VernissageTV art tv

There are different ways to get to an art fair: We have seen car shuttles, tram shuttles, and boat shuttles. ABC Art Berlin Contemporary adds a new way of getting to a fair: the golf cart. Commuting between Art Forum Berlin and ABC (just a few steps across the park of the Berlin Exhibition Grounds), [...]

Yes, the British are a nation of sailors. This shows the fact that the wooden floor of Frieze Art Fair is quite unstable. What makes some scenes of this video look a little shaky, despite or perhaps because of the use of a tripod. It’s almost like looking in Jeppe Hein’s vibrant wall mirror. Another [...]

Interview with the curator Nikola Dietrich. Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main. In Spring 2006, Portikus will move into a new building designed by Christoph Mäckler. The Charity Auction for the Portikus at Fine Art Fair, High & Low on March 17, 2006 will feature works by Richard Artschwager, [...]

On Monday, June 14, 2010 the 15th anniversary edition of LISTE – the Young Art Fair in Basel opens its doors for the public. Since its inception in 1996, LISTE’s has presented new galleries and highly contemporary young art. The core of LISTE is the concept of introducing galleries in general no more than five [...]

At Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair we met Priska Juschka of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York. Priska gives us an insight into the gallery’s program in general and especially about artist Christine Tarkowski, who has a solo-show at the gallery in New York at the moment. The exhibition “Whale Oil, Slave [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, the collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz opened the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District. The new space houses the personal collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and serves as an extension of their home. The three-story, [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

An 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 [...]

VernissageTV visited Jan Gluszak’s exhibition presented in Muzeum of Architecture in Poland. We spoke with Michał Duda, one of the curators of “Dagarama. Back to the Future”. Dagarama. Back to the Future at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland is an exhibition about the Polish poet and philosopher, architecture visionary, dreamer and idealist Jan [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met designer Sebastian E. He showed us some works he presented at the booth of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York. Sebastian E. works in Santiago, Chile, as designer, artist, teacher, columnist and consultant. Check out Sebastian E.’s website for more information about his work. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June [...]

After our interview with the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana at Design Miami in December 2008 we now had the opportunity to have a closer look at the works of the two brothers. The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein near Basel presents an exhibition called Antibodies (Antikörper) that spans 20 years of [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

This year’s Design Miami/ Basel moves even closer to the art fair Art Basel. The design fair takes place in Hall 5 of Messe Basel, with a direct passage to Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector. The marketplace for limited-edition design features design galleries such as Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Droog, New York; Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London; [...]

Last weekend (July 13/14, 2007) the students of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University displayed their work in one of the two graduation shows (Werkschau) the college holds per year. In this video we take a look at the work of the Transportation Design students, especially what they created under the title [...]