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Kunst Zürich 2005, 11th international art fair for contemporary art in Zurich, Switzerland. For the guest sector, ten young galleries from New York City were selected whose programs are focusing on experimental and cutting-edge contemporary art. Take a look at the booths of the galleries, the people and the artworks. Impressions from the opening reception, [...]

Untitled is the title of the 12th Biennial for Contemporary Art in Istanbul, Turkey. Both the title and the themes of this year’s Istanbul Biennial reference the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. His minimalist and conceptual artistic language was a source of inspiration for the curators of the biennial, Adriano Pedrosa and [...]

New York correspondent Theodore Bouloukos visits Eric Dupont of Eric Dupont Gallery Paris at Scope New York 2007 to discuss the work of Regina Virserius and Damien Cabanes. Scope New York, February 24, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art recently inaugurated its new space in the Santa Fe Railyard Art District. Currently the gallery presents recent paintings by Günther Förg (July 12 – September 6). Günther Förg (born 1952) is one of the most prominent German artists of his generation. Förg started his art career in the 1970s with a [...]

No, art fairs are not dead, on the contrary. There are a lot of art fairs that are running concurrently with The Armory Show in New York. One of them is Independent, the “temporary exhibition forum”. The second edition of Independent takes place in the former DIA Center for the Arts. Over 40 contemporary art [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

The Kunsthaus in Bregenz / Austria explores the architectural work of Ai Weiwei with a solo show titled Art / Architecture. While not as widely presented as his artistic oeuvre, Ai Weiwei’s work in the field of architecture is extremely important for the artist because of the collaborative – that is social and political – [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

The Hungarian contribution to the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice presents an extensive installation composed of video projections, ninety kilometers of rope, twenty thousand pencils and hundreds of drawings. The concept of the exhibition in the Hungarian pavilion titled “BorderLINE Architecture” has been created by the designers and architects Andor Wesselény-Garay and Marcel Ferencz. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this episode, Prof. Thomas Gerlach and student Nils Uellendahl show and explain an exciting transportation concept based on swarm intelligence. Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]