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Future Grandpa’s Secret Recipe is an artistic project invested in creating traces to navigate the intricate relations between digestions and histories.
Rooted in artistic research and the everyday act of grocery shopping, the project interrogates food consumption and its inherent historical complexities.
Through an experimental, process-driven approach that integrates societal and individual narratives, FGSR blurs the lines between the digestible and the indigestible, exploring how ingestion shapes identity and memory.
Embracing digestion as a holistic concept, the project transforms, among others, kitchen machinery, food packaging, and cutlery into tools for questioning industrialized identities—constructing bodies of work from the remnants of consumption, the activation of memory, and processes of transformation.
These explorations materialize through a diverse range of media, including installation, temporal moments, sculpture, painting, writing, and collaboration.

Table manners (2024)
Table manners (2024) - ‚Table Manners‘ arranges two beer garden table sets at a 90-degree angle under infrared lamps, transforming them into a reflective surface. A woodcut of two hands holding a smartphone at the dining table is carved into the wood, highlighting the shift from communal dining to individual digital engagement. Created for an exhibition on the „digital unconscious“ in the Romanian salt mine Salina Ocnele Mari, the installation with its infrared heat heightens physical awareness towards the process of digital and physical consumption. The work reflects how technology reshapes social rituals and what it means to gather at a table today. (Wood carved beer garden table sets, infrared lamps, 300 x 180 x 80 cm) https://fgsrecipe.com/table-manners/
Ogsusu Bar (2024)
Ogsusu Bar (2024) - ‚Ogsusu Bar‘ celebrates the friendship and long-awaited reunion of FGSR and 김방주/Bangjoo Kim at MMCA Goyang Open Studio Days 2024. The artists create an immersive space with linen seating, corn sketches, ink-treated textiles, and an audio piece, as well as serving steamed corn and corn tea. As hosts, they offer a slowed-down experience, engaging the senses with friendship’s immaterial qualities. The air carries corn’s aroma, and Kim’s written piece Corn, read aloud by FGSR, a Korean language learner, shifts focus to the texture of sound, offering a moment to drift through the bar’s sensory experiences. ‚Ogsusu Bar‘ activates visitors‘ sensory agency, sparking personal memories and shared stories, revealing the ephemeral nature of our connections. (Bar serving steamed corn and corn tea, spoken text over speakers, floor: linen on seats 120 x 200 cm, ceramics 80 x 40 x 40 cm with eaten corn stems, wall: handwritten story ‚corn‘ by Bangjoo Kim on papers, 2x prints with ink on linen 100 x 200 cm, sketches on wall) https://fgsrecipe.com/ogsusu-bar/
Greetings from a kitchen (2024)
Greetings from a kitchen (2024) - ‘Greetings from a Kitchen’ repurposes discarded kitchen tools from my family’s basement, relics of post-WW2 German industrial prosperity, creating a stream of wet, slimy paper-plastic-mâché. The kitchen transforms into an excavation site where daily grocery packages and studio wastes relentlessly accumulate and dominate the space. The overwhelming materiality of the paper-plastic-mâché subverts conventional kitchen notions of cleanliness and order. The kitchen machines are used to chop and mix what is there, transforming the site into an overall sculptural space inhabited by objects that emphasize material contamination, reflect on social fragility, and embody unfamiliar lifeforms. (Discarded kitchen equipment intertwined with paper-plastic-mâché, jute, metal and glazed ceramic) https://fgsrecipe.com/greetings-from-a-kitchen/
Tongue lecture (2024/23)
Tongue lecture (2024/23) - ‚Tongue Lecture‚ is a ten-minute speed lecture with a live drawing. Tracing 1.5 million years of tongue evolution, it navigates the oral cavity, Neolithic revolution, and industrialization, questioning the term ‘taste’. The live drawing, a dysfunctional map, complements the lecture’s rapid exploration. From fire to language, the informative and disorienting performance challenges the audience to reconsider the role of taste between culture, history and power structures. https://fgsrecipe.com/tongue-lecture/
Taste zones (2024/23)
Taste zones (2024/23) - ‚Taste Zones‘ is a group activity that challenges the tongue map, which, from its introduction in 1901, falsely divides taste reception into rigid zones: bitter, sweet, salty, and sour. Using the tongue map as a reference point, participants draw from our backgrounds and beliefs to explore the subjective nature of taste. By creating drawings and paintings, the group activity questions how taste is understood, moving beyond anatomy to embrace personal experience. The group activity reflects individual and collective dimensions of taste, revealing how personal and collective memory expands on our sensory understanding. https://fgsrecipe.com/taste-zones/
3rd Millennium Ingestion (2024-23)
3rd Millennium Ingestion (2024/23) - ‘3rd Millennium Ingestion’ is an artist book in collaboration with Stephen Kerr that explores ingestion, digestion, and identity in a tangible manner in design and writing. This 116-page object, bound with found and selfmade papers, is sized seven times smaller than my home fridge. It tells the story of Ele, founder of the Taste Institute and living inside the fridge. His orderly world gets disrupted by expired and talkative Haribo Tropifrutti gummies. The story unfolds a journey that blurs food and non-food, lifeforms and artificial ingredients, reflecting industrialized food culture and personal taste. Using the fridge as a microcosm of contemporary consumption, the narrative examines how this cosmos within the fridge shapes our bodies and beliefs. Content: Abstract - Introduction - 1. Life Amidst Fridge - 2. Professional Taste - 3. AI: Artificial Ingredients - 4. Expiry On The Loose - 5. Conscious FEED - Bibliography - Colophon -Acknowledgement - List of images. (Artist book by FGSR and Stephen Kerr, Rotterdam/Dublin. 116 pages, 6600 words, found papers, self made papers & Kasaka Schetspapier 90gr., unpublished edition of 7, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.) https://fgsrecipe.com/3rd-millennium-ingestion_artist-book/
Pulpability (2024-23)
Pulpability (2024/23) - ‚Pulpability‘ transforms accumulated paper and plastic studio waste into a pulped, reconstituted material, playing with artistic possibilities within the everyday remnants of studio work. Shredded, mixed, and repurposed, this raw material becomes a site of possibility. The process reflects on cycles of waste and creation, exploring how discarded materials can take on new forms within the practices of FGSR. ‚Pulpability‘ operates as a foundational activity, a constant recycling of studio remnants that informs the broader material investigations within FGSR’s practice. Open-ended and evolving, this process resists fixed interpretation, stirring within waste and renewal, leaving paper-plastic-mâché. https://fgsrecipe.com/pulpability/
Is history ok? (Catalogue 2023-22)
Is history ok? (Catalogue 2023-22) - Set against the backdrop of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, this project employs scientific investigation to challenge historical narratives, exploring how microscopic examination recontextualizes monuments—shifting them from symbols of permanence to biological ephemerality. The catalogue, with its collected essays, examines how monuments—often seen as fixed historical representations—reveal suppressed perspectives under scientific scrutiny. Through images, texts, and critical reflections, Is history ok? interrogates the very foundations of monumentalism. By merging artistic intervention with scientific methodologies, the book offers new perspectives on the fragility of historical representation—how it persists, transforms, or vanishes over time. (Catalogue by ICMA, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art, Iași, ElectroPutere Gallery, Craiova and Johannes Hugo Stoll, Published by Editura Artes, Iași, Romania. Editors: Adrian Bojenoiu, Christian Nae. Texts by Adrian Bojenoiu, Christian Nae and Cristina Moraru. Translation by Daniela Rogobete. Graphic design by ARC Gestaltung, Timo Grimberg. ISBN 978-606-547-511-3) https://fgsrecipe.com/is-history-ok_catalogue/
Is history ok? (2023-21)
Is history ok? (2023-21) - Throughout the project recent SARS-CoV-2 health- and image-making practices are performed onto ‘history’, using COVID-19 antigen self-tests to collect nasal cavity material from sculptures and monuments in public spaces, to examine it further during the pandemic years. Performing the test procedure from the self-test package is asking the simple question – ok or not – onto history itself. Under the electron microscope the historical monumentalism becomes obsolete within the biological spheres of nanometers. The images bear witness of another level of existence and question human monumentalism approaches. (Various productions, including videos with sound, scanning electron microscope prints and sculptures, exhibitions 2022, 2021 & publication 2023/22) https://fgsrecipe.com/is-history-ok/

