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Friedrich Loock (owner / director of Galerie Wohnmaschine) talks about Alec Soth’s series Niagara, Soth’s second solo exhibition at Wohnmaschine and his most recent body of work, following his series Sleeping by the Mississippi. Alec Soth’s photography is firmly rooted in the tradition of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. Wohnmaschine, Berlin, April 28, [...]

Bidoun Projects has invited Sohrab Mohebbi and Özge Ersoy, independent curators based in New York, to curate a video screening for Art Dubai 2010. The screening is part of a survey of video representations of contemporary art in forms of documentations, mediation, educational, and promotional material to investigate the possibilities of the new media outlets. [...]

Laxart presents the solo debut of New York-based Lisa Tan and the Los Angeles premiere of Niagara, a video by Mark Bradford. The exhibition runs November 11 – December 31, 2006. Impressions from the opening reception and short statements by the artists. Laxart, Los Angeles, November 11, 2006. By VTV correspondents Slim K and Gerold [...]

The exhibition Zonas de Riesgo (Risk Areas) at the CaixaForum in Madrid focuses on artistic responses to our present social, economic, political and cultural situation. Drawn from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Fundación “la Caixa” it features about thirty pieces by Carlos Amorales, Miguel Ángel Rios, Damian Ortega, Steve McQueen, Txomin Badiola, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, [...]

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer (“Four Corners: Truisms, Living” and “Torso”), Brigitte Kowanz (“Ad infinitum”, “Brightness”, “Remoteness” and “Vision”), François Morellet (“4 à 4 no. 3″ and “Lunatique neonly – 16 quarts de cercle No. 6″), Maurizio Nannucci (“Listen to [...]

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 [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

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 [...]

In the second part of the interview Rick Poynor talks about the relation between independent and political design and the difference between Swiss graphic design and British graphic design. “Communicate – Independent British graphic design since 1960” features 600 exhibits from album covers for New Order and Primal Scream, identities for BBC 2 and Big [...]

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 [...]

VernissageTV met Prof. Luigi Colani at his studio workshop in Karlsruhe / Germany. While working on a bicycle design that will be unveiled at the Road World Championships later this year he talks about his current products and projects, the state of design today – and looks back on his almost 60 years long career. [...]

Max Lamb is one of the four designers / design collectives who won the “Designers of the Future Award 2008“. Each of the designers were commissioned by the the design fair Design Miami Basel to create new works using concrete and wool. Max Lamb developed “Solids of Revolution”, two collections of stools in concrete and [...]