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This year’s ARCOmadrid_2010, the international art fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 238 galleries from 32 different countries. It’s the 29th issue of the international fair for contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. This video provides a walkthrough of ARCOmadrid_2010 on the first of the two days for professionals. This year’s guest city is Los Angeles. Coming [...]

In this video, Lenny Campello, owner of the gallery Alida Anderson Art Projects talks about the work of Tim Tate. At Art Santa Fe, the gallery is showing three pieces that are made of blown and cast glass and incorporate LCD screens (14″x6″x6″). Tim Tate is a mixed media sculptor based in Washington, DC. He [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

Volta art fair debuted in Basel, Switzerland and now brings 52 international artists and galleries to New York during The Armory Week. The fair is located opposite the Empire State Building. What’s special about Volta New York is that all galleries present solo projects. The show has been curated by Amanda Coulson and Christian Viveros-Fauné [...]

On September 21st, Palma celebrated the 10th edition of its “Nit de l’Art” (Art Night), a special event in which all the art galleries, cultural centers and museums of the capital city of the island of Mallorca open their exhibitions on the same evening. Around 27 openings can be attended on this day in the [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

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 [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

Mike Meiré is the creative mind behind many diverse projects. He is designer as well as art director, artist, editor, and curator and defines himself more as a professional dreamer. In 2006 he won the Visual Leader of the Year Award for the art direction of the publications Brand Eins, Kid’s Wear, McK Wissen, Mini [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]

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 [...]