Focus On: Frankfurt Kitchen

The kitchen has never just been about cooking. It’s where stories are shared, futures are imagined, care circulates, and culture is passed down through taste and touch. Almost a hundred years ago, the Frankfurt Kitchen set out to streamline the domestic sphere into efficiency; today, we stir things up.

Step inside for an afternoon where food, labour, and design collide—where films, performances, and rituals spill out of the kitchen and into the Storehouse. At every turn, the ordinary is reframed as extraordinary. A meal becomes a ritual, seeds carry stories of resilience, utensils become vessels of history, and the smallest gestures—cooking, serving, sharing—reveal how cultures endure, adapt, and connect across borders.

Head chef of Silo London and artist Moonhyung Lee stages The Condition of Efficiency: An Experiment in the Sense of Urgency, a live, participatory installation that contrasts the unseen, care-driven rhythms of the home with the high-pressure choreography of the professional kitchen. Visitors are invited to become temporary members of a kitchen while reflecting on how gender, hierarchy, and urgency shape our everyday relationship to food. 

Lola Olufemi, writer and researcher, leads a study group grounded in feminist theory to explore the kitchen as a site of social reproduction—the often-unacknowledged labour that makes all other work possible. Through collective reading and discussion, the session opens up space to consider how domestic labour sustains life and how it might be reimagined in more equitable terms.

Recipe alchemist and founder of Kult Kitchen, Moon Bedeaux, together with medical herbalist Carolina Brooks and Zoe Bedeaux as TIP – The Invisible Poetess – invite  participants into Becoming Witch: An Agent for Change Through Ritual. This intimate tea-blending workshop, marks the Autumn Equinox and New Moon. Through guided meditation, reflection, and herbal blending, guests are invited to weave intentions into their own personalised tea, reclaiming the kitchen as a space of cyclical wisdom, remembrance, and transformation.

Multimedia artist and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Vivien Sansour, and designer Neville Wisdom present Ahl el Thara, People of the Soil, a poetic film that traces the deep kinship between humans and soil across geographies. Moving from the terraces of Palestine to river valleys, fields, and farms across the world, the work honours communities who live in reciprocity with the land, weaving seeds, soil, and memory into living archives of survival and generosity.