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In November 2007, French artist Laurent Grasso presented a site-specific video installation called “Electric Palace” at Studio 814 in New York. “Electric Palace” by Laurent Grasso consists of two 10 minute projections: “Polair“, which shows electrically charged pollen swirling around objects and buildings in Berlin, among them the Fernsehturm (television tower); and “1619“, which shows [...]

For this year’s edition, Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair moved from Tempelhof’s Hangar 2 to the main hall of the former Berlin Central Airport. With the new location, Preview Berlin set up a new, different exhibition concept. The new approach was necessary because of the specific requirements of the new space in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

25 Years Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel. After 25 years of its existance and a complete renovation the Museum of Contemporary Art Basel reopened with several events on Saturday, October 29, 2005: guided tours, workshops and activities for kids and the exhibition “Flashback. Revisiting the Art of the Eighties.” Open House, October 29, 2005. Click image [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

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 [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

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 [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

Interview with Tony Joyce, global head of Marketing & Communications, HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited. Tony Joyce talks about the reasons behind sponsoring Design Miami/ and the criteria the bank applies when it comes to decide which event or project to sponsor, and his personal involvement in the world of design. Design Miami/ Basel, HBSC [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present “Mondi Possibili”. On display are furniture and objects by Richard Artschwager, Benjamin Bergmann, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Stefan Kern, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Franz West, and Martin Wöhrl. “The works on display deal with the subject of furniture from a variety of [...]

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 [...]

On the second stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited La Fabrica. La Fabrica Galeria is located near the famous Museo del Prado, the newly opened CaixaForum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – in the heart of Madrid’s “triangle of art”. The gallery focuses on international contemporary art, with [...]