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The Writer’s Brush is an exhibition based on Donald Friedman’s book “The Writer’s Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers” (release date September 2007). The show, curated by Donald Friedman and John Woronski includes more than 120 unique works of art by 80 of the world’s most celebrated writers. Among them are Charles Bukowski, William [...]

Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris, France. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He was selected by curator João Ribas as one of the seven New York-based artists for the HangART-7 exhibition in Salzburg, Austria, entitled “New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared”. João Ribas is a writer, critic, and curator living in [...]

At ARCO 2008, the 27th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, we met with Vera Cortês, the director of the eponymous gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. At ARCO’08 Vera Cortês presents works by (among others) Alexandre Farto, Catarina Dias, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Sophie Whettnall, Susanne Themlitz and Martinha Maia. In the interview, [...]

At Scope Basel 2007 artist Matt Bakkom (born 1968 in Minneapolis, lives and works in New York) presented “The Intimacy Machine”. The 6 x 4 x 6 foot plywood shack is a self-contained film installation. As we don’t suffer from claustrophobia we entered the box – and enjoyed it. Take a look! Scope Basel 2007, [...]

Interview with Andreas E. Lohaus, co-director of “art.fair – International Fair for Twenty-first Century Art” in Cologne, Germany. In the year 2003 art.fair started as a complementary art fair parallel to, and in cooperation with Art Cologne. The fair has been initiated by Walter M. Gehlen and Andreas E. Lohaus. Interview: Patricia Blasco for Artfacts.Net [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

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 [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

Together with Edward Barber Jay Osgerby founded the design studio “BarberOsgerby” in 1996. Jay Osgerby talks about the Zero-in table which Established & Sons (in its limited edition version of high gloss polished, hand-formed aluminium) presented at Design Miami/ Basel. The Zero-in has won the Red Dot award, the FX design award 2005 and the [...]

At Design Miami 2008, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove presented a chandelier / table ensemble titled “Liquid Space” that he created for Swarovski Crystal Palace. In this conversation with Dr. Albrecht Bangert, Nadja Swarovski talks about the connection between the luxury industry and design, the aesthetics and function of Ross Lovegrove’s “Liquid Space”, the Swarovski Crystal [...]

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 [...]