Heiße Platten – Kalte Platten

The artistic event series "Hot Plates, Cold Plates" explores the playful space of possibilities between hospitality, cuisine, music, workshop and conversation.

Artists are invited as guests for dialog, whose work opens up associative and atmospheric spaces of memory. Each special guest will bring a selection of their favorite music, which will be served with matching dishes. Various courses alternate in a discursive conversation: talking, listening to music, eating and drinking. Sometimes there is hot food and cool music, sometimes hot sounds and cold food.

Food and music provide the audience with intimate insights into the questions, influences and working methods of each artist. The aim is to open up the mycelial network of impulses and references from which artistic working methods spring into other sensory spaces and make them tangible. An immersive social space is created.

On June 21, Anneli Käsmayr welcomes the visual artist Sonja Alhäuser (Berlin/Uckermark)

Sonja Alhäuser will give an insight into her performative, graphic and sculptural work with food. From savory canapes to a sweet finale, she introduces us to the world of her banquets. In keeping with the baroque sounds, sweet pop and rock beats, we'll get hands-on together: there will be canapés.

Tickets: incl. food and non-intoxicating drinks
Start: 7 p.m.
Duration of event: approx. 3.5 hours

Photo credit: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

#With the kind support of:
Senator for Culture Bremen

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About the guest and host:

Sonja Alhäuser was born in 1969 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and lives and works in Berlin and the Uckermark. She sees herself as a draughtswoman, sculptor and performer. Since her studies, she has been concerned with food as nourishment as well as with its external form and consumption as a performative act that often involves the audience. Sonja Alhäuser draws recipe sequences, creates sculptures from chocolate and margarine, and her openings sometimes feature lavish banquets in which fountains of red wine bubble and people climb into chocolate baths. She works with unusual masses and quantities of food and explores the boundaries between decadent waste and unbridled indulgence to the point of orgy. Her drawings show that thinking of such a process is not just an act of provisioning and entertainment, but has an intense side as a pictorial form. Sonja Alhäuser's works are represented in national and international exhibitions.
https://sonjaalhaeuser.de


Anneli Käsmayr is a neuro-coach, consultant and artist. She is interested in transdisciplinary and collective work at the intersection of atmosphere, hospitality, taste and staging as aesthetic practice - and is the artistic-culinary director of Casino Futur Salon. From 2007-2010 she co-managed the guest space project dreijahre, a conceptual restaurant project on 140 square meters with bar, café and club, which took place in Bremen for a period of 1095 days. She is a founding member of various artist and music collectives, has won prizes and scholarships and has held exhibitions in Germany and abroad, which have resulted in editions, records and book projects. Since 2014, she has been consulting and designing in the culinary field, developing hospitality formats and culinary productions for third places and companies. From 2015-2020 she was part of the SNF research project "Cooking and Eating as Aesthetic Practice" at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel. In 2021 she founded Woo Woo Studio and works as a neuro-coach with self-employed women.
https://annelikaesmayr.com/


Scheduled guests of the series:

NN: Dr. Astrid Fleisch (Hamburg), master confectioner and lawyer - NN
NN: Claudia A. Cruz (Bremen), photographer, artist, community weaver - NN

However, we are still lacking additional funds to continue. Would you or your company like to finance an evening? Then get in touch with us! 😊 (hello@woo-woo.de)