(Image: Tokoname’s Giant Maneki Neko)
14th February 2026 from 7 p.m.
PARTY and POP-UP EXHIBITION
at TURTLELAB BERLIN
Motto of the Day:
KITCHEN STORIES
You will find a Kunstpotluck with works by the Turtlelab crew and friends:
Yuki Jungesblut, Sharon Paz, Jeremiah Day and Daniel Schaal
&
Susanne Britz
Mirja Busch
Thilo Droste
Dana Engfer
Yoko Jungesblut
Guy Königstein
Bjørn Melhus
Jenny Michel
Ayumi Rahn
Caspar Stracke
Frederic Vidal
and hopefully some surprise guests!
(which turned out to be: Alisa Margolis & Christine Kriegerowski)
Our studio has a relatively large kitchen which we use as our shared communal space. We have long been intending to use this particular constellation for a casual studio exhibition celebrating this vital, sometimes underestimated space where lots of time is spent, stories are shared and ideas are cooked. Since we love social research we do this with a brief nod to Salmer fra kjøkkenet a film by Bent Hammer
Please bring a bottle and/or a snack and a friendly face!
The following images were collected on the internet for interest and are tentatively shown here for information purposes (sources indicated). They did not directly feature in the event or the exhibition. Please contact us if there are any objections:
Interior from the kitchen at Rålambsvägen in Marieberg. A woman from the Home Care Research Institute makes time studies, with watch and notes, on a woman who works at the kitchen counter in the kitchen. (around 1950)
(Kitchen Research which inspired the film „Kitchen Stories“ apparently)
https://popularhistoria.se/samhalle/utbildning/hushallssysslor-blev-vetenskap
Follow the link below to watch an interesting film (made by the Swedish Television) about the original kitchen optimisation research – The Home Research Institute (HFI) was formed in 1944 by housewife associations and women’s organisations and was financed by the state. On the occasion of the advent of industrial society and the development of the modern people’s home in the 1940s, they wanted to rationalize housewives‘ working conditions and facilitate the work of the housewife. The institute worked on developing research and information on consumer issues and was the first state organization to supervise consumer issues. (Source: Stockholm City museum website).
https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/35330
Here you can find some information on the film by Bent Hammer, which is a peculiar, curious and unexpected mix of meditating on social research, observing human existence, celebrating human connection and friendship, comedy and tragedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Stories
