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Dragoljub Raša Todosijević represents Serbia at the 54th Venice Art Biennale with his project Light and Darkness of Symbols. Todosijević has conceived his participation as exhibition divided in three interdependent parts. The first part titled “Journal” shows 120 smaller works produced in different materials; the second part titled “Installation” presents works borrowed from existing art [...]

ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations is the title of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. This time, the curator of the international exhibition is Bice Curiger. She has chosen 83 artists. In this video we have a look at the artists presented in the Arsenale, among them Yto Barrada, Monica [...]

Cécile Panzieri talks about the gallery – the program and the way the gallery works with its artists – and New York’s gallery scene. Sean Kelly Gallery was founded in New York in 1991 by Jean Kelly. The gallery represents artists like Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Kosuth, Rebecca Horn, Callum Innes and Ilya & [...]

In a tribute to the hippie commune scene in Easy Rider; artists Jen DeNike, Rachel Mason, and Mark Golamco make a performance about performance art while performing… with special guests M.R Sontag, Madame Brioche, Rush. Scope Art Fair New York, February 23, 2007. Host: Althea Viafora-Kress. Camera: James Painter Belvin. February 23, 2007. Grizzly Lodge [...]

Women and art – is there a problem? In her introduction to the panel discussion Ute Thon, host of the discussion, presents some interesting facts on the situation of women in the art world. Guests: Dr. Ariane Grigoteit, Director, Deutsche Bank Collection; Nicole Hackert, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Dorothea Strauss, Artistic Director Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; [...]

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

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 Golden Lion for the Best Project of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2010 with the title “People Meet in Architecture” was given to Junya Ishigami and Associates for their installation “Architecture as Air: Study for Château la Coste”. The jury acknowledged the “unique and uncompromising vision of its author… [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

FriendsWithYou is an art collective founded by the Miami-based artists, Rev. Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III. At the occasion of the opening of their new Flagship Store and Studio in the Miami Design District, VernissageTV had a look at their new shop and studio. FriendsWithYou was founded in 2002. Since then, FriendsWithYou [...]

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 [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met decorative arts consultant, dealer and design curator Cristina Grajales, Cristina Grajales served as director of 1950 Gallery in New York City from 1990 to 2000. “Grajales’s passion for many of the twentieth century’s greatest masters – among them Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand – propelled [...]