Archive for November, 2009
« Previous EntriesInterview with Jonathan Meese at Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Monday, November 30th, 2009Just one week before Art Basel Miami Beach, VernissageTV had the chance to have a look at the new exhibition space of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, located in the Design District in Miami. The new museum will open on Wednesday this week, and when we visited the space, Rosa and Carlos [...]
F18: Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century / SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival
Friday, November 27th, 2009The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18’s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century.
Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, “allowing the objects familiar in an everyday [...]
Marco Schuler: Zauberberg. Sculptures and Videos / Häusler Contemporary Zürich
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Marco Schuler’s solo exhibition at Häusler Contemporary Zürich is the first exhibition of a new series of solo presentations of young international artists who exhibit for the first time in Switzerland. New Position I, the inaugural exhibition, presents sculptures and videos by the German artist.
Marco Schuler’s work revolves around notions of physical strain and [...]
Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space / Migros Museum Zürich
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are semmingly solidified in movement, as if frozen. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Tatiana Trouvé presents new works in her first solo exhibition in Switzerland: an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings.
One of [...]
Zilvinas Kempinas Magnetic Tape Installation / Remix
Friday, November 20th, 2009At this year’s Art Forum Berlin, Berlin’s international fair for contemporary art, Spencer Brownstone Gallery presented a magnetic tape installation by Zilvinas Kempinas. It was the only work on display at the gallery’s booth. The Lithuanian artist, who lives and works in New York is known for his works that use unspooled videotape as sculptural [...]
John Wood & Paul Harrison: There or Thereabouts / Von Bartha Garage, Basel
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison present a series of short videos, drawings and text prints at Von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. The works on display date from the years 1993 to 2009. The works center around making space perceptible and making sense of the world. The range from funny to [...]
Nine New Destinations at Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Monday, November 16th, 2009Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, recently inaugurated nine permanent large-scale works, Nine New Destinations, by the artists Chris Burden, Doug Aitken, Edgard de Souza, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Jorge Macchi, Matthew Barney, Rivane Neuenschwander, Valeska Soares, and Yayoi Kusama.
Inhotim is a museum complex, formed by a non-linear sequence of pavilions in the midst [...]
Jenny Holzer: Light Projections in Basel / Fondation Beyeler
Friday, November 13th, 2009An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]
Antony Gormley: One and Other / At Dusk
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One & Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Two days before, when we filmed Trafalgar Square at dusk, it was a completely different scenery, as you can see in this video [...]
SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival Basel 2009
Monday, November 9th, 2009From the 22nd to the 25th of October 2009, the electronic arts festival SHIFT took place at the Dreispitzarea and the Schaulager in Basel / Münchenstein. This year’s theme was “Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities”.
SHIFT 2009 showcased the latest shooting stars and legendary pioneers of electro music, a conference with ten guest lecturers, [...]
