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Currently, the Kölnischer Kunstverein Die Brücke presents Alexandra Bircken (born 1967). As a former participant of the studio grant program (2004–2008) the Kölnischer Kunstverein has been following her career since the very beginning. “Over the past few years, Bircken has developed an individual sculptural language that reveals a deep understanding of the materials she employs [...]

The group Sedzia Glowny (Chief Judge) – Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak – has radicalized the Polish performance-art scene. Since 2001, this unusual duo has been pushing the limits of human exhaustion to the further point of serious health conditions. Ania Ejsmont met up with the duo on the occasion of their recent retrospective titled [...]

YOU_ser: The Century of the Consumer at the ZKM in Karlsruhe invites the visitor to become an integral part of the art works. This episode is one in a series of videos about the exhibition which features works (among others) by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel (YOUbiläums Browser), Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss (Netzspannung.org), PIPS:lab [...]

With the exhibition “do not walk outside this area”, the Slovakian artist Roman Ondák is realizing his project for the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin as Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year”. Air travelers who have ever sat on the window seat of an aircraft near the wing, know the warning, that is written on the [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami presents the first major solo museum exhibition in the US for German artist Jonathan Meese. The show with the title Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Jonathan Meese’s three-dimensional work. It includes his first ceramic talisman that he created when he was 15. Also on display are small [...]

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 [...]

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum. The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and [...]

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 [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, the [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met Christian Labonte of Audi Design. Christian Labonte has been responsible for the design strategy of carmaker Audi since 2004. Christian Labonte trained as a cabinet-maker before studying architecture in Düsseldorf and industrial design in Essen. He has received many international design awards for the products of the Audi [...]

This year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile is no longer in the city center of Milan but in the new fair complex, designed by architect Massimiliano Fuksas. Among the design companies present at the fair are for example Cappellini, Cassina, De Padova, Driade, Flexform, Kartell, MDF, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Vitra, Wogg etc. Salone Internazionale del [...]

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 [...]

Since last year, we have been following the development of an ambitious project on the Caribbean island Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is the project of Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the real estate development group O Property Collection. Kinay purchased the 560 acre island (part of the Turks and Caicos archipelago) and commissioned [...]

The High Line in New York City is a rather new place for New Yorkers to relax and enjoy the city. The pedestrian walkway and park was created by the non-profit Friends of the High Line along a former elevated rail spur in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first section of the part, from [...]