Modularküche Culinary-artistic translations between Portugal and Northern Germany

2025/2026 Advancement Award Exhibition
Exhibition dates: 10 May – 4 July 2026
Opening: 9 May 2026, 2 pm
Location: M.1, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Breite Str. 18, 25551 Hohenlockstedt

With the exhibitions by the 2025/26 grant recipients, the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung presents artist-researcher practices that engage in different ways with ecological, translocal and material contexts. The collaborative project Modularküche by Paula König, Liliana Escalhão and Johann König conceives of food as a medium of cultural translation and collective knowledge production and ended in an exhibition as well as an recipe book.

Modular Kitchen is a collaborative research project by Paula König, Liliana Escalhão and Johann König that combines artistic and culinary practices. The idea arose when Paula König and Liliana Escalhão met during an artist residency in Portugal in 2022. Discussions about seasonality, regional vegetable cultures and aesthetic translations developed into an ongoing collaboration in which recipes, drawings and graphic modules were equally important tools for artistic research.The starting point for the Modular Kitchen for the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung is an examination of regional foods and seasonal recipes from central Portugal and northern Germany – as carriers of local histories, ways of life and climatic conditions. The exhibition at the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung on the first floor shows the results of this research through artistic illustrations, images and installations. Accompanying the exhibition is a comprehensive bilingual publication (German/Portuguese), designed by Johann König. It is not merely a documentation, but an independent artistic format between a recipe book, calendar and visual narrative through a week of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Recipes, drawings and articles combine culinary practice with ecological issues and cultural reflection.Modular Kitchen thus shows how local knowledge production, artistic practice and everyday culture can intertwine. The exhibition opens up spaces of possibility for collective experience, exchange and awareness – and asks how a simple, colourful, vegetable garden-inspired cuisine can become the starting point for new forms of aesthetic and social practice.Read the Curatorial Essay by Ronald Kolb here.

Book

Von Mairübe bis Brunnenkresse. Saisonale Rezepte für die Woche

Do Nabo ao Agrião. Receitas sazonais para a semana

Edition of 500, Offsetprint, 25 €Would you like a copy? We would be happy to share the result, please contact us via paulakoenig ( at ) posteo.de!