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Impression from Volta NY art fair 2012. Volta NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects. It’s the American incarnation of the Volta Show that was founded in Basel in 2005. Highlights include Carl Emanuel Wolff’s Achse des Bösen at Schuebbe Projects; sculptures by Rachel Beach at Blackston Gallery; paintings by Asgar / Gabriel [...]

In the first part of the interview Bice Curiger talks about the idea behind the exhibition “The Expanded Eye” and the references to “The Responsive Eye”, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965), and the book “Expanded Cinema” (1970). Bice Curiger is a curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich and has [...]

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Some visitors compared the array of art fair tents in Wynwood with the Oktoberfest in Bavaria and Aqua Art Miami is one of the tent fairs, too. But the fair’s second location is still the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach. Approximately half of the galleries are from Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles with [...]

The latest addition to Berlin’s art fair landscape is Bridge, a fair that is already present in London, Miami and New York. In Berlin, the fair is located in an apartment complex in Schönhauser Allee 5 in Berlin Mitte. Most exhibitors come from the US like the Brooklyn-based Front Room Gallery which presents the kinetic [...]

Iván Navarro’s work was already very present at ARCO, the contemporary art fair in Madrid, and now in New York his work seems to be omnipresent. At The Armory Show, one of the highlights was his site-specific installation at the booth of Paul Kasmin Gallery (see in our Armory Show coverage here). The gallery is [...]

ArchitectureTalks Lucerne is a two-day international symposium offering a stage on which world-renowned protagonists from the worlds of architecture, art, culture, philosophy, business and politics will address architectural and urban issues in an interdisciplinary manner. This year’s theme was “Shopping Miles and More”. Initiator and Director of the Talks is Frank Joss. Short documentation of [...]

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 [...]

The Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

Thomas of Art-Netart presenting the new dvd’art called d-fuse by Matali Crasset and Jori Hulkonnen. October 6, 2005. FIAC contemporary art fair, Paris / France. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

“Along with his studio Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) that was set up in 1991 he has made a name for himself through experiments with materials and a constructive individuality. KGID products are characterised by their everyday usefulness and formal restraint as well as by humour and perspicacity. These are the kind of products that [...]

This exhibition features the winners of the design competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), one of the most important contemporary design promotion instruments. The exhibition provides an insight into current Swiss design work in the fields of graphics, textile and fashion design, photography, and industrial and stage design. Design is not [...]

Falling Light is an immersive installation by the London art and design studio Troika. It consists of 50 ceiling-mounted illumination devices that immerse the visitor in a virtual shower of light “drops”. This is achieved by projections of light through an optically pure, custom-cut Swarovski crystal lens. VernissageTV’s Sabine Trieloff met with two of the [...]

“Luigi Colani is a great maverick of 20th Century design. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has placed organic design firmly on the contemporary agenda, producing biodynamic designs for cars, boats, planes, ceramics, consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for the design of transport and architecture. A powerful influence on [...]