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From the 22nd to the 25th of October 2009, the electronic arts festival SHIFT took place at the Dreispitzarea and the Schaulager in Basel / Münchenstein. This year’s theme was “Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities”. SHIFT 2009 showcased the latest shooting stars and legendary pioneers of electro music, a conference with ten guest [...]

Viktor Bucher of Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna / Austria, presenting his booth with works of Christoph Schmidberger and G.R.A.M. FIAC contemporary art fair, Paris / France. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Zurcher Studio New York presents Bbbrrriiiaaannn Bbbeeellloootttttt: The Joy of File. The centerpiece of Brian Belott’s solo show at the gallery is a huge installation containing images of all sorts: pictures cut out of children’s books and old science textbooks, found photos and paper painted by Brian Belott himself. Part of the installation are also [...]

The art fair for modern and contemporary art Art Karlsruhe claims to occupy the third position in the German-speaking region, behind Art Basel and Art Cologne. The fourth Art Karlsruhe presents 161 galleries from nine countries. There are two special exhibitions, the Selinka Collection with works by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille and Asger Jorn (Cobra [...]

Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work. On display are works by Sheffy Bleier, Lauren Bockow, Adam Brandejs, Tania Bruguera, Nezaket Ekici, Anthony Fisher, Betty Hirst, Zang Huan, Tamara Kostianovsky, Simone Rachell, David Raymond, Dieter [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

This is the first part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

Design Miami/ Basel takes place in a new venue, the Markthalle Basel, which is the largest dome in Europe and a local landmark with over 6,000m2 of floor space. The participating gallerists have collaborated with architects, designers and artists to create unique exhibition spaces within the Markthalle. Design Miami/ Basel 2007. > Click image to [...]

FriendsWithYou is an art collective founded by the Miami-based artists, Rev. Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III. At the occasion of the opening of their new Flagship Store and Studio in the Miami Design District, VernissageTV had a look at their new shop and studio. FriendsWithYou was founded in 2002. Since then, FriendsWithYou [...]

Interview with Monica Pozzi about Resfest Swissmix. Swissmix is the selection for young Swiss filmmakers of Resfest Switzerland. Swissmix provides young Swiss talent with a professional platform and may work as a steppingstone to reach an international audience. This year’s participants have been Dominic Lahiff / GMD Three, Jonas Meier; Oliver Conrad (Kompost); Ramon & [...]

Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]