Tuba Kılıç 

Tuba Kılıç is an Istanbul-born and Rotterdam-based artist, chef, teacher/learner, and cultural worker whose practice unfolds between food, pedagogy, and collective forms of study. Working across kitchens, classrooms, cultural institutions, and shared public spaces, she approaches cooking not simply as a form of feeding. She sees these gestures as ways of thinking, remembering, and learning with others.

Her work often begins with ordinary gestures and everyday acts: chopping vegetables together, waiting for something to boil, sharing a table, walking, listening, or spending time collectively. Through these processes, she explores how knowledge is formed through bodies, repetition, labor, and presence rather than through fixed hierarchies or predetermined outcomes. Food, writing, gestures, and communal acts become pedagogical and political tools—carriers of memory, solidarity, and struggle.