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Scion Space presents “Archive”, curated by Beautiful/Decay Magazine. “Supporting emerging and established artists since its conception, Beautiful/Decay brings together previously featured artists Aya Kato, Friends With You (formed by Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval), Jesse LeDoux, and Skwak to celebrate the convergence of art, design, music, and pop culture.” (B/D). Impressions from the opening night [...]

Adrián Villar Rojas is representing Argentina at the 54th Internationa Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Adrián Villar Rojas has developed a site-specific installation for the Argentine pavilion that consists of a series of monumental clay sculptures and is titled “El asesino de tu herencia” (“The Murderer of your Heritage”). Adrián [...]

“Doors”, the current exhibition at the Portikus in Frankfurt / Main, Germany, shows a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. “Doors offers passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asks the viewer to come to a decision. The different possibilities of action – opening doors, moving (backward) in space – [...]

“The Armory Show, the International Fair of New Art, is the world’s leading art fair devoted exclusively to contemporary art. In its ninth annual exhibition, The Armory Show 2007 will present 148 international galleries, including many of the most important contemporary dealers showcasing new art from around the world.” (PR Armory). Impressions from the preview [...]

At Frieze Art Fair in London, Deutsche Bank officially announced the “Artist of the Year”. This time the award goes to the Slovakian artist Roman Ondák. After Wangechi Mutu and Yto Barrada Roman Ondák is the third artist who receives the prize that aims to honor and promote young artists who have created extraordinary photo [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]

“Along with his studio Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) that was set up in 1991 he has made a name for himself through experiments with materials and a constructive individuality. KGID products are characterised by their everyday usefulness and formal restraint as well as by humour and perspicacity. These are the kind of products that [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Takashi Murakami’s cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects [...]