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An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

TMprojects in Geneva, Switzerland shows a new body of work by the artist Président Vertut. The show is called Grey Matters, which is a project that started in 2010 on the occasion of the Geneva City Arts Council’s Grants exhibition at Contemporary Art Centre. With this project, Président Vertut’s character enters into politics: “Through a [...]

Impressions of the opening of the “Berliner Kunstsalon”, September 28, 2006. The Berliner Kunstsalon is an independet, off-mainstream art fair, exhibiting over 200 artists during Berlin’s Autumn of the Arts. Princess Hans represents the performing arts at this opening, and the camera spends some time with the photographies of Jan Vanhöfen, Bertram Kober, and Gregor [...]

It’s a tradition at Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe in Ettlingen, Germany, to present each year a class of a German Fine Art Academy. This year, it’s the Master Class of the renowned German painter and principal artist of the New Leipzig School, Neo Rauch. The artists are Stefan Guggisberg, David O’Kane, Sebastian Burger, Carolin Knoth, Robert Seidel, [...]

The WRO Art Center in Wroclaw / Poland presents an exhibition that shows films by the Canadian animator and film director Norman McLaren. Norman McLaren is known for his experiments with image and sound. He developed a number of groundbreaking techniques for combining and synchronizing animation with music. In this video by Ania Eysmont, the [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

In collaboration with Dürig Architects, the Berlin-based landscape architects Topotek 1 designed one of the largest sports facilities in Zürich, Switzerland. The sports facility is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It comprises twelve football fields and a baseball field complemented by three buildings: an ice-rink, a [...]

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

The Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, the [...]

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, the collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz opened the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District. The new space houses the personal collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and serves as an extension of their home. The three-story, [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met designer Sebastian E. He showed us some works he presented at the booth of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York. Sebastian E. works in Santiago, Chile, as designer, artist, teacher, columnist and consultant. Check out Sebastian E.’s website for more information about his work. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June [...]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Broken Rhythm examines the work from her [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about monochrom’s first computer game “Soviet Unterzögersdorf“. The game was featured in BoingBoing and Edge (games magazine) chose the game as their “internet game of the month” of November 2005. Monochrom has been invited to present the game at the festival for art and digital culture, Transmediale 2006, in Berlin (project page). [...]