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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, [...]

In collaboration with a number of Berlin galleries Arndt & Partner Zurich presents the exhibition Berlin – Zurich, featuring seven upcoming artists: Björn Dahlem, Jeroen Jacobs, Katharina Jahnke, Michael Kalki, Marcus Knupp, Anselm Reyle, and Regine Müller-Waldeck. In gallery 2 Arndt & Partner presents Tjorg Douglas Beer. For his exhibition at Arndt & Partner Zürich, [...]

Interview with artist and owner / director of Pierogi, Joe Amrhein, at the occasion of the opening of the galley’s new space in Leipzig, Germany. The opening of a branch in the Spinnerei in Leipzig, where galleries as Eigen + Art, Dogenhaus and others already have their spaces “may be the boldest coup yet for [...]

In a tribute to the hippie commune scene in Easy Rider; artists Jen DeNike, Rachel Mason, and Mark Golamco make a performance about performance art while performing… with special guests M.R Sontag, Madame Brioche, Rush. Scope Art Fair New York, February 23, 2007. Host: Althea Viafora-Kress. Camera: James Painter Belvin. February 23, 2007. Grizzly Lodge [...]

“Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves” at the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art aims at offering a comprehensive picture of contemporary Asian art production. The exhitibion shows 117 artists representing 20 Asian countries from the Middle East to Far East, from Southeast Asia to Near East and Central Asia. The show’s title refers to a [...]

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 [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

The Wolfsonian is a remarkable design museum in the heart of the Art Deco District, Miami Beach. The Wolfsonian collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885 – 1945, which are presented in the Wolfsonian’s permanent exhibition “Art and Design in the Modern Age”. Current exhibitions are Fashioning the Modern [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]

Gabrielle Ammann, director of Designer’s Gallery, talks about her program at Design Miami Basel, especially about the “Event Horizon” table by Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid’s “Iceberg” sculpture, and the importance of Design Miami for design galleries. Interior architect Gabrielle Ammann established Designer’s Gallery in Cologne, Germany in 2006. The gallery concept was born out [...]

From February 19th to May 16th 2010, La Maison Rouge in Paris, France presents Vinyl, an exhibition of records and covers compiled by the British collector, publisher and curator Guy Schraenen. For more than 30 years, Guy Schraenen’s fascination with artists’ multiples (objects, catalogues, books, magazines) has led him to amass a unique and highly [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]