VernissageTV art tv

In the second part of the studio visit Wolfgang Petrick talks about his latest show at Michael Schultz Gallery in 2006 entitled “Good Slave, Bad Master”, fire as one of the subjects of his work, Prometheus, and the relation of science and art. Interview: Marek Claassen, Artfacts.Net. An Artfacts.Net and VernissageTV studio visit. Berlin, December [...]

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection at New Museum in New York is the title of the first U.S. exhibition of the Dakis Joannou Collection from Athens, Greece. It’s also the first show curated by Jeff Koons. Skin Fruit includes over 100 works by 50 international artists spanning several generations. With Skin Fruit, [...]

On our tour through Madrid and its region we visited Matadero Madrid, a former municipal slaughter house, that currently is being transformed into a cultural center dedicated to contemporary creation. The venue includes facilities for artists, filmmakers, designers, theatre production, exhibits, new technology etc. Matadero Madrid was presented to press and public on March 13, [...]

Paul Thek (1933-1988) is considered an artist with cult status. Until March 30, 2008 the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe / Germany shows the most comprehensive retrospective of his oeuvre so far. The exhibition “Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art” presents more than 300 of Paul Thek’s works. Most [...]

Transmediale is a festival for art and digital culture in Berlin. Interview with the assistant curator of Transmediale.06, Vera Tollmann. Vera Tollmann is a freelance author for (amongst others) the magazine for contemporary art “Springerin” and curator. She lives in Berlin. February 3, 2006. Click image or this link to watch video.

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work. Presentation of the project for the Neue Stadt-Casino Basel. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition.
Museum of Architecture Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new [...]

In the second part of the interview Rick Poynor talks about the relation between independent and political design and the difference between Swiss graphic design and British graphic design. “Communicate – Independent British graphic design since 1960” features 600 exhibits from album covers for New Order and Primal Scream, identities for BBC 2 and Big [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]

With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). VernissageTV talks with his daughter Cathérine Prouvé at the occasion of the opening reception of the exhibition. Vitra Design [...]

Design studio DRIFT was founded by Ralph Nauta (born 1978) and Lonneke Gordijn (1980), both graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. At Design Miami Basel and the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London they presented their modular light object “Fragile Future”. “Fragile Future 3.4″ is an installation consistent of modules [...]

At the 2008 edition of the design fair Design Miami, the Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana received the Designer of the Year Award. In keeping with Design Miami tradition, the Campana brothers created an installation for the fair. VernissageTV spoke with Humberto and Fernando Campana at the HSBC VIP lounge, which they also designed. [...]