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Ivorypress Art + Books and PaceWildenstein currently present an exhibition that represents a decision by Claes Oldenburg to re-explore a work that he and his wife Coosje van Bruggen had made together in 1990. The show The European Desktop is comprised of a number of sculptures – a shattered desk pad, a quill, an ink [...]

Liste Köln is a new fair for contemporary art running concurrently with Art Cologne. 80 galleries show new art at the naturally lighted halls of the Rheinpark, only a few steps away from the Art Cologne entrance. Impressions from the second day of the fair, April 28, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video [...]

With the 2006 edition of the international art fair the Art Cologne celebrates its 40th anniversary. “The exhibitors’ stands will present a comprehensive overview of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries — from modernism to the most recent works by contemporary artists.” (PR Art Cologne). Art Cologne, impressions from the professional preview and [...]

“Bradley Castellanos is fascinated by those places and conditions in New York that would rather shock us as passers-by in this city: by scrapyards, by demolition regions, trash-heaps and deserted docksides. The Florida-born author can spend hours riding his bike through these places, which he then transforms into post-apocalyptic landscapes on his canvases. Castellanos works [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach takes place for the fifth time now. Over 35000 art enthusiasts are expected to visit the international art show. Prices of the art works start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, and soar into the millions for museum-quality masterpieces. “Its prominent list of participants makes [...]

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 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

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 [...]

The Hungarian contribution to the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice presents an extensive installation composed of video projections, ninety kilometers of rope, twenty thousand pencils and hundreds of drawings. The concept of the exhibition in the Hungarian pavilion titled “BorderLINE Architecture” has been created by the designers and architects Andor Wesselény-Garay and Marcel Ferencz. [...]

German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured. John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert [...]

Gabrielle Ammann, director of Designer’s Gallery, talks about her program at Design Miami Basel, especially about the “Event Horizon” table by Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid’s “Iceberg” sculpture, and the importance of Design Miami for design galleries. Interior architect Gabrielle Ammann established Designer’s Gallery in Cologne, Germany in 2006. The gallery concept was born out [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]