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Bortolami Gallery in New York is inaugurating its new space with the group exhibition “Re-Dressing”. The new gallery space is located at 522 West 20th Street. The show presents works by 50 artists such as Terence Koh, Jonathan Meese, Roe Ethridge, Thomas Helbig, Rashid Johnson, Daniel Buren, Jack Pierson, Justin Beal, and Gary Webb. The [...]

Guerra de la Paz is the composite name which represents the creative team of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. Guerra de la Paz was established in 1996, when the original idea by two individual artists of just sharing a studio transformed into a collaboration that produced a series of paintings, photography, collage-decollage, sculpture [...]

Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms (“truisms”) on one of Times Square’s gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade [...]

The restrospective exhibition Video Tapes 1969-2010 at the WRO Art Center in Wrocław is the first survey of Wolf Kahlen’s work to be presented in Poland. Marking Kahlen’s 70th birthday, the show has been prepared jointly by the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Ruine der Künste [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

For Dornbracht Edges, designer Mike Meiré is showing the installation “The Farm Project”. With “The Farm Project” Mike Meiré transforms the kitchen into a barn-like, “real-life” stage, charged with aromas, animals, plants and objects – and with an outer cover made of a patchwork of materials. VernissageTV met Mike Meiré in Cologne where “The Farm [...]

In this video Professor Gerlach shows a good example for what students are taught in the first semesters. The task was to design a product and to show that it’s really working. In this case student Tobias Kruschhausen developed a piece of furniture for public space called “Slide”. It has an interesting mechanism that allows [...]

In Berlin we met the two designers Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa. They talk about some of their works, including “Patch up London”, a “presouvenir”; “tools you bake”, a series of six hand-spun baking bowls developed in collaboration with the metal goods factory Hugo Bräuer in Berlin; “hoch die Tassen”, unique cups made of discarded [...]