The Overview Effect is a group exhibition curated by Anna Carnick, where OWN Artists Christine Jacobs & Lionel Jadot are participating on occasion of Berlin Art Week.
The Overview Effect
This autumn, on the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2026, The Foundry, a project by Bocci and Wilhelm Hallen, presents The Overview Effect, a new group exhibition featuring an international roster of designers exploring our relationship to the world around us. Commissioned by Bocci and curated by US-born, Berlin-based curator and writer Anna Carnick, the exhibition is on view September 4–13, 2026 at The Foundry, Bocci's mixed-use exhibition space in Berlin.
The Overview Effect takes its name from a profound cognitive shift experienced by astronauts when gazing back at Earth from space. From this perspective, their understanding of the world and humankind's place in it is markedly altered. As manmade borders disappear and Earth's beauty and fragility come to the forefront, they are filled with a deep sense of awe and a newfound appreciation of the interconnected nature of our world.
Christine Jacobs
Christine Jacobs is a designer and fine artist who grew up on a sheep farm near the small town of Trompsburg in Free State province. Her family has produced Merino fine wool for international markets for six generations – a legacy that ignited her interest in the natural environment, the land and its human habitation. In both her design and artwork, Jacobs aims to create a traceable link and engender a deeper understanding of the relationship between products, manufacturing, craft and farming.
She returned to her artistic roots with the creation of Felt(veld)scape, first shown at the 2022 Investec Cape Town Art Fair and subsequently, at Spring Awakening, a monumental group exhibition at Southern Guild. Following that, she had works featured in On Lines and Lineage, another group show with the gallery held in the Cape Winelands at Cavalli Estate. Jacobs’ first solo exhibition with Southern Guild, Enfold, opened in October 2023. The presentation featured the artist’s largest body of sculptural felt works to date and a selection of expansive charcoal drawings. In 2024 she returned to Calvalli Gallery with a solo exhibition titled: Enfold: unearthing Her layers. Jacobs currently lives and works in Franschhoek.
Lionel Jadot
Lionel Jadot is not just a designer. He’s a disruptor, a builder of new worlds from the ruins of the old. For over three decades, he has collected the fragments, discarded objects, forgotten materials, gifted remnants of other lives, and used them to craft a practice that defies categories. Architect, artist, maker, provocateur. His work rejects mass production, marketing logic, and aesthetic obedience. Born into a lineage of craftsmanship but guided by instinct, Jadot doesn’t follow rules, because rules are part of the problem.His creations are physical manifestos. Confrontations. Collages of memory, waste, and raw material honesty.
Through Zaventem Ateliers and his design philosophy, he crafts spaces and objects that grow, adapt, and evolve, always striving to transform the ordinary into something extra ordinary.
