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Blanka Dominika Major

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~ architecture | ZAS* | 2025 LINA Fellow | SAA 2026
~ cooking | culinary research
~ teaching | writing
… a bit of techno
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..to play with food, in the end, is not an act of disobedience. It’s a way of learning - of looking at the structures we inhabit, both social and spatial, and gently twisting them to see what else they could become.

Essay for @_voce.a PLAY

featuring <argilla> in collaboration with @casshaen and @artxscience.uzh at @grubenstrasse39 with great support by @kringola @oliverxb @oghansdampf @ luca, with videoinstallation by @johannahullar_, performance by @tatjanablaser and scientific inputs by Dr. Nadine Keller, Tiia Määttä, Dr. Soledad Castro-Vargas, Dr. Xavier Balaguer Rasillo. Beautiful images taken by Johanna Hullár @studio_hullar ✨⚡️💫 taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @bla_nka

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This week we turn to Blanka Major, born 1994, finalist in the Architecture category. Her practice moves across architecture, cooking, writing, curating and research, approaching these fields as interconnected ways of paying attention to how we inhabit and relate to space. She begins with the body, its movements, rhythms and sensitivities, and extends her work toward the infrastructures that shape everyday life, from housing to food systems. Through installations, performative dinners and spatial interventions, she explores how public and intimate realms overlap, framing architecture as both a material and social practice. Working with an experimental and open approach, she engages existing environments as living landscapes, amplifying their textures, habits and frictions rather than imposing fixed forms. In this perspective, design becomes a form of care, creating flexible frameworks that allow for shared experiences, negotiation and the unpredictable dynamics of collective life.

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Portrait: © Johanna Hullár
1: Filz, Fett, Feuer, 2023, Installation, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kitchuan in collaboration with Aris Guzman, Luca Bazelli, David Moser and Thierry Vuattoux. Photo: Pierre Marmy
2: Ad hoc, 2023, Installation and performative cooking, Foodculture Days Vevey, Kitchuan. Images: Beatrice Zerbato, Drawing: Blanka Major
3: Devouring, 2024, Installation, in collaboration with the Art x Science Office and Cassandra Hänggi. Photo: Yanik Bürkli

#SwissArtAwards #BlankaMajor #SwissContemporaryArt #SAAFinalist #SwissArt @bla_nka

Swiss Art Awards
16–21 June 2026
Halle 1.1, Basel

Design: @clioham @clemenspiontek by @bla_nka

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Dans le cadre de la plateforme européenne @lina.community @arcenreve centre d’architecture inaugure en 2026 un programme de résidences qui offre à de jeunes professionnels de l’architecture l’opportunité de développer leurs projets. Ceux-ci viendront nourrir la programmation du centre.
En mars Blanka Major @bla_nka poursuivra ses recherches sur la nourriture comme médium à la fois spatial et social, en s’intéressant à la manière dont les pratiques alimentaires façonnent les espaces, les usages et les formes de convivialité.
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Blanka Major est une architecte d’origine hongroise basée à Zurich, dont la pratique croise architecture, recherche et commissariat. Diplômée de l’ETH Zurich en architecture et histoire de l’art.
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La plateforme européenne @lina.community cofinancée par l’Union Européenne via Creative Europe, est un réseau qui associe institutions et professionnels émergents travaillant à l’intersection de l’architecture et d’autres domaines liés à la culture de l’espace.
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Une participation rendue possible par Pro Helvetia.
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1. Lactic acid, Kitchuan, exposition et performance en 3 actes, Zurich 2022 / © Leonard Krättli.
2-3. Ad hoc, Kitchuan, installation et performance, Vevey, 2023 / © Arnaud Bostelmann.
4. Electryone, ALIAS, Compte/Meuwly, Ansgar Stadler, Nico König, Arnaud Bostelmann, Lewis Horkulak, Pierre Marmy et Kitchuan, laboratoire de cuisine solaire, Zurich 2023 / © Pierre Marmy.
5. Devouring, Art x Science dinner/performance et installation / © Yanik Bürkli. by @bla_nka

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Swiss Art Awards Architecture 2026
Proposal, May26

BE MY GUEST — 1/3: MAKING

How can cooking become a way of making architecture?

