Text on the work by curator Tone Bonnén

For Heartland 2024, von Lüpke has created an edible, sculptural, and site-specific installation. By decorating Heartland’s bakery in Egeskov’s red barn with grotesques made of bread, von Lüpke engages in a dialogue with architectural history traditions and the framework of Heartland’s other food experiences at the festival.

In addition to von Lüpke’s sculptural work, the artist performs daily for Heartland guests who queue for the bakery in the decorated barn. At selected times, guests will be met by the artist with a cart from which she serves and offers a piece of one of her bread works, baked in molds she has cast from her own and close relations’ faces. The exchange of food between people and the bodily ingestion and connection established through this are central to von Lüpke’s interest in bread as both material and symbol.

The work is scheduled as part of Heartland’s new initiative Art & Food, which unites the festival’s program categories across disciplines. This new designation directly points to the interdisciplinary space of contemporary art, where works rarely allow themselves to be classified unilaterally. Art & Food gives Heartland guests the opportunity to experience the best of both the art and gastronomy worlds.

Text on the work by curator Tone Bonnén

For Heartland 2024, von Lüpke has created an edible, sculptural, and site-specific installation. By decorating Heartland’s bakery in Egeskov’s red barn with grotesques made of bread, von Lüpke engages in a dialogue with architectural history traditions and the framework of Heartland’s other food experiences at the festival.

In addition to von Lüpke’s sculptural work, the artist performs daily for Heartland guests who queue for the bakery in the decorated barn. At selected times, guests will be met by the artist with a cart from which she serves and offers a piece of one of her bread works, baked in molds she has cast from her own and close relations’ faces. The exchange of food between people and the bodily ingestion and connection established through this are central to von Lüpke’s interest in bread as both material and symbol.

The work is scheduled as part of Heartland’s new initiative Art & Food, which unites the festival’s program categories across disciplines. This new designation directly points to the interdisciplinary space of contemporary art, where works rarely allow themselves to be classified unilaterally. Art & Food gives Heartland guests the opportunity to experience the best of both the art and gastronomy worlds.