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Thomas Hirschhorn represents Switzerland at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Shortly before the official opening of the pavilion, VernissageTV’s correspondent Gürsoy Dogtas met with Thomas Hirschhorn to discuss his latest installation. Thomas Hirschhorn conceived a large-scale installation that completely fills the pavilion of Switzerland in the Giardini [...]

Nicolas Krupp of Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel / Switzerland, in his booth at the FIAC, presenting a work by Swiss artists Studer / van den Berg. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Last Thursday we attended Apexart’s premiere Fauxgala ’08 which featured a special event exhibition entitled the “The Man Piece, a Group Show” curated by Vanessa Walters including Jeremiah Clancy, Evan Collier, John Gregorio, Daniel Pettrow, Clayton Dean Smith, Eric Schmalenberger, and Andrew Schneider. We had the pleasure to document the festivities. Apexart: Fauxgala ’08. New [...]

Kent Henricksen’s exhibition “Divine Deviltries” at the Chelsea-based gallery John Connelly Presents is the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York at the gallery. The gallery’s walls are covered with a series of wallpapers and art work which look nice from a distance, but turn evil when you have a close look. Kent Henricksen, born [...]

Now in its fourth year, Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair presents national and international galleries and project spaces. For the third time a former hangar at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is the venue or Preview Berlin. In addition to the galleries’ presentations, the fair offers various curated presentation formats, including a Video Art Program [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

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 [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

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 [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

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 [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

For Dornbracht Edges, designer Mike Meiré is showing the installation “The Farm Project”. With “The Farm Project” Mike Meiré transforms the kitchen into a barn-like, “real-life” stage, charged with aromas, animals, plants and objects – and with an outer cover made of a patchwork of materials. VernissageTV met Mike Meiré in Cologne where “The Farm [...]