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With the exhibition “The Expanded Eye. Stalking the Unseen” the Kunsthaus Zurich is showing an exhibition which takes a look at “the ever-widening horizons of the human eye in the age of its physiologically and technologically extended faculties” (PR Kunsthaus). The exhibition includes renowned works by Op Artist Bridget Riley, the Surrealist Salvador Dalí and [...]

The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a large-scale installation by Olaf Breuning which comprises drawings, sculptures and his new film “Home 2 (2007)”. The exhibition is Olaf Breuning’s largest solo show to date in Switzerland. “Since the late 1990s, this Swiss artist (born 1970 in Schaffhausen, lives and works in New York) has produced quotation-rich [...]

Imaginary Arsenals at Cuchifritos art gallery / project space is an exhibitionn curated by Kimberly Lamm. “Imaginary Arsenals addresses the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists.” (from the PR). The artists selected are Jane Benson, Stephen Collier, Diane Meyer, Graham Parker, Kanishka Raja, Nathan See, Dan Tague. Imaginary Arsenals is part of [...]

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 [...]

Seven is a collective project organized by the galleries BravinLee programs, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters, P.P.O.W., Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and Winkleman Gallery. Seven runs parallel to Art Basel Miami Beach. New this year is a partnership with Creative Capital, which presented a large, interactive floor projection by Brian Knep, Healing Pool. Seven Art [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work. Presentation of the project for the Neue Stadt-Casino Basel. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition.
Museum of Architecture Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

VernissageTV visited Jan Gluszak’s exhibition presented in Muzeum of Architecture in Poland. We spoke with Michał Duda, one of the curators of “Dagarama. Back to the Future”. Dagarama. Back to the Future at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland is an exhibition about the Polish poet and philosopher, architecture visionary, dreamer and idealist Jan [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

In part 2 of our walk through the Colani retrospective at the Design Museum London, curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert explains the concept behind the exhibition. Luigi Colani: Translating Nature is divided into three parts: water, air and land. When the visitor enters the exhibition space, he immerses into a water world which invites him to [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

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 [...]