teo jakob at artgenève

At artgenève 2024, teo jakob showed an exhibition of early designs by Swiss designers from 1927 to 2024. Classics such as Meret Oppenheim’s table «Traccia», designed at 25, or Alfred Hablützel’s lamp «Luna», designed at 26, met contemporary works by young designers, among them AATB’s Sunny Side Up. Works by Ivan Mitrovic were also shown within the exhibition «Bureau Bollito».

The show was framed by the art series «Press Art»: throughout 1972, a different artist designed a page of the Basler Zeitung every week. These 52 sheets mirror their time, works by artists who were also young then and are today partly forgotten, partly world-famous. Ben Vautier wrote on his page the sentence that became famous: «Don’t throw this newspaper away, for all of its content is art».