Artist Mukbang

Parallel to the solo exhibition Julia Gruner "Entropic Motion", Galerie Judith Andreae shows for the first time guest artists whom Gruner has met during her artistic career, with whom she has already realised projects and exhibitions, conceived artistic performance and video works or who have made her curious about a future collaboration.

The group exhibition under the format feat. Liza Dieckwisch, Kathrin Graf, Klara Kayser, Bettina Marx and Nikola Ukic not only makes connections to the works by Julia Gruner on an aesthetic level. All the artists share a strong interest in the question of "materiality" and how this can be translated into painting and sculpture.

Under the name "Artist Mukbang", Liza Dieckwisch and Julia Gruner have been working together as an artist duo since 2015 on projects that explore the boundary between art and everyday food. In the projects, parallels are drawn between the material paint and food in order to sharpen the perception of our everyday food. This usually takes the form of expansive, sometimes garishly coloured installations in which parts of the exhibits can be eaten by the visitors. Since 2019, as an extension and part of the installations, there is the YouTube channel "Artist Mukbang", where you can watch people eating coloured food. The entire setting of the videos - similar to the installations - is kept in bright, monochrome colours that correspond to the colour of the respective food. The videos are based on the phenomenon "Mukbang", originally from South Korea, in which people film themselves eating and publish this on the internet, sometimes as a live stream. Mukbang has become a worldwide trend, attracting millions of viewers on YouTube and Instagram.There are currently no well-founded scientific studies on the popularity of this phenomenon, but according to media reports, watching such videos could help against loneliness or calm down, for example. The videos thus function as a digital substitute satisfaction of human needs that are often disregarded in a globalised, fast-paced world.