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In the second part of the interview with the curator of the exhibition “The Expanded Eye” at the Kunsthaus Zürich Bice Curiger talks about the tasks and feelings during the installation of the exhibition, personal favorites, the popularity of contemporary art and the the experience of writing for a weblog. Bice Curiger is curator at [...]

The Stephen Cohen Gallery was opened in 1992 and moved to its present location in 1995. Since it’s inception, the Gallery has exhibited vintage and contemporary photography and photo-based art from the United States, Europe and South America. Owner / director Stephen Cohen talks about some of the works the gallery presented at Photo Miami [...]

The Nancy Spero exhibition Dissidances at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla, Spain, was a re-encounter with the artist’s work Maypole: take no prisoners (2007). Nancy Spero produced this installation for the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 for the Italian Pavilion, curated by Robert Storr (see: Venice Biennial 2007). The piece is a [...]

Christine Hill (born 1968 in Binghamton, New York, lives and works in Berlin and New York) has been working on the project “Volksboutique” since the early 1990s. She first drew international attention to her work with this project at documenta X in Kassel in 1997. The work “Official Template” now on display at the ifa [...]

“We do pranks” says Franco Mattes in this interview with VernissageTV at the occasion of Eva and Franco Mattes’ solo exhibition at the new media art institution Plug.in in Basel. This is a nice understatement, of course, since Eva and Franco Mattes are among the pioneers of the net.art movement and the artist-provocateurs behind the [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

Within the framework of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted live public interviews with every Biennale participant. The six-day live marathon took place in the Arsenale from August 22 through 27. Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed artists and architects such as Kazuyo [...]

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.

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 [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

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 [...]

Max Lamb is one of the four designers / design collectives who won the “Designers of the Future Award 2008″. Each of the designers were commissioned by the the design fair Design Miami Basel to create new works using concrete and wool. Max Lamb developed “Solids of Revolution”, two collections of stools in concrete and [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

In this video Professor Gerlach shows a good example for what students are taught in the first semesters. The task was to design a product and to show that it’s really working. In this case student Tobias Kruschhausen developed a piece of furniture for public space called “Slide”. It has an interesting mechanism that allows [...]