For my proposal Be My Guest for this year’s @swissartawards in architecture, I wanted to bring processes of cooking and architectural model-making together.

Experimenting with bioplastics made from apple waste, orange peels and beetroot, alongside textiles, membranes and other soft materials to bring infrastructure closer to touch, skin, and the human scale. Mixing, heating, casting, drying, sewing and assembling — moving back and forth between the kitchen and the workshop.

A lot of trial and error, failed recipes, unexpected textures and discoveries along the way. Testing how food could become an architectural material, and how these small experiments might translate to a 1:1 scale.

At the heart of it was a simple question: how light, soft and adaptable could an infrastructure for cooking become? And how might it create space for gathering, sharing and encounter?

#bioplastic #softinfrastructure #architecture taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @bla_nka

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Four kitchens, fourteen people, one recipe passed on in Sarajevo.

For Blanka’s Zeljanica, Anthony Zackery Butcher (@anthonyzbutcher)and Blanka Major (@bla_nka) gathered friends and collaborators in Zürich, Vienna and Munich to cook together across a screen. Dough was kneaded, stretched and rolled into spirals; kitchens grew messy, and strangers became companions.

The evening opened a conversation about food as an architectural material, and about practices that move between cooking, spatial design, performance and care. In Blanka’s work, the kitchen table becomes an infrastructure for participation: a familiar place where barriers soften, knowledge circulates and collective action can take shape.

What began as a shared recipe became a temporary room spanning three cities, built through gestures, conversation and the simple act of making dinner together.

Read the full article under:
https://linalibrary.com/blankas-zeljanica/ by @bla_nka

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What the air holds,
What the soil remembers.

During Ponto d’Orvalho, @bla_nka created a woven surface suspended among the trees, where the movement of the wind met sound, clay, and food. Something was buried. Something floated. The body remained between these two gestures. Touch was central. So was the shared food. Thank you, Blanka, for inviting us to inhabit this place differently, suspended between earth and sky.

Thank you to @martacypel for the beautiful ceramics and @whynotsoda for the contribution to this special moment at sunset.

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Durante o Ponto d’Orvalho, @bla_nka criou uma superfície tecida, suspensa entre as árvores, onde o movimento do vento se encontrou com o som, o barro e a comida. Algo foi enterrado. Algo flutuou. O corpo permaneceu entre estes dois gestos.

O toque foi central. Assim como a comida partilhada. Obrigada, Blanka, por nos convidares a habitar este lugar de uma forma diferente, suspensos entre a terra e o céu.

Obrigada a @martacypel pelas peças de cerâmica e a @whynotsoda pela contribuição para este momento tão especial ao pôr do sol.

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Artistic ಄ Blanka Major
Curatorial ಄ Joana Krämer Horta
Installation ಄ Blanka Major, Diogo Onofre, João Pitarma
Production ಄ Anna Eva Varnei, Gabriela Silva, Inácio Castro, Joana Krämer Horta, Mónica Nogueira, Pedro Resende, Raquel Pereira

Ph: @renatomchorao taken in Montado do Freixo do Meio by @bla_nka

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💜 26.9.26 11-17 Open House DasProvisorium @dasprovisorium @openhouse.zuerich @madeinzuerich
Sihlquai 340, 8005 Zürich

Infos dasprovisorium.ch / openhouse-zuerich.org

Fotos @arnaud.bost
#architecture #zürich taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @bla_nka

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First glimpses from last weekend, through the lens of @renatomchorao. Our deep gratitude for the level of receptivity and unity we experienced during these glowing days. We felt the soft power of inhabiting a festival, a forest, a meal. We are grateful also for the gestures that brought together artists, chefs, farmers and specialists of this edition around processes and moments of commensality, community and rural life. 𓆈

Thank you for accepting our invitation to synchronize with the rhythms of place, and for making this festival your own. See you in May 2027, for the continuation of a cycle that began now, in such a loving way.

