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Running concurrently with Art Cologne, the DC Duesseldorf Contemporary is seeking to position itself as an international art fair. The fair presents art from the 1980s to the present. Impressions, April 19, 2007, part 1/2. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime [...]

For Art Basel Miami Beach, Dorsch Gallery shows works by Miami-based artist Robert Thiele. Robert Thiele began exhibiting publicly in the early 1970s. He participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial Exhibition in 1975. His numerous solo exhibitions include several in public institutions such as the Miami Art Museum, in 2001. Thiele has [...]

ArteBregaglia is an art project that brings contemporary art to the Bergell, a valley situated on the driving route from Milan in Italy to St. Moritz in Switzerland. It’s a valley of Italian language and alpine culture on the southern border of Switzerland. For ArteBregaglia 13 artists have been visiting and exploring the Bergell. In [...]

The Soul (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls) is the title of the Manifesta 7 exhibition in Trento, Italy. The exhibition is curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, and is composed of contributions by 49 contemporary artists who are mainly working in Europe. In this episode we have a look at the [...]

Last weekend, Kunsthalle Basel opened no less than three exhibitions: the group show “Word Event“, an exhibition which “points to a possible return of a fluxus sensibility via a new, contemporary, proverbial linguistic turn”. Among the participating artists are George Brecht, James Lee Byars, Will Holder, and others. A series of performances took place on [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

Thomas of Art-Netart presenting the new dvd’art called d-fuse by Matali Crasset and Jori Hulkonnen. October 6, 2005. FIAC contemporary art fair, Paris / France. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment. Alfredo Häberli’s show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat or Moroso. In this [...]

Mike Meiré is the creative mind behind many diverse projects. He is designer as well as art director, artist, editor, and curator and defines himself more as a professional dreamer. In 2006 he won the Visual Leader of the Year Award for the art direction of the publications Brand Eins, Kid’s Wear, McK Wissen, Mini [...]