Treppstein is a legend. Treppstein used to be world-famous! … in the message salon …
… where is Treppstein today? Treppstein is back in the message salon caravan, at the Migros Museum! The story of Treppstein continues.
Selina Trepp and Esther Eppstein first met at the Kanzlei flea market in Zurich in 1995 and decided to organise a joint project. Their motto was: make art themselves and have fun. “Bodenlose Tiefpreise” (Bottomless Rock-Bottom Prices), 1995, was their first joint happening, staged in a fictional flat at the “Bilderladen Monotony” art space on Rennweg, furnished with second-hand furniture and featuring “cheap art” by and for friends.
The young women were now considering becoming artists. They invent Treppstein. Is it art? There is no definition for it; later they will call their genre “cheap happenings”, interactive DIY happenings with chutzpah. It’s all about the moment, and everyone who takes part becomes part of … Something greater!
Through courage, charming ingenuity and a sense of timing, Treppstein become happy artists whose success in international art galleries is celebrated frenetically at the message salon thanks to further coincidences and coolness (Treppstein Cool 1996) and who reach dizzying heights with their conquest of the film business (Treppstein Casting, 1997) and the production of the dancefloor record (Treppstein The Soundtrack, 1997). In 1998, Treppstein recover from the rigours of success in Appenzell, at the message salon holiday camp in the caravan.
At the Migros Museum, Treppstein are now returning to the message salon caravan and hosting the first public artist talk in their history. They will be interviewed by the world’s leading Treppstein expert, Joel Spiegelberg, curator and trainee at the Migros Museum.