Open doors, Closing chapter

Parastu Gharabaghi, maria mercedes, Becket MWN, Angharad Williams, DJ Köln & DJ solutions

After almost a decade of Kevin Space, it’s co-founders, Fanny Hauser, Carolina Nöbauer, Denise Sumi and Franziska Wildförster, say goodbye and invite you all to our farewell summer party. Before ​​we hand the space over to the new team, we want to close this special chapter of Kevin Space by celebrating the friendships that have been fostered during this time.

Artists who have collaborated with us over the last ten years will contribute new works, readings and performances, both inside and outside the space. In reminiscence of her exhibition, open the door, close the window, Vienna-based artist Parastu Gharabaghi will transform Kevin Space’s bar with an artistic intervention. Angharad Williams will share a newly commissioned text with us, while maria mercedes will inhabit Volkertplatz with their performance. Writer and artist Becket MWN, has created the visuals for the shop front and Olivia Coeln aka DJ Köln (City Gallery Vienna) and Marina Sula aka DJ solutions close the evening with a specially conceived set.

Join us for a farewell of what has made Kevin Space possible and a welcome of a new chapter.

Olivia Coeln is a Vienna based visual artist whose work explores the intersections of photography and installation. Coeln studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2012–2019). She holds the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize and the Photography Scholarship from BMKÖS (2020). Her work has been exhibited at City Galerie Wien, where she will have her first Solo show in October 2025, at CHB in Berlin, at Ve.Sch Kunstverein in Vienna, at the Austrian Culture Forum in London, at Georg Kargl Galerie, at Belvedere 21 and at Medium P in Basel.

Parastu Gharabaghi lives and works in Vienna. Her solo exhibitions include Dare2bB&b, Cordova, Barcelona (2024), Open the door close the window, Kevin Space, Vienna (2019). She has participated in group exhibitions at Mauer, Cologne (2024); Alienze, Vienna (2022); Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main (2019); among others.

maria mercedes is a performance duo consisting of Julia Maria Müllner and Camilla Mercedes Schielin. They live and work as dancers and choreographers in Vienna and Stockholm. In their work, they encounter choreographies inspired by pop culture and shift them into bizarre settings. Their interest lies in fluctuating encounters between audience and performance. Since fall 2020, maria mercedes’ works have been shown at WUK, Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Haus.Wien, Mühlbauer, Bridging Cologne, Močvara Gallery, Zagreb and KEX Fringe Kyoto in collaboration with Yoh Morishita. Her current piece shining rose premiered in March 2025 at Imagetanz, brut Wien.

Becket MWN is an Amsterdam-based artist and writer, where he has lived for nearly ten years. Originally from the United States, he received his MFA from the University of Southern California, and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In his practice he works through sculpture, spoken and written text, audio works, and installation. His projects often involve a close reading of certain images or structures of mass media, but also an extension of their logic. These moments typically relate to structures which are collapsing or changing, acting like prisms through which to interpret much larger cultural shifts.

Marina Sula is an Italian-Albanian artist living and working in Vienna and Zürich. Her practice spans installation, photography, and sculpture. Sula’s work has been shown at Diana Gallery, Milan; MUSEION, Bolzano; Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz; Croy Nielsen, Vienna; National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; GAM Fondazione Musei, Turin; Belvedere 21 - Museum for Contemporary Art, Vienna; Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna; among others. She is a teaching assistant at the MFA ZHdK.

Angharad Williams (b. Ynys Cybi, Wales) is an artist, writer, and performer who is concerned with the role of poetry in our increasingly militarised society. Angharad has exhibited and performed at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; KIN, Brussels; Simian, Copenhagen (all 2025); Kunstverein Dusseldorf; Mostyn, Llandudno (2022). Eraser, Angharad’s first book of fiction, was published by After8 Books, Paris, and Kunstverein Düsseldorf in 2023. This year, Williams will release Now Watch This Drive, a limited 12” vinyl, with Concentric Group, London, and the Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau. Angharad is a teacher in the Master’s Fine Art program at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich.