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For the season opening, Marc de Puechredon Gallery presents a group show with works by Davide Balliano, Margret H. Blöndal, Simona Brinkmann, Gordon Cheung, Rachel Goodyear, Monica Ursina Jäger, Vinca Petersen, Andreas Hagenbach and Will Ryman. The exhibition entitled “The Aesthetics of Anxiety” is “curated around the ideas of the Uncanny. Work which taps into [...]

For the Art Parade, artists, performers and designers are invited to create floats, balloons, placards, portable sculptures, performances and street spectacles. On September 8th, 2007 the Art Parade took place for the third time on West Broadway, between Houston and Grand Street. This year’s Art Parade included over 75 projects, including those by Tauba Auerbach, [...]

On the occasion of the upcoming Art Cologne 2010, 44th Internationaler Kunstmarkt, VernissageTV met with Daniel Hug in the Caféteria of Kunsthaus Zürich. In the first part of the interview that we published yesterday, Daniel Hug talked about his background, how he became director of Art Cologne, and the challenges he was facing. In the [...]

Silvia Bächli from Basel and Fabrice Gygi from Geneva represent Switzerland at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Silvia Bächli shows drawings in the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini, Fabrice Gygi presents an installation in the Church of San Stae. In this video, we have a look at Silvia Bächli’s works in [...]

The Singapore Show: Future Proof at Singapore Art Museum at 8Q presents artworks from young artists that represent the art scene in Singapore. On display are works by the artists Sookoon Ang, Angela Chong, Genevieve Chua, Chun Kaifeng, Clog 2, Gerald Leow, Charles Lim, Lynn Lu, Mojoko + Eric Foenander, Dawn Ng, Francis Ng, Donna [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

This is the second and final 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. Click here for part 1 and [...]

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 [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

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 [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

Hørbar/Audiobar is an interactive sound installation by media artist Mogens Jacobsen (born 1959 in Rome, lives and works in Copenhagen). It was developed at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The user interacts with the sounds by placing bottles on a table. In this video, Mogens Jacobsen gives us a demonstration of how [...]

Alexander Taylor is one of the UK’s leading young designers. In 2005 he won the Elle Deco design award for the series of Fold Lamps produced by Established & Sons. After studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University Alexander Taylor started his career working with architects Procter-Rihl before establishing his own design studio [...]

On the occasion of the current exhibition “Jean Prouvè. The poetics of the technical object” the director of the Vitra Design Museum, Alexander von Vegesack, talks about the future projects the Vitra Design Museum is working on. There are plans for exhibitions about “minimal spaces for living and moving”, the Campana brothers, Le Corbusier, and [...]