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DiVA Digital Video and Art Fair Miami Beach 2006 exclusively presented artworks created in digital and video format. Among the artists presented were: Jean Charles Blais, Adam Simon, Adam Bateman, Tsui Kuang-Yu, m lafille, Kader Attia, Susan Jennings, Kuo I-Chen, Jens Brand, Thomas Bogaert, Mounir Fatmi, Dominik Lejman, Greg Miller, Mauro Ceolin, Graciela Fuentes, Martin [...]

James Rosenquist worked on large-scale throughout his career. Since 1980 Rosenquist has painted six vast “billboard paintings”, three of which are on display at Haunch of Venison’s “Z Room” at The Old Truman Brewery in London. Work of James Rosenquist is also shown at Haunch of Venison’s venues 6 Haunch of Venison Yard and Bruton [...]

Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. The Curator of the German Pavilion in 2007, Nicolaus Schafhausen (director of the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam), says of Isa Genzken: “She is one of the most uncompromising artists of [...]

Participants of Tease Art Fair Cologne are new galleries, artist-run spaces, local art societies, projects, curators, artist groups and individual artists. Among the exhibitors are for example [DAM] (Berlin), Artists Anonymous (Berlin/London), Galerie 33 (Berlin), Heather Allen (Berlin), Pode Bal (Prague), Pontus Raud (Stockholm), Scotty Enterprises (Berlin), Andreas Lehner (Zurich), Zhivago (London), Compact/Space (Los Angeles/Berlin). [...]

In the first part of the interview Bice Curiger talks about the idea behind the exhibition “The Expanded Eye” and the references to “The Responsive Eye”, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965), and the book “Expanded Cinema” (1970). Bice Curiger is a curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich and has [...]

This is the first part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

On December 3rd, during Design Miami 2009, Luminaire opened its showroom in Miami’s Design District. One of the highlights was the installation The Third Space conceived by 52 German interior design students. In this video, Sabine Trieloff talks with four of the students who created the installation during the opening of the exhibition at the [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

At Design Miami Basel we met with Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey who presented new work at the booth of Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai / China. Gallery Director Pearl Lam has invited Studio Makkink & Bey, the joint-venture of architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey to investigate Chinese craftmanship and [...]

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 [...]