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For her first solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, the young artist Hannah Weinberger conceived a site-specific sound installation that fills the five ground floor galleries of the Kunsthalle. The work is titled When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In and consists of eleven ambient sound loops that are [...]

I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME is the title of a new installation, the Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby is currently presenting at the gallery Sprüth Magers in Berlin. Regular viewers of our program will know the work of Sterling Ruby, as VernissageTV covered several group shows the artist was [...]

Masao Okabe is the artist who represents Japan at the 52nd Venice Biennale with his work “Is There a Future for Our Past? The Dark Face of the Light”. Masao Okabe (born 1942 in Hokkaido, Japan) displays 1,400 frottages from the port of Ujina in Hiroshima, as well as a 16 meters long row of [...]

The International Istanbul Biennial is a contemporary art exhibition that is held every two years in Istanbul, Turkey, since 1987. The current edition, the 11th International Istanbul Biennial bears the title “What Keeps Mankind Alive?”, curated by the Zagreb-based curator collective WHW – What, How & for Whom (Ivet Curlin, Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic and [...]

Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak likes to rock his audience with strange-looking mobile sound systems that emit bass-driven electronic music. His creations bear names like Baron Bass, Sackkarre (sack barrow), Mobile Booster. They are a mixture between extravagant vehicles and big speakers. His latest bass monster looks like tank and is called that way. Nik Nowak [...]

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 [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

One of the events during Armory Week was the celebration of High Line Art’s Spring Season and Opening of the new public art project “Space Available” by Kim Beck. In this video, we take a walk on the High Line and speak with the curator and director of the High Line’s art program, Lauren Ross. [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

Energy Conscience is a concept by designer Christian Jung. He developed a series of “energy parasites” which use different machines, like a washing machine, to produce energy that can be used by mobile phones, digital cameras and other devices. Faculty of Design at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

Impressions from the press preview and the vernissage of the design fair Design Miami/ Basel. Coming soon: Interviews with designers Julia Lohmann, Max Lamb and the partnership of Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram. Design Miami/ Basel 2008, June 2, 2008. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link [...]

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 [...]

Luigi Colani: Translating Nature at the Design Museum London. Final part of the exhibition walkthrough with curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert. Design Museum London, May 17, 2007. Part 3/3. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > DVD available. Related Articles:Luigi Colani: Translating Nature / Design Museum London / part 2/3Luigi Colani: [...]