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For the 53rd Venice Biennale, the Danish and Nordic Pavilions host “The Collectors“, an exhibition curated and staged by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. With contributions from twenty-four international artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transform the Danish and Nordic Pavilions into domestic environments, and invite the audience to be guests in them. In Elmgreen [...]

Currently, the gallery von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland, presents new works by Swiss artist Beat Zoderer. Beat Zoderer is often classified as a concrete artist, but his work repeatedly plays and undermines the stringency and rationality of concrete art. Zoderer’s media are drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installation. Beat Zoderer was born in Zürich, Switzerland [...]

Following numerous international solo exhibitions (Kunsthalle Basel, MOCA/Los Angeles, ICA/London…) Ernesto Neto (born 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) for the first time presents his work at the Galerie Bob van Orsouw. “A topos of Neto’s work is the ‘nave’, a hanging, walk-in sculpture of thin fabric that is modified according to the spatial or topographical [...]

Interview with the curator Nikola Dietrich. Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main. In Spring 2006, Portikus will move into a new building designed by Christoph Mäckler. The Charity Auction for the Portikus at Fine Art Fair, High & Low on March 17, 2006 will feature works by Richard Artschwager, [...]

German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured. John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

This is the second and final part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation. Click here for part 1 and [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

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 [...]

In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]

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, [...]

Design Miami/ Basel runs concurrently with Art Basel. The first edition of the fair in Basel featured 17 galleries exhibiting modern to contemporary museum-quality design. “Design Miami/ Basel endeavors to do for design what Art Basel has done for contemporary art, bringing together the best collectors, connoisseurs, artists and designers from around the world in [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]

Currently, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents “Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project” by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967). Olafur Eliasson was commissioned by the car company BMW to design the 16th BMW Art Car. What sets Eliasson’s “car” apart from previous Art Cars is that it is not recognizable as a car [...]