Café Mangel

Participative Intervention; SOHO in Ottakring Art Festival, Vienna
With Nora Gutwenger, Stephan Trimmel; 2018

Café Mangel was an experimental, neighbourhood coffeehouse in Vienna which acted on the convention of ‚asking the neighbours for e.g. butter, eggs, etc.‘ because you ran out of it, applying this ordinary, yet today more and more uncommon practice as an artistic strategy. Going from door to door to collect everything needed for a coffeehouse, a vacant space in the social housing complex ‚Sandleitenhof‘ transformed into Café Mangel: a non-consumption-driven space to have free dinner, encounter people, hang out. The project thereby raised question about trust, distribution of ressources and the potential of creating an open space together with the neighbourhood.