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Currently, Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst in Munich present the artist collaborative Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. While the Kunstverein presents Allora & Calzadilla’s the three installations “Wake up”, “Clamor” and “Sediments Sentiments (Figures of Speech), Haus der Kunst shows the artists’ new work “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a [...]

September is a new gallery that opened up this September in Charlottenstrasse 1 in Berlin, near former Checkpoint Charly. The gallery is run by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf und Frank Müller. The gallery started its exhibition program with a solo show with new works by Berlin-based artist Kerstin Drechsel. The exhibition entitled “Mittelerde (Middle Earth)” [...]

In the second part of our Armory Show coverage we finish our walkthrough. Among others we visit the booth of gallery Hauser & Wirth and have a look at Assume Vivid Astro Focus’s site-specific installation on a wall over 100 feet long outside the VIP lounge, courtesy of Deitch Projects. March 26, 2008.The Armory Show [...]

T-B A21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) is a new foundation for contemporary art. T-B A21 was founded by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Austria, in 2002. “Its mission is to support through co-productions and unique commissions the creation of new works from artists that contribute important positions to the contemporary art practice” (PR T-B A21). In [...]

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 [...]

ArchitectureTalks Lucerne is a two-day international symposium offering a stage on which world-renowned protagonists from the worlds of architecture, art, culture, philosophy, business and politics will address architectural and urban issues in an interdisciplinary manner. This year’s theme was “Shopping Miles and More”. Initiator and Director of the Talks is Frank Joss. Short documentation of [...]

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 [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click [...]

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is considered as one of the most innovative interior architects and furniture designers of the 20th century. She developed designs for tubular steel furniture, particularly in cooperation with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Beginning in the early 1930s, she discovered photography as a medium that provided important impulses for her work as [...]

Interview with Tony Joyce, global head of Marketing & Communications, HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited. Tony Joyce talks about the reasons behind sponsoring Design Miami/ and the criteria the bank applies when it comes to decide which event or project to sponsor, and his personal involvement in the world of design. Design Miami/ Basel, HBSC [...]

Industrial designer Yves Béhar is know for his engagement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. For OLPC he designed the XO laptop. In the second part of the interview with Yves Béhar at Baselworld 2010, he gives us an update on the OLPC project and talks about his work, the future of design [...]

This exhibition features the winners of the design competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), one of the most important contemporary design promotion instruments. The exhibition provides an insight into current Swiss design work in the fields of graphics, textile and fashion design, photography, and industrial and stage design. Design is not [...]

In the second part of the interview with the Campana brothers, Humberto and Fernando Campana, talk about their backgrounds, how they work together, why they admire Oscar Niemeyer, what they would love to design that they haven’t yet, and future projects. This video also features images of the installation they created for Design Miami 2008, [...]