Vlada Predelina

community - DIY - installation - conceptual

Vlada Predelina (1991) is an artist based in Rotterdam. Her work looks into the meaning of a sense of place through a range of media including food, natural dyes, bioplastics and ceramics. She creates gatherings around a particular medium as a focus to bring out intimate discussions and situated histories. Currently she is researching the role of tacit knowledge systems of women as a sustaining force in relation to land and colonial expansion. Since 2020 she has been working as part of Eathouse, an artist collective with Jake Caleb, Merve Kılıçer, Ulufer Çelik exploring the potential of food as an artistic method where the culinary informs the social.

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    • take from the table, bring to the table @ refractions

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 21-06-2023 t/m 02-07-2023
    • Location: BAK, basis for contemporary art, Utrecht
    • The work invites the viewer to look at pelmeni, a specific type of dumpling and national dish of Russia, through multiple lenses. From pelmeni as sustenance of the nomadic people of the Ural region; to conquerors consuming pelmeni and regional culture whilst expanding maps of Imperial Russia; and then from the perspective of personal memories in the privacy of a domestic kitchen. It is a recipe preserved and passed on from generation to generation, from hands to hands and from East to West.
    • https://www.predelina.com/take-from-the-table-bring-to-the-table

    Tongue Twisting Dinners (Eathouse)

    Project

    • 01-03-2023 t/m 31-07-2023
    • In collaboration with: Jake Caleb, Merve Kilicer, Ulufer Celik
    • Location: an other world, Rotterdam
    • Tongue Twisting Dinners is a series of four monthly dinners hosted by Eathouse. The dinners explore ways of initiating critical dialogue around contemporary urgencies by bringing people and culinary practice together. Over four monthly dinner sessions, the dinners explored ways of initiating critical dialogue around contemporary urgencies by bringing people and culinary practice together. For each session Eathouse hosted a specific topic with invited guests.
    • https://eathousecooks.com/

    Garden lab

    Project

    • 01-07-2022
    • In collaboration with: Kunstlab + Buren
    • Location: Atelier Bornerveld, Rotterdam
    • Tuinlab is an ongoing garden project in collaboration with artists, neighbors, and children, exploring the possibilities of connecting through art, research, nature, embodied knowledge, getting hands dirty, and learning about the origins of food. It's about learning, about being together, about people's relationship with each other (both humans and plants), through a set of activities and interventions in and around the garden such as grass-weaving and cooking.
    • https://www.instagram.com/tuinlab169/

    Pelmeni: A Cooking Conversation @ WEST The Hague

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 24-09-2022 t/m 24-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: Katerina Sidorova, Yannik Güldner
    • Location: WEST The Hague, The Hague
    • Guests will cooked pelmeni with a research talk of the origins of pelmeni from the semi-nomadic Uralic hunters' sustenance to their present status as a national dish of Russia. The name originates from the Udmurt language: pel' nyan' meaning 'ear bread'. Using them as a listening tool, we opened up discussions about unwritten histories, knowledges and their meaning in the current context.
    • https://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/22_07_Katerina_Sidorova/more1

    Mapping Pelmeni: Presentation @ Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-05-2023 t/m 05-05-2023
    • In collaboration with: University of Regensburg/Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    • Location: University of Regensburg, Regensburg
    • Presentation of research

    Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook

    Project

    • 01-09-2021 t/m 31-01-2022
    • 'Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook' presents the starting point of an investigation into the histories of pelmeni, a type of dumpling originating from nomadic peoples of the Ural mountains. Over a course of four small pelmeni-making sessions with women from different backgrounds, I collected oral histories of language, food and practices of home in 2021. The collaborative making of pelmeni—literally translated from Udmurti as ear-bread—foregrounds cooking together as a time for listening.

    Eathouse @ Pakghor the social kitchen, Britto Arts Trust

    Workshop

    • 21-07-2022 t/m 21-09-2023
    • In collaboration with: Britto Arts Trust
    • Location: documenta fifteen, Kassel
    • Eathouse did a kitchen takeover at the project Pakghor social kitchen organized by Britto Arts Trust at documenta fifteen
    • https://eathouse.hotglue.me/Pakghor_Social_Kitchen

    Eathouse LIVE FEED

    Project

    • 01-05-2021 t/m 30-09-2021
    • In collaboration with: Jake Caleb, Merve Kılıçer and Ulufer Çelik
    • Location:, Rotterdam
    • In Summer Season 2021 Eathouse Collective were running LIVE FEED: a set of 4 broadcasted events where we took a look at specific dishes we cook, and opened up discussions about their histories to find out what draws us to them and how we gather and form a community around them.
    • https://www.predelina.com/live-feed

