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The Russian artist group AES+F was one of the artists representing Russia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with the video installation “Last Riot”. As early as 2005, Ruzicska Gallery in Salzburg, Austria, realized a solo show with AES+F. Now, Ruzicska presents the whole cycle of works “Last Riot 2” in the spaces of [...]

Galerija Skuc (Ljubljana / Slovenia), selected by the curator Zdenka Baddovinac for the invitational CITYSCAPES section of ARCO 06 Madrid offers a view of the Slovenian art scene, with two of the major new artists from that country: son:DA and Ziga Kariz. Alenka Gregoric, artistic director, ARCO / Madrid, professional visit, February 8, 2006. Click [...]

Beg Borrow and Steal is the title of the exhibition, which the Rubell Family Collection opened on the occasion of the Art Basel Miami Beach week. The show features 260 works by 74 artists of different generations, among them Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Gober, Jenny Holzer, Jonathan Horowitz, Jeff Koons, Adam [...]

Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art opened in Doha, Qatar on 30 December 2010 as part of the celebrations for Doha as the 2010 City of Arab Culture. Mathaf is located in a converted school building on the edge of Education City. The building has been re-designed by the French architect Jean-François Bodin. The [...]

In the second part of the interview Hans Neuendorf and Thomas Eller talk about price transparency and efficiency of the art market, and the advantages of an online platform such as Artnet for artists, dealers and buyers. Interview: Marek Claassen, Artfacts.Net. The interview was realized in a cooperation between Artfacts.Net and VernissageTV. December 18, 2006. [...]

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 [...]

Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]

The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, the [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

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 [...]

Viennese-born designer Robert Stadler studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy and then at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In Paris, he co-founded the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 he has been working solo while simultaneously continuing his activity with the group. He lives and works in Paris and Rio [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met designer Sebastian E. He showed us some works he presented at the booth of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York. Sebastian E. works in Santiago, Chile, as designer, artist, teacher, columnist and consultant. Check out Sebastian E.’s website for more information about his work. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]