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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 [...]

El color – instrucciones de uso opened at Galeria Vasari in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 11, 2012. The exhibition aims at renewing the perception of color and the ways it is used in abstract painting. Displayed are the works of Fabian Burgos, Juan José Cambre, Veréonica Di Toro, Karina Peisajovich, Emmanuel van der Meulen, [...]

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla represent the United States of America at the Venice Biennale 2011. Their exhibition titled “Gloria” features a military tank turned upside down with a treadmill on top, an organ with fully functioning ATM machine, and business class airline seats. The works on display are “Algorithm”, “Armed Freedom Lying on a [...]

Martin Behr presents (in German) Austrian art group G.R.A.M. (Günther Holler-Schuster, Martin Behr) at the booth of Lisi Hämmerle Gallery. G.R.A.M. works strategically using consciously selected extracts from the flood of media images and plays a subversive game with our perception of such concepts as fame, heroism, bathos, triumph, tragedy, ridiculousness. ARCO / Madrid, professional [...]

Tomás Espina has a quite special “painting” technique: He uses gunpowder to create his works. Last week, the gallery Ignacio Liprandi from Buenos Aires was showcasing his work as solo presentation in the New Contemporaries section of Art Cologne 45. Internationaler Kunstmarkt. In this video, galerist Ignacio Liprandi talks about the gallery he founded in [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

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 [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

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 [...]

In celebration of Ferrari’s latest sports car, the car manufacturer commissioned video artist Marco Brambillo to create a Formula 1-inspired 3D video loop. The work was showcased on the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach at the Ferrari party at Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron’s unique 1111 Lincoln Road parking structure in Miami Beach. [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

With Home Stories (MyHome – Seven experiments for contemporary living), leading designers and architects of the younger generation turn the Vitra Design Museum into a visionary living space intended to be used by visitors. Experimental installations and political design statements by Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Greg Lynn, [...]

At the Designers’ Saturday more than forty companies, including highly regarded institutions and designers from the world of international interior decor, exhibited at six attractive locations in Langenthal / Switzerland. The setting of the exhibitions – sandwiched in between manufacturing plant – is a unique feature, making Designers’ Saturday a very special experience. Langenthal, November [...]

The Danner-Rotunda at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents contemporary works from over hundred international goldsmiths. The exhibition is to a large extend drawn from the international collection of the Danner Foundation (Danner-Stiftung). The collection reflects the broad creative spectrum of modern jewelry arts, starting with the avant-garde artists of the 60′s [...]

Falling Light is an immersive installation by the London art and design studio Troika. It consists of 50 ceiling-mounted illumination devices that immerse the visitor in a virtual shower of light “drops”. This is achieved by projections of light through an optically pure, custom-cut Swarovski crystal lens. VernissageTV’s Sabine Trieloff met with two of the [...]