The Now Interviews at the Architecture Biennale Venice 2010: Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist / Part 1/2
Within the framework of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted live public interviews with every Biennale participant. The six-day live marathon took place in the Arsenale from August 22 through 27. Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed artists and architects such as Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Golden Lion winner Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry.
In a short break after his interview with Wim Wenders, VernissageTV had the chance to meet up with Hans Ulrich Obrist and ask him how his interview series started and evolved and the Now Interviews project in Venice. In the second part of this episode that will be published tomorrow, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks about the main idea of the project in Venice, the exhibition layout and new insights he took from his stay in Venice.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director, Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects with the Serpentine Gallery in London. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1968. Obrist first gained art world attention in 1991, when he mounted an exhibition in the kitchen of his apartment entitled “The Kitchen Show”, featuring work by artists such as Christian Boltanski and Peter Fischli & David Weiss. According to the art publication Art Review, he is the most powerful figure in the art world (Art Review Power 100 list 2009).
The interviews are shown on a series of monitors at the Arsenale. They are on view at the Architecture Biennale in Venice until November 21. The installation has been designed by SANAA. The Now Interviews is the inaugural project organized by the Institute of the 21st Century. Led by Bettina Korek, the institute is dedicated to promoting experimental modes of collaboration and patronage for the arts. Officially launching in January 2011, the Institute’s first objective is to preserve and increase public access to Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ongoing project and archive online.
The Now Interviews at the Architecture Biennale Venice 2010: Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, part 1/2. Venice, Italy, August 27, 2010.
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BorderLINE Architecture / Hungarian Pavilion, Architecture Biennale Venice 2010 / Interview with Curator Andor Wesselény-Garay
The Hungarian contribution to the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice presents an extensive installation composed of video projections, ninety kilometers of rope, twenty thousand pencils and hundreds of drawings.
The concept of the exhibition in the Hungarian pavilion titled “BorderLINE Architecture” has been created by the designers and architects Andor Wesselény-Garay and Marcel Ferencz. It focuses on the line instead of the house as the origin of the architectural idea. On the first of the preview days of the Biennale VernissageTV met with Andor Wesselény-Garay. In this video he talks about the inspiration that led to the concept and the basic idea behind the presentation and why he’s convinced that “people meet in drawing”.
BorderLINE Architecture / Hungarian Pavilion, 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2010. Interview with Curator Andor Wesselény-Garay. August 26, 2010. Photos after the jump.
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Natural Architecture. Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic / Architecture Biennale Venice 2010
“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice / Italy.
Martin Rajniš is one of the authors of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic together with Jana Tichá and Irena Fialová. He is a professor of architecture at Prague’s Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and the Technical University of Liverec. In 1986 he founded D.A. Studio, the first private architect’s office in Czechoslovakia. In 2005 he founded e-MRAK office, which focuses on smaller sustainable projects.
On the first of the preview days of the Biennale, we spoke with one of Martin Rajniš’ students, Ondrej Senfeld, who gave us some insight into the concept of the presentation in the pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic in the Giardini.
Natural Architecture. Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic / Architecture Biennale Venice 2010. Interview with Ondrej Senfeld. 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice / Italy. Preview, August 26, 2010.
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12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia / Preview
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini and the Arsenale. More videos coming soon, photos after the jump.
12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice / Italy. Preview, August 26-28, 2010.
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August 30, 2010 | Entry filed under: La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, VernissageTV, architecture, no comment | 0
Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus, Richard Wilhelmer: Fühlometer (Monumental Interactive Smiley)
Fuehlometer (Feel-o-meter) is an interactive art installation that shows the mood of a city by displaying it in the form of a monumental Smiley. The system allows to read emotions out of random people’s faces. The faces are analyzed by sophisticated software (contributed by the Fraunhofer Institut). The obtained mood data are then stored on a server and processed by the smiley to visualize the emotions in real-time.
