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On the occasion of the 100th year of Deutsche Bank’s presence in Turkey, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) hosts an exhibition entitled “Joseph Beuys and His Students – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection” from 9 September until 1 November 2009. The exhibition is the first to combine works on paper by Joseph Beuys [...]

Cristina Guerra founded her gallery in 2001 in Lisbon / Portugal. It is the third time the gallery participates in Art Basel. Cristina Guerra talks about the gallery’s program and the art scene in Portugal. Among the artists she represents are Erwin Wurm, John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner and portuguese artists such as Julião Sarmento [...]

Marek Claassen interviews Alexis Hubshman, founder and president of the Scope Art Fair, about the beginnings of Scope and his background as an artist, about how the fair developed, the competition between the art fairs, and the special ambiance of the Scope fairs. Interview: Artfacts.Net and Vernissage TV. Scope Art Fair London, October 15, 2006. [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach, “The Winter Rendez-vous of the International Artworld” as the press release calls it, is in its 7th year now. More than 240 galleries from around the world are taking part in the art fair. They show works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Who did we see [...]

Currently on show at K3 Project Space in Zürich / Switzerland is “Loose Booty“, an exhibition curated by Jeff McMillan and Pascal Rousson. Loose Booty presents a wide variety of works made mostly from material borrowed or simply taken in order to create the new. Jeff McMillan and Pascal Rousson invited three other artists and [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

This is the second and final part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation. Click here for part 1 and [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

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 [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

In 1987 Mike Meiré founded the advertising agency Meiré und Meiré, along with his brother Marc. Since 1999 he is art director of the business magazine “Brand Eins”. In the third part of the interview Mike Meiré talks about the creation process, from where he gets his inspiration, artists he likes and his favorite brands. [...]

For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach Reception, the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum presented the exhibition “Speed Limits” and the performance art collaboration “Seduce Me” by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. In this video we focus on the reception and the exhibiton “Speed Limits” and exchange a few words with Cathy Leff, Director of [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

Interview with Established & Sons CEO Alasdhair Willis. The British design and manufacturing company Established & Sons received Design Miami/ Basel’s first “Designer of the Future” award “because of their visionary approach has forged a new model for design companies of the 21st century.” (PR Design Miami/ Basel). Alasdhair Willis was a founding member and [...]

At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove’s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]