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Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance and new media artist. Stelarc’s work focuses on extending the capabilities of the human body. At the 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011: Alternative Now in Wroclaw, Poland, Stelarc presented his performance Phantom Flesh / Circulating Organs. VernissageTV correspondent Ania Ejsmont met with Stelarc on the occasion of his participation [...]

In 1886, the German engineer Karl Benz was awarded the patent for his Motorwagen, generally acknowledged as the first modern automobile. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the car, several art museums are dedicating exhibitions to the automobile. One of them is the Museum Tinguely that currently presents the exhibition Car Fetish. I [...]

As part of the opening reception of the exhibition “The Potosí Principle“, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt presented a performance by the Austrian artist Ines Doujak, titled “Eviva il cotillo”. The performance consists of a countertenor in costume singing excerpts from the confession manual for priests at Indio missions, with instructions to eradicate indigenous [...]

The Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin / Germany just opened an exhibition with six floorworks and a recently made mud wall work of the English sculptor, photographer and painter Richard Long. The exhibition titled “Richard Long: Berlin Circle” is the first solo show in Germany of works by Richard Long [...]

Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, Anish Kapoor created a site-specific work. The sculpture, titled “Memory”, is a 24 ton Cor-Ten steel tank, that sits tightly within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s gallery space. Thus, the viewer has two distinct views of the work. In addition to that, a staircase leading down from the Deutsche Guggenheim’s store offers [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

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 [...]

The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, the [...]

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 [...]

On the occasion of the current exhibition “Jean Prouvè. The poetics of the technical object” the director of the Vitra Design Museum, Alexander von Vegesack, talks about the future projects the Vitra Design Museum is working on. There are plans for exhibitions about “minimal spaces for living and moving”, the Campana brothers, Le Corbusier, and [...]

Yes, this is not the typical VernissageTV style video. But with this nasty weather here in Switzerland, we enjoyed producing something that reminded us of our sunny days in Miami Beach. So in this video, there’s sun, palm trees, water, and a beautiful speedboat. The speedboat is a Riva, the Aquariva by designer Marc Newson [...]

The Wolfsonian is a remarkable design museum in the heart of the Art Deco District, Miami Beach. The Wolfsonian collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885 – 1945, which are presented in the Wolfsonian’s permanent exhibition “Art and Design in the Modern Age”. Current exhibitions are Fashioning the Modern [...]

On the second stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited La Fabrica. La Fabrica Galeria is located near the famous Museo del Prado, the newly opened CaixaForum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – in the heart of Madrid’s “triangle of art”. The gallery focuses on international contemporary art, with [...]

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 [...]