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Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is one of the most important European biennials. It takes place every two years in different cities. For the seventh edition of Manifesta, a whole region was chosen: Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy. The area has been selected for its historical heritage and culture, and not least for [...]

The exhibition “True North” at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin explores the legacy of Northern Romantic landscape painting in contemporary video and photography. “True North” presents works by Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Elger Esser, Thomas Flechtner, Roni Horn, Armin Linke, and Orit Raff. The exhibition includes Stan Douglas’s large-scale video installation, Nutka (1999) and Roni Horn’s [...]

The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning which comprises drawings, sculptures and his new film “Home 2 (2007)”. The exhibition is Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show to date in Switzerland. “Since the late 1990s, this Swiss artist (born 1970 in Schaffhausen, lives and works in New York) has produced quotation-rich [...]

Thomas Schütte: Hindsight at the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid is the most comprehensive retrospective of the German artist’s work ever organized in Europe. It offers visitors a detailed insight into his work. The works on display span from Thomas Schütte’s early works in the late 1970s to his latest creations. [...]

Pollenflug Austria (Pollination Austria) is an exhibition of work by contemporary artists from Austrian private collections (Kai Althoff, Banksy, Cosima von Bonin, Monica Bonvicini, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Peyton, Plamen Dejanoff, amongst others). The first exhibition in the Pollenflug series was staged in 2004 and designed as platform for collectors of cutting-edge contemporary art. Works have [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

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 + [...]

“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, [...]

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 [...]

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”, [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

Interview with producer Laurence Desarzens about Resfest Switzerland 2005. Resfest is a film festival taking place in several cities in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Zurich is the tour city in Switzerland with Resfest Switzerland being produced by Laurence Desarzens and Monica Pozzi. This year’s festival was held at the movie theater Riffraff in [...]

Industrial designer Yves Béhar is know for his engagement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. For OLPC he designed the XO laptop. In the second part of the interview with Yves Béhar at Baselworld 2010, he gives us an update on the OLPC project and talks about his work, the future of design [...]