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Charles Sandison (born in Scotland in 1969) lives and works in Tampere, Finland. Charles Sandison participated in important international group shows at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2004), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2004), Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland (2005), and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2006). After his participation in a group exhibition (Special Exhibition Space [...]

An emerging trend in New York appears to be the return of the private salon. Wherein a generous host opens his/her space to an equally emerging artist—just for the night. Eschewing the politics of the gallery scene, these evenings give a young artist the chance to show work unencumbered by the dictates of the art [...]

Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Topological Gardens, currently on view at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The Biennale stated that Bruce Nauman’s work “reveals the magic of meaning as it emerges through relentless repetition of language and form.” Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens [...]

Curator Brian Keith Jackson along with Althea Viafora Kress talk with artists Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Amie Smith and Navin June Norling about their Bombay Sapphire and Thurgood Marchell College Fund exhibition during the New York “Inspired Week”. Scope Art Fair, New York, February 25, 2007. Grizzly Lodge Series. > Click image to watch quicktime video [...]

Harlem Studio Fellowship (HSF) is a residency program for international artists in New York City. Conceived by Ruggero Montrasio and curated by Raffaele Bedarida, the program invites three young artists every three months and provides them with housing and studio in Harlem. From 14th December until 10th January the Harlem Studio Fellowship presented “Cohabitations: Studies [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

Among the companies which exhibited at the Designers’ Saturday were firms like Alias, B&B Italia, Corian, Création Baumann, Delta Light, Girsberger, Glas Trösch, Hector Egger Holzbau, Lista, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Ruckstuhl, USM, Vitra, and Zumtobel. Designers’ Saturday, Langenthal / Switzerland, November 4, 2006. Part 2/2. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]

Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]