We associate food and drink with rituals, rules and traditions – they create community, but they can also be exclusive. How, where and with whom we eat says a lot about social structures.<\/p>\n
For the ongoing project A Painting for a Family Dinner<\/em> by Alina and Jeff Bliumis, the artist couple were invited to dinner by 62 families to date – in return they received a painting. A group photograph was taken afterwards. The resulting ‘family portraits’ tell a story of hospitality, exchange and artistic interaction, and invite us to take a fresh look at eating as a unifying practice.<\/p>\n Text in English and German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For ‘A Painting for a Family Dinner’ Alina and Jeff Bliumis were invited to dinner by 62 families to date – in return they received a painting. This publications tells a story of hospitality, exchange and artistic interaction, and invites us to take a fresh look at eating as a unifying practice. Text in English and German.
The publication documents our journey: 62 host families, 62 FAMILY PORTRAITS, 6 countries – Dortmund, Germany 2025, Tokyo, Japan 2022, Lecce, Italy 2013, Beijing, China 2013, Bronx, NY, USA 2012, Bat Yam, Israel 2008. FOREWORD by Regina Selter WHO REPRESENTS A CITY? by Christina Danick and Michael Griff. OUR DIARY – short recounts of all dinners in chronological order, photo documentation and family recipes collected along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":61991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523,5711],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61990","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"product_cat-food-drink","8":"author-by-author-museum-ostwall","9":"publisher-verlag-kettler","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n