MayaMinder

artist researcher/ curator/ chef

ambassador of vitality.swiss board member Food Culture Days president of SGMK, co-funder of the Hackteria Lab in Zurich

part of Fungi Cosmology

„Cooking thus transforms us“, is a framework Maya Minder weaves like a strings through her work. Cooking serves her to reveal the metaphor of the human transformation of raw nature into cooked culture and she combines it to the evolutionary ideas of a symbiotic co-existence between plants, animals and humans. She creates entanglements between human commodities and animism of nature. A table of diversity, not yet digested. Following the Biohacker, Maker and Thirdspace movement she uses grassroots ideas, safe zones and citizen science into her field to enable collective story telling through food and cooking.

Lives and works in Zurich. Founder of the Open Science Lab at Zentralwaescherei Zurich. Exhibitions and grants: Palm Magazine, Jeu de Paume, Bioclub, Tokio, Ars Electronica AEGardens Piksle, Pro Helvetia, Werkbeitrag 2018 + 2020, KADIST AWARD 2017 (nomination), Part of the Klöntal Triennale 2017, Kunsthalle Zurich. Several grants and support from Migros Kulturprozent, Pro Helvetia, Gubler Hablützel Stiftung and Gerbert Rüf Stiftung. Workshops and persentation at ZHAW, ZHdK Department of Design and Fine Arts, Collegium Helveticum, Nachhaltigkeitswoche ETH Zürich, ABZ Schule Zurich. She is also a curator and organizer of projects and festivals independent and in co-production with the International Hackteria Society. She studied Art history at the University of Zurich and MA Fine Arts at Zurich University of Arts.

July 2024