15. August: Kopenhagen
 Europe`s Kitchen Copenhagen with Patricia Portela

© Daniela Burger

Patricia Portela opens Europe`s Kitchen with an exchange of letters. Her guests receive small texts, tasks and spices. On the evening of the Europe`s Kitchen everyone will meet for the first time in the kitchen of our local host Philipp for a common meal. From the individual letters a story unfolds, which will be told together at the table.

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Stop One: Copenhagen

The Origin of the Milky Way.

​The Milky Way

A short Story by Patrícia Portela
Europe`s Kitchen Copenhagen © Herr Willie

Marie Detjen
 Tintoretto`s Round Table

I’m late. Just a quarter of an hour ago, I was pushing my way through the tanned, blonde masses in the centre of Copenhagen. Here, in the suburb of Amager East, all is quiet. Two blonde, tanned children melancholically crumble coloured chalk in the cracked asphalt; apart from them, there’s no one to be seen. Detached houses are hidden away behind large trees and rampant weeds; on some of them the plaster is flaking off. The bourgeois way of life is quiet and sedate here, too.

About the artist

Patricia Portela
© Thomas Langdon
Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker living between Belgium and Portugal. Since 2003 she has worked on her own performances and installations in collaboration with international artists. She has achieved national and international recognition for her unusual work and is considered one of the most daring artists and innovative writers of her generation. She won several prices, has been invited to participate in the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in 2013 and to be the first Outreach Fellow. She was the first literary resident in Berlin in 2016, sponsored by the Portuguese Embassy in Germany/Instituto Camões. She lectures “dramaturgy and space” and “image” regularly at Universities and cultural centers in Portugal and abroad. She is the author of several novels, short stories and performances, such as Dias úteis or Banquet. She is a chronicle writer for the prestigious Jornal de Letras since 2017 and for the National Radio Antena

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