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With the installation “the chicken-and-egg-no-problem” wall-painting at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, German artist Tobias Rehberger presents some 40 works from 15 years of creative production. Spread along 70 meters the visitors to the exhibition encounters Tobias Rehberger’s paper flowers, his “vase portraits”, lamps made of Velcro tape, objects made of Perspex, “videolibraries”, chairs reminiscent [...]

The Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Coral Gables, Florida is known for its spectacular tropical landscape. Since several years, there’s also a visual art program that attracts visitors to the park, with artists such as Dale Chihuly, Fernando Botero, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark di Suvero, Yayoi Kusama and Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne. This year’s Art at [...]

Artprice.com considers itself as the world leader in art market information with a database of 21 million auction prices and indices, detailed auction results and 370000 artists. In cooperation with Artfacts.Net VernissageTV went to the headquarters of Artprice.com in Saint Romain au Mont d’Or, a medieval village near Lyons, France, to meet the founder of [...]

Interview with artist and owner / director of Pierogi, Joe Amrhein, at the occasion of the opening of the galley’s new space in Leipzig, Germany. The opening of a branch in the Spinnerei in Leipzig, where galleries as Eigen + Art, Dogenhaus and others already have their spaces “may be the boldest coup yet for [...]

For the Art Public program of Art 41 Basel, the international art show for Modern and contemporary art in Basel / Switzerland, the Italian artist Micol Assaël presented her installation Mindfall (2004), a container filled with motors that produce unpleasant smells and noise. As every year, the Messeplatz in front of the main halls hosting [...]

Within the framework of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted live public interviews with every Biennale participant. The six-day live marathon took place in the Arsenale from August 22 through 27. Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed artists and architects such as Kazuyo [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Established & Sons CEO Alasdhair Willis. The British design and manufacturing company Established & Sons received Design Miami/ Basel’s first “Designer of the Future” award “because of their visionary approach has forged a new model for design companies of the 21st century.” (PR Design Miami/ Basel). Alasdhair Willis was a founding member and [...]

This is the second part of our coverage of the retrospective exhibition Antibodies. The Works of Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 – 2009 at the Vitra Design Museum. In this video, the curator of the exhibition, Mathias Schwarz-Clauss talks about the Campana brother’s approach to design, how their work differs from that of other designers [...]

If you want to see how contemporary designers experiment with glass, attending the GlassLab performances of the Corning Museum of Glass is a perfect idea. During this year’s Art Basel, the museum brought its mobile glass laboratory to the Vitra Campus. VernissageTV watched designer David Wiseman and the Corning Museum glassmakers working side-by-side on new [...]

Norbert Wild, curator of the Design Collection, Museum fuer Gestaltung Zuerich: “As a catering concept the take away is based on speed, order and efficiency. Now a widespread form of eating with a constantly expanding culinary range – a far remove from its earlier hamburger dominated definition – the take away also makes considerable demands [...]

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 [...]