Open Kitchen (OK) is a Milwaukee-based art collective founded in 2016 by Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen in partnership with Alan Medina. OK stages site-specific happenings, creates installations, and hosts a residency program to prompt critical dialogues around food, land, seasonality, and hyper-locality. Each program takes shape through regional and seasonal food-related research projects, gastronomic gatherings, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Fountain Kitchenette is an OK experimental café that aims to broaden Milwaukee’s definition of hyper-locality. It is a gathering where a collective and cooperative working model binds cookery with ecological research and conversation.

Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen are artists and founding members of Open Kitchen (2016-present, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and filmfront (2014-16, Chicago, Illinois). They are artists-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, where they have exhibited work and currently organize public interdisciplinary programs around experimental ecological pedagogy based on their research and co-stewardship of the “Lynden Apiary” and the “Cultural Garden.” OK has been a guest at the Poor Farm Experiment (Little Wolf, Wisconsin), ACRE Residency (Steuben, Wisconsin), SodA Mundial (Mexico City), Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BiSCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) and at Postane, Istanbul, Turkey, where they have presented programs and exhibited work.

Get in touch at info@okmke.org