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Silvia Bächli from Basel and Fabrice Gygi from Geneva represent Switzerland at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Silvia Bächli shows drawings in the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini, Fabrice Gygi presents an installation in the Church of San Stae. In this video, we have a look at Silvia Bächli’s works in [...]

M. Brandon MacInnis, the publisher of the monthly art journal, M / The New York Art World, talks about his art journal, the new, large format hardcover M, and the New York art scene. VIP Preview Event in the Chelsea Art Tower, New York, February 24, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download [...]

Mogadishni participates in Liste 06 in Basel with a solo project by Rasmus Bjorn. “Rasmus Bjørn explores the relationship between drawing and object, two dimensionality versus three dimensionality, the clash between function and non-function, the real and the represented.” (Marie Dufresne). Mogadishni is a gallery for international contemporary art, based in Valby, Denmark. Director Christian [...]

Anna Somers Cocks recently retired as editor of the Art Newspaper. She is now General Editorial Director and Group Newspaper Editor with international cultural publishing group Umberto Allemandi with headquarters in Torino, Italy. Allemandi publishes the Giornale dell’ Arte, the Giornale dell’ Architettura, and the Art Newspaper. In this part of the video Anna Somers [...]

In part 1 of our Gallery Weekend Berlin coverage, VernissageTV attends the opening of “Ein Fest für Boris”. Ein Fest für Boris (A Party for Boris) is title of the group show in Contemporary Fine Art’s Bruno Brunnet new gallery offshoot in Berlin Charlottenburg. The space called Vittorio Manalese was launched on the occasion of [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

The Golden Lion for the Best Project of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2010 with the title “People Meet in Architecture” was given to Junya Ishigami and Associates for their installation “Architecture as Air: Study for Château la Coste”. The jury acknowledged the “unique and uncompromising vision of its author… [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

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 [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity is the title of an exhibition at The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach that has a look at French design from the 1940s to today. On display are furniture, industrial design, and craft by some of the most celebrated French designers. The show presents models, prototypes and mass-produced designs by [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

In the third part of the interview Luigi Colani talks about his relationship with colleague designers, his architectural projects in China, the Rotor House Project, and the needs and challenges of realizing a large flying wing passenger aircraft. More interviews with Luigi Colani: Conversation with Luigi Colani at Building Design Podcasts, interview at “Plastics – [...]

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 [...]

Rick Poynor talks about the exhibition “Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design since the Sixties” at the Museum of Design Zurich. “This exhibition most definitely has an aim, a purpose, almost a polemical purpose you could say. It’s about almost 45years of independent British graphic design. And that word “independent” is really important” says design critic [...]