New Nordic: Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place

Food is more than nutrition – it is culture, identity and history.

Discover how a new Nordic food movement has sparked interest in local ingredients and natural materials across borders and artistic disciplines.

New Nordic Cuisine is a movement that started in the Nordic countries in the early 2000s and has since grown into an international phenomenon.

With its interpretations of wild nature, the Nordic climate, local foodstuffs and culinary traditions, the movement spawned a distinctive aesthetic that was expressed in meals, tableware and restaurant interiors. Locally-sourced natural materials, animal skins and untreated wood, handmade ceramics and the use of wild vegetation as raw ingredients and for decoration all featured prominently.

New Nordic: Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place shows how this food movement merged with other contemporary cultural trends. Through architecture, contemporary art, design and crafts from the museum’s collection, and objects loaned from various restaurants, the exhibition examines the “new Nordic” concept as a broad aesthetic development defined by the interaction between materials, people and landscape.