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Primeiro vislumbre do fim de semana passado, através do olhar de @renatomchorao. O nosso mais profundo agradecimento pelo nível de recetividade e união que vivemos durante estes dias luminosos. Sentimos a força serena de habitar um festival, uma floresta, uma refeição. Gratos também pelos gestos que reuniram artistas, gastrónomos, agricultores e especialistas desta edição em torno de processos e momentos de comensalidade, comunidade e vida rural.

Obrigada por aceitarem o nosso convite para sincronizar com os ritmos do lugar, e por fazerem deste festival vosso. Até maio de 2027, para a continuação deste ciclo que agora começou de forma tão calorosa.

Thank you ♡ Obrigada!
@bla_nka @carlaboregas @fermen.table , @chica_rojo @irisellatorru @landra.pt @laraaji_official @leonorarnaut @marc.leiber @martacypel @morpha.world @poda.restaurante @tafteresa_taf

The team ♡ A Equipa
Ana Raquel Pereira @a_nna_eva @diogo_onofre @gabrielacsil @hannahrosemary_ @joanamkhorta @pitarmagram @monica__mn Pedro Resende @renatomchorao @ruicastroinacio @stellahorta

Partners ♡ Parceiros
@evora____27 @dg.artes @municipiomontemoronovo @ccdralentejo @freixodomeio @cooperativaminga @libatio.bardevinhos @whynotsoda @superbock taken in Montado do Freixo do Meio by @bla_nka

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OPEN HOUSE ZURICH
URBANE PRODUKTION | DASPROVISORIUM
@dasprovisorium

26.09.2026
Open House 11-17
Architekturführungen 12:30 + 14:00
🍎🍇🫐🥦🍅🍒🥔🥬🍏🥕🧁

DasProvisorium – das Zuhause vieler Food Start-ups und Produzent:innen – eröffnet seinen neuen Standort am Sihlquai. Beim diesjährigen Open House werden die Türen erstmals zum neuen Zuhause in der alten Stadtküche von Zürich geöffnet. Freuen kann man sich auf vielseitige Tastings, spannende Führungen, Bar und selbstverständlich viel leckeres Essen.
Neben Führungen durch die Produktion finden am Open House auch Führungen zur Architektur statt. Denn das Gebäude selbst trägt ein Stück Zürcher Essensgeschichte in sich: 1939 vom damaligen Stadtbaumeister Hermann Herter als Volksküche erbaut, diente es später als Stadtküche und ab 2014 als Produktionsküche von Menue and More. Ab Juli 2025 wurde das Gebäude mit gezielten, möglichst minimalen Eingriffen für die neue Nutzung durch DasProvisorium in einem partizipativen Prozess umgebaut. Im Zentrum standen dabei die Wiederherstellung verloren gegangener räumlicher Verbindungen und die Öffnung des Gebäudes – damit das Haus nicht bloss produktiv ist, sondern auch wieder Gäste willkommen heissen kann.

Umbau mit @severin.jann + @v__ribi
realisiert mit @mo.namele und unzähligen wunderbaren Helfer:innen 💜
für @dasprovisorium @daanuu @natamatu @frauffmfeldmann @freddyboy71
Foto @arnaud.bost taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @bla_nka

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A taste of Pálás an Phobail 💚

Last Friday, something different happened at Festival Printworks Gallery.

Pálás an Phobail — tasting a sense of place, created by Blanka Major (@bla_nka) & Hinterland (@hinterlandgalway) as part of Culture Night Late (@culturenight), transformed the gallery into a People’s Palace: an edible, sensory space where food became a way to reconnect with people, stories and place.

Moving through a series of spaces and sensory encounters, they invited us to explore the connections between food, landscape and memory and to taste a sense of place.

