Maggi Galaxy

By Antoni Miralda and Stephan Palmié

Maggi Galaxy is a collaborative project by Barcelona/Miami-based artist Antoni Miralda and University of Chicago anthropologist Stephan Palmié, developed since 2019. Together, they explore the aesthetics and politics of one of the most ubiquitous yet overlooked global commodities: the Maggi bouillon cube. What begins as a simple seasoning unfolds into a complex lens on culture, migration, trade, and everyday ritual.

Emerging from Miralda’s Maggic Banquet—a food-centered performance first realized in Miami’s Little Haiti—Maggi Galaxy traces the transformation of Maggi from culinary product to cultural icon. The publication assembles a vast visual and research-driven archive, spanning product packaging, historical advertisements, wartime propaganda, African billboards, cookbooks, artworks, and photographic still lifes. Rooted in Miami’s layered cultural landscape and shaped through collaboration, the project reveals how a single object can carry histories, identities, and systems of knowledge across geographies.


Published by: LIT Verlag & EXILE Projects
Year: June 2025
First edition 300 copies
Size: 15 x 15 x 7 cm
657 pages
ISBN: 978-3-643-91596-2

$125.00 USD

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