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Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, curator of Spain’s exhibition project at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007, has selected four artists, different by age, background and works: Manuel Vilariño, José Luis Guerín, Los Torreznos (a duo of action artists composed by Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata) and Rubén Ramos Balsa. The exhibition is titled “Paradiso Spezzato”. “Paradiso [...]

Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, opens the fall season with new wall-size collages and a three part film by T. J. Wilcox. The exhibition includes 15 large scale collages and films that tell stories about the spectrum of innocence through the viewpoints of a child, a princess and an ambitious beauty. T. J. Wilcox was [...]

Charles Sandison (born in Scotland in 1969) lives and works in Tampere, Finland. Charles Sandison participated in important international group shows at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2004), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2004), Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland (2005), and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2006). After his participation in a group exhibition (Special Exhibition Space [...]

On the occasion of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2010, the gallery Esther Schipper presents new work by Matti Braun. It’s Matti Braun’s fourth solo exhibition at Esther Schipper. For the presentation of the works, the gallery space has been flooded with ultraviolet light that merges with the daylight and creates a light situation that changes [...]

Bidoun Projects has invited Sohrab Mohebbi and Özge Ersoy, independent curators based in New York, to curate a video screening for Art Dubai 2010. The screening is part of a survey of video representations of contemporary art in forms of documentations, mediation, educational, and promotional material to investigate the possibilities of the new media outlets. [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

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 [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

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, [...]

Alexander Taylor is one of the UK’s leading young designers. In 2005 he won the Elle Deco design award for the series of Fold Lamps produced by Established & Sons. After studying Furniture and Product Design at Nottingham Trent University Alexander Taylor started his career working with architects Procter-Rihl before establishing his own design studio [...]

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 [...]

Canadian fashion designer Ying Gao (born in China in 1973) playfully explores the aesthetic potential at the interface of fashion, art and technology. The current solo show at plug.in in Basel presents five projects that exemplary stand for Ying Gao’s approach: Indice de l’indifférence, (uni)forms, Walking City, Living Pod, Swiss quality 1. Sometimes Ying Gao [...]

This exhibition features the winners of the design competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), one of the most important contemporary design promotion instruments. The exhibition provides an insight into current Swiss design work in the fields of graphics, textile and fashion design, photography, and industrial and stage design. Design is not [...]

London-based designer Julia Lohmann is one of the four designers / design collectives who have been awarded Design Miami/ Basel’s “Designers of the Future 2008” prize. Julia Lohmann’s response to the concrete and wool brief set by Design Miami/ Basel is based on research into manmade structures that are exposed to the elements, re-conquered by [...]