Exhibition 'As Necessary As Bread - From Land, to Kitchen, to Table' in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Food is more than simply the act of eating. It holds memory and comfort, supports rituals, and tells stories of migration, class, struggle, and care. Food is one of the first ways we form relationships with others and it weaves us into everything that lives and fades. Through food and eating, we take the world into ourselves.
In the exhibition As Necessary as Bread at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the emotional, social, and political meanings of food are brought to the front. With works from historical artists such as Pieter Bruegel and Chaïm Soutine alongside contemporary makers including Martha Rosler, Zhanna Kadyrova, Astrid von Nimwegen, Stephanie Saadeh, Walid Raad and Mika Rottenberg, visitors experience how food is something that lives and moves through us, where personal memory meets collective history.
