VernissageTV art tv

On September 21st, Palma celebrated the 10th edition of its “Nit de l’Art” (Art Night), a special event in which all the art galleries, cultural centers and museums of the capital city of the island of Mallorca open their exhibitions on the same evening. Around 27 openings can be attended on this day in the [...]

At Scope art fair 2007 the gallery Art Affairs presented an installation by Los Angeles artist Mary Younakof. Mary has worked with a variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and artist books. Her installation at Scope features iconic figures and accouterments of war. We met Mary Younakof at her installation at Scope where she [...]

The Poltergeist Experimental Group (PEG) Applied Spirituality and Physical Manifestation at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland is Swiss aritst Florian Germann’s first solo exhibition at an institution. The show looks like a mixture between sculpture exhibition, experimental design and home improvement. The starting point of Florian Germann’s works is often a historic figure [...]

Edwin’s Gallery from Jakarta, Indonesia has set up an exhibition of Indonesian Kinetic Art at Singapore’s international art fair Art Stage Singapore. Titled Mechan(aesthete)ics, the show presents kinetic work by Hardiman Radjab, Rudi Hendriatno, Bagus Pandega, and Heri Dono. While Dono and Radjab are pioneers of kinetic art in Indonesia, Hendriatno and Pandega represent the [...]

“Sack of Bones” is a group exhibition at Javier Peres’ and Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society. The show features works by Anthony Burdin, Dan Colen, Tara De Long, Mark Flood, Bill Hayden, Neil Jenney, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel McDonald, Andrew Rogers, Arsen Roje, Agathe Snow, William C. Taylor, Donald Urquhart, and Banks Violette. It has been [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

One of the events during Armory Week was the celebration of High Line Art’s Spring Season and Opening of the new public art project “Space Available” by Kim Beck. In this video, we take a walk on the High Line and speak with the curator and director of the High Line’s art program, Lauren Ross. [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

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 [...]

Will it blend? Modern art, jewelry, classical antiquity, vintage design, old masters, contemporary design: The current edition of the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques fair juxtaposes works of art from different cultures, epochs and collecting fields ranging from antiquity to the 21st century. VernissageTV attended the opening of the fair and tried to figure out [...]

This year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile is no longer in the city center of Milan but in the new fair complex, designed by architect Massimiliano Fuksas. Among the design companies present at the fair are for example Cappellini, Cassina, De Padova, Driade, Flexform, Kartell, MDF, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Vitra, Wogg etc. Salone Internazionale del [...]

Canadian fashion designer Ying Gao (born in China in 1973) playfully explores the aesthetic potential at the interface of fashion, art and technology. The current solo show at plug.in in Basel presents five projects that exemplary stand for Ying Gao’s approach: Indice de l’indifférence, (uni)forms, Walking City, Living Pod, Swiss quality 1. Sometimes Ying Gao [...]

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 [...]

In 1981 Luigi Colani broke a fuel saving record with a streamlined four seater car, in 2002 he completed his 7th streamlined truck. In the final part of the conversation Luigi Colani talks about fuel efficiency, the speed and efficiency records he broke at the Utah Salt Flats in Bonneville and a truck he is [...]