Manischewitz Debuts SOUP: A New Art & Photography Exhibition

Iconic brand explores Jewish cuisine, memory, and identity through contemporary visual art and storytelling.

Published on Feb. 7, 2026

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Manischewitz is launching a new art and photography exhibition called SOUP, which explores Jewish cuisine, memory, and identity as a living, evolving culture. The exhibition will feature the work of contemporary artists whose pieces reflect the deep connections between food, heritage, and storytelling. Through visual art, photography, and narrative, SOUP examines how soup functions as a powerful cultural connector, representing nourishment in its most elemental form.

Why it matters

For more than 130 years, Manischewitz has been a constant presence in American Jewish life, helping to nourish generations through tradition, resilience, and shared experience. SOUP builds on this legacy, using art and photography to explore how food carries history, emotion, humor, ritual, and belonging, and how Jewish identity continues to evolve across generations and geographies.

The details

The SOUP exhibition will be open to the public from February 6–10, 2026, at 155 Suffolk Street in New York City. It will feature the work of contemporary artists including Dan Weinstein, Rosemarie Gleiser, and Ohad Romano, whose pieces form a visual conversation about continuity, change, and the everyday rituals that sustain culture. In addition to the art and photography, the Manischewitz Deli on Wheels will be parked outside the exhibition, serving soup, knishes, hot dogs, and other traditional Jewish foods, creating a multisensory experience.

  • The SOUP exhibition will be open to the public from February 6–10, 2026.
  • The exhibition will close early on Friday, February 6, at 2:00 PM.

The players

Dan Weinstein

A multidisciplinary artist and creative director whose work spans visual art, animation, and narrative storytelling, exploring identity and modern allegory through bold, often humorous imagery.

Rosemarie Gleiser

A Peruvian-Jewish interdisciplinary artist based in New York, whose work examines diaspora, memory, food culture, and migration through deeply personal narrative; her Lexicon series is presented publicly for the first time in this exhibition.

Ohad Romano

One of Israel's leading photographers, known for cinematic still imagery that captures intimate, human moments suspended between stories.

Manischewitz

An iconic brand that has been part of American Jewish life for more than 130 years, not just as a food brand, but as a constant presence in everyday and sacred moments alike.

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The takeaway

By presenting SOUP, Manischewitz affirms its place not only as a trusted food brand, but as a steward of Jewish cultural heritage. The exhibition reflects a shared belief that food is more than sustenance—it carries language, history, resilience, and belonging—and that art, like food, plays an essential role in keeping culture alive.