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Luchezar Boyadjiev (born in 1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Sofia. His contribution to SITE Santa Fe Seventh International Biennial Lucky Number Seven, is entitled Off-SITE(s). The purpose of Off-SITE(s) is to connect Lucky Number Seven with the City of Santa Fe. Off-SITE(s) consists of three parts: 77 $10 bills, on display in [...]

The newest of Berlin’s art fairs, Preview Berlin was launched in 2005 as a joint effort by four galleries in Berlin – Förderkoje®, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Galerie Kuttner Siebert and loop – raum für aktuelle kunst. Preview Berlin has positioned itself as an important event on the international art fair circuit. The primary focus [...]

The Writer’s Brush is an exhibition based on Donald Friedman’s book “The Writer’s Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers” (release date September 2007). The show, curated by Donald Friedman and John Woronski includes more than 120 unique works of art by 80 of the world’s most celebrated writers. Among them are Charles Bukowski, William [...]

The exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Positions of Color Field painting”, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents key works of the major representatives of Color Field painting, both American and European. In the second part of the video we see works by Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Günther Förg, Dan Flavin, Palermo, and [...]

At Art Cologne 2009 the ADKV Art Cologne Preis für Kunstvereine (Prize for Art Associations) was awarded to the Heidelberger Kunstverein. The Heidelberger Kunstverein is one of about 270 art associations in Germany. Each year, the Association of German Kunstvereine (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine / ADKV) donates this price for outstanding curatorial practice and educational programs. [...]

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The design fair Design Miami has selected the German designer Konstantin Grcic as this year’s recipient of the Designer of the Year Award. The fair has commissioned him to produce a new piece for the fair, and presented an exhibition of highlights from Konstantin Grcic’s career, curated by Grcic himself. In this conversation with VernissageTV’s [...]

“Luigi Colani is a great maverick of 20th Century design. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has placed organic design firmly on the contemporary agenda, producing biodynamic designs for cars, boats, planes, ceramics, consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for the design of transport and architecture. A powerful influence on [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. “The most important original furniture pieces by Jean Prouvé will be exhibited together with several original architectural elements (among them a reconstructed “Maison de Sinistrés”) as well as numerous architectural models, photographs and original sketches on [...]

For Design Miami 2011, Galerie VIVID of Rotterdam realized its second solo presentation with works by Studio Job. The main attraction of the presentation are five new unique pieces, Containers II. In this video, VIVID Gallery Co-Founder Aad Krol talks about Studio Job and their new works. In 2010 Studio Job created Piece for Peace [...]

Design Miami/ Basel takes place in a new venue, the Markthalle Basel, which is the largest dome in Europe and a local landmark with over 6,000m2 of floor space. The participating gallerists have collaborated with architects, designers and artists to create unique exhibition spaces within the Markthalle. Design Miami/ Basel 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) [...]