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In the second part of our Vincent Tavenne tour we attend the openings of the exhibitions at Café Scholz, the city hall of Stuttgart and the Hospitalhof Stuttgart. While Upstairs at Café Scholz presents smaller works by Vincent Tavenne, larger sculptures are on display at City Hall Stuttgart and Hospitalhof. One of the highlights is [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach is the American sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland. Art Basel is considered as the most important annual art show worldwide. A selection of 200 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia exhibit 20th and 21st century art works by over 1500 artists. Art Basel [...]

Until the 31st of July 2010, the gallery Laleh June in Basel presents a group show with the title “Beauty is Diamond”. The exhibition includes works by Ed Ruscha, Behrouz Rae, Anoush Abrar, George Condo, Marc Rembold, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Julian Schnabel, Dexter Dalwood, Claes Oldenburg, Philippe Zumstein and Peter Zimmermann. “The group exhibition [...]

The Official Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 Kick Off Party at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. We collected impressions from the party and interviewed Executive Director & Chief Curator of the MOCA, Bonnie Clearwater. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, December 5, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new movie [...]

The current exhibition at Stampa Gallery in Basel presents both new works by Miriam Cahn and works from the gallery’s archive. “This exhibition is conceived by Miriam Cahn. Since the beginnings of her art practice there has been a close cooperation between the artist and the gallery STAMPA. Both take responsability for two separate curatorial [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

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 [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

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 [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. “The most important original furniture pieces by Jean Prouvé will be exhibited together with several original architectural elements (among them a reconstructed “Maison de Sinistrés”) as well as numerous architectural models, photographs and original sketches on [...]

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 [...]