Fuzzy Earth

As part of a research residency at organised by , .gedeon and worked in close collaboration with at the Abattoir Market.

Our focus centred on urban food surplus as a dynamic ecological and social metabolism, observed through practices of collection, redistribution and transformation. Through daily engagement, including volunteering, cooking and exchanges with local initiatives, we gained insight into how surplus materials are held in circulation within community infrastructures.

During the residency, we facilitated a Bacterial Kitchen event that brought together tasting, fermentation and conversations around microbial processes in food and waste.

Photos by and .earth

As part of a research residency at organised by , .gedeon and worked in close collaboration with at the Abattoir Market.

Our focus centred on urban food surplus as a dynamic ecological and social metabolism, observed through practices of collection, redistribution and transformation. Through daily engagement, including volunteering, cooking and exchanges with local initiatives, we gained insight into how surplus materials are held in circulation within community infrastructures.

During the residency, we facilitated a Bacterial Kitchen event that brought together tasting, fermentation and conversations around microbial processes in food and waste.

Unfortunate yet Brave Species🌴
currently on view at the Golden Repair exhibition at Ludwig Museum.

The textile forms part of an installation that speculatively revisits the extinct Paschalococos disperta palm of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Blending scientific imagination with ecological storytelling, the work reflects on the entangled histories of colonial extraction, species loss, and landscape transformation.

Photo by Rosta József, Glodi Balázs
Curated by and

The Belly Knows Before the Brain

🪱As part of our exhibition at KunstHausWien, we created a publication to hold our shared experiences with a generous circle of curators, artists, architects, and compost lovers.

Inside the publication: a co-authored essay by , .gedeon, and Veronika Huckl on how we imagine the belly of the universe; a collectively written glossary; visual traces from our visit to a composting facility; and images from the exhibition.

“This booklet, too, is a culture. Layer upon layer you turn its pages. Photos and texts and images follow one another. You dig deeper and deeper. Slowly, differences emerge. At first you must still connect thoughts, fill in the gaps yourself, but it grows warmer and warmer as you reach the middle of thebooklet. In between, new thoughts arise; glance away, and they vanish at once. At the very bottom, in the depth of thepage stack, everything comes together, ripens, turns brown. The imprint: fine, damp soil.” .welten

👏 Thank you for your beautiful contributions and professional support:

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Antonia Kollreider
Veronika Huckl
Bettina Riedel

If you are curious, the publication is available at KunstHausWien in Vienna, at ISBN in Budapest, or you can message us directly.

The Belly Knows Before the Brain

16.10.2025—25.01.2026

The exhibition invites embodied engagement with the cycles of digestion, decay, and renewal. Through soil, food, and narratives, the exhibition traces the microbial choreography of transformation, where eating becomes an ecological act, and the belly a site of knowing within Earth’s metabolism.

Curators: Stephan Kuss & Veronika Hackl
Photos: Iris Ranzinger

Public program:
The Table is Set for More Than Us (Workshop)
Sat 18.10.2025, 14:00–17:00

Artist Talk & Book Launch
Thu 13.11.2025, 19:00
As part of Vienna Art Week

Licking Licking Stones (Workshop)
Fri 14.11.2025, 17:00–20:00

Forum Gut Feeling (Discussion)
Fri 12.12.2025, 18:00 - 19:30

Future Talk: Climate X Change:
Are We All Compost?
Thu 22.01.2026, 18:00 - 19:30

Only Over My Decomposing body! (Workshop)
Sat 24.01.2026, 14:00 - 17:00

👏 .gedeon, , , Marc Richards, , , , , team, .welten

💚 more-than-human companions:
The compost and its bacterial worlds, the lactobacteria and their fermenting capacities, the herbs from our garden, offering fragrance, nourishment, and resilience, the salt mountains. from Parajd, carrying geological time and human histories, the Bokashi bacteria, transforming food waste into fertile soil, the sheep, for their wool and companionship across landscapes,
and the minerals, grounding our practices in deep time and elemental matter.

🥬 The table was set for more than humans


Thank you to everyone who joined the first workshop at The Belly Knows Before the Brain, The table is set for more than us, where cabbage was chopped, salted, and pressed, welcoming new bacterial cultures into the exhibition space.

The sauerkraut is now quietly fermenting among the installations, breathing and transforming as part of the ongoing metabolism of the show. Through touch, scent, and slow microbial collaboration, kitchen, soil, and artwork stay connected.

The kraut will return later for tasting and sharing. 💨🥄

Together withgedeon


Veronika Hackl

Photos by and .earth

Gurkencity 🥒

Gurkencity: a week of tracing Vienna’s edible infrastructures, from the humidity of urban greenhouses to the metabolic afterlives of pickling jars. Through collective mapping, spatial storytelling, and material experiments, we followed the cucumber as a companion species, revealing the city’s entangled ecologies of labour and growth.

The workshop unfolded as part of the Vienna Architecture Summer School 2025, reflecting on how metabolic thinking can inform spatial practice.

Thanks to everyone who joined, cultivated, and speculated with us.



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is becoming CLIMAVORE

Together with and many collaborators, a new menu is taking shape at .trafo reimagined by drought, soil, and shifting climates.

We’re glad Fuzzy Earth could support the research alongside the fantastic team of chefs, artists, gardeners and researchers 👏👏👏
.erdodi

At the Lelet T-6391/3 exhibition by at .gyor we held a Mineral Tasting Workshop, where participants explored edible minerals shaped by deep time: salts, charcoals, clays, and crushed stones. Inspired by the practice of geophagia, we ground, smelled, and tasted minerals, using our bodies as tools to connect with ancient matter.

With curatorial support from ,
Photography by Gyarmati Balázs
Supported by