Studio Job Unveils New Works at an Exhibition in Buenos Aires

Bringing their distinctly unpredictable brand of fantastical-meets-functional to Buenos Aires this week, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, the Belgian-Dutch design duo behind Studio Job, opened their latest show at the Faena Art Center yesterday.

“Futopia: Faena by Studio Job” is a celebration of a four-year collaboration between the Antwerp- and Amsterdam-based designers and the art institution, which has seen Faena commission several of Studio Job’s creations. In this immersive exhibition, Studio Job—known for work that ranges from one-off collectible sculptures to more commercially inclined furniture designs for the likes of Moooi—presents past projects, drawings, and renderings that reveal their creative process, as well as new works.

The show is spread across Faena Art Center's main exhibition space, Sala Molinos, where Studio Job has covered the walls, windows, and floors with a colorful pattern full of symbols specially created to capture Faena’s artistic point of view. The space will double as a roller disco in the evenings, when a live DJ will be installed in the middle of the room and guests invited to amplify their visitor experience. Studio Job has also taken over the center’s triple-height, cathedral-style windows, putting a modern-day spin on the stained-glass tradition and bathing the institution in new light.

“Studio Job’s visionary experimentation bridges the worlds of art and design and blurs the boundaries between the disciplines,” said Ximena Caminos, chair of Faena Art and executive director of Faena Art Center Buenos Aires and Faena Forum Miami Beach, in statement. “That is why we invited them to work as our heralds and to create with us a constellation of signs and symbols that constitute our visual language today.”

Through August 3, Aime Paine 1169 Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires; faenartom