In 1970, Daniel Spoerri founded the Eat Art Gallery in Düsseldorf, in which artists ranging from Dieter Roth to Joseph Beuys and Roy Lichtenstein presented art objects made of food. Commencing with the activities of the Eat Art Gallery, the »Eat Art« exhibition documents the use of edible products in art from the 1970s through to today. It demonstrates the ways as well as the technical and material-aesthetic means in which male and female artists process themes such as establishing identity through eating habits or modern dietetics, cooking shows, or critique of consumerism and globalization. The exhibition is a collaborative project in conjunction with the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, where it premiered in November 2009 under the title of »Eating the Universe«. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart qualifies for the exhibition topic of Eat Art already on account of its significant collection of Dieter Roth’s work.

Eating the Universe. Food in Art
Edited by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Texts by Ulrike Groos, Magdalena Holzhey, Renate Buschmann, Beate Ermacora, Elke Krasny, Nikolai Wojtko, Christiane Boje
DuMont, German / English, 2009, 312 pages, 191 ills., 20 x 26 cm, Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-8321-9240-2
Museum price: 29 €
Regular: 39.95 €