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Exposition – suicide is French artist Claude Rutault’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. On display are 23 works, both historical works from the 1970s in particular (definition- method 208c painting, depainting, repainting and definition/method 98 : to be continued), as well as nine new works. Since 1973, Claude Rutault uses a simple method [...]

British Constructive Artists at two Basel Venues. Artist and Exhibition organiser Andrew Bick opens a project at la Maison de la Poésie in Basel by invitation of Betty Leirner. Parallel to the Show ‘The Conversation’ at Basel Gallery von Bartha Collection, ‘Specific Structures’ at la Maison de la Poésie is comprised of four questions formulated [...]

At Art Cologne we met Johan Tahon, presented by the Deweer Art Gallery. He set up his own studio at the fair. Johan Tahon was born in Menen, in 1965. He studied art at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Gent. He lives and works in Sint Denijs Boekel (Zwalm) and Oudenaarde, Belgium. Works [...]

We have a look at the booth of Dunn and Brown Contemporary at the Scope art fair in London. Dunn and Brown Contemporary is based in Dallas, Texas. Sarah Stork talks about the gallery’s program at Scope London 2006. Among the artists the gallery represents are Joseph Havel, Robyn O’Neil, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Brian Fridge, [...]

Interview with the curator of the exhibition “Aleksandra Mir: Switzerland and Other Islands”, Mirjam Varadinis, accompanied by images of the installation of the show. From 18 August to 8 October 2006 Kunsthaus Zürich is showing felt-pen drawings by Aleksandra Mir (born 1967). Aleksandra Mir has created a new series for this exhibition revolving around the [...]

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 [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. In 1976 [...]

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 Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

Hørbar/Audiobar is an interactive sound installation by media artist Mogens Jacobsen (born 1959 in Rome, lives and works in Copenhagen). It was developed at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The user interacts with the sounds by placing bottles on a table. In this video, Mogens Jacobsen gives us a demonstration of how [...]

VernissageTV is talking with Norbert Wild, curator of the Design Collection of the Museum of Design Zurich and the current exhibition “Take away – Design for eating on the move”. In the first part of the interview Norbert Wild talks about his job at the museum, the aesthetics of fast food utensils, eatable dishes, the [...]

In this episode, Prof. Thomas Gerlach and student Nils Uellendahl show and explain an exciting transportation concept based on swarm intelligence. Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

Cover Illustrations over Five Decades. Presentation by Littmann Kulturprojekte. Opening reception at the former Museum für Gestaltung Basel. September 29, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Alexander Taylor is one of the UK’s leading young designers. In 2005 he won the Elle Deco design award for the series of Fold Lamps produced by Established & Sons. After studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University Alexander Taylor started his career working with architects Procter-Rihl before establishing his own design studio [...]