Festival centre

Thu 22.05 – Sun 08.06 / daily 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.*

Welcome to our festival centre! Right at the entrance to the Herrenhausen Gardens, we offer you good food, a sometimes relaxed, sometimes vibrant festival atmosphere and a place for dialogue and conversation. Artists, audience, garden visitors, the KunstFestSpiele team, young and old meet in the open tent or on the lawn under the wonderful lime tree, which provides shade during the day and in which an artificial moon (or is it a grapefruit?) illuminates the festival centre at night.

Perhaps the best festival cuisine in Europe: the cooking artists' collective freitagsküche from Frankfurt will provide a wide variety of tasty treats. Food, drinks and small snacks – including vegan and vegetarian options – will be available throughout the festival at lunchtime, in the afternoon and in the evening.

A long table is set up for our popular Art & Cuisine event series, where the audience and artists meet and chat late into the night.

Located between the Orangery, Gallery and the Arne Jacobsen Foyer, every venue can be reached quickly from the Festival Centre. Last-minute visitors will also find our box office in the festival centre, which opens 1 hour before the start of the performances. If you have any questions or feedback about the festival or the performances and installations, this is where you’ll always find a friendly ear. 

We look forward to meeting you!

* Fri 23.05 and Mon 26.05 to 8 p.m., Sun 01.06 to 9 p.m., Mon 02.06 to 8 p.m.

freitagsküche

Cooking, eating together and good conversation come together at the freitagsküche in the festival centre, which is both meeting point and host.

In a pleasant atmosphere, with freshly prepared food, hot and cold drinks, you can get in the mood for the performances and installations of the KunstFestSpiele or discuss art and life later in the evening. The menu is inspiring, individual and clear, with great attention paid to the quality of the ingredients.

Apart from their daily fare, the freitagsküche extend an invitation to five unusual culinary evenings in the series Art & Cuisine*, inspired by KunstFestSpiele performances.The menus** were prompted by the themes of the pieces or the artists themselves. At these events you can share your experiences and associations after the show. The artists will join the company in the course of the evening. On warm summer evenings, the long table will be set up on the lawn under the large lime tree.

A very warm welcome!

* Please remember to bring appropriate clothing for the not-so-warm spring nights after the performances.
** Every meal also has a vegan variation.

Art & Cuisine

Thu 29.05 / after Haribo Kimchi
One table - six pojangmacha. A table streetfood course.
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Sat 31.05 / after Skatepark
Family Style Community Picnictable Dinner. 360, Fake Olli and finally a frontside/backside Nolli.
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Wed 04.06 / after Music for Strings
Strings, noodles, strips, live yakitori menu with medlar.
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Fri 06.06 / after NON + ULTRAS
A chicken standing on a ball. Two bulls. A rooster. Football emblem menu with a very primal surprise.
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Tickets 25 Euros per event (plus charges, no discount available)