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Groeflin Maag Galerie AG, Basel, was founded in October 2003. Claudia Groeflin and Davia Maag represent young emerging artists from around the world. The current exhibition “You Knows It”, curated by Mark Divo, shows works by Clare Goodwin, Pascal Häusermann, Jan Kotik, Mark Divo and Marcel Kühne. Music by Duo Classico, Basel. Impressions from the [...]

VTV talks with Susan de Voldère, Co-Director of Virgil de Voldère Gallery about a video piece by Taiwanese artist Hung Chi Peng and the gallery’s program. The video also shows a work by J Shih Chieh Huang which the gallery presented at Pulse art fair. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, [...]

This is a short interview with David Bowen, who won the third prize in the VIDA 12.0 Fundación Telefónica Art and Artificial Life competition. VIDA rewards electronic works of art produced with artificial life technologies. The other laureates of the 12th edition of the award are Guy Ben-Ary, Philip Gamblen, Peter Gee, Nathan Scott, Brett [...]

In the second part of the interview with the curator of the exhibition “The Expanded Eye” at the Kunsthaus Zürich Bice Curiger talks about the tasks and feelings during the installation of the exhibition, personal favorites, the popularity of contemporary art and the the experience of writing for a weblog. Bice Curiger is curator at [...]

Cristina Guerra founded her gallery in 2001 in Lisbon / Portugal. It is the third time the gallery participates in Art Basel. Cristina Guerra talks about the gallery’s program and the art scene in Portugal. Among the artists she represents are Erwin Wurm, John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner and portuguese artists such as Julião Sarmento [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

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 [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

For Dornbracht Edges, designer Mike Meiré is showing the installation “The Farm Project”. With “The Farm Project” Mike Meiré transforms the kitchen into a barn-like, “real-life” stage, charged with aromas, animals, plants and objects – and with an outer cover made of a patchwork of materials. VernissageTV met Mike Meiré in Cologne where “The Farm [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met decorative arts consultant, dealer and design curator Cristina Grajales, Cristina Grajales served as director of 1950 Gallery in New York City from 1990 to 2000. “Grajales’s passion for many of the twentieth century’s greatest masters – among them Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand – propelled [...]

In this episode, Prof. Thomas Gerlach and student Nils Uellendahl show and explain an exciting transportation concept based on swarm intelligence. Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. [...]

As part of The Wolfsonian Museum’s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum’s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design [...]

Mark Holmes is the design director at Established & Sons and designs for both Established & Sons and other acclaimed international manufacturers. After studying painting he began a career as an independent artist. In 1997 he opened his first London showroom, in 2003 he founded “The Lane” (together with Sebastian Wrong, who is also operations [...]