Tausend Töpfe - was Essen uns angeht

In this participatory exhibition, fifty people from different backgrounds and biographies from Hamburg talk about how beautiful and painful memories, relationships or even exclusion are expressed in dishes and flavors; or about how the food supply and eating habits have changed through migration. The exhibition shows poems, photographs, videos, memorabilia or interviews brought along by the contributors and places them in a dialog with selected objects from the museum's collection.
Eating utensils, transport containers and food samples bear witness to colonial history and European eating and physical norms, but also to alternative forms of knowledge about what is healthy and how to grow food sustainably. This overview opens up surprising perspectives, presents items from the museum's collection that have rarely been shown before and makes the personal and political levels of food tangible.