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In this video we attend the opening of the solo show Michel Verjux: Respiration at Mark Müller Gallery in Zürich, Switzerland. French artist Michel Verjux is known for his work with light. He often uses powerful spotlights to create pure geometric shapes. With this exhibition, the gallery also opens its new premises in Hafnerstrasse 44, [...]

For the current exhibition entitled “Art Machines Machine Art”, the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, turns into a production hall. “Art Machines Machine Art” presents Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines dating back to the 1950s followed by art machines down to the present day, created by Pawel Althamer (Extrusion Machine), Michael Beutler (Proper en Droog), Angela [...]

Ron Arad designs for many leading companies including among others Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Flos. Architectural projects include: Maserati Headquarters Showroom in Italy, the Living room and family dining room for Sheikh Saud Al-Thani’s Villa in Qatar, the Selfridges Technology Hall in London, the Tel Aviv Opera Foyer in Israel, the Belgo Noord [...]

LIVESupport is Nari Ward’s first solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York. The new body of work on display consists of sculptures, works on paper, and video. Subject-matter is the idea of support – physical, spiritual, social and judicial. The centerpiece of LIVESupport is “Sick Smoke”, a smoke-filled ambulance covered in opaque and transparent [...]

The Kuala Lumpur-based art space 12 set up a photo studio at the international art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012. The installation is based on a photography studio in Tangkak, Malaysia that opened in 1964 and still operates to this day. The installation also features work by the artists Shooshie Sulaiman, Ismail Hashim, Ahmad Fuad [...]

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 [...]

VTV is talking with Kenny Schachter about his gallery’s concept and his booth at ARCO 2006. Amongst others he shows works by Zaha Hadid and Vito Acconci. Untitled (2006) by Zaha Hadid is a cell / body that offers / allows multi functional uses, as a table, counter, seat, container and as a surface to [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

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 [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 the China Chair Project Exhibition presented functional contemporary Chinese Sculpture at the Carlyle Hotel, Miami Beach. The artists were selected by Paul Hughes. Many of the artists participating in the project had never worked in three-dimensional media before, and all but one had never worked on a chair. Each [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

Design Miami celebrated its opening with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The design fair presented international design galleries exhibiting historic and contemporary design. Design Miami also features Design Talks, Design Satellite Exhibitions, art/design installations, and other various collaborations with designers, critics, curators, cultural institutions, gallerists and collectors throughout the Miami Design District. Impressions from the Vernissage. [...]

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 [...]