TDD Bon Appétit, Collage
© TDD Bon AppétitBG Summer Festival | Culinary Intervention and Panel Discussion
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Berlinische Galerie, we invite you to a culinary experience on the museum’s forecourt. Together with the artist collective TDD Bon Appétit we want to create a space for eating together and engaging in conversation. This shared experience serves as a starting point for reflecting on the relationship between art and cuisine, food as a communal experience, and the role of culinary practices in public spaces.
The project is curated by the museum’s trainees: Magdalena de Arruda Ilg, Katharina Deppisch, Louisa Engel, Annina Guntli, Johanna Haug, Mette Kleinsteuber, Sarah Marcinkowski, Franziska Ziegler.
Apropos Apéro
The centrepiece of the evening will be the culinary intervention Apropos Apéro, staged by the artists of TDD Bon Appétit. Using a mobile oven, the collective will bake pizzas that visitors are invited to share and eat together. Tables with artistically designed tablecloths invite you to sit down for some slices of pizza and to chat about the practice of sharing a meal.
In Conversation
The event is accompanied by a panel discussion exploring the significance of food as a collective practice in public space. Notions of belonging and identity are often negotiated through eating practices. Culinary traditions can be both grounds for discrimination and sources of community, (self-)care and empowerment. The talk will be held in German.
Together with Gülsüm Güler and İnci Güler from TDD Bon Appétit, Fallon Tiffany Cabral and Maryam Gardisi, we will explore how collective culinary practices can intervene in this tension. How can an artistic approach to food and cooking create space for community? And what happens to the role of a museum as a public institution when it invites guests to a shared meal on its forecourt?
In german
TDD Bon Appétit was founded in 2007 as a supper club by artist Gülsüm Güler and educator İnci Güler. The team hosts gatherings and culinary interventions in temporarily used spaces, transforming their atmosphere through their practice of “site-specific cooking”. In 2022, TDD published Flavours & Friends, a book documenting their community-based culinary practice for large groups with more than 100 recipes.
Fallon Tiffany Cabral explores how race and racism are negotiated within Black families and Families of Colour in Germany. She is particularly interested in peculiar and often hidden (post)colonial traces in diasporic family life. In 2023, together with Meryem Choukri, she co-edited “Biting Back. Essen, Diaspora, Widerstand” – a playful collection of essays that connects food with poetics of resistance, lived experiences, and feminist social analysis.
Maryam Gardisi is the managing director of IPSO (International Psychosocial Organisation). As a trained economist and cultural scientist, she has spent around 20 years working on a wide range of projects supporting disadvantaged people. Her focus lies on the inclusion of refugees in social systems and in particular on their mental health and psychosocial care.
- Location
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BG Garden
Alte Jakobstraße 124–128
10969 Berlin
bg@berlinischegalerie.de - Ticket
- Admission free
- Registration
- Without registration
- Contact
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Jessica Krieg
Veranstaltungen
Phone +49 030-789 02-777
krieg@berlinischegalerie.de - Next dates