshop which over the years had begun to fall apart. We made the first mutation of the space, thanks to the help of many people, and what used to be an old carpenter´s studio became a place for art.

Saladestar is part of the cultural association La Rosa de Martínez which functions as a center of visual and cultural production where various people develop projects: