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José Damasceno (born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968) and Angela Detanico (born in Caxias do Sul in 1974) & Rafael Lain (born in Caxias do Sul in 1973) represent Brazil at the 52nd Venice Biennial. Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (born in Naples, Italy, in 1973) is the curator of the Brazilian representation. Since 1993, the [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]

The current exhibition at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland is dedicated to the work of the American artist Andrea Zittel and the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska (to view Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition click here). Both artists have in common that they respond to their different surroundings in terms of architecture, living space, daily routine, and traditions. This [...]

The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America ADAA, presented paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs by artists of all periods. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a non-profit membership organization of the nation’s leading galleries in the fine arts. Founded in 1962, the ADAA seeks to promote the highest [...]

Dinh Q. Lê’s exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, also presents a continuation of Lê’s photo-weavings in which black and white photographs taken during the Vietnam War are woven together with richly colored images from present day. In this new work Lê contrasts the war photographs with patchwork photos of commercial packaging materials; candy [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

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 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

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, [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

For his Real Time Project, Dutch designer Maarten Baas became a film director. Thanks to new technologies in video, it’s possible to produce videos of 12- or even 24 hours in length. This makes it possible to film a movie that can function as a clock. Maarten Baas created a clock collection by using the [...]

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, [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

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 [...]