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The exhibition Zonas de Riesgo (Risk Areas) at the CaixaForum in Madrid focuses on artistic responses to our present social, economic, political and cultural situation. Drawn from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Fundación “la Caixa” it features about thirty pieces by Carlos Amorales, Miguel Ángel Rios, Damian Ortega, Steve McQueen, Txomin Badiola, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, [...]

Corinne Enquist, director of C. A. Galerija (Zagreb, Croatia), on the video installation Oxygen4 by the Croatian-Dutch artist and filmmaker Dan Oki. Using five different video projections, the presentation invites viewers to “make their own movies”, which will vary according to their patience, interest, and the flow of visitors to the stand. ARCO / Madrid, [...]

Filiale is a cooperation between Galerie Conrads (Düsseldorf) and Galerie Römerapotheke (Zürich). Filiale will be presenting the newest work of the artists of both galleries, but also topical exhibitions and new positions. The inaugural exhibition, “fairy tales” presents work by Catharina van Eetvelde (B), Simon English (UK), Marcel Gähler (CH), Jana Gunstheimer (D), Rosemary Laing [...]

One of the videos shown at the fortress in Fortezza / Franzensfeste as part of the exhibition “Scenarios”, is Michael Snow’s 1982 film “So Is This”. Michael Snow (born 1929) is a Canadian artist who works in various media such as painting, sculpture, photography and film. The film “So Is This” (16mm, b&w, silent, 45 [...]

With the kind permission of Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien we had a first look into the exhibition Dream and Trauma, days before the opening, while it was still in its installation phase. Dream and Trauma opens June 28, 2007 und runs through October 4, 2007. Dream and Trauma is [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

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 [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

SaloneSatellite is a show of upcoming design talents running synergically with this year’s furniture fair. One of these talents is Nika Zupanc, who exhibited her “nursing room” collection at the show. Others are Xcellent, Coex Design, Georgio Saltos, Krä, Gesellschaft für neuartige Leuchtengestaltung, Mareike Gast, The Sign Connection, Franzi Kramer and Bernauer.Product. Art schools like [...]

The Design Museum London is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. We met Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum’s director who gave us a short introduction to the Design Museum and an outlook on future plans including the museum’s expansion and relocation. Design Museum London, London, May 17, 2007. > Click [...]

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 [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

Julian Hönig is working at carmaker Audi as Senior Designer Audi Design Exterieur. He studied industrial design in Austria and car design in Pasadena and is the designer of the Audi RSQ concept, a futuristic film car for the motion picture “I, Robot”, and the concept car “Cross Coupé quattro”. In this interview he shows [...]