Den goda maten: Artist presentations and film screening

Den goda maten (The Benevolent Food) is a multi-year inquiry into art, environment, and food hosted by Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Food Art Research Network. Ten artists, researchers and curators from different parts of the planet will gather in Giron/Kiruna to kick off Den goda maten in August 2025. The inquiry will evolve over the coming years, through commissions, screenings, events and publications with invited artists including Åsa Sonjasdotter, Cooking Sections, Elia Nurvista, Fernando García-Dory and INLAND, Keg de Souza, Kultivator, Myvillages, Olga Tsaplya Egorova, Natalia Shapkina, Victoria Harnesk and curators Madeleine Collie and Maria Lind. Den goda maten is part of Kin’s multiyear enquiry The Critical Zone.

13:00
Floor 5
The participants of Den goda maten are on site at Kin in Kiruna to present themselves and their practice. The presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by curators Madeleine Collie and Maria Lind.

14:00
Floor 5
Film screening of Cultivating Abundance by Åsa Sonjasdotter.

About the film: Cultivating Abundance (64 minutes. 2022)
With the establishment of the Swedish Seed Association in Svalöv in 1886, a modern method for plant breeding was invented that still today is in use by more or less all plant breeding industries across the globe. The film departs by a series of restored photographs from the very first plant breeding experiments in Svalöv. It follows plant breeder Hans Larsson and the association Allkorn’s work to re-cultivate those grains of traditional farmer-bred varieties that were abandoned with the introduction of modern farming. The film opens for reflection on the consequences this shift in method would come to have for human and more-than-human relations. How can the cultivated relations, that have become so vital to humans, be understood?

Read more about the project here

Bild 1: INLAND
Bild 2: INLAND