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Currently, Seiler + Moseri-Marlio Galerie in Zurich, Switzerland, presents the first solo-show of Los Angeles based artist Sarah Cain. The exhibition, titled “Double Future“, is her first solo show in Europe. In this conversation with Olga Stefan, Sarah Cain talks about her background and the works she presents at the exhibition. Sarah Cain participated in [...]

In September 2007, art group Artists Anonymous opened their gallery in Berlin. Our correspondent Lizza May David attended the inaugural opening. “The Gunslinger” is the second-to-last installment in Artists Anonymous’ on-going series entitled “The Apocalyptic Warriors”. The Gunslinger (aka Death) is one of six super villains who play the protagonists in a complex fictional story. [...]

Several days before the opening of the upcoming exhibition “YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer” Vernissage TV visited the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst- und Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition YOU_ser. Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten invites the visitor to become an integral part of the art works. The ZKM [...]

Crisis? What crisis? At the 41st Art Basel, the international art fair for Modern and contemporary works, one gets the impression, that the art market is booming again (evil tongues say that this is also shown by the fact, that many dealers are putting up tasteless works again). The Vernissages of Art Unlimited on Monday [...]

Galerie Mark Müller participates in the Zurich Galleries’ Season Opening with an exhibition of new works by Swiss artist Sabina Baumann. The show with the title “Death of the Cool” presents drawings, a mural, and seven sculptures. In the guestroom, the gallery shows works by Edit Oderbolz, the exhibition is entitled: “I know you know”. [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the [...]

Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]

On the second stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited La Fabrica. La Fabrica Galeria is located near the famous Museo del Prado, the newly opened CaixaForum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – in the heart of Madrid’s “triangle of art”. The gallery focuses on international contemporary art, with [...]

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 [...]

At Design Miami Basel 2009 Natalie Kovacs curated a show for Carpenters Workshop Gallery entitled Never-Ever Land. Located at the Design Miami entrance, Never-Ever land presented an alternative functional sculpture garden, “exploring the possibility for design to entertain, enliven and enlighten”. Among the pieces on display were the Sensory Deprivation Skull by Atelier van Lieshout, [...]

This exhibition features the winners of the design competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), one of the most important contemporary design promotion instruments. The exhibition provides an insight into current Swiss design work in the fields of graphics, textile and fashion design, photography, and industrial and stage design. Design is not [...]