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First impressions from Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair. This time, Preview Berlin has chosen quite a special venue, a former hangar at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport. 57 galleries and project spaces present works at Preview Berlin 2007. September 27, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, curator of Spain’s exhibition project at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007, has selected four artists, different by age, background and works: Manuel Vilariño, José Luis Guerín, Los Torreznos (a duo of action artists composed by Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata) and Rubén Ramos Balsa. The exhibition is titled “Paradiso Spezzato”. “Paradiso [...]

The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. [...]

The current exhibition Julie Mehretu: Grey Area at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is dedicated to the American artist Julie Mehretu. Julie Mehretu has been asked to realize a work for the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist. The works of the suite of paintings she created for this [...]

Envoy Gallery, New York, presents new paintings by Belgian artist Vincent Geyskens (born 1971). Vincent Geyskens lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. “By exploring how gaze and perception works, the artist explores how the image fails. He constantly moves around the painterly construction, content, technical and material conditions of the image, fundamentally positioning two ways [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

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 [...]

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). The exhibition was organised under the direction of the Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the Design Museum Akihabara, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 the China Chair Project Exhibition presented functional contemporary Chinese Sculpture at the Carlyle Hotel, Miami Beach. The artists were selected by Paul Hughes. Many of the artists participating in the project had never worked in three-dimensional media before, and all but one had never worked on a chair. Each [...]