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“We do pranks” says Franco Mattes in this interview with VernissageTV at the occasion of Eva and Franco Mattes’ solo exhibition at the new media art institution Plug.in in Basel. This is a nice understatement, of course, since Eva and Franco Mattes are among the pioneers of the net.art movement and the artist-provocateurs behind the [...]

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 [...]

This is the second and final part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation. Click here for part 1 and [...]

The sites for this year’s FIAC are quite prestigious ones: The Grand Palais and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre museum. For the FIAC this move marks a major stage in FIAC’s evolution, together with stronger selectivity, special projects and improved services. Part one of Vernissage TV’s video presents shots of the setting up of [...]

The 5th edition of La Biennale de Montréal was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from May 10th to July 8th , 2007. Work by 60 artists from Quebec, Canada and many other countries including South Africa, Brazil, China, Denmark, USA, Peru, the United Kingdom and Uruguay were presented in six varied venues across the city–from [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

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, [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

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 [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]