Co-curation: Margaux Schwab and Adriana Domínguez - La Capsula (Zurich)

SOBREMESA offers the public an unusual artistic experience by presenting works outside the traditional institutional box, to showcase types of places of conviviality and culture that are sometimes unknown to the general public. This proposal complements the programme of foodculture days, offering well-known and traditional artistic formats (sculpture, image and video in particular), to create a contrast with the performative, relational and collaborative projects that are also part of the Biennale 2025.

In collaboration with restaurants and other venues that are related in some matter to food, foodculture days displays a range of recent fine art works by young Swiss and international artists to encourage thinking with the public about the role and place of contemporary art in the face of current social and environmental issues. Sobremesa showcases socially and politically committed artistic practices using traditional media to turn art into a catalyst for debate and ideas on urgent matters of our time. The title of the exhibition comes from an untranslatable Spanish word that evokes the time spent around a table after a meal, during which the conversation goes on, sometimes for hours. It is an intimate and convivial moment that encourages the exchange of ideas.

Sobremesa Exhibition:
Einhorn Spezialitäten AG, Malerduo Bošković-Scarth (Lorenz Bachofner Bošković (CH) & Vincent Scarth (GB/IT)
Burek in collaboration with Picto Bello, Malerduo Bošković-Scarth (Lorenz Bachofner Bošković (CH) & Vincent Scarth (GB/IT)
Petal Politics Fleur Cacao, Chaveli Sifre (PR)
Fronte Violeta, Anelena Toku & Carla Boregas (BR)
Untitled, 2022, Lisa Lurati (CH)
Tools for Birds Hospitality, Sergio Rojas (CR)
Bellies To Fill, Thi My Lien Nguyen (CH)
Fundición, Neyen Pailamilla (CL)
Where the table ends, Yasmine El Meleegy (EG)
Cooking Mama Series, Yann Stéphane Bisso (CH)