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A major retrospective exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s work in neon and fluorescent light is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Miami (until January 7, 2007). Titled “Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light”, the exhibition includes 16 of Nauman’s word play and identity signs, fluorescent light environments, and figurative neons, from [...]

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 [...]

Artist Max Frey, known for his kinetic artworks, conceived some special works for his participation in Jeppe Hein’s Circus Hein at Open Space / Art Cologne 2010. For the visitors of the fair, he installed a Pasta Kitchen. In this video, he talks about this installation / performance and his work in general. Apart from [...]

Liam Gillick’s exhibition “Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario* Work 1988 – 2008 Mirrored Image: A ‘Volvo’ bar” at Kunstverein München is the third act of the large mid-career retrospective, that the four institutions Witte de With, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein München and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago conceived. Instead of simply exhibiting previous [...]

For The Garden of Forking Paths, an outdoor sculpture project of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein built the world’s smallest opera house on a hill near a farm near Zurich, Switzerland. Only 5 persons a time can listen to an aria from an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti. The Garden of Forking [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

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 [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

In this video Professor Gerlach shows a good example for what students are taught in the first semesters. The task was to design a product and to show that it’s really working. In this case student Tobias Kruschhausen developed a piece of furniture for public space called “Slide”. It has an interesting mechanism that allows [...]

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 [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

The Wolfsonian is a remarkable design museum in the heart of the Art Deco District, Miami Beach. The Wolfsonian collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885 – 1945, which are presented in the Wolfsonian’s permanent exhibition “Art and Design in the Modern Age”. Current exhibitions are Fashioning the Modern [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]