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From 1998 to 2005 the Förderkoje was a small exhibition space (not much space, really: 6.69 cbm) in a private flat in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2006, the Förderkoje changed the concept and will temporarily be moving into the private homes of individual hosts. The type of presentation will be worked out, organised and [...]

Running concurrently with the St. Moritz Art Masters (SAM), Galerie Bauer (one of the youngest St. Moritz galleries) opened an exhibition with works by Tanja Kumpermond and Nana Dix, entitled “Interfacial Tensions“. On the occasion of our trip to St. Moritz for SAM, we had a look at the gallery and the artist’s works. Interfacial [...]

On September 21st, Palma celebrated the 10th edition of its “Nit de l’Art” (Art Night), a special event in which all the art galleries, cultural centers and museums of the capital city of the island of Mallorca open their exhibitions on the same evening. Around 27 openings can be attended on this day in the [...]

On Saturday, June 2, 2007, Marc de Puechredon Gallery opened its new premises at Erlenstrasse 15 in Basel (that’s where Scope Basel will take place, too). On display are works by ten artists of the gallery (Laurent Ajina, Anthony Auerbach, Andreas Hagenbach, Marlene Haring, Iris Nemecek, Leta Peer, Will Ryman, Uwe Walther, Margret Weber-Unger, Daniel [...]

There’s plenty to discover in the Berlin art scene and the most interesting things are not always the fancy presentations of the creations of the big names. In a little side street off from the gallery district in Berlin Mitte, H. N. Semjon presents the 1919 Berlin Collection Dr. Carl Theodor Gottlob Grouwet. It’s the [...]

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

Mike Meiré is the creative mind behind many diverse projects. He is designer as well as art director, artist, editor, and curator and defines himself more as a professional dreamer. In 2006 he won the Visual Leader of the Year Award for the art direction of the publications Brand Eins, Kid’s Wear, McK Wissen, Mini [...]

In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]

On the occasion of the presentation of Seiko’s Issey Miyake watch series VUE at Baselworld 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, VernissageTV met with the designer of the watch, Yves Béhar. In the first part of the interview, Yves Béhar talks about the new Issey Miyake watch series called VUE: the basic idea, the materials, and shows [...]

German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured. John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert [...]

FriendsWithYou is an art collective founded by the Miami-based artists, Rev. Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III. At the occasion of the opening of their new Flagship Store and Studio in the Miami Design District, VernissageTV had a look at their new shop and studio. FriendsWithYou was founded in 2002. Since then, FriendsWithYou [...]