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The 6th edition of the international art show Art Basel Miami Beach presents 200 galleries from the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Special sectors of the fair feature new art works, curated exhibitions, video and sound lounges, a performance program, an open air cinema and art in public spaces. New this year [...]

A new member in the club of the satellite art fairs is Show Off – Fair for Contemporary Art. The new show is timed to coincide with the FIAC and it is housed just a few blocks from the Grand Palais and Louvre exhibition spaces. Show Off presents 28 galleries from France, Switzerland, Italy, Cuba, [...]

Drops of Poison is Swiss painter Crystel Ceresa’s first solo exhibition at Laleh June Galerie in Basel, Switzerland. On display are a series of painted tondi, an installation on the ground, and a large painted mural. Crystel Ceresa paints in a style resembling aerography, spraying the paint at the canvas more than painting with it. [...]

Interview with the director of the DC Duesseldorf Contemporary art fair, Walter Gehlen. Interview: Tobias Hilger for Artfacts.Net and Vernissage TV. DC Duesseldorf Contemporary, April 19, 2007. DC art fair, April 18, 2007. A transcript of the interview will be available soon at Artfacts.Net. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. [...]

Isa Genzken is the artist of the German contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Biennale in Venice. For more than thirty years, Isa Genzken (born in 1948) has been producing a diverse oeuvre. Genzken’s extensive body of work includes sculpture and installations as well as photographs, collages and films. The title of [...]

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 [...]

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 + [...]

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 [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

This is the second and final 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. Click here for part 1 and [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts 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 [...]

The 2007 edition of Design Miami features 26 historical and contemporary design galleries. Eight of the 26 participating galleries make their Design Miami debut: Albion, Casati Gallery, DeLorenzo1950, Donzella 20th Century, Galerie de Casson, Geoffrey Diner, Moss Gallery, and Reform Gallery. In addition to the installations by the galleries, the program of the fair includes [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]

This is the second part of our coverage of the retrospective exhibition Antibodies. The Works of Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 – 2009 at the Vitra Design Museum. In this video, the curator of the exhibition, Mathias Schwarz-Clauss talks about the Campana brother’s approach to design, how their work differs from that of other designers [...]