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Over 150 galleries from all over the world are participating in the third edition of ART HK 10, the Hong Kong International Art Fair. ART HK see’s itself as the leading showcase for international Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia. This video brings you a tour of the fair on the Preview day with works [...]

In this conversation with Dr. Bettina Krogemann, gallerist Michael Schultz talks about the Chinese artist Ma Jun and the art fairs in Germany (in German language). Ma Jun at Galerie Michael Schultz Berlin Seoul Beijing / Art Cologne 2012. Michael Schultz at Art Cologne 2012. Cologne, Germany, April 17, 2012. More info via VTV contemporary [...]

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, Frederic Snitzer Gallery presented the exhibition Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Drawings. Alice Aycock is well recognized in American contemporary art for large, semi-architectural works created over the part twenty years. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, selected group exhibitions [...]

Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin currently presents two exhibitions: “Nachzeit” (Aftertime) with works by Katja Strunz, and “Dick Flash’s Souvenirs of Thought” with works by Zhivago Duncan. Zhivago Duncan works in a variety of media. His new body of work presents a fictional narrative about Dick Flash, the sole survivor of an environmental catastrophe that [...]

In the second part of the interview with David Elliott, the Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010, The Beauty of Distance, David Elliott gives an outlook on what to expect from the biennial and explains the meaning of the subtitle Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. David Elliott is a cultural [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

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 [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

VernissageTV visited Jan Gluszak’s exhibition presented in Muzeum of Architecture in Poland. We spoke with Michał Duda, one of the curators of “Dagarama. Back to the Future”. Dagarama. Back to the Future at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland is an exhibition about the Polish poet and philosopher, architecture visionary, dreamer and idealist Jan [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

Yes, this is not the typical VernissageTV style video. But with this nasty weather here in Switzerland, we enjoyed producing something that reminded us of our sunny days in Miami Beach. So in this video, there’s sun, palm trees, water, and a beautiful speedboat. The speedboat is a Riva, the Aquariva by designer Marc Newson [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

SaloneSatellite is a show of upcoming design talents running synergically with this year’s furniture fair. Among them are for example Xcellent, Coex Design, Georgio Saltos, Nika Zupanc, Krä, Gesellschaft für neuartige Leuchtengestaltung, Mareike Gast, The Sign Connection, Franzi Kramer and Bernauer.Product. Art schools like the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the [...]

From 1998 to 2005 the Förderkoje was a small exhibition space (not much space, really: 6.69 cbm) in a private flat in Berlin, Germany. As of March 2006, the Förderkoje changed the concept and will temporarily be moving into the private homes of individual hosts. The type of presentation will be worked out, organised and [...]

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 [...]