Søren Aagaard, born 1980 in Denmark, explores the performative potential of food and art in a wide variety of contexts. Who is cooking? What is cooked and for whom? A closer look quickly reveals that food is a consistently controversial topic. Cultural identity and appropriation, social structures and disparities, distribution channels of ingredients and tools used to process them, workers in kitchens and restaurants around the world – all of this shows close parallels to the cultural sector. Eventually, it is a question of aesthetic settings; pedestals, plates, forms of presentation and their semantic implications that Aagaard devotes himself to – a dedication making his objects, performances and videos unique. Following numerous exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, the Performa Biennale in New York and most recently at the Yokohama Triennale, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen is now showing Søren Aagaard‘s first solo museum exhibition in Germany as part of the Ruhrfestspiele.