Cooking Lab

Lab Area Supervisor: Bouhlou
Dürerstr. 10
60596 Frankfurt am Main

The inception of cooking at the Städelschule dates to 1978, when Peter Kubelka was appointed professor of the Class for Film and Cooking as an Artistic Genre. Kubelka, “… a cook, comparative theorist, astute observer, cultural anthropologist, collector, artist, co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives, New York, filmmaker, avant-gardist, musician, traveler, and subtle theorist of eating, elevated practical thinking about cooking to a philosophical level, and offered vexing proof through a comparison of cultures that cooking is an art.”  Besides his work as a teacher, the annual Gasthaus [Tavern], which enjoyed immense popularity, served as a stage for his art.

After Peter Kubelka had left his professorship at the Städelschule, the tradition of cooking was carried on in a variety of forms; thus, in 2002, in the framework of a weeklong international symposium entitled Gasthof [Inn], during which artists from a different country would present regional specialties to hundreds of guests every evening; or in numerous workshops such as those held by Ono Faller, Henrik Plenge Jacobson, Jason Rhoades and most recently Klaus Trebes, who revived the tradition of hospitality at the Städelschule in the spring of 2007 with the second “Dinner for Art.”