Nikhil Vettukattil: Cantina: Intimations

Cantina: Intimations is a communal meal prepared and hosted by Nikhil Vettukattil. Food and poetry will serve as a way of generating intimacy in the late light of a summer evening. Drawing on research into sustainability and food in the Nordics and Baltics, as well as techniques from Japan and the Balkans, Vettukattil will center seasonal and organic ingredients from the region: peas, dandelion and elderflower, radish and new potatoes, sorrel and rye, as well as foraged preserves, served with vessel's made from natural clay from Gotland.

Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist living and working in Oslo. He studied at Central St. Martins in London and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). Recent exhibitions include DECADE (2025) at AGIT, Berlin, designofthetimes (2025) at 3236rls/Le Bourgeois, London, Defund the Police (2024) at Arcadia Missa, London and Stipendutstilling (2024), Oslo Kunstforening. Vettukattil a founding member of the Institute for Scene Experiments.

The event will be happening at Støberiet at Blågårds Plads 5, part of the Municipality of Copenhagen. It is part of the performative arts program Intimacy & Publicness, a three-day public performative arts program that unfolds in and around Blågårds Plads, Nørrebro, from 20th-22nd of June 2025.  

The program explores how intimate affects, typically reserved for private relationships, might be shared and collectively experienced in public through the medium of performance art.

Artists: Nikhil Vettukattil, Filip Vest, Marina ­ Dubia, ­Jules Fischer, Lina Hashim, Klara Lopez

The program is curated by Joachim Aagaard Friis in collaboration with SixtyEight Art Institute, PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and Støberiet – Copenhagen Municipality

Støberiet is a center that hosts weekly events and activities for its users, taking place in their exercise rooms, party rooms, concert rooms, meeting rooms and workshops. Støberiet prioritizes co-creation with the local communities with a wish to play an active role in the local environment, cultivate new cultural niches and make room for youth and children's culture of a high quality. They also have a special focus on creating broad and inclusive cultural experiences for and with local families with children.