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In the context of the art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012, the Gao Brothers aufrufen people to participate in their “World Hug Day“. The idea behind this performance is to gather a big group of strangers together to hug each other. The “WHD” public performances by the Gao Brothers started in China in 2000, in [...]

With Anthony McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart presents the largest exhibition of McCall’s work to date. The museum presents a selection of Anthony McCall’s works from the past ten years. The historic central hall of the former railway station has been transformed into [...]

Filiale is a cooperation between Galerie Conrads (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Galerie Römerapotheke (Zürich, Switzerland). Both galleries will each show exhibitions with their respective artists, but there will also be curated shows and group shows. Furthermore, fas (Fotografie am Schiffsbauerdamm), the Berlin School of Photography, will be given time and space to present one or two [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

Art Positions is a special sector of Art Basel Miami Beach outside the Convention Center. Art Positions is a beachfront village of shipping containers converted into art spaces. According to the fair a record number of 140 galleries applied for a container, out of which the selection committee has chosen 20 young galleries “to showcase [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) is a Chicago-based artist who appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language. As media, he mainly uses sculpture, painting and installation. For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Dzine created a new custom lowrider tricycle [...]

In part 2 of our walk through the Colani retrospective at the Design Museum London, curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert explains the concept behind the exhibition. Luigi Colani: Translating Nature is divided into three parts: water, air and land. When the visitor enters the exhibition space, he immerses into a water world which invites him to [...]

Yes, this is not the typical VernissageTV style video. But with this nasty weather here in Switzerland, we enjoyed producing something that reminded us of our sunny days in Miami Beach. So in this video, there’s sun, palm trees, water, and a beautiful speedboat. The speedboat is a Riva, the Aquariva by designer Marc Newson [...]

As part of The Wolfsonian Museum’s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum’s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design [...]

Last weekend (July 13/14, 2007) the students of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University displayed their work in one of the two graduation shows (Werkschau) the college holds per year. In this video we take a look at the work of the Transportation Design students, especially what they created under the title [...]