Alejandra Alarcón & Sandra Mirka
GROUNDED GATHERINGS: ROOTED BEGINNINGS
Ground floor of EKA Gallery 27.09.–19.10.2025
Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm
Opening: Friday, September 26 at 6 pm PS! Eugenio Marini’s and Ingrid Helena Pajo will open their exhibition “The Day the Line Bent into a Spiral” at the same time on the second floor of EKA Gallery.
As the seasons turn, “Grounded Gatherings: Rooted Beginnings” invites us to slow down, share food, and reflect on our relationship with the landscape. It offers a space to come together around the table, to simmer jams, and to share seasonal bites. This exhibition is imagined as a place for learning and unlearning, for exchanging different kinds of memories and knowledge. The work focuses on specific locations in Finland and Estonia, places where encounters with humans and more-than-humans have been flourishing. Through visual documentation from Spring and Summer, recipes, workshop events, and communal meals, the project invites us to build and maintain a long-lasting relationship with our surroundings through taste.
“Grounded Gatherings” is a multidisciplinary project by Alejandra Alarcón and Sandra Mirka, unfolding between Finland and Estonia. Sandra Mirka holds an MA in interior architecture and is a certified chef based in Tallinn. Her practice is led by sourcing and building with up-cycled materials, connecting spatial design with food cultures. Alejandra Alarcón is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Helsinki. She holds an MA in Contemporary Design. Her interest in (food) sustainability—the seasonality of things, non-human collaborations—is deeply tied to embodied practices such as walking, foraging, cooking, and digesting. Both creatives share a passion for food and cooking, working with it in different ways throughout their individual practices. Both creatives are deeply interested in how humans and more than humans co-exist in ways that create opportunities for more caring and sustainable practices.
Graphic design: Daria Titova
Technical support: Erik Hõim
The exhibition is supported by the Sadolin Estonia and Tallinn City.
Special thanks to Joni Judén, Kaitlyn D. Hamilton, TUOTUO, Lenne Nigul, Anumai Raska, Estonian Centre for Architecture, Mariann Drell, Markus Koistinen and Radul Radulović.
Opening drinks from mirai™ and Põhjala Brewery.
