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Freight + Volume is a gallery based in Chelsea, New York, with a focus mainly on text related work. Featured artists at Kunst 05 Zürich are Michael Scoggins with autobiographical sketches, Peter Gallo, Ion Birch, Peter Hutchinson and >Andrew and Elizabeth Neel. Gallery owner / director Nick Lawrence is showing us his booth at the [...]

As part of the Punkte 10 art in public space program of Fumetto Comix Festival Luzern, Dan Perjovschi has been invited to use the Lucerne Theater facade for his popular drawings. In this conversation with Olga Stefan, the Romanian artist talks about why he draws, the ephemerality of art, what he misses in current contemporary [...]

Joshua Stern presents Parker’s Box booth at Kunst Zürich 2005 art fair by a fortunate coincidence. We did not talk about Heidegger, Bruce Nauman, Derrida, Art Basel Miami Beach or Neostructuralism, or anything important. Maybe that’s why this interview itself is a little piece of art, lets say: the art of big small talk. November [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach takes place for the fifth time now. Over 35000 art enthusiasts are expected to visit the international art show. Prices of the art works start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, and soar into the millions for museum-quality masterpieces. “Its prominent list of participants makes [...]

The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein focuses on Thomas Schütte’s lesser-known early works of the late 1970s, a period of time which for Thomas Schütte was a kind of “research phase” during which, as a student in Fritz Schwegler’s class, and later in Gerhard Richter’s painting class, he gradually made his way to sculpture: “As the [...]

VTV is talking with Kenny Schachter about his gallery’s concept and his booth at ARCO 2006. Amongst others he shows works by Zaha Hadid and Vito Acconci. Untitled (2006) by Zaha Hadid is a cell / body that offers / allows multi functional uses, as a table, counter, seat, container and as a surface to [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

Furniture producer Vitra took the opportunity to present itself during the international art show Art 38 Basel. A rich program of events drew art and design lovers to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, approximately 7 km from Art Basel, especially for the opening of the latest exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, “Home [...]

Design Miami celebrated its opening with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The design fair presented international design galleries exhibiting historic and contemporary design. Design Miami also features Design Talks, Design Satellite Exhibitions, art/design installations, and other various collaborations with designers, critics, curators, cultural institutions, gallerists and collectors throughout the Miami Design District. Impressions from the Vernissage. [...]

In Berlin we met the two designers Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa. They talk about some of their works, including “Patch up London”, a “presouvenir”; “tools you bake”, a series of six hand-spun baking bowls developed in collaboration with the metal goods factory Hugo Bräuer in Berlin; “hoch die Tassen”, unique cups made of discarded [...]

Design Miami/ Basel takes place in a new venue, the Markthalle Basel, which is the largest dome in Europe and a local landmark with over 6,000m2 of floor space. The participating gallerists have collaborated with architects, designers and artists to create unique exhibition spaces within the Markthalle. Design Miami/ Basel 2007. > Click image to [...]

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 [...]