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Take a look at approximately 250 internationally renowned galleries. They are showing a comprehensive overview of 20th and 21st-century art – from classical modernism to the very latest contemporary works. The primary focus is on classic works, postwar art and works of contemporary art. An integral part of ART COLOGNE this year was “open space“, [...]

At Art Cologne 2009 Galerie Gillian Morris from Berlin presents a group of work by Jenny Michel and Micha Hoepfel. In their artistic work Jenny Michel and Micha Hoepfel move within the grey area where art and science meet, exploring what lies between one’s own imagination and empirically ‘verified’ knowledge. The artists question the ignorance [...]

With the exhibition “Jorge Pardo: House” the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition of Jorge Pardo. The show is curated by Bonnie Clearwater. Impressions from the Opening Reception / Art in America Party, December 4, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > [...]

In November 2007, French artist Laurent Grasso presented a site-specific video installation called “Electric Palace” at Studio 814 in New York. “Electric Palace” by Laurent Grasso consists of two 10 minute projections: “Polair“, which shows electrically charged pollen swirling around objects and buildings in Berlin, among them the Fernsehturm (television tower); and “1619“, which shows [...]

In the second part of the interview Daniel Hug talks about four of the artists he represents: Michael Queenland, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Michael Wilkinson, and Chris Lipomi. The gallery is based in Los Angeles. Daniel Hug Gallery, Liste 06 – The Young Art Fair, Basel, June 17, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

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 [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

Interview with Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green, Richard Thé, the creators of “Parasite“, an independent projection-system that can be attached to subways with suction pads. Interview: Jussi Ängeslevä (assistant professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin). Reality Check c-base @ Transmediale.06, Berlin, Exhibition here/there – works of the digital class of the udk berlin of C-Base, [...]

VernissageTV met Prof. Luigi Colani at his studio workshop in Karlsruhe / Germany. While working on a bicycle design that will be unveiled at the Road World Championships later this year he talks about his current products and projects, the state of design today – and looks back on his almost 60 years long career. [...]

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 [...]

From 1998 to 2005 the Förderkoje was a small exhibition space (not much space, really: 6.69 cbm) in a private flat in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2006, the Förderkoje changed the concept and will temporarily be moving into the private homes of individual hosts. The type of presentation will be worked out, organised and [...]

Furniture producer Vitra took the opportunity to present itself during the international art show Art 38 Basel. A rich program of events drew art and design lovers to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, approximately 7 km from Art Basel, especially for the opening of the latest exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, “Home [...]