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Contribution for «Squama B-Sides», an exhibition organized by the Munich based music label Squama Recordings at Print Gallery Tokyo. A handful of artists and designers were invited to use the official Squama catalog as a prompt to create a new piece.

Featuring a promotional t-shirt on its album cover, Squama Recording SQM023 «Paul, Rick & River» confronts its observer with a classic chicken or egg causality dilemma. In an attempt to find a solution to the question «which came first?», the contribution formulates an answer in two parts: the first takes the form of an essay [read it], tracing back the origins of a seemingly ordinary merchandise shirt. The second is a poncho, transforming the album cover with all its (typo)graphic elements to a piece of clothing once again.

With the help and support Teresa Reiter for crafting the poncho, David Kossi for the photo shoot, Laura Breitschmid and Gary Fogelson for finding the right words.

Contribution for the group exhibition «Zones of Encounter» at OXYD Winterthur, presenting new perspectives on a handful of objects from the collection of the Foundation for Art, Culture and History (SKKG).

The painting «Mein Vater» («my father», 1992) was the starting point for a research on the life and career of Hedi Zuber, a marginalized Swiss artist, marked by a life outside of social norms who found her way to painting only after her retirement. The original painting shows the father’s oversized face, seemingly pushing all other protagonists to the edge of the canvas. In the CGI video, this mask-like surface is mapped back onto a three-dimensional body in which the father, brought back to life, tells the story of his daughter’s life and reflecting the role he had played in it.

[left] original painting by Hedi Zuber, 1992, mixed media on paper. Foundation for Art, Culture and History, Inv. No. 01014 [right] screenshot of «Meine Tochter», 2022, CGI Animation, ca. 5:00

[left] exhibition poster [right] proposal for a memorial plaque in honor of Hedi Zuber, 2022, UV print on aluminium

Publication for the department of cultural publishing at Zurich University of the Arts. This glossary of serendipity gathers 100 entries by 15 authors, illustrators and photographers reshuffled in a random order for each of the 300 copies. In collaboration with Thomas Le Provost and Romain Cazier.

Poster workshop with students from the Zurich University of the Arts during the exhibition Protest! Resistance Posters (with Atlas Studio)

Poster Workshop at A School, A Park, a summer school programme in Montréal initiated by Sean Yendrys (with Atlas Studio)

Post Post was a one week performance workshop with Moriz Oberberger presented during a pop up exhibition and a small publication at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Netherlands

Publication presenting the personal newspaper clip collection of the legendary German tattoo artist Herbert Hoffmann. Co-published with Mirjam Fischer and Heidi Eisenhut at Limmat Verlag

Poster workshop organized with Dafi Kühne for the inauguration of Zurich Academy of the Arts’ new location. Series of five A0 posters designed and cut in lino and printed with a steam roller by Afrika, Eric Andersen, Atlas Studio (displayed above), Marlon Ilg and Simon Trüb.

«Nightshift» was an 36 hour overnight letter press poster printing workshop with an immediate exhibition of the results. Series of posters by Dafi Kühne, Diego Bontognali,  Mads Brunse, Remo Caminada, Valentin Hindermann, Johann Kauth, Damiano Merzari, Edwin Pickstone, Pat Randle, Guðmundur Úlfarsson, Mihaly Varga and Lukas Zimmermann

«Part one» is an artist book realized in collaboration with Dutch artist Robin R. Waart. It reproduces a selection of 101 pages, each featuring only the words Part one/Part I/Part etc. Available for purchase here. Awarded as one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books (2010) and the Most Beautiful Dutch Books (2011).

Reprint of a shirt advertising the artist movement De Stijl

Source image, De Stijl reproductions (clockwise from top left): model of the Red Blue Chair, box of matches, carrier bag with Andre Kertesz’s photograph of the hall in Mondrian ‘s studio, cassette tape of music liked by Mondrian, De StijJ T-shins, advenisement for the RietveJd restaurant, Amsterdam, in the form of the Zig-Zag chair, De StijJ architectural stamps on a postcard of 1969, and model kits of the Schröder house and the Oud Mathenesse site-manager’s hut.

Reprint of «Die Post als Künstlermedium», published in 1976 by artist Wolfgang Bickhardt-Botinelli as a manifesto for Mail Art in East Germany