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“The Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski (*1973) is known for his (time) intense stagings of places and spaces of past times. Using simple materials the artist creates meticulous simulations which appear to the eye like perfect replicas of places and objects…” Impressions from the opening reception, November 17, 2006. Migros Museum Zürich, Switzerland. Part 1/2. > [...]

Chung King Project, Los Angeles, presents the work of “Hagel”, the result of the collaboration between two Leipzig artists Paule Hammer (born 1975) and Sebastian Gögel (born in 1978). For their US debut at Chung King Project Hammer and Gögel present a large sculpture and collaborative paintings. “In contrast to the painters of the Leipzig [...]

“…For the solo exhibition in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst Robert Kusmirowski had produced, in a spatially comprehensive installation, a mysterious, old training camp – recalling the Soviet technology dream during the Cold War.” (PR Migros Museum) Impressions from the opening reception and interview, November 17, 2006. Migros Museum Zürich, Switzerland. Part 2/2. > Click [...]

From December 18 to 31 the exhibition “Dans la nuit, des images” (Images in the night) at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, presents a panorama of European audiovisual and multimedia creation. On display are works by both young and established artists. Among them: Bill Viola, Michael Snow, William Kentridge, Charles Sandison, and Anri Sala. [...]

To mark the centenary of the publication of the Futurist Manifesto of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro on the 20th February 1909, the Centre Pompidou currently presents “Le Futurism à Paris – une avant-garde explosive“. A visual sound installation by the artist Jeff Mills offers a contemporary [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

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. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

Rick Poynor talks about the exhibition “Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design since the Sixties” at the Museum of Design Zurich. “This exhibition most definitely has an aim, a purpose, almost a polemical purpose you could say. It’s about almost 45years of independent British graphic design. And that word “independent” is really important” says design critic [...]

Currently, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents “Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project” by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967). Olafur Eliasson was commissioned by the car company BMW to design the 16th BMW Art Car. What sets Eliasson’s “car” apart from previous Art Cars is that it is not recognizable as a car [...]

VernissageTV met Prof. Luigi Colani at his studio workshop in Karlsruhe / Germany. While working on a bicycle design that will be unveiled at the Road World Championships later this year he talks about his current products and projects, the state of design today – and looks back on his almost 60 years long career. [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]