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At The Armory Show 2009 in March we spoke with artist Heide Hatry about her new book Heads and Tales. Heads and Tales features photographic documentations of sculptures created by Heide Hatry out of animal skin and body parts. The book is a collaborative anthology consisting of Heide Hatry’s images and stories by 27 prominent [...]

ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 250 galleries from over 30 countries which show historical avant-garde, contemporary and emerging art. The 27th edition of ARCO runs from Wednesday 13th to Monday 18th February 2008. This year Brazil is guest country. In a special sector 32 galleries show Brazilian art. The General Programme [...]

“Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection” is an exhibition showcasing contemporary art inspired by everyday objects. It features works by artists such as Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst and José Antonio Hernández-Diez. Fortunate Objects is structured around three main themes: the appropriated object, the surrogate object, and the object utilized. “Fortunate Objects proposes a [...]

Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij is known for his car sculptures. At Art Amsterdam he showed cars and car parts preserved in glass jars filled with liquid. His galerist, Albert Dijkstra (BuroDijkstra ArtGallery, Rotterdam) tells us more about his work. The Rotterdam artist has become known for his car sculptures on display in public space. He [...]

Swiss artist Christian Philipp Müller (b. 1957) examines such issues as the context of art, the specifics of place and the exhibition itself as a medium. “Christian Philipp Müller’s installations are based on an artistic exploration that links widely diverse facts and things by way of addressing social, economic and cultural givens. For this retrospective [...]

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 [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 15, January 2011. In this issue we look back at Art Basel Miami Beach Week with an Miami Basel Overview by FADs Editor at Large Ben Austin (click here for his article at FAD) and photos by Sabine Trieloff, Mark Vogel, and Didier Leroi. (Photos by Didier Leroi and Gregor [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Luigi Colani: Translating Nature at the Design Museum London. Final part of the exhibition walkthrough with curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert. Design Museum London, May 17, 2007. Part 3/3. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > DVD available. Related Articles:Luigi Colani: Translating Nature / Design Museum London / part 2/3Luigi Colani: [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]

VTV is talking with Kenny Schachter about his gallery’s concept and his booth at ARCO 2006. Amongst others he shows works by Zaha Hadid and Vito Acconci. Untitled (2006) by Zaha Hadid is a cell / body that offers / allows multi functional uses, as a table, counter, seat, container and as a surface to [...]