VernissageTV art tv

Restart for the Art Cologne: The fair not only has a new director, the former gallerist Daniel Hug, but has relocated to a new venue, Hall 1 at the Cologne Trade Fair Center. The hall is more popular, because it’s closer to the entrance and the fair is more compact. The fair has been consolidated [...]

In the second part of the interview with Fernando Botero on the occasion of his solo show at Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernando Botero talks about why he paints faces like objects, the importance of volume in his work, and his love for still lives. Interview with Fernando Botero at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich. Part 2/2. Zürich, Switzerland, [...]

AKASO is a collection of contemporary Mexican art. It brings together 26 monumental paintings and 21 videos and is complemented by a documentary film about the creative process of the artists and the project, and a TV series. The exhibition runs until 10 August at the Museo Universitario Chopo. AKASO is an initiative of the [...]

In the context of the art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012, the Gao Brothers aufrufen people to participate in their “World Hug Day“. The idea behind this performance is to gather a big group of strangers together to hug each other. The “WHD” public performances by the Gao Brothers started in China in 2000, in [...]

Galerie Gillian Morris is a young gallery located at Brunnenstrasse in Berlin, Germany. The gallery started its Fall season with a solo exhibition of the Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi (born 1966), who uses wool threads and UV-light for her spatial- and light installations. In the main room of the gallery she presents the new installation [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

Design Miami Basel left the Markthalle and is now located at the back of Art Basel. In addition to the 27 participating international design galleries, Design Miami Basel 2009 features the Designers of the Future Award Installation, a special exhibition by Marc Newson featuring several of the designers exclusive works including rare prototypes and private [...]

Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]

Part 2 of the interview with Laurence Desarzens. This year’s festival featured a short film program, Feature Films about football and graffiti resp., an overview of motion graphics and broadcast design, retrospectives on Traktor, music videos and much more. For more information visit: Resfest Switzerland, Resfest International, Res Mag. November 27, 2005. Part 2/2 of [...]

Impressions from the press preview and the vernissage of the design fair Design Miami/ Basel. Coming soon: Interviews with designers Julia Lohmann, Max Lamb and the partnership of Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram. Design Miami/ Basel 2008, June 2, 2008. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link [...]

At Design Miami 2009, Dutch designer Maarten Baas has been awarded the Designer of the Year price. On the occasion of this award, Maarten Baas presented a retrospective of his work, including pieces of his famous Smoke and Clay furniture series. Also on display: Maarten Baas’ Real Time Project, a series of videos depicting a [...]