Past event
FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Inviting visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explored current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table
From urban farming to gastronomic experiments and synthetic meat, this exhibition brought together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.
This exhibition is now closed at V&A South Kensington
Exhibition trailer
★★★★ a curious delight, just don't go in hungry.
The Independent
a punchy, fun look at the food chain
The Times
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Exhibition highlights
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Mechelse Maatiaiskana, 22nd generation Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, photograph. © Koen Vanmechelen -
Alas! My poor Brother, poster advertising Bovril, designed by W.H. Caffyn, advertising agent S.H. Benson, 1905, UK. Museum no. E.147-1973. Reproduced courtesy of CPC Ltd © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Urban Mushroom Farm. © GroCycle -
The Sausage of the Future, Carolien Niebling. Photo: Noortje Knulst -
Symmetry Breakfast, Michael Zee. © Michael Zee -
Ooho! edible water bottle, Skipping Rocks Lab -
Hop-picking trip, 2018. Courtesy of Company Drinks, photo Nick Matthews -
Merdacotta. © Henrik Blomqvist -
Daily Dump Compost at Home, India -
(Detail) Fruits from the Garden and the Field, rainbow wallpaper, 2019. © Fallen Fruit, 2019 -
(Detail) Supernatural, by Uli Westphal, 2019. Commissioned by the V&A -
'Griechische Oranges. Prinz von Kreta', fruit wrapper, 20th century, Italy. Museum no. E.1704-1974. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Studies of bees and other insects, by Beatrix Potter, about 1895, watercolour over pencil. Linder Collection cat. no. LC 19/B/5. © Victoria & Albert Museum, London, courtesy Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. and The Trustees of the Linder Collection -
(Base) The Human Trace Tableware, by Ewa Klekot and Arkadiusz Szwed, 2016 – 2018. © Arkadiusz Szwed -
Parblex, glasses made from non-food-grade industrial potato waste in production. © Chip[s] Board -
(Detail) Totomoxtle table, Fernando Laposse -
Brexit Ware eggcups, Harriet Coles
Past events
Features
Inside the FOOD: Bigger than the Plate exhibition
Get a taste of FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
'Anima' – food waste tableware by Kosuke Araki
Beautiful vessels crafted from food waste and traditional Japanese lacquer
Re-engineering the Brown Betty teapot
The evolution of a design classic, stretching back over 400 years
Fallen Fruit at the V&A
How Californian artists Fallen Fruit created a unique 'fruity' portrait of the V&A
A history of food posters
Explore over 100 years of food poster design and the rise of a global, billion-dollar industry
About the exhibition – FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Whet your appetite for our FOOD exhibition
