--- title: Where Can I Find Food Art description: This artist makes sculptures she wants you to break and eat. canonical: https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-21T14:31:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:29.523Z og:title: Finally There's Fancy Dessert Art You Can Break and Eat og:description: If only all art were this inviting. og:url: https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Finally There's Fancy Dessert Art You Can Break and Eat twitter:description: If only all art were this inviting. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Artist Wants You to Destroy Her Chocolate Sculptures by Eating Them by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 21, 2017 2:31 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 21, 2017 2:31 PM UTC There’s a new [art exhibit](http://time.com/4686117/armory-show-deana-lawson/) where breaking the sculptures and then [eating them](http://time.com/4694067/chocolate-museum-nyc/) is encouraged. With her new exhibit called “Bittersweet,” [artist](http://time.com/4696206/photography-flowers/) Kristiane Kegelmann is creating edible art shows that are a feast for the eyes—and mouth. She uses fine chocolate mixed with fresh fruits, nuts, seeds and vegetables to mold the sculptures for her exhibit, which opened in Berlin recently. “I want to give patisserie and food a new stage to show off,” she told TIME. Kegelmann, who studied as a pastry artist in Vienna, decided to channel her dessert prowess into edible contemporary art to create “transient objects” that are “only finished when getting destroyed.” Participants have already been snapping the jewel-shaped confections off the installations and devouring them. The idea driving her art is for people to forget the feeling that artwork needs to be appreciated from afar as they’re tearing the confections down to gobble them up. “People hesitate before breaking and eating the pieces, but if they do, they really experience it on a different level,” she said. If only all of Willy Wonka’s creations were this inviting and consequence-free. See photos of the exhibit below.  Photo by Pujan Shakupa/Courtesy of Kristiane Kegelmann  Photo by Pujan Shakupa/Courtesy of Kristiane Kegelmann  Photo by Pujan Shakupa/Courtesy of Kristiane Kegelmann Where Can I Find Food Art ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/"},"headline":"This Artist Wants You to Destroy Her Chocolate Sculptures by Eating Them","datePublished":"2017-03-21T14:31:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:29.523Z","description":"This artist makes sculptures she wants you to break and eat.","url":"https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Art","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4705430/food-art-show/","name":"This Artist Wants You to Destroy Her Chocolate Sculptures by Eating Them"}}]}] ```