2025
Table, Chair, Ceramic, Porcelain Chinaware
Collective work by MOTHS
Members:
Yujia Bian,
Niel de Vries,
Xiaolu Yan,
Hanwen Zhang
The installation work is the outcome of the research residency of MOTHS collective at the Spreepark Art Space, which is located in East Berlin in the former GDR.
MOTHS took the food culture of a country that does not longer exist as its startingpoint, digesting its investigations into a speculative menu of 18 dishes.
The work features a rotating lazy susan that holds seven ceramic dishes form the menu, and a set of porcelain Chinaware customized and imported from Jingdezhen, China. The handpainted pattern on the Chinaware was designed with reference to the “traditional” German Zwiebelmuster and Chinese exported porcelain, featuring two Neobiota the collective found in the park that originate from Asia and are in general regarded as invasive: Reynoutria japonica & Ailanthus altissima.
Outside the gallery, a historic porcelain set found in the River Spree is displayed, along side the full menu. In collaboration with the adjecent EI-12437B restaurant, five of the speculative dishes were adapted and included on their menu.
Ceramic production: Yansuan and Dalida Georgiou-Achmet
Photo credits: Frank Sperling (2025, Spreepark Art Space) and Yujia Ban