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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s teahouse (Teehaus, 2009) is currently on show at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin. It consists of 378 cubes and 54 prisms of pressed Pu’er-Tea, surrounded by a field of scattered tea. Unfortunately it’s not possible to reproduce the scent of this work via video. So if you really want to [...]

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One & Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. The 30 year old medical photographer from Darlington is one of 2,400 people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures and from all over [...]

In honor of its tenth edition, The Armory Show has commissioned artists Mary Heilmann and John Waters to collaborate on the visual identity of the 10th edition of the Armory Show. At the press conference they talk about the early days of The Armory Show as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair and the fair’s [...]

Hauser & Wirth Zurich present a solo exhibition by the American artist Mary Heilmann. On display are a selection of works on paper and prints dating from the years 1980-2006. Mary Heilmann (born 1940) lives and works in New York. “She is considered one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation. Born and [...]

Serbia’s first independent presentation at the 52nd Venice Biennale, is housed in Pavilion Yugoslavia in the Giardini. It’s a project by sculptor Mrdjan Bajic (born 1957, lives and works in Paris) and commissioned by painter Vladimir Velickovic. “Project Reset” consists of the three parts “Yugomuseum”, “Backup” and “Reset”. 52nd Venice Biennale 2007, Venice / Italy, [...]

Topotek 1 are not the typical landscape architects. Topotek 1′s mission is to expand the possibilities of landscape architecture. On the occasion of the inauguration of their latest projects and their work on the competition for the redesign of the Flughafen Tempelhof site, VernissageTV met with the Topotek 1 principals Martin Rein-Cano and Lorenz Dexler. [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

The High Line in New York City is a rather new place for New Yorkers to relax and enjoy the city. The pedestrian walkway and park was created by the non-profit Friends of the High Line along a former elevated rail spur in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first section of the part, from [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

At Design Miami 2008, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove presented a chandelier / table ensemble titled “Liquid Space” that he created for Swarovski Crystal Palace. In this conversation with Dr. Albrecht Bangert, Nadja Swarovski talks about the connection between the luxury industry and design, the aesthetics and function of Ross Lovegrove’s “Liquid Space”, the Swarovski Crystal [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. “The most important original furniture pieces by Jean Prouvé will be exhibited together with several original architectural elements (among them a reconstructed “Maison de Sinistrés”) as well as numerous architectural models, photographs and original sketches on [...]

Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]

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 [...]