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The centerpiece of Austrian artist Thomas Feuerstein’s exhibition “Planet Paradies” at the gallery 401contemporary in Berlin is the installation Manna-Maschine III. A glass bioreactor is connected with tubes that run across the gallery space. In the machine, certain types of green algae are growing. The installation enables plankton to photosynthesise. From the Manna-Machine, other works [...]

In addition to recreation, the High Line Park in New York City offers its visitors an ambitious public art program. The latest public art project is called “Space Available“, conceived by the artist Kim Beck. Kim Beck created three sculptures resembling the skeletal framework behind advertisting billboards. In this video interview, Kim Beck talks about [...]

ARCO Director Lourdes Fernández in conversation with Stefan Kobel at ARCO 2010. This is an excerpt of the interview. The full-length version (16:06 Min.) is available after the jump. A transcript of the interview in German language is available on Artnet Magazine. ARCOmadrid_2010, 29th International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid / Spain. Professional Day, February 17, [...]

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”. [...]

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, the museum is showing the artist’s famous sculpture Maman. This video documents the installation of Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider sculpture in the garden of Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland). The video shows how the legs of the spider are assembled, and how the [...]

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 [...]

Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]

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 + [...]

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 [...]

The Hungarian contribution to the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice presents an extensive installation composed of video projections, ninety kilometers of rope, twenty thousand pencils and hundreds of drawings. The concept of the exhibition in the Hungarian pavilion titled “BorderLINE Architecture” has been created by the designers and architects Andor Wesselény-Garay and Marcel Ferencz. [...]

This year’s Design Miami/ Basel moves even closer to the art fair Art Basel. The design fair takes place in Hall 5 of Messe Basel, with a direct passage to Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector. The marketplace for limited-edition design features design galleries such as Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Droog, New York; Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London; [...]

Cover Illustrations over Five Decades. Presentation by Littmann Kulturprojekte. Opening reception at the former Museum für Gestaltung Basel. September 29, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

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 [...]

Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel talks about the success of the new design fair, the popularity of historic and contemporary design and why the fair choose Basel as second location for the fair. Interview with Ambra Medda, Design Miami/ Basel, June 12, 2006. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download [...]

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 [...]