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At Art Amsterdam 2011 Galerie West, Den Haag, was participating in the No Holds Barred section of the art fair with the video installation “In the Company Of” by Simon Gush. “In the Company Of” is a sophisticated singel-channel video, 10-channel audio installation that shows a football match on railroad tracks in the neighborhood of [...]

The homage to Chen Zhen centers around Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (Last Song) (2000), (see Chen Zhen / Kunsthalle Wien / part 1/2) a monumental percussion instrument: about a hundred chairs, stools, and beds fitted with animal hides constitute an enormous playing surface challenging visitors to act. Chen’s installations are poetical landscapes, [...]

Currently, Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City presents the third solo exhibition of Tony Orrico, titled CARBON, and curated by MARSO. Tony Orrico is a visual artist as well as a performer and choreographer. Orrico was a former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company and Shen Wei Dance Arts. He was chosen as one of the [...]

On this year’s ART COLOGNE, Inter Media Art Institute IMAI shows

From 11 February, the Musée d’Art Moderne da la Ville de Paris / ARC presents Haute Culture, a retrospective devoted to the work of the Canadian collective General Idea. For us this is a welcome opportunity to look back on General Idea’s comprehensive overview of their work at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2006 with this second [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum. The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, Initiator and Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne. Architecture Talks Lucerne provides a platform for networking and an opportunity for architects, interior designers, designers, general contractors, investors, for professionals and students, and – specific to the 2006 edition – retailers to meet. Architekturgespräche Luzern 2006, May 12, 2006. Interview with Frank [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

Since last year, we have been following the development of an ambitious project on the Caribbean island Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is the project of Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the real estate development group O Property Collection. Kinay purchased the 560 acre island (part of the Turks and Caicos archipelago) and commissioned [...]

Interview with producer Laurence Desarzens about Resfest Switzerland 2005. Resfest is a film festival taking place in several cities in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Zurich is the tour city in Switzerland with Resfest Switzerland being produced by Laurence Desarzens and Monica Pozzi. This year’s festival was held at the movie theater Riffraff in [...]