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ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 250 galleries from over 30 countries which show historical avant-garde, contemporary and emerging art. The 27th edition of ARCO runs from Wednesday 13th to Monday 18th February 2008. This year Brazil is guest country. In a special sector 32 galleries show Brazilian art. The General Programme [...]

Galerie Volker Diehl exclusively works with international young, contemporary artists. After 15 years of gallery work in Berlin-Charlottenburg and 5 years as Managing Director of the Art Forum Berlin, Volker Diehl reopened his gallery in Berlin-Mitte in the Spring of 2000. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, 2006. Click image or [...]

The exhibition “Ein Produkt des freien Willens (A Product of Free Will)” at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presented works by David Hatcher, Michael Müller, and Christine Würmell. The exhibition ended on 19th August 2007 but will be on show at the Kunstverein Göttingen from November 18 to December 31, 2007. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin. By VTV [...]

At The Armory Show 2006 The Breeder presented the young Greek artist Eleni Christodoulou with the large-scale painting “Wave Optics”. The Athens based gallery works with the younger generation of Greek artists and also with international artists like Marc Bijl, Iris van Dongen and Markus Amm. Upcoming exhibition is “Indy Structures” by Marc Bijl (13.4.-13.5.2006). [...]

The Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam) in Luxembourg opens the 2012 program with a series of new exhibitions ranging from painting and sculpture to design and fashion. One of the shows presents a new work by New York-based artist Sarah Sze. Sarah Sze is known for her complex sculptures and site-specific installations, for which [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is the first part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

In 1981 Luigi Colani broke a fuel saving record with a streamlined four seater car, in 2002 he completed his 7th streamlined truck. In the final part of the conversation Luigi Colani talks about fuel efficiency, the speed and efficiency records he broke at the Utah Salt Flats in Bonneville and a truck he is [...]

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity is the title of an exhibition at The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach that has a look at French design from the 1940s to today. On display are furniture, industrial design, and craft by some of the most celebrated French designers. The show presents models, prototypes and mass-produced designs by [...]

For his solo show “L’Italianita dei Gioielli” at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich italian jewelry artist Giampaolo Babetto created an exhibition tailor-made to the circular, light-filled gallery space on the second floor of the rotunda in the Pinakothek der Moderne. In this video we have a look at the exhibition and [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]