Cookbook for Iwan: From Studio to Stove

Discover recipes beloved by artists, curators, and collectors in this singular cookbook.

Featuring over 200 recipes gathered from the personal culinary repertoires of contemporary artists, curators, chefs, and collectors, A Cookbook for Iwan is an opportunity to discover and recreate the breakfasts, lunches, dinners, drinks, and desserts that fuel the art world’s global community. With a foreword by food writer and critic Tom Parker Bowles, the book’s recipes are accompanied by handwritten notes, whimsical illustrations, and playful photographs that capture the idiosyncrasies of its contributors. Among them are artists including Anna Maria Maiolino, who explains how to make a classic spaghetti alla napoletana, and William Kentridge, who reveals how to make a cocktail often enjoyed in his studio. Annie Leibovitz, Lorna Simpson, and Christina Quarles pass on family recipes, while Martin Creed and Jenny Holzer take a characteristically conceptual approach, with original artworks finding their place among the book’s soups, stews, pastas, and pies. Originally created by Manuela Wirth as a gift for her husband Iwan, A Cookbook for Iwan reflects the appreciation of good, honest food that the couple—the founders of the art gallery Hauser & Wirth and the hospitality company Artfarm—share, transformed into a recipe book that is truly one of a kind.

Tom Parker Bowles is a British food writer and critic. He is the author of several cookbooks, most recently having published Let's Eat: Recipes from My Kitchen Notebook.

Contributions by Beda Achermann, Rita Ackermann, Ida Applebroog, Aufdi Aufdermauer and Karin Wegmüller, Firelei Báez, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Larry Bell, María and Hermes Berrío, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Mark Bradford, Stefan Brüggemann, This Brunner, Christoph Büchel, Helen Charash, Barbara Chase-Riboud and Sergio Tosi, Carmen Chillida, Guiomar Chillida, Luis Chillida, María Chillida, Mikel Chillida, Pedro Chillida, Christophe Comoy, George Condo, Coryl Crane and Bram Kaprow, Martin Creed, Roberto Cuoghi, Matthew Day Jackson with Laura, Everett and Flynn, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Davide Degiovanni, Claudia Delgado, Hélène Delprat, Zhang Enli, Charles Gaines, Jeffrey Gibson, Catherine Goodman, Jerry Gorovoy, Rodney Graham, Ursula Hauser, Mary Heilmann, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Jules Horrell, Kazu and Mark Huggler, Daniel Humm, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre Huyghe, Cristina Iglesias, Richard Jackson, Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, Allison Katz and Philip Coulter, Erion Karaj, Samuel Keller, William Kentridge, Rachel Khedoori, Toba Khedoori, Bharti Kher, Christina Kimeze, Guillermo Kuitca, Luis Laplace, Annie Leibovitz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Takesada Matsutani and Kate Van Houten, Achille Mauri, Musa Mayer, Paul and Karen McCarthy, Don McCullin, Mary Moore, Frances Morris, Michael Neff and Phillip Pflug, Christopher Niven, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ben Orpwood, Angel Otero, Piet Oudolf, Tom Parker Bowles, Nicolas Party, Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, Marc Payot, Fabian Peake, Claude Picasso, Luke Piper, Thomas J Price, Christina Quarles, Sally Radic, Anna Redwood, Olivier Renaud-Clément, Pipilotti Rist, Ruth and Richard Rogers, Barry Rosen, Björn Roth, Oddur Roth, Mika Rottenberg, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Schmidheiny family, Andrea Schwan, Annabelle Selldorf, Jamie Shears, Amy Sherald, Cindy Sherman, Marcus and Jasmine Sherry, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Rob Smart, Rebecca Smith, Anj Smith, Cosima Spender and Valerio Bonelli, Saskia Spender, Ross Stacey, Graham Steele, Mary Clare Stevens, Calum Sutton and Cathy Mason, Tilla Theus, Kris Tominaga, Alejandro Torres, Maggie Trakas, Keith Tyson, Uman, Jaap van Liere, Ian Wallace, Ambera Wellmann, Mary Whitten and Mirsini Amidon, Manuela Wirth, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Eugenie York, Flora Yukhnovich, David Zink Yi