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In the second part of our coverage of Manifesta 7′s exhibition at Ex Alumix in Bolzano/Bozen,”The Rest of Now”, we have a look at works by Teresa Margolles, Alexander Vaindorf, Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), Emre Hüner, Jörgen Svensson, Teufelsgroup, David Adjaye, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Graham Harwood, Richard Wright & Matsuko Yokokoji, [...]

Art Basel’s Art Unlimited exhibition is the art fair’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we had a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, Ayse Erkmen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fabrice Gygi, Surdashan Shetty, Farhad Moshiri, Jesús Fafael Soto, [...]

In this conversation with Dr. Bettina Krogemann, Johannes Schilling (Director, Galerie Boisserée) talks about the artist Patrick Hughes and his work (in German language). The British artist Patrick Hughes is known for his investigations of perception and illusion and his three-dimensional “reverspective” paintings, where the parts of the picture that seem farthest away are actually [...]

LAXART presents the Los Angeles debut of Tijuana-based collective Torolab and New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt. Founded in 1995 by Raul Cárdenas Osuna in Tijuana, Mexico, TOROLAB is an interdisciplinary collective engaged in a series of experiments responding to the urban conditions of Tijuana. Their project SOS: Emergency Architecture addresses questions of survival, emergency and [...]

Gilbert & George: London Pictures is the first gallery exhibition of the British artist duo Gilbert & George in New York since 2004. London Pictures is presented by the galleries Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend at both Lehmann Maupin locations in Chelsea and Chrystie Street, and at Sonnabend Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition is on view [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

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 [...]

Gigon / Guyer Architects are the winners of the Daylight-Award, which the Velux-Stiftung awarded for the third time after 2007 and 2010. The Daylight-Award is a prize that honors architecture projects, that systematically use daylight in order to increase quality of life and energy efficiency. The architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer received the award [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]

Luigi Colani: Translating Nature at the Design Museum London brings together Luigi Colani’s extraordinary large scale protoype designs including trucks, aircraft and cars. It is the first retrospective of Colani’s work in the UK, and the first exhibition to be commissioned under Deyan Sudjic’s directorship at the Design Museum. In her assessment of the exhibition [...]

Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 15, January 2011. In this issue we look back at Art Basel Miami Beach Week with an Miami Basel Overview by FADs Editor at Large Ben Austin (click here for his article at FAD) and photos by Sabine Trieloff, Mark Vogel, and Didier Leroi. (Photos by Didier Leroi and Gregor [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]