{"id":48837,"date":"2021-01-20T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/?post_type=magazin-artikel&#038;p=48837"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:08:46","slug":"from-studio-to-dining-table-rirkrit-tiravanija","status":"publish","type":"magazin-artikel","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/schirnmag\/from-studio-to-dining-table-rirkrit-tiravanija\/","title":{"rendered":"From Studio to Dining Table: Rirkrit Tiravanija"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin-landscape'>\n\n<div  class='div'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid sizes-width-fill'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-bottom-4 text-align-center'  data-motion-text=\"{&quot;child&quot;:&quot;.ho-sd-mag-h2&quot;,&quot;force&quot;:true,&quot;delay&quot;:0,&quot;speed&quot;:0.9,&quot;ease&quot;:&quot;expo.out&quot;}\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-mag-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">From Studio to Dining Table: Rirkrit Tiravanija<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid mobile-margin-bottom-3 sizes-width-fill'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-8'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'  data-motion-text=\"{&quot;child&quot;:&quot;.lazy-media-inline&quot;,&quot;force&quot;:true,&quot;delay&quot;:0.3,&quot;speed&quot;:0.9,&quot;ease&quot;:&quot;expo.out&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-flash \" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation-data\" data-animations='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-5\",\"end\":\"5\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]' data-target=\".lazy-media-contents\" data-animationsmobile='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-5\",\"end\":\"5\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<flash-animation inline-template>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation\" :class=\"classes\" ref=\"layer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_Q7Q1bn\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 47016,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-300x158.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":158,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":19722},\"large\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-1024x538.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":538,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":121903},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-768x403.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":403,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":81159},\"small\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-440x231.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":231,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":35532},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-580x305.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":305,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":54487},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11-720x378.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":378,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":73942},\"original\":{\"file\":\"share_rt11.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630}},\n\"alt\" : \"Three people are cooking outdoors at woks, wearing T-shirts that say &quot;DO WE DREAM.&quot; 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This time with Rirkrit Tiravanija, his grandmother\u2019s Pad Thai and why his spirit animal is a fruit fly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Alice Waters, chef and co-founder of the famous Cali\u00adfornian slow food restau\u00adrant Chez Panisse, summed up the close connec\u00adtion between art and cooking: \u201c&#8230;\u200bthey are both reac\u00adtive and creative, imitating and adapting to each other.\u201d So is there a connec\u00adtion between what happens in the studios of artists and what happens in their kitchens? Are there refer\u00adences to their work and person\u00adality? Are artists partic\u00adu\u00adlarly creative when it comes to the everyday act of cooking? With the help of anec\u00addotes and photos about their kitchens and eating habits, we provide insights into the culi\u00adnary worlds of well-known artists.<br><br>Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s \u201cspirit animal\u201d is the fruit fly. This not-entirely-serious conclusion was reached by the Thai artist one evening with friends, when the conversation took a rather comical-esoteric turn. The fact that Tiravanija identifies with this somewhat inconspicuous creature, of all things, might appear rather strange at first glance \u2013 after all, for more than two decades now he has been one of the discernible greats of the international art scene, the very opposite of the literal \u201cfly on the wall\u201d.<br><br>Born in Argentina in 1961, Tiravanija lived a virtually nomadic childhood and youth as the son of a Thai diplomat, moving between South America, Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada. Even today, he is always on the go, living between Chiang Mai, Berlin and New York, and regularly flies around the globe upon the invitation of various institutions. Those seeking a gravitational center in his life will likely settle on what was the kitchen of his grandmother Somrit Suwannabol in Bangkok, where Tiravanija spent a lot of time as a child. Suwannabol was well-known throughout Thailand as a nutritional expert and chef, running a restaurant in the garden of her house, founding a catering firm, and even appearing on Thai TV. It was among the pots and pans of her homely restaurant that Tiravanija developed not only an interest in food, but also in the social components of cooking and hosting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 ho-pattern-optional-button padding-top-4'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons '>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary mobile-full-width\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">Lorem Ipsum<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/medien-bild-zwei-bilder-gross-klein'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='cf-side-5 col col-md-7 col-xs-11 mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/myartguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC3637.jpg\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Rirkrit Tiravanija, Do we Dream under the Same Sky, installation view, Art Basel 2015<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/myartguides.com\/fairs\/basel\/do-we-dream-under-the-same-sky\/\">myartguides.com<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-11 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_mJVyHD\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/tiffobenii.