From field to table: how food shapes everyday life
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Broodnodig opens today at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. More than seventy works connect food with labour, care, power and shared rituals.
Between a field and a set table lies a chain of work, choices and habits. The exhibition Broodnodig – Van land, naar keuken en tafel opens today, 10 October, at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and runs through 14 March 2027.
Curator Rawad Baaklini and researcher Lieneke Hulshof developed the exhibition with the museum. Its route has three chapters: Land, on the basis of our food; Kitchen, on labour, care and resistance; and Table, on rituals, power and shared stories.
More than seventy paintings, sculptures, photographs and video installations by fifty artists bring these themes together. The list ranges from Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Rembrandt to contemporary artists such as Martha Rosler, Martin Parr and Mika Rottenberg.
A work by Samah Shihadi depicts her family preparing grain. The museum says the exhibition began with conversations in kitchens and around tables with eight chefs and food experts, linking the artworks to experiences of food and cooking.
The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm and closed on Mondays. It is at Hoogstraat 112 in Schiedam. There is no lunch buffet in the chapel on opening day.
Through 25 October, a standard ticket costs €21.50, including a temporary €5 surcharge for the Yves Klein exhibition. Museum Card holders pay the €5 surcharge during this period; visitors aged 18 and under enter free.