The Kitchen is Closed

Hannah Amalie Nielsen and Amanda F. Koch-Nielsen were exhibiting at Restaurant Bispegården

The exhibition is a tribute to traditional crafts, where works in textile, embroidery, glass, ceramics, and silverware enter into dialogue with the exhibition space’s former life as a bistro. The Kitchen is Closed reimagines the bistro as a meeting place, turning applied arts upside down.

The set tables have shifted shape; the placemats have crawled up into the window frames like webs spun by silverware spiders. The woven tapestries on the walls share their personal stories of sorrow and joy with the bistro’s visitors. The ceramics grow like weeds, and the glass is more than half full.

The works speak of close relationships—both those we have with each other, and those we hold with the embodied materials themselves.