    Off Grid

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-11-2019 t/m 01-03-2020
    • In collaboration with: Compiler
    • Location: Online as part of The Wrong Digital Art Biennale and at locations including Banner Repeater and Tate Britain, London
    • https://compiler.zone/off-grid-router/

    3 O'Clock: Migration as an act of art, ritual as a method.

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-10-2019 t/m 22-10-2019
    • Location: Leave of Absence Gallery, London

    HCA Residency

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-01-2019 t/m 31-12-2019
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam

    SHOWROOM

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 28-06-2019 t/m 15-07-2019
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam

    It Boils Down

    Exhibition / presentation

    • Location: Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam

    15 Hours (during Schnitt series)

    Performance

    • Location: HOK Gallery, The Hague

    Pelmeni

    Workshop

    • 08-03-2019 t/m 22-09-2019
    • Location: Roodkapje and Vredestuin, Rotterdam
    • An invitation to share a personal moment of dumpling making at the grandparents' apartment. After not seeing them for a long period of time and discovering their figures on Google Maps' image captured outside of their house, there was an urge to recreate the experience, this home feeling away from home.

    Ceramic Stories

    Workshop

    • 25-05-2019 t/m 25-05-2019
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • Ceramic Stories is a series of workshops for looking closely at daily routines and other personal rituals that make us feel grounded. This could be brushing teeth, doing some basic housework or walking to the shop to get groceries. An exploration of everyone's day-to-day life to larger events.

    Homeware for Hibernation

    Exhibition / presentation

    • In collaboration with: Jake Caleb
    • Location: LIFE, Rotterdam
    • An autumnal homeware collection produced for a shop called LIFE. Thinking along with annual rhythms of growing, collecting and storing, the artists gathered organic materials on walks and in the kitchen over the summer and early autumn to make naturally dyed textiles. This was accompanied by candles cast in recycled bottles, analogue photographs of mushrooms in the woods and reading lamps.
    • https://www.ashopcalled.life/past-life

    drop-by-dip dye

    Workshop

    Colors or Oriole

    Project

    • 22-09-2020 t/m 28-09-2020
    • Location: Growing Space, Rotterdam
    • Colors of Wielewaal features new work made using natural dyes gathered in and around the Wielewaal neighborhood. It celebrates a moment of a recent interest in making natural colors from plants and food scraps in order to be more connected to the land and our surroundings as a way to feel more at home.
    • https://growingspacewielewaal.hotglue.me/

    Public Works

    Exhibition / presentation

    Learning about home

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-05-2018 t/m 31-05-2018
    • In collaboration with: Open Practice
    • Location: Elmer Projects, London
    • I used the residency to further explore my ideas about 'home' and 'housing' through installation, culminating in a workshop where I invited others to explore what home means to them.
    • https://www.instagram.com/elmerprojects/?hl=en

    eat house

    Project

    • 08-05-2020 t/m 26-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: Jake Caleb, Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer
    • Location: Pavilion ... on the Water, Rotterdam
    • Eathouse is an initiative set up by Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer, Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb to provide simple, affordable food and a generous meeting point for people living in Rotterdam-South. For the 2020 summer season, Eathouse cooked and hosted the restaurant at Paviljoen ... aan het Water.
    • https://charloisaanhetwater.nl/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • The Leverhulme Trust

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • MC de Visser Fund Foundation

    • 2021
      Pricing

    • Shortlisted prize: Zealous Co

    • 2015
      Pricing

    • Won prize: Stanley Picker Travel Scholarship (courtesy of the Stanley Picker Gallery)

    • 2011
      Pricing

      Publication

    • take from the table, bring to the table, 'Graduation Shows 2023 – HKU MA Fine Arts'

    • 2023
    • Exhibition review article
    • Metropolis M - Rosa Wevers
      Publication

    • Food is actually history: Interview Vlada Predelina

    • 2023
    • Interview
    • HKU University of the Arts Utrecht -
      Publication

    • Pelmeni, Vlada Predelina, The Game of Knives: Writings and illustrations on protest, geopolitics and biopower

    • 2022
    • Publication of Bottleneck exhibition
    • WEST The Hague - Katerina Sidorova and Yannik Güldner
      Publication

    • Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook

    • 2021
    • Self-published
    • Self in collaboration with PrintRoom - Self
      Publication

    • About the DAVRA collective in Kassel

    • 2022
    • Printed article
    • MetropolisM - Self & MetropolisM