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ARCO Director Lourdes Fernández in conversation with Stefan Kobel at ARCO 2010. This is an excerpt of the interview. The full-length version (16:06 Min.) is available after the jump. A transcript of the interview in German language is available on Artnet Magazine. ARCOmadrid_2010, 29th International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid / Spain. Professional Day, February 17, [...]

The international contemporary art fair, Kunst 05 Zürich, again includes in its eleventh year a guest sector in the fair’s programme and thus provides additional topicality. For this sector, ten young galleries from New York City were selected whose programmes are focusing on experimental and cutting-edge contemporary art. They show, apart from works with new [...]

Galerie Schwarzer celebrates the 80th birthday of the German artist Günther Uecker with a special presentation at his booth at Art Cologne 2010. One of the highlights is a self-portrait of the artist, who became famous for using nails in his art. Galerie Hans Meyer presents an exceptional booth again. In this video Hans Mayer [...]

One of the quotes on the Frieze Art Fair’s press quotes page: “Frieze is open to everyone.” (Morgan Falconer, The Times, 07 October 2006). Well, the fair is still open online at VernissageTV, category “Frieze”. Frieze Art Fair, October 12, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

Andrea Rosen Gallery presents “Twilight”, an exhibition incorporating sculpture, painting, and photography by German artist Friedrich Kunath. Friedrich Kunath was born in Chemnitz in 1974. Recently he participated in a group show at Tate Modern, London and had solo shows at BQ, Cologne and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. In 2005 was awarded the Jürgen [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archbishopric Cologne: a triad of place, building and collection. Two thousand years of occidental culture – architecture, arts and crafts and fine art – can be experienced together at one place. Kolumba wants to recall: A museum is a place of slowness, of concentration, of playful-creative analysis, of [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Broken Rhythm examines the work from her [...]

On the occasion of the current exhibition “Jean Prouvè. The poetics of the technical object” the director of the Vitra Design Museum, Alexander von Vegesack, talks about the future projects the Vitra Design Museum is working on. There are plans for exhibitions about “minimal spaces for living and moving”, the Campana brothers, Le Corbusier, and [...]

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 [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]