VernissageTV art tv

The most obvious change since last year’s FIAC are the new prestigious sites: the Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre Museum. In a partnership with the IFAC and the Louvre Museum, the Tuilleries gardens between the Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée contain an ensemble of exterior projects by Alain Bublex, Tony [...]

“Equality, one of the most fundamental democratic principles, is the theme of Rohkunstbau XIV. In this, the second part of the trilogy Three Colours: Blue, White, Red, ten visual and a large number of performing artists will create at Sacrow Palace site-specific works of art addressing this challenging and timely topic. Following Krzysztof Kieslowski’s famous [...]

This video shows a part of Rachel Mason’s performance at Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. In this clip she performes “Dzhokhar Dudayev (Chechen Wolfes)”. If you want to see the whole performance, click this link. Rachel Mason was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and received her BA from UCLA (2001) and her MFA in Sculpture from [...]

In honor of its tenth edition, The Armory Show has commissioned artists Mary Heilmann and John Waters to collaborate on the visual identity of the 10th edition of the Armory Show. At the press conference they talk about the early days of The Armory Show as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair and the fair’s [...]

Galerie Jamileh Weber presents Robert Rauschenberg: Spread and Scale and Darryl Pottorf: A Perspective. The selection of works by Robert Rauschenberg presented in this show are all works that the artist kept for his own collection. This has been made possible thanks to the long lasting and close friendship of Jamileh Weber with Robert Rauschenberg. [...]

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 [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

ArchitectureTalks Lucerne is a two-day international symposium offering a stage on which world-renowned protagonists from the worlds of architecture, art, culture, philosophy, business and politics will address architectural and urban issues in an interdisciplinary manner. This year’s theme was “Shopping Miles and More”. Initiator and Director of the Talks is Frank Joss. Short documentation of [...]

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 [...]

In this conversation with the Chief Curator of Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum in Munich, Dr. Corinna Rösner, Alessandro Mendini talks about his work for Alessi, the personal bonds with the Alessi family, and the phases the Alessi design went through over the decades. Alessandro Mendini is one of the great figures [...]

The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction is an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum that brings together objects such as the iPod, the Thonet chair No. 14, and furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata, and Jasper Morrison. The [...]

Among the companies which exhibited at the Designers’ Saturday were firms like Alias, B&B Italia, Corian, Création Baumann, Delta Light, Girsberger, Glas Trösch, Hector Egger Holzbau, Lista, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Ruckstuhl, USM, Vitra, and Zumtobel. Designers’ Saturday, Langenthal / Switzerland, November 4, 2006. Part 2/2. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]

In this video Professor Gerlach shows a good example for what students are taught in the first semesters. The task was to design a product and to show that it’s really working. In this case student Tobias Kruschhausen developed a piece of furniture for public space called “Slide”. It has an interesting mechanism that allows [...]