The exhibition M’m! M’m! Good! takes its title from a Campbell’s Soup advertising slogan, whilst reframing it to suggest that eating, and our relationship to food and nutrition, is increasingly a political choice.

Far from being a survey or manifesto, the exhibition addresses with humour and irony themes of global food production and distribution, the forces of capitalism and the market on food, as well as the cultural and social issues associated with being a consumer. The exhibition combines works and interventions by Luca Francesconi, Lisa Holzer, Maryam Jafri, David Jourdan, Sophie Lee, and Kate Sansom.

Luca Francesconi (b. 1979 in Mantua, Italy. Lives and works in Milan and Paris.) Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Pane pane pane vinocanale di scolo’, Umberto di Marino, Naples, 2014; ‘Luca Francesconi / Taocheng Wang’, Fluxia Milan, 2014; ‘Geode Cupa’, Fluxia, Milan, 2013; ‘Echo of the Moon’, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, 2012; ‘Echo of the Moon’, Musée Beurnier-Rossel, Montbéliard, 2012; ‘De labore Solis’, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, 2011; ‘Infinite Eye’, Fluxia, Milan, 2010; Winner of Illy Prize - ‘Present/ Future’, Umberto Di Marino gallery, Artissima 16, Turin, 2009; ‘Sowing Calendar’, Umberto Di Marino, Naples, 2009. Recent group shows include: ‘Milk Revolution’, American Academy, Rome, 2015; ‘The Meditative Relaxation Cycle’, Arcadia Missa, London, UK, 2014; ‘Then Now - Miart’, Fluxia, Invitational section, Milan, 2014; ‘Eux’, Shanaynay, Paris; ‘Fieldworks’, Cosmos Carls, London, 2014; ‘La longue image panoramique de la révolution d’une oeuvre’, Cneai, Chatou, 2014; ‘Braccia#2’, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, 2013; ‘Braccia#1’, Man-Nuoro, 2013; ‘Keeping is not collecting’, Works Sited, Los Angeles, 2013; ‘Fig.2 - Natura Morta’, Gnam, Rome, 2013; ‘AB’, Fondazione Nomas, Rome, 2013; ‘Art of Living’, Valentin, Paris, 2013.

Lisa Holzer (b. 1971 in Vienna. Lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.) Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘I did love you once’, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna; ‘Art Basel Miami Beach’, Nova Section, presented by Galerie Emanuel Layr, Miami, 2013; ‘Liste 18’, Art Fair Basel presented by Galerie Emanuel Layr, Basel, 2013; ‘db Geld/Gelb bzw. Grün GGG Geh Geh Geh’ (b. Chiara Minchio), After Yes1, 2012; Dingum 6, ‘Tiergarten Eins’, Berlin, 2012; ‘Ich bin in der Mitte deines Bildes’, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, 2011. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘A Matter of Taste’, The Ister at -1 invites Dingum, Paris, 2014; ‘Power of Chi’, Spreez, Munich, 2014; ‘In (The Mix) and on the go (Univers) for those in the know (Wanda)’, Scriptings / Achim Lengerer, Berlin, 2014; ‘It’s my hair and i can do what I want with it!’, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, 2014; ‘D.R.E.S.S.I.N.G.’, Space, London 2014.

Maryam Jafri (b. 1972 in Pakistan. Lives and works in New York and Copenhagen.) Recent solo exhibitions include: Gasworks (London), Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld), Galerie Nova (Zagreb), Beirut (Cairo), the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), and Malmö Konst Museum (Malmö). Her work has also been been featured extensively in international group exhibitions, including at Beirut Art Center, 21er Haus (Vienna), Institute for African Studies (Moscow) and Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo); Camera Austria (Graz), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), CAFAM Biennial (Beijing), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (Miami) in 2014; Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit), Mukha (Antwerp) in 2013; Manifesta 9 (Genk), Shangai Biennial and Taipei Biennial (Taipei) in 2012, among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation in London in 2014, as part of the program “The Politics of Food”. In 2015, Maryam Jafri will be part of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial.

David Jourdan (b. 1974 in France, Lives and works in Vienna) Recent exhibitions include: Destination Wien 2015, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Toons Like Us (Reprise), ‘Well Well Well’, Vienna, 2014; ‘Eeegt Yeers Vestpheleee-a’, OEI Colour Project, Stockholm, 2014; ‘Pétrone/Pétrole’, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, 2013; ‘Tiroler Künstlerschaft’, Innsbruck, 2013; ‘Trisha Baga & No Brow’, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, 2013; ‘The Souls, A Twice-Told Tale’, ceaac, Strasbourg, 2013; ‘Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan’, Westphalie: “Bread-and-Butter, Ditsies & Dumb-Dumb”, cneai, Paris, 2011; ‘No Day Without a Temperament’, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna; ‘Yes Or Yes, Yes Or Yes 4’, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, 2011; ‘Yes Or Yes, Yes Or Yes 3’, Büro BQ, Berlin, 2011; ‘Augusts Llen’, Hotel Intercontinental, Vienna, 2011; ‘Yes or Yes, Yes or Yes 2’, Nice and Fit, Berlin, 2010; ‘Yes or Yes, Yes or Yes 1’, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2010; ‘Pro Choice in Schattendorf’, Kunstverein Schattendorf, 2010; ‘...Sorry I Didn’t Have Time to Google You’, Julius Cæsar, Chicago, 2010; ‘Double Bind / Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre’, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice, 2010; ‘Lebt und Arbeitet in Wien III’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2010.

Sophie Lee (b. 1988. Lives and works in London.) She graduated with a Ba in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include IMT, ‘Sugars, Protein and Salt (Perfect Fried I)’, London, 2014; ‘Sugars, Protein and Salt (Perfect Fried II)’, Gowlet Peaks, London, 2014; ‘Makrami’, PLAZAPLAZA, London, 2013. Group exhibitions include: ‘Bread Show’, SPACE, London, 2013; ‘Young London 2013’, V22, London, 2013; ‘Speak, Memory!’, PAMI,N/V_PROJECTS, London, 2012. Commissions include: ‘When Push Comes to Shove: In 2015 I will quit my job and join the Smoker’s Paradiso’, Magazine Commission, Art Licks, London, 2015; ‘Original Recipe Meal’, Artist’s Dinner Commission for Bold Tendencies, London, 2013. Sophie Lee was the recipient of the Bloomberg ON Studio Award in 2012.

Kate Sansom (b. 1983 in Canada. Lives and works in Berlin.) Kate received her MA in 2009 at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC. Solo exhibitions include ‘Nissan Yogurty,’ Chrystal Gallery, 2015. Group exhibitions include ‘LA-Z Boy,’ Museum of Post Digital Cultures, Berlin, 2014; ‘SunDreams!AllTours!!’, Draft Urbanism, Biennial of the Americas, 2013; ‘Project Muscle,’ Berlin Art Prize, 2013; ‘Who’s Gonna Run This Town,’ Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada, 2011.