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I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME is the title of a new installation, the Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby is currently presenting at the gallery Sprüth Magers in Berlin. Regular viewers of our program will know the work of Sterling Ruby, as VernissageTV covered several group shows the artist was [...]

Among the works that the gallery Hauser & Wirth shows at Art Cologne 2012 are Phyllida Barlow’s Untitled: Slick (2010), a large sculpture made of plywood, castors, timber, and other “poor” materials, and a neon sculpture by Jason Rhoades. In this conversation with art expert Dr. Bettina Krogemann, Anna Helwing of Galerie Hauser & Wirth [...]

Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Topological Gardens, currently on view at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The Biennale stated that Bruce Nauman’s work “reveals the magic of meaning as it emerges through relentless repetition of language and form.” Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens [...]

The Rolf Ricke Collection is the most extensive and valuable acquisition made by Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since the purchase of the Karl Ströher Collection in 1981. The Rolf Ricke Collection includes works by such artists as Donald Judd, Richard Artschwager, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Jo Baer, Dan [...]

A new member in the club of the satellite art fairs is Show Off – Fair for Contemporary Art. The new show is timed to coincide with the FIAC and it is housed just a few blocks from the Grand Palais and Louvre exhibition spaces. Show Off presents 28 galleries from France, Switzerland, Italy, Cuba, [...]

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, Initiator and Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne. Architecture Talks Lucerne provides a platform for networking and an opportunity for architects, interior designers, designers, general contractors, investors, for professionals and students, and – specific to the 2006 edition – retailers to meet. Architekturgespräche Luzern 2006, May 12, 2006. Interview with Frank [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

SaloneSatellite is a show of upcoming design talents running synergically with this year’s furniture fair. One of these talents is Nika Zupanc, who exhibited her “nursing room” collection at the show. Others are Xcellent, Coex Design, Georgio Saltos, Krä, Gesellschaft für neuartige Leuchtengestaltung, Mareike Gast, The Sign Connection, Franzi Kramer and Bernauer.Product. Art schools like [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

Hørbar/Audiobar is an interactive sound installation by media artist Mogens Jacobsen (born 1959 in Rome, lives and works in Copenhagen). It was developed at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The user interacts with the sounds by placing bottles on a table. In this video, Mogens Jacobsen gives us a demonstration of how [...]

The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction is an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum that brings together objects such as the iPod, the Thonet chair No. 14, and furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata, and Jasper Morrison. The [...]

Mike Meiré is the creative mind behind many diverse projects. He is designer as well as art director, artist, editor, and curator and defines himself more as a professional dreamer. In 2006 he won the Visual Leader of the Year Award for the art direction of the publications Brand Eins, Kid’s Wear, McK Wissen, Mini [...]