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Anita Beckers talks about the gallery’s program at Pulse New York, especially the Albanian artist Anila Rubiku. Rubiku has been chosen for the Art Triennial “Echigo – Tsumari” in July in Japan where she will show a huge installation. Among the other artists the gallery represents are Anton Corbijn, Bjorn Melhus, Yvers Netzhammer, Flavia da [...]

On September 11, 2007, Vernissage TV attended the opening of a new exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles-based artist Raymond Pettibon at David Zwirner, New York. It’s Raymond Pettibon’s seventh solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery. Raymond Pettibon is considered as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. He is included in the [...]

“In Memoriam” is Gustav Metzgers newest work, specially conceived for the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel. The installation continues the subject of the Jewish refugee history as drawn up in “Eichmann and the Angel” and draws a thematic line to the situation of today’s refugees worldwide. The sculptural installation, a maze of human-scale cardboard cuboids [...]

As part of the Punkte 10 art in public space program of Fumetto Comix Festival Luzern, Dan Perjovschi has been invited to use the Lucerne Theater facade for his popular drawings. In this conversation with Olga Stefan, the Romanian artist talks about why he draws, the ephemerality of art, what he misses in current contemporary [...]

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has some experience with unusual locations. She has been presenting her works in churches and on LED billboards, and her videos often emerge in unexpected places such as toilets, liquor bottles, and handbags. For her latest project for Fondazione Nicola Trussardi she uses the interior of the historic Cinema Manzoni in [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

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 Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, 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. In 1976 [...]

“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the [...]

On the occasion of the presentation of Seiko’s Issey Miyake watch series VUE at Baselworld 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, VernissageTV met with the designer of the watch, Yves Béhar. In the first part of the interview, Yves Béhar talks about the new Issey Miyake watch series called VUE: the basic idea, the materials, and shows [...]

With the 2010 edition Cologne Fine Art & Antiques introduced a new sector to the fair: contemporary design. One of the highlights is the Design Lounge that was conceived by the German designer and artist Florian Borkenhagen (represented by Gabrielle Ammann Gallery, Cologne). For the fair, he created some kind of Luna Park centered around [...]

Gabrielle Ammann, director of Designer’s Gallery, talks about her program at Design Miami Basel, especially about the “Event Horizon” table by Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid’s “Iceberg” sculpture, and the importance of Design Miami for design galleries. Interior architect Gabrielle Ammann established Designer’s Gallery in Cologne, Germany in 2006. The gallery concept was born out [...]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Broken Rhythm examines the work from her [...]

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 [...]