Archive for January, 2010
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Friday, January 29th, 2010In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]
Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. [...]
Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin
Monday, January 25th, 2010For her solo exhibition at the gallery Eigen + Art in Berlin, Swiss artist Annelies Štrba extracts 111 Madonnas from their initially religious context, presents them as tiny pigment prints on canvas, and arranges them like mosaics side by side on the wall.
“Thereby the holly Madonna is no more the sacrificed mother giving birth [...]
James Turrell: Skyspace Piz Uter
Friday, January 22nd, 2010James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]
The Third Space
Thursday, January 21st, 2010On December 3rd, during Design Miami 2009, Luminaire opened its showroom in Miami’s Design District. One of the highlights was the installation The Third Space conceived by 52 German interior design students. In this video, Sabine Trieloff talks with four of the students who created the installation during the opening of the exhibition at the [...]
Silberkuppe: Old Ideas / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Silberkuppe is an independent space for contemporary art and culture located in Berlin. The gallery was founded by Dominic Eichler und Michel Ziegler. Since their inaugural opening in Spring 2008, Silberkuppe has initiated presentations, exhibitions, talks, screenings, music and performances. At the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, they present a selection of new, site-oriented [...]
Davide Cascio at Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art Gallery in Basel currently shows new works by Swiss artist Davide Cascio. Davide Cascio’s work features elements of art, architecture and design. At Nicolas Krupp he presents a series of collages and two sculptures.
Davide Cascio was born in 1976 in Lugano, Switzerland, where he lives and works. From 1992 to [...]
Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals
Monday, January 18th, 2010On 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 [...]
Christian Boltanski: Personnes / Monumenta 2010 at Grand Palais Paris / Interview
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Monumenta is series of monumental exhibitions at the Grand Palais, one of the great historic buildings of Paris created for the 1900 World Fair in the heart of the French capital. After Anselm Kiefer (in 2007) and Richard Serra (in 2008), French artist Christian Boltanski was invited by the Ministry of Culture and Communication to [...]
Franz West: Autotheater / Retrospective at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Until mid-March 2010 Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany shows the first major retrospective of Franz West (born 1947 in Vienna) in Europe. The Austrian sculptor is considered as one of the most influential artists of our times.
On display are over 40 works dating from 1972 to the present, which in some cases the artist has [...]
