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Kunst 05 Zürich, 11th international art fair for contemporary art in Zurich, Switzerland. Kunst 05 Zürich again includes in its eleventh year a guest sector in the fair’s program. For this sector, ten young galleries from New York City were selected whose programs are focusing on experimental and cutting-edge contemporary art. Take a look at [...]

The region around Basel has one of the most active art scenes worldwide. The Regionale presents artists who live here in 10 different locations in Switzerland, Germany and France. One of these art venues is the Kunstverein Freiburg. The Kunstverein Freiburg shows positions of contemporary art and is one of the oldest and most important [...]

Interview with the curator of the exhibition “Aleksandra Mir: Switzerland and Other Islands“, Mirjam Varadinis, accompanied by images of the installation of the show. From 18 August to 8 October 2006 Kunsthaus Zürich is showing felt-pen drawings by Aleksandra Mir (born 1967). Aleksandra Mir has created a new series for this exhibition revolving around the [...]

Hans Holbein the Younger at the Kunstmuseum Basel presents for the first time in almost five decades an important part of the extant works from Holbeins Basel years from 1515 to 1532. It is an extraordinary collection of some forty paintings, one hundred drawings and numerous prints. Curated by Christian Müller, this exhibition will provide [...]

Lisa Kirk’s solo exhibition House of Cards at Invisible-Exports in New York appears as a mordant comment on the current economic crisis. Lisa Kirk’s House of Cards features the work Maison des Cartes, a show model “shanty timeshare” built from 52 separate pieces of found materials. Maison des Cartes occupies the central space of the [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

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 + [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

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, [...]

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. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new [...]

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is considered as one of the most innovative interior architects and furniture designers of the 20th century. She developed designs for tubular steel furniture, particularly in cooperation with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Beginning in the early 1930s, she discovered photography as a medium that provided important impulses for her work as [...]

Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) is a Chicago-based artist who appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language. As media, he mainly uses sculpture, painting and installation. For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Dzine created a new custom lowrider tricycle [...]

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 [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]