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Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation since 1988, talks about the exhibition “The Guggenheim Collection” at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, and the plans for a Frank Gehry-designed new museum in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates. Following the tradition established by the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum [...]

Currently on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is American artist Julie Mehretu’s suite of paintings Grey Area. It’s the fifteenth work within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist, followed by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, [...]

The exhibition “Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955 – 1965″ at the Kunstmuseum Basel, previously on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, presents some seventy key works on loan from museums and private collections in the US and Europe. It traces the relationship of four specific motifs: the target, the mechanical [...]

Restart for the Art Cologne: The fair not only has a new director, the former gallerist Daniel Hug, but has relocated to a new venue, Hall 1 at the Cologne Trade Fair Center. The hall is more popular, because it’s closer to the entrance and the fair is more compact. The fair has been consolidated [...]

Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, curator of Spain’s exhibition project at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007, has selected four artists, different by age, background and works: Manuel Vilariño, José Luis Guerín, Los Torreznos (a duo of action artists composed by Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata) and Rubén Ramos Balsa. The exhibition is titled “Paradiso Spezzato”. “Paradiso [...]

ArchitectureTalks Lucerne is a two-day international symposium offering a stage on which world-renowned protagonists from the worlds of architecture, art, culture, philosophy, business and politics will address architectural and urban issues in an interdisciplinary manner. This year’s theme was “Shopping Miles and More”. Initiator and Director of the Talks is Frank Joss. Short documentation of [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

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 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

This is the first 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 (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

Interview with Monica Pozzi about Resfest Swissmix. Swissmix is the selection for young Swiss filmmakers of Resfest Switzerland. Swissmix provides young Swiss talent with a professional platform and may work as a steppingstone to reach an international audience. This year’s participants have been Dominic Lahiff / GMD Three, Jonas Meier; Oliver Conrad (Kompost); Ramon & [...]

Design studio DRIFT was founded by Ralph Nauta (born 1978) and Lonneke Gordijn (1980), both graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. At Design Miami Basel and the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London they presented their modular light object “Fragile Future”. “Fragile Future 3.4″ is an installation consistent of modules [...]

The Design Miami/ Basel Designer of the Future Award recognizes an emerging designer or collective that has been practicing for less than 15 years. This year, the Selection Committee chose Swedish design collective Front. Front is Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström. At Design Miami/ Basel they present an on-site [...]

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, [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]