Over the years Wietske Maas has straddled a miscellany of different cultural tangents from visual arts, taxidermy, sommelier to radio-making.
Based in Amsterdam since 2005, Wietske combines artistic pursuits with work as a freelance producer for the European Cultural Foundation.
In 2007, she started developing with Matteo Pasquinelli a project called urbanibalism — an approach to the city as an edible geography. Urbanibalism explores food in the entwinements between urban society and nature: a gastro-situationism which recovers the spontaneous living matter of the city, transforming urban ingredients into a public recipe. Often ending-up in conviviums, urbanibalism seeks out new relations between people, cultures, histories and ecologies alive within a metropolis.