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“On January 1, 2008, a new management team will be taking over at Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. Supported by an appointment committee of international experts, Messe Schweiz has decided that the current Director, Sam Keller, will be succeeded by a triumvirate: Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Annette Schönholzer, and Marc Spiegler will be assuming [...]

Art Miami has its roots in a 18-year-old fair with the same name that took place in January. Now the new Art Miami joined the others and runs concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach. Impressions from the VIP Preview, December 4, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

Interview with the owner / director of the gallery Michael Neff at the 2006 edition of the Frieze Art Fair in London. The gallery is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Neff is also artistic director of the Fine Art Fair Frankfurt. In the interview, Michael Neff talks about the artists he presented in London and [...]

The Belgian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007 houses a glass/mirror labyrinth by artist Eric Duyckaerts (born 1953 in Liège, lives and works in Nice, France). Venice, Italy, June 8, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > [...]

For the season opening, Marc de Puechredon Gallery presents a group show with works by Davide Balliano, Margret H. Blöndal, Simona Brinkmann, Gordon Cheung, Rachel Goodyear, Monica Ursina Jäger, Vinca Petersen, Andreas Hagenbach and Will Ryman. The exhibition entitled “The Aesthetics of Anxiety” is “curated around the ideas of the Uncanny. Work which taps into [...]

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 [...]

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 new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

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 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met decorative arts consultant, dealer and design curator Cristina Grajales, Cristina Grajales served as director of 1950 Gallery in New York City from 1990 to 2000. “Grajales’s passion for many of the twentieth century’s greatest masters – among them Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand – propelled [...]

Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met dealer Philippe Jousse of Jousse Entreprise, Paris. Jousse Entreprise (founded 1997) represents mid-20th century architects´ furniture. Philippe Jousse talks about the gallery and the works brought to the fair. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June 11, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > [...]

For his solo show “L’Italianita dei Gioielli” at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich italian jewelry artist Giampaolo Babetto created an exhibition tailor-made to the circular, light-filled gallery space on the second floor of the rotunda in the Pinakothek der Moderne. In this video we have a look at the exhibition and [...]