We all know what our lifestyles are doing to the planet, but how can we get inspired to change our behavior? Artist Tainá Guedes has made it her mission to show you with the Food Art Week festival, which for 2019 explores the subject of water and the environment through almost every medium imaginable: image, video, performance, speech – and yes, food. But the centrepiece of the festival is physical: four greenhouses that occupy Steinplatz in Charlottenburg. These mini exhibition rooms will host a month-long installation and event series, the highlight of which is bound to be the Water Summer Party, where you can immerse yourself in the topic of water conservation through workshops, expert-led panel discussions and music. Running in parallel is the Water(proof) exhibition at Momentum, which includes Janet Laurence’s “H2O: Water Bar”, an interactive display of flasks containing water taken from sources across Germany. The very water we need to protect can be sampled in its delicate natural state – what better motivation to change your way with water. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Jochen Kirch/Peperoni, Janet Laurence & Nikki To/City of Sydney, Food Art Week)

Food Art Week events at Steinplatz, 10623 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map
Until 31.08.2019
“Water Summer Party” special event, 17.08.2019, 12–21h

Water(proof) exhibition at Momentum, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Until 15.09.2019, Wed–Sun, 13–19h
@foodartweek

You’re never more than 200m from avocado toast and poached egg. Ever since the first wave of Antipodean cafes brought brunch culture to Berlin, it can certainly feel that way. Enter pop-up breakfast Frühstück 3000. A deliberate response to the ubiquitous avo-based brunch, the series is the creation of former luxury hotel chefs Maxi, Martin and Lukas, whose life’s work is making “Berlin’s Better Breakfast”. The result is a changing four-course menu that does things differently, so expect the unexpected: apple juice and tarragon granita, breaded baked egg, and gluttonously deconstructed banana bread. Whatever menu awaits, be assured it will be comforting enough to tackle the worst Sunday hangovers, yet so innovative and well-constructed that it will stick in your mind long after – provided you don’t go too wild with the unlimited crémant. Next week the F3k disruptors are heading to veggie institution Cookies Cream (11.08.2019), rewriting the Frühstück–rules again – this time meat-free. (Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Frühstück 3000 & Cookies Cream)

Frühstück 3000 host regular pop-ups. The next is on Sunday 11.08.2019 at Cookies Cream, Behrenstr.55, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
@fruehstueck3000
@cookiescreamberlin