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Katharina Grosse’s work is characterized by an anarchic impulse. Since the beginning of the 1990s, she has been working on a pictorial form that disregards fixed boundaries and hierarchies. For the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Katharina Grosse has created a new group of works. The title of the show, shadowbox, gives rise to multilayered associations: from [...]

Gallery Sara Tecchia Roma New York starts the Fall season with works by David Fried (born 1962 in New York City). On display are his kinetic art pieces (tables with sound-activated spheres), and color photograms. “His hand-crafted “SELF ORGANIZING STILL LIFE” objects consist of interactive, sound-activated spheres, which “dance” in real-time in response to ambient [...]

The Rubell Family Collection is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. It is a permanent museum of the Rubells’ extensive collection of work dating from the 1960s to the present. The Collection began soon after Don and Mera Rubell were married in 1964. At a relatively young age, their son, [...]

With approximately forty sculptures, five large-scale installations, several groups of drawings and photographs Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007 at Schaulager Basel is by far the largest exhibition of Robert Gober’s work to date. For this retrospective the Schaulager team has taken great care to reconstruct installations – some for the first time since they were created [...]

The current exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin presents new work by Jonathan Meese. The show’s title is “Johnny Come Home”, the exhibitions runs through October 28, 2006). Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Impressions from the opening reception on September 30, 2006, part 1/2. Related videos: Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 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 [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

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, [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]

With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). VernissageTV talks with his daughter Cathérine Prouvé at the occasion of the opening reception of the exhibition. Vitra Design [...]

Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]

Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment. Alfredo Häberli’s show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat or Moroso. In this [...]