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FIAC international art fair, Paris. Impressions from the opening reception, October 5, 2005. Part 2. Click image or this link to watch video.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art is New York’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art. In late 2007 the museum will open its new, 60,000 square foot building at 235 Bowery at Prince Street. The new museum has been designed by Tokyo-based architects Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA. The facility will feature galleries, a theater, an [...]

On Saturday, June 2, 2007, Marc de Puechredon Gallery opened its new premises at Erlenstrasse 15 in Basel (that’s where Scope Basel will take place, too). On display are works by ten artists of the gallery (Laurent Ajina, Anthony Auerbach, Andreas Hagenbach, Marlene Haring, Iris Nemecek, Leta Peer, Will Ryman, Uwe Walther, Margret Weber-Unger, Daniel [...]

In her first institutional solo exhibition, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0, Nora Schultz (*1975) shows comprehensive installations, slide projections and films at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, Germany. In the main exhibition room Nora Schultz has created an installation that shows several chrome-plated pipes mounted firmly on the wall [...]

Gallery Jarmuschek and Partner was founded in 2000 by Kristian Jarmuschek and Stefan Trinks in Berlin-Mitte. Stefan Trinks talks about works by Martha Parsey, Patrick Cierpka, Berit Myrebøe, Harding Meyer, and Markus Putze. Swab International Art Fair Barcelona, May 10/12, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

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 [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Broken Rhythm examines the work from her [...]

Last weekend (July 13/14, 2007) the students of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University displayed their work in one of the two graduation shows (Werkschau) the college holds per year. In this video we take a look at the work of the Transportation Design students, especially what they created under the title [...]

Design Miami/ Basel runs concurrently with Art Basel. The first edition of the fair in Basel featured 17 galleries exhibiting modern to contemporary museum-quality design. “Design Miami/ Basel endeavors to do for design what Art Basel has done for contemporary art, bringing together the best collectors, connoisseurs, artists and designers from around the world in [...]

Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future. An exhibition of Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the Triennale di Milano and the Studio Joe Colombo, Milan. Interview with the curator of the exhibition, Mateo Kries, on January 20, 2006. Part 1. Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground “nuclear cities” [...]

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present “Mondi Possibili”. On display are furniture and objects by Richard Artschwager, Benjamin Bergmann, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Stefan Kern, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Franz West, and Martin Wöhrl. “The works on display deal with the subject of furniture from a variety of [...]