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04/18/2026

‼️This is it! “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes tomorrow.
Your last chance to see the exhibition is today and tomorrow 1-5pm.

We are also approaching the end of our introduction series of the participating artists. The Creme de la Creme on top of our Melange ☕️:

Introducing: ✨Kids of the Diaspora✨

Kids of the Diaspora—the Vienna-based creative collective, a “movement brand” founded by Leni Charles and Cherrellone—present their multi-layered installation “Grandmother’s Cups” (2026).

The cups are the most tangible traces of the artists’ grandmother, who cared for her children while sharing fragments of her survival during the Second World War—a woman whose identity remained largely unspoken. A tablecloth as symbolic veil. A draft on the table, reflecting the artists’ dilemma: how do you tell a story that has been deeply felt, yet withheld?

The vessels become metaphors for inherited memory—for what gets passed down not in words but in gestures, in objects, in the act of pouring something warm and sitting together.

Founded in 2016, Kids of the Diaspora operates across fashion, music, and art, creating space for diverse cultural identities without compromise. They’ve collaborated with art institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien, and the Belvedere Museum, and also brands such as Billa, Vöslauer, among many others. This March they also organized their 5-day retreat in Ghana, that was dedicated to dissolving generational patterns.

“Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile”
📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19

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04/15/2026

🚨Last weekend coming up!
“Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes this Sunday!
Come by, bring someone you’ve been meaning to see, or make a date with a complete stranger.

Introducing: ✨Joseph Dumbacher John Dumbacher✨

Joseph Dumbacher John Dumbacher are fraternal twin artists, based between Los Angeles and New York. Their practice moves fluidly between architecture, design, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture—minimalist and architecturally scaled, exploring what lives in the threshold between light and dark, presence and absence.

For “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”, they present “Witness” (2006) from a project that began with a quietly radical act: they placed an advertisement on Craigslist and created a series of haunting and identity-obscuring photographic portraits. They were offering free movie tickets to strangers. There was only one condition, stated plainly: in exchange, they would take a photograph of their guest at the precise moment the lights go down and the film begins. The simplicity of the proposition is part of what makes it so unsettling.
The project stages an investigation of intimacy between strangers—of the charged threshold between mutual visibility and shared darkness, between the social contract of the street and the surrender of the cinema. This piece bridges several different layers of this exhibition in regard to (Hollywood) film history, the strangeness of film noir, the cinema as another kind of coffeehouse culture in Los Angeles, where strangers meet and “consume time” together.

Their work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; Curator’s Office and Fusebox, Washington D.C.; and BackroomNY, New York.

📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19

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04/12/2026

⏰ Only two sundays left. We are open today 1-5pm!
“Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” closes already in the evening of April 19.
If you haven’t been yet—or if you want to return—now is the time to see .steinman ’s glowing paintings.

✨Introducing: Steven Steinman✨

Steven Steinman is a Los Angeles-based artist whose layered paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs reveal the unseen rhythms and patterns that move through the natural world. His practice draws on a wide lineage—French Impressionism, Bay Area figuration, 18th-century firework imagery—and makes something entirely its own.

For “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”, Steinman presents large-scale paintings in which paint and metal interact through a distinctive process—pigment and material blooming across the surface in forms that are gestural and alchemical. The palette: black and gold.

Black and gold—the exact colors of the façade and hand-lettered nameplate of the Kleines Café on Franziskanerplatz in Vienna, the coffeehouse founded by Hans Neuffer in the early 1970s. A coincidence that feels like a conversation across time.

There is something else in these paintings. The way gold moves through the surface—pooling, branching, alive—calls to mind something microscopic: fluid, cellular, pulsing. A visual echo of Friedl Kubelka’s film “Blutsbrüderschaft”—installed right next to Steinman’s “Kiss”—in which Kubelka and Neuffer enact a ritual of blood kinship beside a river—and what streams down their hands finds its visual echo in Steinman’s surfaces. Both blood and river move by the same forces that govern Steinman’s gold: gravity, surface tension, the irreversible logic of liquid finding its form. Neither set of marks was composed. Both feel inevitable.

