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René Burri, born in Zurich in 1933, is known world-wide as one of the most important photographers of our times. Interview (in German, Transcript in English available in the first issue of our PDF magazin) with René Burri at the Museum of Design Zurich by Karolina Zupan-Rupp. October 14, 2005. Part 1/3. Click image or [...]

Imaginary Arsenals at Cuchifritos art gallery / project space is an exhibitionn curated by Kimberly Lamm. “Imaginary Arsenals addresses the subtle and subversive use of war imagery by artists.” (from the PR). The artists selected are Jane Benson, Stephen Collier, Diane Meyer, Graham Parker, Kanishka Raja, Nathan See, Dan Tague. Imaginary Arsenals is part of [...]

Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli (born 1970 in Arab al-Shibli, Galilee) deals with today’s living conditions of the Palestinian population living in Israel and with the various consequences arising from living together in a state of permanent conflict. For the first time Ahlam Shibli presents her complete series Trackers, 2005, that was taken between January and [...]

Inspired by the myth of Diana and Actaeon, the prose of Thomas Bernhard and the art of Pierre Klossowski among many other sources, Majorcan artist Bernardí Roig has created a densely intellectual body of work that reflects on the defeat of painting and the gaze of the beholder as a form of aggression. The light [...]

Ten artists and artist groups present playful installations and drawings, miraculous dadaistic boxes and satirical light-sculptures at White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg / Germany. Participating: New York artist Jeff Lutonsky, artist group MFSW from Berlin, Lilli Kuschel and Anna Fiedler (Berlin), Peter Lynen (Hamburg), Prinz (Berlin), Oliver Ross (Hamburg), Ben Hübsch (Freiburg), Tim Kubach (Hamburg) and [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured. John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert [...]

At Design Miami Basel we met with Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey who presented new work at the booth of Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai / China. Gallery Director Pearl Lam has invited Studio Makkink & Bey, the joint-venture of architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey to investigate Chinese craftmanship and [...]

On the occasion of the presentation of Seiko’s Issey Miyake watch series VUE at Baselworld 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, VernissageTV met with the designer of the watch, Yves Béhar. In the first part of the interview, Yves Béhar talks about the new Issey Miyake watch series called VUE: the basic idea, the materials, and shows [...]

FriendsWithYou is an art collective founded by the Miami-based artists, Rev. Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III. At the occasion of the opening of their new Flagship Store and Studio in the Miami Design District, VernissageTV had a look at their new shop and studio. FriendsWithYou was founded in 2002. Since then, FriendsWithYou [...]

As part of The Wolfsonian Museum’s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum’s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design [...]