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In their collective exhibition „Tut tut tut.“ the Swiss artists and sisters Claudia and Julia Müller present large-scale mural paintings, drawings and sculptures. The mural paintings, especially produced for the Bonner Kunstverein even includes figures of the rhenish carnival. For VernissageTV Christina Végh, the Director of the Bonner Kunstverein guides through the exhibition and describes [...]

“Death Of The Performance” was Eva & Adele’s premiere exhibition in a gallery in the United States. At Claire Oliver the famous duo presented new paintings, sculpture and mixed media works of art. Eva & Adele have become celebrities as “living art”. They appear at museum openings and major art expositions in an identical look. [...]

White Trash Contemporary (WTC) was founded in New York in 2004 with the goal to organize a transatlantic artist network. In its current show WTC presents paintings by Julien Rouvroy. VTV met gallery owner Nils Grossien in Hamburg. Upcoming exhibition is Oliver Ross: “Emergentia Multiplex” (paintings and installations), May 13 – June 23, 2006. Opening [...]

The sites for this year’s FIAC are quite prestigious ones: The Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre museum. For the FIAC this move marks a major stage in FIAC’s evolution, together with stronger selectivity, special projects and improved services. Part one of Vernissage TV’s video presents shots of the setting up of [...]

Chung King Project, Los Angeles, presents the work of “Hagel”, the result of the collaboration between two Leipzig artists Paule Hammer (born 1975) and Sebastian Gögel (born in 1978). For their US debut at Chung King Project Hammer and Gögel present a large sculpture and collaborative paintings. “In contrast to the painters of the Leipzig [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

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 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

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 [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]