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CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones. Cooking Sections, 2017-ongoing. Isle of Skye

Cooking Sections is a London-based art collective founded in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe.[1] Their work explores the environmental, spatial and geopolitical impacts of global food systems through installations, video, and performance.[2]

Major Projects

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Since 2015, the collective has led CLIMAVORE, an ongoing project focused on the relationship between food production and climate change.[3][4] As part of this initiative, Cooking Sections has collaborated with art institutions to remove farmed salmon from museum menus, which culminated in a series of shows titled Salmon: A Red Herring.[5] Other CLIMAVORE initiatives have included supporting agrochemical-free farming trials, initiating baking challenges in Finland to address soil depletion, and organising a water buffalo festival to raise awareness of endangered urban wetlands in Istanbul.[6][7][8]

Exhibitions

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Their work has been exhibited at institutions including: Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, Carnegie Museum of Art, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Museo delle Civiltà.[9]

They have created site-specific performances and installations for the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Manifesta12, Folkestone Triennial, and New Orleans Triennial.[10]

Awards

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In 2021, Cooking Sections was nominated for the Turner Prize.[11]

Books

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Book Cover of Salmon A Red Herring by Cooking Sections

They have authored four books:

References

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  1. ↑ "Cooking Sections - Creative Folkestone". www.creativefolkestone.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  2. ↑ "Cooking Sections". www.somersethouse.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  3. ↑ Tate. "Cooking Sections | Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  4. ↑ Features, Priya Khanchandani In (2021-07-29). "Cooking Sections: visualising a responsible food industry". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  5. ↑ Black, Jane (2019-08-15). "Eating at the End of the World". Frieze. No. 205. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  6. ↑ "The Turner Prize-Nominated Art Collective Cooking Sections Wants to Change the Way You Think About Food". Artnet News. 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Istanbul Wetlands - CLIMAVORE". CLIMAVORE. 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "Cooking Sections. Rights to Seeds, Rights of Seeds". MUCIV-Museo delle Civiltà. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  9. ↑ "Cooking Sections". World Congress of Architects. Barcelona. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  10. ↑ "Cooking Sections". www.somersethouse.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  11. ↑ Jacques, Juliet (2021-05-12). "What the 2021 Turner Prize Nominees Tell Us About the Politics of Art". Frieze. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
  12. ↑ Connuck, Jesse; Cooking Sections, eds. (2018). The empire remains shop. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-1-941332-37-5.
  13. ↑ Alexandroff, Nico; Allan, Penny; Asinyabi, Adeniyi; Bryant, Martin; Darmour-Paul, Matthew; Lyons, Kristen; Rullman, Hanna; Sandeman, Isabel; Smith, Huhana (2022). Cooking Sections: Offsetted. Zeitgenössische Kunst. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7757-5199-5.
  14. ↑ Calvillo, Nerea; Chatterjee, Sria; Gray, Ros; Herrero, Yayo (1 November 2025). Cooking Sections: Waves Lost at Sea [Las Olas Perdidas] (in English and Spanish) (1 ed.). Spector Books. ISBN 978-3959059107. {{cite book}}: |first= missing |last= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)