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The current exhibition at Sandroni Rey is curated by artist Hernan Bas. He invited Alejandro Cardenas, Bert Rodriguez and Alexia Stamatiou to come up with an element for the exhibition’s three-part title. “Through storytelling, myth, humor, religion, and politics, Alejandro Cardenas, Bert Rodriguez and Alexia Stamatiou dissect the veins of mortality. Their work, much like [...]

LAXART presents the first solo exhibition of New York based artist Kalup Linzy, curated by Laxart Adjunct Curator, Malik Gaines. “The conventions of television soap operas become a hilarious and insightful psycho-sexual playground for New York-based artist Kalup Linzy, as he turns this most mundane form inside out with his series of clever videos, ‘Conversations [...]

Galerie Mark Müller participates in the Zurich Galleries’ Season Opening with an exhibition of new works by Swiss artist Sabina Baumann. The show with the title “Death of the Cool” presents drawings, a mural, and seven sculptures. In the guestroom, the gallery shows works by Edit Oderbolz, the exhibition is entitled: “I know you know”. [...]

This video documents the press preview of German painter Daniel Richter’s exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Daniel Richter talks about his work, specifically about the five large-scale paintings on display. Daniel Richter: Die Idealisten, David Zwirner, New York. Press Preview, March 25, 2008. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. [...]

Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me is a group exhibition at Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City, curated by Gerardo Contreras. The exhibition revolves around postsexual subjectivity, Ratpiss, the absurdity of culture, precapitalist sexuality, moral, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Contreras brings together works by Justin Bochek, Rachel de Joode, Dosha Devastation, Cédric Fargues, Radamés “Juni” [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

In collaboration with Dürig Architects, the Berlin-based landscape architects Topotek 1 designed one of the largest sports facilities in Zürich, Switzerland. The sports facility is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It comprises twelve football fields and a baseball field complemented by three buildings: an ice-rink, a [...]

Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 15, January 2011. In this issue we look back at Art Basel Miami Beach Week with an Miami Basel Overview by FADs Editor at Large Ben Austin (click here for his article at FAD) and photos by Sabine Trieloff, Mark Vogel, and Didier Leroi. (Photos by Didier Leroi and Gregor [...]

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… [...]

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 [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]

Mark Holmes is the design director at Established & Sons and designs for both Established & Sons and other acclaimed international manufacturers. After studying painting he began a career as an independent artist. In 1997 he opened his first London showroom, in 2003 he founded “The Lane” (together with Sebastian Wrong, who is also operations [...]

Post-war Italian design was a huge source of inspiration for designer Marc Newson. “I was amazed by the seamless ability of designers and industry to produce every conceivable type of industrial product, from furniture to automobiles”. Now he has done a reinterpretation of one of the icons of Italian design, the Riva leisure speedboat. The [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

Designer’s Gallery / Gabrielle Ammann presents selected pieces from the work of architect and 2004 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Zaha Hadid. On display are design objects, architectural models and Zaha Hadid’s “Silver Paintings” in an effort to make the interrelationship of architecture, design and art visible. The exhibition runs through March 25, 2007. [...]