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Martin Z. Margulies is collecting art since more than 30 years already, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse celebrates a decade of exhibitions and educational programming. Currently, during Art Basel Miami Beach and through April 2009, the Collection presents work – among others – by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Isaac Julien, and George Osodi. In this video, [...]

Galerie Volker Diehl exclusively works with international young, contemporary artists. After 15 years of gallery work in Berlin-Charlottenburg and 5 years as Managing Director of the Art Forum Berlin, Volker Diehl reopened his gallery in Berlin-Mitte in the Spring of 2000. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, 2006. Click image or [...]

The DC Duesseldorf Contemporary wants to present the “Zeitgeist of art in the world today”. With a maximum of 100 galleries from over 20 countries. Participating galleries include Georg Kargl (Austria), Jocelyn Wolff (France), Alison Jacques Gallery (Great Britain), Cristina Guerra (Portugal), Casey Kaplan (New York). Düsseldorf is the German city with the largest number [...]

The current exhibition at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland is dedicated to the work of the American artist Andrea Zittel and the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska (to view Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition click here). Both artists have in common that they respond to their different surroundings in terms of architecture, living space, daily routine, and traditions. This [...]

Matt Freedman, Tim Spelios and David Weinstein of The Cartoon Cover Band performs one of their Lightning Sketch shows for Vernissage TV at the Scope Art Fair in New York City. Tim Spelios and David Weinstein play while Matt Freedman draws versions of Ernie Bushmiller’s old Nancy comics. Matt Freedman is an artist and a [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, Initiator and Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne. Architecture Talks Lucerne provides a platform for networking and an opportunity for architects, interior designers, designers, general contractors, investors, for professionals and students, and – specific to the 2006 edition – retailers to meet. Architekturgespräche Luzern 2006, May 12, 2006. Interview with Frank [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present “Mondi Possibili”. On display are furniture and objects by Richard Artschwager, Benjamin Bergmann, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Stefan Kern, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Franz West, and Martin Wöhrl. “The works on display deal with the subject of furniture from a variety of [...]

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 [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]