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Opening reception of the 42nd International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Cologne, 2008. First impressions of the fair with focus on the Open Space section. April 15, 2008. PS: Download versions of the Live Art Talks: Click here! > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link [...]

This year’s ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary runs under the motto: About Painting. But it’s not strictly painting. Visitors to the fair will also find sculpture, drawing, video etc. Some of them are more “painterly” than others. Art Berlin Contemporary, the “independent, hybrid exhibition format, between curated show and gallery event”, was founded four years ago [...]

Currently, Kunsthalle Basel in Basel / Switzerland presents a huge solo show entitled with works by the artist Daniel Knorr. The exhibition entitled Daniel Knorr: Led R. Nanirok is Daniel Knorr’s most ambitious project to date. Led R. Nanirok is an anagram of the artist’s name. Daniel Knorr designed a series of works that connect [...]

British artist Richard Long is a pioneer of Land and Conceptual art. Richard Long is widely recognized as one of the most important artists to have emerged since the 1960s. Haunch of Venison Berlin presents a solo exhibition with two large semi-circular works by Richard Long: A sculpture in local stone on the floor and [...]

Leipzig is just an hour away from Berlin, so it’s great that the Walkabout of the Spinnerei-Galleries in Leipzig (Frühjahrsrundgang 2008 – PDF) opened just a day before the Gallery Weekend in Berlin. And it’s very practical for the collectors. The weather was as nice as the Bratwurst and the beer (fresh from the Black [...]

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 [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

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 [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

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 [...]

Julian Hönig is working at carmaker Audi as Senior Designer Audi Design Exterieur. He studied industrial design in Austria and car design in Pasadena and is the designer of the Audi RSQ concept, a futuristic film car for the motion picture “I, Robot”, and the concept car “Cross Coupé quattro”. In this interview he shows [...]

With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). The exhibition was organised under the direction of the Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the Design Museum Akihabara, [...]

For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach Reception, the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum presented the exhibition “Speed Limits” and the performance art collaboration “Seduce Me” by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. In this video we focus on the reception and the exhibiton “Speed Limits” and exchange a few words with Cathy Leff, Director of [...]