Pyramid Burger
the great pyramid burger scheme
One Night Only
December 10, 2025 | 6-9pm
Join us for THE GREAT PYRAMID BURGER SCHEME, an exclusive and festive one-night only exhibition by the interdisciplinary artist known as Pyramid Burger at Moskowitz Bayse. Each ticket includes the purchase of one (1) pyramid burger*, an edible sculpture, with a side of fresh-cut potato chips, one (1) hand-signed and numbered freezer bag (for optional preservation of said edible sculpture), one (1) commemorative exhibition T-shirt, and one (1) limited edition exhibition poster. A complimentary wine bar hosted by Scotty-Boy! (@scottyboywine) of the Salon des Refusés (@salondesrefuseswine) will be open for the entirety of the event. The evening will be accompanied by the live musical stylings of Brandon the pocket trumpeteer, and perhaps some other surprise musical guests and happenings.
*Contains meat, dairy, allium, and gluten. The edible sculpture is served as intended; we politely are unable to accommodate dietary restrictions.
exhibition text
Moskowitz Bayse is pleased to announce the exclusive representation of the interdisciplinary artist known as Pyramid Burger, whose one-night only inaugural exhibition, THE GREAT PYRAMID BURGER SCHEME, will open at the gallery on December 10, 2025. This exhibition marks a decisive moment in the ongoing dialogue between art, objecthood, purpose and the increasingly perplexing domain of edible hermeneutics.
The presentation will consist of 80 slightly differentiated editions (i.e., “original copies”) of The Pyramid Burger, an edible sculpture whose formal identity remains theoretically indeterminate, yet dogmatically delicious. Each work–at once singular and mass-produced, permanent and perishable–may be consumed on site, thereby fulfilling what the artist describes as its “ontological imperative,” or alternatively preserved in a signed and numbered freezer bag for those wishing to extend (i.e., “hoard”) the work’s state of present-at-hand duration (thumbtacks and/or climate controlled vitrines not included; storage protocols at collector’s own risk).
Within this framework, Pyramid Burger advances a rigorous reconsideration of Michael Fried’s notion of presentness by staging an encounter in which the viewer is asked to determine whether the artwork is:
(1) an object demanding contemplation,
(2) a consumable demanding ingestion, or
(3) a paradoxical hybrid demanding both while guaranteeing neither.
In this respect, the work enacts a distinctly Kierkegaardian Either/Or: Eat the burger, and you will regret it; archive the burger, and you will also regret it. Whether you eat or do not eat, you will regret both.
Heidegger might say that each burger “things” in its own way—gathering authentic experience , know-how , historicity, and appetite into a singular site of unconcealment. And so we arrive at the artist’s central provocations, posed as recursive linguistic experiments:
How does art art? How does burger burger? How does burger art? And how does art burger?
These are not merely playful tautologies but apertures into the vibrating quantum fields from which Pyramid Burger draws. They are the murmuring atoms of thought — your thought, my thought, the weft of thought — surging like a waterfall through the artist’s exuberant practice. They map an inquiry issuing from the firmament of imagination, where the edible becomes conceptual, the conceptual becomes edible, and the artwork hovers in the ecstatic space between event and object.