Steinman’s work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum; LACMA; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Albertina, Vienna; and Yale University Art Gallery.

📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19

04/08/2026

Last two weekends coming up to see our current show “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile”.

Lets continue our introduction series, with a very special and personal connection between Kleines Café—which serves as our backdrop—and the participating artist

✨Friedl Kubelka / vom Gröller✨

Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist, based between Vienna and Paris. She founded the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna in 1990, and the School for Independent Film in 2006. Her work is held in major international collections. She received the Grand Austrian State Prize for Artistic Photography in 2005, and the Austrian Art Prize for Film in 2016.

We are very humbled that Kubelka / vom Gröller participates in this exhibition with her poetic short film “Blutsbrüderschaft” (1970). In it we see the artists Friedl Kubelka / vom Gröller and Hans Neuffer enact the ritual the title names—a blood kinship, older than language, in which the mingling of blood stands for a bond that ordinary words cannot quite carry. The film was made around the same time Neuffer was conceiving the “Kleines Café”. “Blutsbrüderschaft” is its intimate counterpart: not a public institution but a private covenant. Neuffer died in 1973, less than three years after this film was made. What Kubelka has continued to carry from that kinship is visible across her entire body of work—and is now, with particular tenderness, visible at the Belvedere, Vienna, where her current solo exhibition includes this film and also “Neuffer’s Zimmer” (1974), one of her earliest paintings. The Belvedere acquired the gouache, the only Kubelka painting in any museum collection worldwide. A room painted from the inside of a loss.

“Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile”
📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19

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04/05/2026

Sua Kim is a South Korean-born artist based in Los Angeles, holds a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, and is currently pursuing her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts.

Working across painting and mixed media, her practice explores memory, identity, and displacement through abstraction, color, and layered materials. Drawing from her experience living between South Korea and the United States, her work investigates how personal and cultural histories overlap and shift over time. Kim incorporates painted plexiglass and screen-printed photographs taken in both countries to create transparent, layered surfaces that change with light and perspective. The work reflects the emotional complexity of navigating two cultures, where memories, spaces, and identities echo, repeat, and transform. Each piece functions in relation to others, forming an interconnected installation that emphasizes repetition, return, and subtle transformation.

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04/04/2026

Wishing everyone who celebrates: happy Pessach. 🌸
We are closed this weekend for spring holidays. But nevertheless we want to continue our introduction series:

Introducing: ✨Isa Rosenberger✨🤎❤️

What does it mean to reconstruct a culture of conversation from the fragments it left behind?

Isa Rosenberger is a Vienna-based artist working in installation, film, photography, and public space. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and has received the Otto Mauer Prize (2008) and the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art (2012). Her practice is dedicated to the politics of memory and the texture of social space — weaving together documentary and fictional modes, often in close collaboration with contemporary witnesses and cultural historians.

We are thrilled to have her short film “Cafe Vienne ... full of spirits so free” (2014/18) included in our current exhibition. It was creates as part of her project “Café Vienne”, created in 2014 for the Skirball Cultural Center (curated by Doris Berger) in Los Angeles — a project that honored the writer Gina Kaus and the legacy of Viennese coffeehouse culture among the Central European émigrés who rebuilt their lives in this city. In her short film, Rosenberger revives the tradition of Wiener Lieder (Vienniese Songs), which often commented on social issues with a satirical touch.
In “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”, Rosenberger brings Café Vienne back to Los Angeles — where the émigré coffeehouses it remembers once stood.

Come by next weekend and leave with ’s “The Coffehouse Song” stuck in your head. Or how the German saying goes: leave with an “Ohrwurm” (earwig). 🎶 🪱

“Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile”
📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | Sat + Sun 1–5 pm | through April 19

| www.isarosenberger.net

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03/30/2026

Introducing:
✨ Małgorzata Oliwa ✨

Małgorzata Oliwa is a visual artist and educator born in Białystok, Poland, and based in Vienna. Her practice brings together photography, research, and curatorial work around questions of Eastern European diaspora, memory, and identity.

