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In his third solo show at Kuttner Siebert in Berlin / Germany, Terry Haggerty shows new works that represent an logical evolution of his painting. Terry Haggerty was born in London in 1970. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. “Terry Haggerty’s works are marked by their extraordinary perfection, whereby several layers of [...]

Mogadishni participates in Liste 06 in Basel with a solo project by Rasmus Bjorn. “Rasmus Bjørn explores the relationship between drawing and object, two dimensionality versus three dimensionality, the clash between function and non-function, the real and the represented.” (Marie Dufresne). Mogadishni is a gallery for international contemporary art, based in Valby, Denmark. Director Christian [...]

Topotek 1 are not the typical landscape architects. Topotek 1′s mission is to expand the possibilities of landscape architecture. On the occasion of the inauguration of their latest projects and their work on the competition for the redesign of the Flughafen Tempelhof site, VernissageTV met with the Topotek 1 principals Martin Rein-Cano and Lorenz Dexler. [...]

Incidentes de viaje espejo en Yucatán y otros lugares at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City is an exhibition that is loosely inspired by the travels of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood in Yucatan, Chiapas and Central America in 1839 and 1841, and the trip made in 1969 by Robert Smithson in the southeast peninsula. [...]

ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations is the title of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. This time, the curator of the international exhibition is Bice Curiger. She has chosen 83 artists. In this video we have a look at the artists presented in the Arsenale, among them Yto Barrada, Monica [...]

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archbishopric Cologne: a triad of place, building and collection. Two thousand years of occidental culture – architecture, arts and crafts and fine art – can be experienced together at one place. Kolumba wants to recall: A museum is a place of slowness, of concentration, of playful-creative analysis, of [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

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 [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]

Interview with Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green, Richard Thé, the creators of “Parasite”, an independent projection-system that can be attached to subways with suction pads. Interview: Jussi Ängeslevä (assistant professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin). Reality Check c-base @ Transmediale.06, Berlin, Exhibition here/there – works of the digital class of the udk berlin of C-Base, [...]

Gabrielle Ammann, director of Designer’s Gallery, talks about her program at Design Miami Basel, especially about the “Event Horizon” table by Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid’s “Iceberg” sculpture, and the importance of Design Miami for design galleries. Interior architect Gabrielle Ammann established Designer’s Gallery in Cologne, Germany in 2006. The gallery concept was born out [...]

At the College Exhibition at Pforzheim University we had an interesting conversation with Prof. James Kelly. He told us about the history and the concept of the Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, the application and selection process, and what the students learn in the undergraduate and masters courses of Transportation Design. Pforzheim, Germany, July [...]

In the third part of the interview Luigi Colani talks about his relationship with colleague designers, his architectural projects in China, the Rotor House Project, and the needs and challenges of realizing a large flying wing passenger aircraft. More interviews with Luigi Colani: Conversation with Luigi Colani at Building Design Podcasts, interview at “Plastics – [...]