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Following our walk through Art Basel / Art Unlimited we have a look at the galleries at the Rundhofhalle of Art 38 Basel. In this video we take a look at Hall 2.0 with galleries such as Bischofberger, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Marlborough and Ziegler. Art 38 Basel – The International Art Show 2007. Part [...]

In the week before Art Basel Miami Beach the collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz allowed us to have a look at their new exhibition space in the Design District in Miami. While the final preparations for the opening were going on and despite the fact that she was busy coordinating the presentation, Rosa [...]

The primary focus of Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair is on the work of emerging artists from the explosive art scene in Berlin, as well as from abroad. Impressions from the press conference and the professional preview with an interview with Preview Berlin co-founder Ralf Schmitt. Preview Berlin, press conference and professional preview, [...]

Artnet founder and CEO Hans Neuendorf has recently received the Medal of Honor for outstanding contribution to the visual arts from the National Arts Club. Artnet just announced an exclusive partnership with Art Basel. Beginning in 2007, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach can be visited online. “From the last day of the fair [...]

The third stop on our gallery tour in Madrid was Gallery Juana de Aizpuru and the current exhibition Miroslaw Balka: “La Salida”. Miroslaw Balka was born in Poland in 1958, he lives in Warsaw. He has represented Poland at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and 1992 and participated in Documenta IX in 1992. He began [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

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 [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

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, [...]

For Dornbracht Edges, designer Mike Meiré is showing the installation “The Farm Project”. With “The Farm Project” Mike Meiré transforms the kitchen into a barn-like, “real-life” stage, charged with aromas, animals, plants and objects – and with an outer cover made of a patchwork of materials. VernissageTV met Mike Meiré in Cologne where “The Farm [...]

Together with Edward Barber Jay Osgerby founded the design studio “BarberOsgerby” in 1996. Jay Osgerby talks about the Zero-in table which Established & Sons (in its limited edition version of high gloss polished, hand-formed aluminium) presented at Design Miami/ Basel. The Zero-in has won the Red Dot award, the FX design award 2005 and the [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

In the third part of the interview Luigi Colani talks about his relationship with colleague designers, his architectural projects in China, the Rotor House Project, and the needs and challenges of realizing a large flying wing passenger aircraft. More interviews with Luigi Colani: Conversation with Luigi Colani at Building Design Podcasts, interview at “Plastics – [...]

With Home Stories (MyHome – Seven experiments for contemporary living), leading designers and architects of the younger generation turn the Vitra Design Museum into a visionary living space intended to be used by visitors. Experimental installations and political design statements by Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Greg Lynn, [...]