500 WATT presents: TREFFPUNKT KÜCHE

500 WATT is a nomadic independent space located inside a repurposed microwave focusing on young and emerging artists. It functions as a radically scaled-down art space that questions the mechanisms of contemporary exhibition making. During the Angewandte festival 500 WATT is presenting a group show of several Angewandte students from a variety of different departments. As the title of the exhibition TREFFPUNKT KÜCHE might suggest, the overarching theme is the kitchen as a social (and literal) meeting point. Not only is the kitchen a very obvious space for a microwave to appear in, but also often serves as the centre of a gathering somewhere between the sink and the stovetop. The kitchen is a space of preparation and consumption, of routine. It is where recipes are followed, abandoned, or accidentally improved. A place where strangers become acquaintances, acquaintances become friends. For this exhibition, the participating artists approach the kitchen not as a fixed location but as a site of exchange, experimentation, and occasional chaos.