Politics at the Kitchentable. Nutrition in Contemporary Art

23/05/2026 - 04/10/2026

How do we currently eat, how do we want to eat and live in the future, and what impact will this have? The international group exhibition “Politics at the Kitchen Table” examines both individual and societal—and thus always political—aspects of food, along with its ecological, economic, and social interconnections, through the lens of contemporary artworks.

Within biological and cultural cycles, what we eat shapes us. At the same time, our decisions influence the environment around us, so that through our actions we constantly reshape the state of the world at our own kitchen table and in the social interaction of eating. This exhibition explores various sociopolitical and ecological dimensions of food from an artistic perspective.

With works by: Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Baran Caginli, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Juan Cortés, Disnovation.org, Patricia Domínguez, Zhanna Kadyrova, Bianca Kennedy, Dominique Koch, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Mary Maggic, masharu, Deirdre O’Mahony, Ana Núñez Rodríguez, Alicja Rogalska, Chloé Rutzerveld, Miriam Simun, Caique Tizzi, Raul Walch

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog featuring interdisciplinary essays by various scholars, including Prof. Dr. Soyoung Q Park, Prof. Dr. Corine Pelluchon, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Wahlen, as well as numerous color reproductions of the artworks.

Curator: Julia Katharina Thiemann