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A major exhibition by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel titled “Simply Botiful” is the second exhibition at the gallery Hauser & Wirth Coppermill in London’s East End. Coppermill, a 25,000 square ft industrial building, is Hauser & Wirth’s second London exhibition space. It provides a vast platform for ambitious large scale projects. The inaugural exhibition presented [...]

In part 1 of our Gallery Weekend Berlin coverage, VernissageTV attends the opening of “Ein Fest für Boris”. Ein Fest für Boris (A Party for Boris) is title of the group show in Contemporary Fine Art’s Bruno Brunnet new gallery offshoot in Berlin Charlottenburg. The space called Vittorio Manalese was launched on the occasion of [...]

Galerie Nosbaum & Reding is based in Luxemburg. The artists shown at Liste 06 are: Valentin Carron, Gaston Damag, Damien Deroubaix, Myriam Mechita, Manuel Ocampo, Frédéric Platéus, and Wawrzyniec Tokarski. Véronique Nosbaum talks about the gallery’s program. Upcoming exhibition in the gallery in Luxemburg is Jens Wolf (June 29 – July 29, 2006). Galerie Nosbaum [...]

During Art Basel 2011 Brooklyn-based artist Jamie Isenstein was performing “Rug Woogie IV” at the booth of Galerie Meyer Riegger. Jamie Isenstein was seated at a classical harp. But the instrument didn’t produce any sound, on the contrary: Jamie Isenstein wasn’t plucking the strings, but weaving wool through them, covering their sound. The result of [...]

New York Correspondent Theodore Bouloukos meets with the men behind the new art publication, “Daily Constitutional”: Publisher / Editor-in-Chief John Henry Blatter and Editor / Art Director Derek Coté, who also created a sound installation for Scope New York, discuss the ideas behind their publication and their own work as artists. Daily Constitutional is an [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of 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 [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

The show This Side Up at the Museum of Design Zurich, conceived by Konstantin Grcic and his team, shows works from the past decade. It emphasises processes and is presented as an arrangement of over-sized boxes that look as if they have been casually opened for the visitors. Fifty products are on display and visitors [...]

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 [...]

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting [...]

The Design Museum London is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. We met Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum’s director who gave us a short introduction to the Design Museum and an outlook on future plans including the museum’s expansion and relocation. Design Museum London, London, May 17, 2007. > Right-click [...]

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 [...]