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In October 2008, 303 Gallery in New York presented new works by Doug Aitken in concurrent exhibitions at 303 Gallery’s 22nd street and 21st street spaces. For the inaugural exhibition in 303 Gallery’s 21st street space, Doug Aitken presented “Migration“, the first in a 3-part cycle of installations titled “Empire”. This video shows (in excerpts) [...]

“Kunsthalle Zurich presents the oeuvre of Canadian artists group General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz†, Jorge Zontal†) for the first time since their 1992 show Fin de Siecle in Stuttgart’s Kunstverein and their last exhibition in Switzerland, in 1984 at Kunsthalle Basel in the biggest comprehensive overview of their work to be assembled and seen [...]

Swab International Art Fair Barcelona wants to show that there is a sweeter way to experience an art fair. Swab provides all the participating galleries with lodging in selected hotels near the fair site surrounded by restaurants, bars and museums. “A swaber will not only enjoy art, but as well the city.” (PR Swab). Impressions [...]

This year’s special exhibition at Art Forum Berlin is called “House Trip”. It is “dedicated to the close relationship between art, architecture, and design, and to the growing artistic interest in the formal language of modernism.” (PR Art Forum). The curator of the show is Ami Barak from Paris. He selected 57 artistic contributions from [...]

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 [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

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 [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

Gigon / Guyer Architects are the winners of the Daylight-Award, which the Velux-Stiftung awarded for the third time after 2007 and 2010. The Daylight-Award is a prize that honors architecture projects, that systematically use daylight in order to increase quality of life and energy efficiency. The architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer received the award [...]

Part 2 of the interview with the curator of the exhibition Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future at the Vitra Design Museum, Mateo Kries, on January 20, 2006. One of the most successful designers of his time, Joe Colombo produced design classics such as the “Elda” armchair, the “Universale” chair or the lamp “Alogena”. In [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. From the press release: “In conception, this first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the furniture and architecture, which Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) created between 1924 to the mid 1970s, is very much in keeping with Prouvés [...]

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 [...]

In 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 [...]

Interview with Tony Joyce, global head of Marketing & Communications, HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited. Tony Joyce talks about the reasons behind sponsoring Design Miami/ and the criteria the bank applies when it comes to decide which event or project to sponsor, and his personal involvement in the world of design. Design Miami/ Basel, HBSC [...]