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This is part 2 of our coverage of The Soul (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls), Manifesta 7′s exhibition in Trento, Italy. In this episode we have a look at works by Roee Rosen, Joachim Koester, Andrée Korpys & Markus Löffler, Eyal Sivan, Beth Campbell, Barbara Visser, Karl Holmqvist, and Klaus Weber. According [...]

According to the latest press release over 150 private planes landed at the Basel-Mulhouse Airport and virtually all of the world’s foremost museums sent delegations to Art 37 Basel. According to the Show Management there was a particularly marked increase in attendance by members of the Chinese, Indian, and Russian art scene. Impressions, Art 37 [...]

Chen Zhen (1955–2000) numbers among the most prominent Chinese avant-garde artists, who, disillusioned by post-Maoist reform politics, left China in the mid-eighties. In 1986, he emigrated to Paris where his concept of “open sculpture” received international acclaim. Kunsthalle Wien now shows the first retrospective titled “Chen Zhen: The Body as Landscape”, encompassing all important periods [...]

With La vie possible, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is devoting the largest retrospective exhibition in the German-speaking area since 1991 to French artist Christian Boltanski. It covers the development of Christian Boltanski’s oeuvre since the mid-1980s, beginning with a series of the most famous Monuments. The main focus of the exhibition is on his works of [...]

Galerie Römerapotheke starts into the new year with a solo exhibition with works by the artist Alexandre Joly. “Alexandre Joly work is based on an imaginary universe of the marvelous and the strange, the macabre and the playful. In installations and performances Alexandre Joly investigates acoustic creations, acoustic areas and objects. Nature and the animal [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work. Presentation of the project for the Neue Stadt-Casino Basel. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition.
Museum of Architecture Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

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 [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met designer Sebastian E. He showed us some works he presented at the booth of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York. Sebastian E. works in Santiago, Chile, as designer, artist, teacher, columnist and consultant. Check out Sebastian E.’s website for more information about his work. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

Alexander Taylor is one of the UK’s leading young designers. In 2005 he won the Elle Deco design award for the series of Fold Lamps produced by Established & Sons. After studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University Alexander Taylor started his career working with architects Procter-Rihl before establishing his own design studio [...]

On the occasion of the presentation of Seiko’s Issey Miyake watch series VUE at Baselworld 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, VernissageTV met with the designer of the watch, Yves Béhar. In the first part of the interview, Yves Béhar talks about the new Issey Miyake watch series called VUE: the basic idea, the materials, and shows [...]