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Between May 9th-12th 2007, the Korea International Art Fair held its sixth annual edition at the COEX Exhibition Halls in Seoul. A project of the Galleries Association of Korea, the fair has gathered this year 209 galleries from 18 countries, doubling its exhibition space from previous editions. After Korea, Germany was the second country in [...]

On our tour through Madrid and its region we visited Matadero Madrid, a former municipal slaughter house, that currently is being transformed into a cultural center dedicated to contemporary creation. The venue includes facilities for artists, filmmakers, designers, theatre production, exhibits, new technology etc. Matadero Madrid was presented to press and public on March 13, [...]

Art Unlimited is the most spectacular section of the world’s most important art fair, Art Basel. The 2010 edition of Art Unlimited at Art 41 Basel presents large scale installations, sculptures and videos by artists such as Doug Aitken, Dan Flavin, Agnes Varda, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ugo Rondinone, Yona Friedman and many others. Art 41 Basel [...]

Interview with Dana Charkasi, owner and director of the young gallery Plattform – Raum für Kunst in Vienna Austria at Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair. Charkasi talks about the gallery and its program and a mixed-media project by Susanne Schuda. Artists represented by the gallery are Ubermorgen.com [lizvlx / Hans Bernhard], Sara Glaxia, [...]

The current exhibition at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland is dedicated to the work of the American artist Andrea Zittel and the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska (to view Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition click here). Both artists have in common that they respond to their different surroundings in terms of architecture, living space, daily routine, and traditions. This [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

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 [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

Norbert Wild, curator of the Design Collection, Museum fuer Gestaltung Zuerich: “As a catering concept the take away is based on speed, order and efficiency. Now a widespread form of eating with a constantly expanding culinary range – a far remove from its earlier hamburger dominated definition – the take away also makes considerable demands [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met Christian Labonte of Audi Design. Christian Labonte has been responsible for the design strategy of carmaker Audi since 2004. Christian Labonte trained as a cabinet-maker before studying architecture in Düsseldorf and industrial design in Essen. He has received many international design awards for the products of the Audi [...]

Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]