From familiar flavours to new encounters, the night brought people together around a shared table and offered a different way of experiencing togetherness, one that felt both deeply rooted and completely new.

A night to remember.

Thank you to everyone who contributed, and everyone who came, shared, listened and made the night what it was. A night about food, place and belonging, and the many ways we come together.

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Videography by @takeasiesta_

‘Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office. @galwaycitycouncil @artscouncilireland

Supported by ProHelvetia, The Swiss Arts Council as part of the LINA Architecture programme. @prohelvetia @lina.community

@micildistillery

#ArchitectureAtTheEdge #AATE26 #LeChéile #PálásAnPhobail #CultureNight taken in Galway, Ireland by @bla_nka

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Food as culture.

Tonight we gathered at the Pálás an Phobail as part of @culture_galway to think about how we might rethink our places and spaces and what happens when we look at them through food.

@bla_nka map gave us a starting point: a way of seeing the city through the places where food is grown, shared, prepared, exchanged and eaten and through the relationships, memories and possibilities held within those spaces.

From there, the conversation opened out. What does food tell us about a place? Who gets to use our spaces, and who gets to shape them? What could happen if food, sharing and community were given a more central place in how we imagine our city?

A huge thank you to Blanka, for bringing her work, curiosity and perspective to the evening, and to Professor Anna Davies, TCD and Michael Higgins @bohs_climatecoop for joining the conversation and helping us think beyond food as simply something we consume, towards food as a way of creating connection, belonging and community.

And thank you to everyone who came, listened, questioned, ate, talked and shared the space with us.

It felt like a really special evening and a reminder that sometimes rethinking a place starts simply by gathering people around a table.

Thank you to Frank and the whole @archattheedge team for bringing us together and to everyone who helped make Pálás an Phobail - Tasting a Sense of Place happen: @franniejeffers Oisin @leafandroot Thalli Foods Mike and his oysters @micildistillery @biainnovator kitchens @artscouncilireland @galwaycitycouncil

Food as culture. Food as place. Food as connection. by @bla_nka

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Pálás an Phobail — tasting a sense of place
by Blanka Major + Hinterland

#AATE26 Interactive Exhibition + Creative Workshop + Artist Talk

What makes us belong to a place?

For Culture Night Late, Architecture at the Edge is collaborating with architect, artist and curator Blanka Major and Hinterland to explore the connections between food, people and place.

At the heart of the evening is Pálás an Phobail — a “People’s Palace” — an edible installation where gathering, eating, listening and exchanging ideas come together around a shared table. Moving through a series of spaces and sensory encounters, the evening explores how food connects us to landscape, memory and belonging.

As part of Culture Night Late, the evening unfolds across Galway through a series of connected experiences: an outdoor installation on Druid Lane, a Ceremonial Tea at The Mick Lally Theatre, followed by Pálás an Phobail at Festival Printworks Gallery, and culminating at The Mick Lally Theatre with Cathedral AKA Shampain.

_Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
Friday 18 September
7–11pm

FREE — prebooking essential.

With contributions from Professor Anna Davies, Geography, Trinity College Dublin, and Michael Higgins, Political Liaison & Systems Change Lead, Bohemians Co-operatives.

_Curators Talk with Blanka Major
The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane
Sunday 20 September · 5–7.30pm
Free — prebooking advised via Eventbrite.

‘Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office. @galwaycitycouncil @artscouncilireland

Supported by ProHelvetia, The Swiss Arts Council as part of the LINA Architecture programme. @prohelvetia @lina.community

1.⁠ ⁠Blanka Major, Croquer le paysage with Viviants Bordeaux, LINA community, Arc en Reve, 2026. Image: Rodolphe Escher
2.⁠ ⁠Kitchuan, Gradients, Newrope for ONA community, 2023. Image: Charlotte Schaeben
3.+4. ⁠Argilla, in collaboration with Cassandra Hänggi, Art x Science Office, UZH Zürich, Grube(n), 2025. Image: Johanna Hullár taken in Galway, Ireland by @bla_nka

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