Chris Paxton

Artist Statement

As an artist my work begins with the culinary, often in the form of dining experiences that push beyond the dish on the table and expand into sound, video, installation and happenings to create an immersive sensory experience. These communal and collaborative meals are a medium through which to nourish dreams, collective desires and more-than-human worlds. My cooking is rooted in a deep connection with cyclical time and the specificities of place, making use of local and seasonal produce as well as foraged foods whenever possible. A shared meal is a dream we shape together, a collective desire where multiple realities each take their place at the table.

Red plum, sake & shiso sorbet. Served as part of the menu for a Lucky You Studios pop-up at Dotori in Berlin

Bio

Chris Paxton is a culinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. He is the host of Dreams, a seasonal artist dinner-listening event hosted at Kwia, a queer listening space in Berlin. He is also a co-founder of Lucky You Studios, a culinary creative studio hosting unique dining experiences for a variety of clients from the creative fields such as Highsnobiety, Woolrich, Timberland, Berlin Club Commission and Resident Advisor. In 2023, he was invited as chef-in-residence for Nuova Atlantide, an artist residency on movement, language and landscape in Bomarzo, Italy. His work was recently published in the print publication Planetary Embodiments: Cooking with Words for Systemic Change and Solidarity. The speculative work “Recipes in Ruins", a collaboration with artist Maia Magoga, is a collection of magical recipes using weeds as the main ingredients, weaving together dreams for the future with grief for a lost home among post-capitalist ruins. The work will be featured in the forthcoming edition of the magazine Plant Magic on the topic of weeds. His forthcoming work will be shown in January 2024 at the Shedhalle in Zürich as part of the exhibition program for Protozone 13.