Open Call Temporary Kitchen

Neighborhood Cooking and Dining in the Mauritius District

 

This summer, the Temporary Gallery’s mobile kitchen is available for your own events in Cologne’s Mauritius District! Apply now by June 7 with a brief outline of your idea via email to info@temporarygallery.org.

 

Ideas for the Summer Kitchen 2026

Starting in 2026, we’d like to open up our Temporary Kitchen format to your ideas! We’re making our existing space available to initiatives, artists, or neighbors for their own events in the Mauritiusviertel neighborhood. In addition to collaborative cooking and dining events, we also welcome events such as readings, performances, workshops, discussion groups, book clubs, or other community-oriented concepts. A budget of €1,000 is available for each selected event, covering fees and material costs.
The Temporary Gallery’s mobile kitchen is an open, modular space without walls and on wheels that can be used in public spaces as a meeting place, summer kitchen, lab, or stage. The structure includes the mobile kitchen, its cooking equipment (an oven and induction cooktops), and shelter options for inclement weather. We provide all of this for your event. We also maintain contact with several restaurateurs and grocery stores in the Mauritius neighborhood, with whom we’d be happy to connect you.
The Temporary Kitchen emerged from the need to foster conversation among the neighbors of the Temporary Gallery—through a dinner on the grassy strip, a midday snack at the weekly market, or a joint shopping trip to the neighborhood stores—to encourage everyday togetherness, mutual support, and exchange about everything that moves us, and not least about art.
We’re really looking forward to your ideas!

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@temporarygallery.org.

 

Your Concept Outline

    • Send us a casual email outlining your ideas.
    • The deadline is June 7.
    • Please include possible dates for your event; these can be between early July and mid-October.

 

About the Temporary Kitchen

The Temporary Kitchen is a mobile kitchen that was created as part of the 2023 exhibition “Cooking as Performance” and has been brought to life since this summer through the event series “Temporary Kitchen in the Mauritius District,” featuring various formats. Artist Paula Erstmann and curator Lisa Klosterkötter engaged with the neighborhood surrounding the Temporary Gallery, the local establishments, restaurateurs, and the people living there, and in cooperation with local initiatives, communities, and associations, invited people to cook and eat together to get to know each other better, network, and exchange ideas within the neighborhood. Specific events included, for example, an evening picnic with the neighborhood association Nachbarn im Mauritiusveedel, a baking afternoon with the inclusive art spaces Kaethe:K and Kat18, a culinary exploration tour through the neighborhood featuring conversations with local restaurateurs, and an open lunch at the weekly market on Rudolfplatz.

Supported by the RheinEnergie Foundation for Culture

 

Image: Anna Sarvira