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Scope Miami, December 6-10, 2006. Even more celebrities (John Baldessari, David Byrne, Chuck Close, Bob Colacello, Victoria Duffy, Eva & Adele, Nicky Hilton, Dennis Hopper, Wyclef Jean, Sam Keller ;–), Beyonce Knowles, Lenny Kravitz, David Lauren, Steve Martin, Marc Newson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Peaches, Ric Pipino, Keanu Reeves, Craig Robins, James Rosenquist, Toni [...]

The Performance Project is an essential part of the “Specials” of Liste – The Young Art Fair in Basel. Curated by Silke Bitzer, the Performance Project presents alternating performances daily. This year there were performances by Nezaket Ekici, Ryan McNamara, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Saskia Edens, Dawn Kasper, californium248, and Aideen Barry. VernissageTV taped Aideen Barry’s [...]

At the Show Off in Paris we had a look at the booth of the gallery Herrmann and Wagner. The director of the gallery, Cai Wagner, talks about the artists the gallery presents at Show Off art fair, especially the artists Miklos Gaál and Raïssa Venables. The Herrmann & Wagner Gallery is based Berlin and [...]

Over 150 galleries from all over the world are participating in the third edition of ART HK 10, the Hong Kong International Art Fair. ART HK see’s itself as the leading showcase for international Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia. This video brings you a tour of the fair on the Preview day with works [...]

Ten artists and artist groups present playful installations and drawings, miraculous dadaistic boxes and satirical light-sculptures at White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg / Germany. Participating: New York artist Jeff Lutonsky, artist group MFSW from Berlin, Lilli Kuschel and Anna Fiedler (Berlin), Peter Lynen (Hamburg), Prinz (Berlin), Oliver Ross (Hamburg), Ben Hübsch (Freiburg), Tim Kubach (Hamburg) and [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

Canadian fashion designer Ying Gao (born in China in 1973) playfully explores the aesthetic potential at the interface of fashion, art and technology. The current solo show at plug.in in Basel presents five projects that exemplary stand for Ying Gao’s approach: Indice de l’indifférence, (uni)forms, Walking City, Living Pod, Swiss quality 1. Sometimes Ying Gao [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]

The Danner-Rotunda at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents contemporary works from over hundred international goldsmiths. The exhibition is to a large extend drawn from the international collection of the Danner Foundation (Danner-Stiftung). The collection reflects the broad creative spectrum of modern jewelry arts, starting with the avant-garde artists of the 60′s [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

Mark Holmes is the design director at Established & Sons and designs for both Established & Sons and other acclaimed international manufacturers. After studying painting he began a career as an independent artist. In 1997 he opened his first London showroom, in 2003 he founded “The Lane” (together with Sebastian Wrong, who is also operations [...]