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At Scope London 2006 we met the artist Paul Sakoilsky. Paul Sakoilsky was born in 1964. He works in numerous forms and media. His work is rooted in performance and actionism. One of the most well known performances / installations, which he has developed and performed since 1995 is based on a text by Konrad [...]

Hypothetical Exhibition: Curator, Chen Tamir with Host, Althea Viafora Kress. Chen Tamir is a budding young curator and art critic studying at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She is based in Toronto, Tel-Aviv, and New York. During Scope 2007 she curates a hypothetical exhibition from the works displayed bringing together six artworks by [...]

James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The main part of the show is devoted to large mixed-media works from a new series entitled “In the Blestian Room”. The gallery also presents a new set of prints, called “The Ossified Theosophied”. Hancock has shown in numerous exhibitions nationally [...]

Galerie Hubert Bächler presents the following artists at Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair: Luc Aubort, Clive A. Brandon, Ueli Etter, Laurent Goei, Andrea Heller, Irène Hug, François Kohler, Käthe Kruse, Blair Thurman, and Gregor Wyder. Hubert Bächler talks about the gallery’s program and the work of two of his artists: Gregor Wyder and [...]

The St. Moritz Art Masters‘ “Walk of Art” was inaugurated with a cocktail reception at Galerie Gmurzynska St. Moritz. Currently, the gallery shows the exhibition “Modern & Contemporary Masters”. On display are works by, among others, Robert Indiana, Fernando Botero, Yves Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and Henri Matisse. Galerie Gmurzynska is known as a leading gallery [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

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 [...]

This is the first 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 (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

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 [...]

If you want to see how contemporary designers experiment with glass, attending the GlassLab performances of the Corning Museum of Glass is a perfect idea. During this year’s Art Basel, the museum brought its mobile glass laboratory to the Vitra Campus. VernissageTV watched designer David Wiseman and the Corning Museum glassmakers working side-by-side on new [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

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 [...]

For Dornbracht Edges, designer Mike Meiré is showing the installation “The Farm Project”. With “The Farm Project” Mike Meiré transforms the kitchen into a barn-like, “real-life” stage, charged with aromas, animals, plants and objects – and with an outer cover made of a patchwork of materials. VernissageTV met Mike Meiré in Cologne where “The Farm [...]