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Kewenig Gallery presented Sandra Vasquez de la Horra in the “New Talents” section (formerly known as “Förderkoje”) of Art Cologne 2006. Wolfgang Schöddert talks about the gallery, its two venues in Cologne and Mallorca, and the work of Sandra Vasquez de la Horra. Art Cologne, November 2, 2006. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to [...]

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2007 (April 27 – 30, 2007), gallery crawl part 2: Roman Signer at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Marjetica Potrc at Nordenhake, Stefan Hirsig at Klosterfelde, Hilary Lloyd at Galerie Neu and Dash Snow at Contemporary Fine Arts. Enjoy! By VTV correspondent Lizza May David. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime [...]

Iván Navarro’s work was already very present at ARCO, the contemporary art fair in Madrid, and now in New York his work seems to be omnipresent. At The Armory Show, one of the highlights was his site-specific installation at the booth of Paul Kasmin Gallery (see in our Armory Show coverage here). The gallery is [...]

In general, people come to art fairs to see art. But not artist Heiko Beck: Heiko Beck prefers to watch football (soccer). At least that’s what he did in the context of a performance at Art Cologne 2011. Together with other artists, Heiko Beck was invited to conceive performances for the presentation of ARTE Creative, [...]

VernissageTV interview with Helen Allen, director of Pulse Art Fair. Pulse is an invitational art fair held annualy in Miami and New York. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, 2006.With this and following interviews with gallery owners at Pulse New York 2006 we introduce Theodore Bouloukos as VernissageTV correspondent. Theodore is [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

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 [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archbishopric Cologne: a triad of place, building and collection. Two thousand years of occidental culture – architecture, arts and crafts and fine art – can be experienced together at one place. Kolumba wants to recall: A museum is a place of slowness, of concentration, of playful-creative analysis, of [...]

In part 2 of our walk through the Colani retrospective at the Design Museum London, curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert explains the concept behind the exhibition. Luigi Colani: Translating Nature is divided into three parts: water, air and land. When the visitor enters the exhibition space, he immerses into a water world which invites him to [...]

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 [...]

In partnership with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Louise Blouin Foundation in London presents a group exhibition of design art with works by Atelier van Lieshout, Drift, Ingrid Donat, Joris Laarman, Lionel Scoccimaro, Marc Quinn, Mathieu Lehaneur, Pablo Reinoso, Rainer Splitt, rAndom International, Robert Stadler, Sebastian Brajkovic, Thierry Dreyfus, Vincent Dubourg and Wendell Castle. VernissageTV attended the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]