The system has been developed as joint project by the artists Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus, and Richard Wilhelmer. They already realized a much respected media installation at the Gasometer in Berlin-Schöneberg in 2008. For their participation in the summer group show Provinz on Lindau-Island, they installed their interactive installation in and at Lindau-Island’s lighthouse. The emotions are captured by a digital camera that is focused on the faces of the people standing in a specific area on the lakeside. A computer analyzes the photos and sends the results (happy, sad or indifferent) to the giant smiley on top of the lighthouse.
Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus, Richard Wilhelmer: Fühlometer / Provinz – Eine Ausstellung im Sommer 2010.
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Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland / Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel
Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland.
Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in Europe. Four of the projects were located in Switzerland, three further Swiss projects were never built.
The exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum presents plans, drawings and other materials from the Richard Neutra estate in Los Angeles and models and photography by the Dutch architecture photographer Iwan Baan that was especially commissioned for this show.
Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland / Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel. Vernissage, August 21, 2010.
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Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things at Vitra Design Museum
When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that are so common that we rarely even think about them, but make live so much easier. Their design is pure function, based on an idea that was both simple and ingenious. The tea bag, the wall plug, the tin can, the Post-it note, the tissue, the zipper…
Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things shows 35 classics, presented in multimedia showcases together with patent specifications, print ads, advertisting films etc. For once, they are put in the spotlight, giving them the attention they deserve.
Vitra Design Museum: Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things. Buckminster Fuller Dome, Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein. Vernissage, August 19, 2010.
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Matthew Barney at Schaulager Basel / Walkthrough
This year’s exhibition at Schaulager in Basel is dedicated to the Drawing Restraint series by Matthew Barney. Drawing Restraint is a series of performances, numbering sixteen thus far, in which Matthew Barney leaves traces in an environment of self-induced physical and psychological restraints.
Schaulager has appointed Neville Wakefield as guest curator for the exhibition. The New York based author and curator has conceived the exhibition in close collaboration with the artist and the Schaulager team. Schaulager is the sole venue for this exhibition. The show is running until the 3rd October 2010.
Matthew Barney: Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail / Schaulager Basel. Exhibition walkthrough, June 11, 2010.
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Provinz / Group Exhibition in Lindau
Provinz is a group exhibition taking place in the province, the Southern German town of Lindau. During three weeks, fourteen artists show their works – large-scale installations, objects, paintings, video, performances, temporary interventions on the island located in the Lake of Constance.
Provinz was organized by a Berlin-based team consisting of Arne Fehmel, Korbinian Kainz, and Felix Rundel. In this video we have a look at the exhibition and meet up with Felix Rundel, who talks about the idea behind the exhibition, and what makes this show so special.
The exhibiting artists are Julien Berthier, Julius von Bismarck, Anna Fiedler, Thilo Frank, Mikko Gaestel, Constantin Hartenstein, Rasso Hilber, Lilli Kuschel, Benjamin Maus, Kokja Mensing, Boris Mrkonjic, Maël Nozahic, Florian Thalhofer, Felice Varini, Raul Walch, and Richard Wilhelmer.
Provinz. Eine Ausstellung im Sommer 2010. July 28, 2010.
The exhibition runs until the 28th August 2010.
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August 18, 2010 | Entry filed under: VernissageTV, art, interview | 0
Robot Dreams at Museum Tinguely, Basel
Robot Dreams is an exhibition that the Museum Tinguely in Basel organized in cooperation with Kunsthaus Graz. The title Robot Dreams is borrowed from a short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov. The show brings together works that explore the broad topic of Robots and its association with various topics.
Among the artworks on display is a replica of Maschinenmensch Maria that director Fritz Lang used in his film Metropolis (1917); Nam June Paik’s Andy Warhol Robot (1994); Stelarc’s Third Hand (1980); Jon Kessler’s Kessler’s Circus (2009), Kirsty Boyle’s Tree Ceremony (2010). Other participating artists are Paul van Hoeydonck, Tom Sachs, R&Sie(n) with Stephan Henrich, Jakob Scheid, Jessica Field, Niki Passath, Yan Duyvendak, Thomas Baumann, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, and Walter Pichler.
The exhibition runs until September 12, 2010. Robot Dreams at Kunsthaus Graz opens October 8, 2010.
Robot Dreams at Museum Tinguely in Basel / Switzerland.
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