
Cooking Sections
MAPS X Cooking Sections
Ongoing
MAPS has initiated a groundbreaking durational collaboration with the London-based artists Cooking Sections, which will culminate in 2026 with a temporary exhibition and a new long-term project starting in 2026 that rethinks land art in the 21st century.
MAPS has initiated a groundbreaking durational collaboration with the London-based artists Cooking Sections, which will culminate in 2026 with a temporary exhibition and a new long-term project starting in 2026 that rethinks land art in the 21st century.
Under the working title “Soil Bonds,” this ambitious partnership will develop as a long-term initiative in close collaboration with external partners. The project is based on Cooking Sections’ extensive research into the impact of industrial pork farming on Denmark’s economic, environmental, and cultural landscapes.
MAPS aims to contribute to significant and current societal debates as well as to solutions for the profound environmental challenges our society faces. Through innovative methodologies and collaborations, MAPS and Cooking Sections bring together NGOs and other organizations working for the restoration and preservation of the land. The goal is to develop a long-term initiative and a regenerative land art project that actively contributes to the restoration and care of our shared environment.
The project is co-curated by MAPS’ senior curator Irene Campolmi og director Ulrikke Neergaard.

Cooking Sections, CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones, 2017-ongoing. Installation view, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Courtesy: the artists. Photo: Colin Hattersley.
MAPS x CLIMAVORE
Since 2022 MAPS have been collaborating with Cooking Sections as part of the Becoming CLIMAVORE network – developing a menu for the museum café based on restorative ingredients and exploring sustainable food culture through markets, workshops, talks, community dinners collaborating with national and regional producers like Køge Common Ground, Danish Seaweed and Reduced.
MAPS x CLIMAVORE Assembly
In 2023, MAPS participated in Cooking Sections’ first CLIMAVORE Assembly, which was held in Rome October 27–29, 2023. With the CLIMAVORE Assembly, Cooking Sections brought together a network of international museums for a dialogue with policymakers, farmers, grassroots activists, chefs, and environmentalists about the role of cultural institutions in addressing the climate crisis.
MAPS contributed with a video about the museum’s work with Becoming CLIMAVORE, which was shown in the Parliament in Rome during the Assembly. Watch the video.
Read more about the CLIMAVORE Assembly here.

Mohamed Keita, Climavore Assembly Campidoglio, 2023.
About Cooking Sections

Photo by Aman Askarizad _ IHME
Cooking Sections examines the systems that organize the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Cooking Sections were established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015.
The work of Cooking Sections have been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Carnegie Museum of Art, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Atlas Arts, HKW, SPACES, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cleveland Triennial, BAS9, Shanghai Biennial, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially engaged practices.
Cooking Sections are Readers in Architecture and Spatial Practice at the Royal College of Art, London; Principal Investigators at CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA and Fellows at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Cooking Sections, CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones, 2017-ongoing. Installation view, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Courtesy: the artists. Photo: Nicholas Middleton.
MAPS exhibition program 2024-2026 is supported by Det Obelske Familiefond.