After our summer adventure in the Loire Valley, we are back with a new edition on Thursday, 25 September. This time, we join forces with London-based Polish artist Joanna Wierzbicka and architectural designer and food artist Niyanta Sharma from the collective Playte.
Expect an evening where art, food, architecture and storytelling intertwine: a site-specific intervention shaped by collaboration, a special welcome drink with playful bites, tactile prompts that heighten the senses, and a curated menu that opens new windows into both Joanna’s and Niyanta’s practices. The founder of Freudian Bites and curator Huma Kabakci will collaboratively work with Joanna and Niyanta on this intimate dining experience from her home.
To mark the occasion, Joanna has also created a limited-edition artwork, available exclusively for our guests.
Save the date — this will be an intimate and unforgettable night. Tickets for this four-course menu (including the bites) are £70 per person and spaces are limited!
Joanna Wierzbicka is a Polish-born London-based artist working across photography, sculpture, video and installation. She graduated from ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) and University of the Arts London. A recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, her work has been shown at Saatchi Gallery, Split Gallery, Bomb Art Factory Foundation, Generation & Display Gallery in London, Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery in Prague and Espace Arlaud in Lausanne. Wierzbicka works across sculpture, photography, and installation, with a particular focus on fabrics—used clothing, printed, or dyed textiles. She creates sculptures that explore the interplay between soft/hard and tension developed through the genre of body horror, where forms resembling intestines, organs, organisms and monstrous shapes emerge. Food has been a recurring element in her work, serving as a material starting point. Wierzbicka gathers organic waste, forage, and collects friends’ hair after haircuts, approaching this process with the care and attention of a meal preparation. These materials are either developed into physical objects, photographed and then printed to create a new sculptural form, or used as dyes.
Niyanta Sharma is an artist and architectural designer with Indian heritage, who is also the founder of Playte – a gastro-architect collective who use local food as a tool for collective healing. Her work is rooted in community—creating site-specific experiences that explore the intersection between art, architecture, and the politics of food.
