exhibition contribution
We were invited by curator Gregor Eichinger to create a contribution to the exhibition The Shape of the Café to Come at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (MAK).
The Vienna coffee house at its core is a pocket of resistance against the acceleration of our everyday lives. To celebrate that we designed a series of hyper-specialized dishes that emphasizes the unchanging nature of classic Viennese coffee house food. Its components are fixed and we believe the presentation should embrace that. With a wink, the plates time-freeze the status quo of this actually fast food and thereby ensure its cultural longevity. They actively resist all pressures of innovation and originality and transform a ritual and a menu plan into stable objects of material culture. Thus they carry over traditional food norms into the future. Even when empty you can feel the echo of their purpose.
Renderings by KIM+HEEP