Letter & Recipe of imprisoned activist on paper, recipe will be cooked on the opening and on the 16^th March, when collectivly writing postcards to political prisoners.

With this work Brückner carries out maintenance work on the building. She works in a room that is actually closed to the public, which – like the entire interior of the Bärenzwinger in the past – is not intended for visitors today. She is renovating the kitchen, which is also the lounge for the exhibition guides of the Bärenzwinger Gallery – “care-taking” in the back room. The special thing about it is that her artistic contribution disappears in the result. It is hardly perceived as such. Care work, especially that of women and FLINTAS*, usually remains invisible.

Part of her Recipes for Freedom series will be displayed in the kitchen: recipes for meals that prisoners long to prepare and share with others upon their release. While highlighting the unifying yet sometimes exclusionary nature of food cultures, Brückner also draws attention to the alienating mechanisms of our penal and justice system. At the same time, incarceration is framed as a form of societal welfare – an idea that the work critically examines. Ultimately, the framing serves to obscure deeper social issues from public view. In the Bärenzwinger, visitors can find a recipe by climate activist Cressie. On July 20^th 2022 – just two days after the UK recorded its highest-ever temperature of 40.3°C – she climbed onto a motorway bridge over the M25 in protest.

Excerpt of exhibition text of the group show  If my neighbour is okay, I’m okaymit Edna Al-Najar, Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner, Ece Cangüden und Elvis Osmanović