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/199601c.jpg\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_mJVyHD\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Rirkrit Tiravanija, installation view<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/tiffobenii.wordpress.com\/participation\/rirkrit-tiravanija\/\">tiffobenii.wordpress.com<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-video-text-links-video-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-10 col-md-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4  ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem Ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>His grandmother\u2019s handwritten recipes accompanied him all the way to Toronto where he studied in the early 1980s and spent every Sunday cooking up a huge pot of curry to share with friends and acquaintances. After spending time in Chicago, he ended up in New York, where he likewise prepared meals in great style according to Suwannabol\u2019s instructions, albeit this time as part of a group exhibition at the Paula Allen Gallery. In the middle of the exhibition space, he made pad thai, distributing it free of charge to visitors, which many mistook to be a catering service. Through the interaction with the food and the exchange among those involved, the audience \u2013 knowingly or unknowingly \u2013 became a central part of the artwork. The action broke with the expectations and conventions of the artworld and marked an important milestone in the varied and multidisciplinary career of Tiravanija, whose works aim to create situations that turn passive onlookers into active participants, blurring the dividing line between art and life.<br><br>Behind the supposedly simple cooking activity, there also lie complex issues, for example those of his own cultural identity \u2013 as a Thai person who was educated in a system molded by Western values \u2013 or of the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of dishes like pad thai, which was introduced by Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram at the end of the 1930s to encourage consumption of protein-rich rice noodles and bolster Thai national pride. Only those who look very closely will discover the manifold levels of meaning that hide behind Tiravanija\u2019s actions: The use of an electric wok from the brand \u201cWest Bend\u201d in \u201cpad thai\u201d (1990) is a reference to the Martha Rosler\u2019s video performance \u201cThe East is Red, The West is Bending\u201d (1977), in which the artist reflects on cultural appropriation, and it stands as an example of the usurpation of Eastern cultural goods by the West and their transformation into consumer goods.<br><br>Throughout his career as a culinary artist, Tiravanija has repeatedly deviated from the classic recipes of Thai cuisine and integrated important elements of food culture from his immediate surroundings. In Stockholm\u2019s Moderna Museet, he cooked up Swedish meatballs with green curry paste, while in Hamburg\u2019s Kunstverein he prepared \u201cFl\u00e4dlesuppe\u201d \u2013 a \u201ctypical German dish\u201d, which nevertheless appears strangely out of place in Hamburg and which, through the addition of cayenne pepper, confounded the audience\u2019s expectations all the more. 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In the spacious kitchen-diner, it becomes clear that the artist\u2019s ideas about cooking and eating as a \u201csocial adhesive\u201d are likewise firmly anchored in his everyday life. At the dining table alone, there is space for fourteen people to sit comfortably, and Tiravanija describes his whole house as one big sofa on which friends, family members, colleagues and students regularly come together to eat and exchange ideas.<br><br>While at the start of his career Tiravanija was always the one at the wok, now he often cooks only at openings; for his exhibition \u201cWho\u2019s afraid of red, yellow, and green\u201d (2019) at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, he handed over responsibility entirely to a local Thai restaurant. Indeed, he also outsourced the execution of drawings depicting various protest movements, which graced the walls in Washington, to art students, too. And thus he explains his identification with the fruit fly: Tiravanija actually has no interest in being at the center of his actions; he would rather the exhibition visitors took center-stage. As a fly, he would be able to remain entirely inconspicuous on the wall and observe in peace the specific dynamic his ideas develop as soon as the audience takes ownership of them. And once the last morsel of curry has been spooned up, he would simply fly away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiCsy73Jzny5xQD7jVsSWwubjzhL8gSH7qbt-ni-Zu_M9IuyzD8I25x1GJF_girn1CAl3AmMBx-02GNIcDXzvlMNvc1rb24qNMAbTRROfMIpEjyZXgIcyf3mtLYasAP3-apW5t5qPldNuA\/s1600\/+Rirkrit_House_02.jpg\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2018s retreat in Chiang Mai<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somewhereiwouldliketolive.com\/2012\/04\/rirkrit-tiravanijas-retreat-in-chiang.html\">somewhereiwouldliketolive.com<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Special Tip<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>In 2019 Tiravanija joined forces with Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi to publish <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/schirnmag\/must-read-10-kuenstler-kochbuecher-2\/\">The Bastard Cookbook<\/a><\/em>, a cookbook dedicated entirely to his idea of hybridizing dishes. It includes combinations as unconventional as curry pizza, ice cream with fish sauce, and sticky rice with strawberries and Finnish malt loaf. His grandmother\u2019s famous pad thai recipe, where it all began, is also included \u2013 in a \u201cbastardized\u201d version with bechamel sauce and ketchup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 ho-pattern-optional-button padding-top-4'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons '>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary mobile-full-width\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">Lorem Ipsum<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline toggle-optional-button show-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-magazin-exkurs-option-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row center-xs'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='mag-exkurs container-fluid padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5 cf-side-7 cf-gutter-1'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-mag-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">What do the kitchens of the artworld look like?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body-medium'>From Frida Kahlo to Christo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='ho-pattern-optional-button padding-top-4'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons wp-block-ho-buttons flex-layout-align-center mobile-flex-layout-align-center'>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/hauptkategorie\/whats-cooking-en\/\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">What&#8217;s Cooking?<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"structure-content-color\" style=\"--content-color-foreground: var(--color-fg-text-black);--content-color-background: var(--color-highlight-highlight-02);color: var(--color-fg-text-black);background: var(--color-highlight-highlight-02);\">\n<div class='structure-content-color-content'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are artists particularly creative when it comes to cooking? 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