Reading On Memory #01 | with Lilian Ptáček & Johannes Hugo Stoll, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, November 2024

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Locatie: SEA Foundation, Tivolistraat 22, Tilburg
In samenwerking met: SEA Foundation

This reading group event is part of SEA Foundations’ longer-term research of art and sustainability. The first reading in fold #12 on Memory will be led by artists Lilian Ptáček and Johannes Hugo Stoll. Their proposal is to dive into ideas regarding material memory by drawing links between Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Plastic: accumulation without metabolism by Heather Davis.

https://www.seafoundation.eu/lilian-ptacek-johannes-hugo-stoll-reading-memory-carrier-bag-plastic/

Sentiment & Toppings & Sentiment & Toppings

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Locatie: MMCA Seoul, Education Center 2F, Lecture Room 1
In samenwerking met: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

MMCA Seoul Seminar No.7, presentation & artist talk, MMCA Seoul, September 2024

https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/events/eventsDetail.do

Artist in Residence, MMCA, South Korea

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Locatie: Seoul, South Korea
In samenwerking met: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

During MMCA residency FG wishes to engage with many people and foods, realize studio work as well as travel to KFRI and WiKim in Jeonju and to Gwangju Biennial. Future Grandpa’s Secret Recipe engages with digestion issues to stress on the temporal and material aspects of existence. With humorous and poetic approaches, often contradicting objects, videos, performances, lectures and group activities blur or confound matters of ingestion.

https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/

Collective memory in subjective bodies

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Locatie: Online
In samenwerking met: Goethe Institute Germany

Online lecture with Q&A

Too good to throw away – What to keep from the past

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Locatie: Avignon, France

International artist symposium with workshops and presentations

Positive Vibrations

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Locatie: Electro Putere, Craiova, Rumania
In samenwerking met: ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

"Positive Vibration" is an experimental and artistic research project inspired by the context of the coronavirus pandemic and exhibited at Galeria ElectroPutere. The project translates situations and events from everyday life by borrowing and combining references and practices from health practices, history and political culture.

https://www.ifa.de/en/exhibition/positive-vibration/
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