Her inviting “Coffee Notes” (2026) is a participatory installation: a table, a set of distinctive glass cups, instant coffee, and brushes. Visitors are invited to sit down, dissolve coffee in the glass, pick up a brush, and paint.

Oliwa uses this object to ask how the material culture of a hot drink carries the memory of the place and system that shaped it. If spills happen, they stay—and become part of the work.

In 2023, Oliwa founded “Ost*Post Café” (“Post-East* Café”) in Vienna—an interdisciplinary conversation series for the Post-Ost community, addressing the unspoken migration histories of Central Europe. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, and HGB Leipzig, and currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | We are open Sat + Sun 1–5 pm, and by appointment | through April 19

🖌️☕️ Come by and make a mark on piece yourself 🤎

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03/28/2026

🎞️Lights, Camera, Action

✨Introducing: Rachel Kamerman✨

What do you hear when you’re a child sitting at the edge of adult conversation? ☕
This question – and so much more – is Rachel Kamerman exploring in her wall filling installation “Kinder Kaffeeklatsch” (2026).

Kamerman is a Production Designer with over 350 episodes and several films to her credit. She has spent a career building fictional spaces where characters confront who they are — and a lifetime carrying the real ones.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she grew up understanding the coffeehouse not as a place of leisure, but as something more freighted: a space of survival, storytelling, and hard truths, where gatherings over coffee carried the weight of what had been lost and what remained. Furthermore, that European coffee house culture freely moved into private spheres in exile. These experiences shaped her understanding of the coffeehouse as a historically charged space of conversation, tension, and moral inquiry.

That understanding followed her into Hollywood. The sets she has built for fictional characters — spaces of confrontation, quiet revelation, ethical reckoning — carry the same charge as the coffeehouses culture her family’s generation once (literally) called home.

In “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs”, Kamerman’s work bridges the émigré coffeehouse culture at home of 1930s Los Angeles and the industry that absorbed their spirit into something unmistakably American.

📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | We are open Sat + Sun 1–5 pm, and by appointment | through April 19

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03/25/2026

What an opening! Thank you to each and everyone who came out and celebrated the opening of “Thonet Chairs and Neon Signs: Coffeehouse Culture in Exile” this past weekend with us!

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We want to take the opportunity to introduce you the participating artists.

✨Starting with the queen of Humor and Horror: Eva Beresin.

Eva Beresin is a Vienna-based painter whose work lives at the intersection of memory, trauma, and dark humor. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, her relationship to the coffeehouse runs deep — she began drawing as a child during weekly visits to Budapest’s legendary Café Gerbeaud.

After studying in Budapest and moving to Vienna in 1976, Beresin developed a singular visual language known for its grotesque comedy and melancholic depth. Her celebrated project “My Mother’s Diary: Ninety-Eight Pages” (2015/2019) transformed her mother’s post-Auschwitz liberation diary into a series of powerful paintings — an act of mourning that refuses to be still.

In 2024, the Albertina, Vienna, presented her first museum solo exhibition. Her work is held in their permanent collection.

We are thrilled and honored to have Beresin’s painting “Smooth Transitions” (2022 / Oil and acrylic on Canvas / 23 ⅝ x 19 ¾ inches) included in this exhibition, as well as her publications of “My Mother’s Diary: Ninety-Eight Pages” (2015/2019). Come by and explore with and through Beresin’s work what it means to carry memory — across generations, across borders, across a cup of coffee.

📍 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles
1206 Maple Ave, 5th Floor | We are open Sat + Sun 1–5 pm, and by appointment | through April 19

Image credits:
1: Eva Beresin, “Smooth Transitions” (2022)
2: Eve Beresin in the studio, photographed by
3: Eva Beresin, “Bird Droppings” (2025), permanent collection

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