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Shortly before the opening of the exhibition YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media we had a conversation with the artist Marc Lee about his interactive work “Breaking The News – Be a News-Jockey“. “Breaking The News” is an interactive installation that transmits information from the internet [...]

The current exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin presents new work by Jonathan Meese. The show’s title is “Johnny Come Home”, the exhibitions runs through October 28, 2006). Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Impressions from the opening reception on September 30, 2006, part 1/2. Related videos: Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / [...]

Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens the fall season with a solo show by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. Last year, Rondinone had a comprehensive solo exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus. Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents three work groups: a series of bird figures, six huge ink paintings, and a group of text related works on scrap wood. In addition [...]

Who is Laura Ford? Pippy Houldsworth of London’s Houldsworth Gallery shows and tells us. You may recall Ford represented Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale. In 2007 she’ll have a major commission for the Contemporary Art Society for Economists Plaza, be a part of Blickachsen in Bad Homburg and part of BBC’s Imagine series. Althea [...]

“Quality Street” is the title of the 2007 edition of the Fine Art Fair in Frankfurt / Main, Germany (April 13 – 15, 2007). In his aim to sharpen the profile of the show, exhibition director Michael Neff chose to concentrate on the theme of sculpture. “In a time where there is an overabundance of [...]

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum. The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

In celebration of Ferrari’s latest sports car, the car manufacturer commissioned video artist Marco Brambillo to create a Formula 1-inspired 3D video loop. The work was showcased on the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach at the Ferrari party at Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron’s unique 1111 Lincoln Road parking structure in Miami Beach. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Max Lamb is one of the four designers / design collectives who won the “Designers of the Future Award 2008″. Each of the designers were commissioned by the the design fair Design Miami Basel to create new works using concrete and wool. Max Lamb developed “Solids of Revolution”, two collections of stools in concrete and [...]

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. [...]

The Design Museum London is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. We met Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum’s director who gave us a short introduction to the Design Museum and an outlook on future plans including the museum’s expansion and relocation. Design Museum London, London, May 17, 2007. > Right-click [...]

At Design Miami Basel 2009 Natalie Kovacs curated a show for Carpenters Workshop Gallery entitled Never-Ever Land. Located at the Design Miami entrance, Never-Ever land presented an alternative functional sculpture garden, “exploring the possibility for design to entertain, enliven and enlighten”. Among the pieces on display were the Sensory Deprivation Skull by Atelier van Lieshout, [...]

In the second part of the interview Rick Poynor talks about the relation between independent and political design and the difference between Swiss graphic design and British graphic design. “Communicate – Independent British graphic design since 1960″ features 600 exhibits from album covers for New Order and Primal Scream, identities for BBC 2 and Big [...]