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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center has invited Minus Space, a Brooklyn based platform for reductive art, to present an exhibition of reductive art: art characterized by minimalism and abstraction in its use of monochromatic color, geometry, and pattern. For P.S.1, Minus Space has brought together 54 artists. One of them is Simon Ingram. We spoke with [...]

Transmediale is a festival for art and digital culture in Berlin. The festival provides a platform for artistic presentation and critical reflection on the role of digital technologies in present-day society. Core areas of the festival are the annual conference on the respective festival topic (this year: Reality Addicts), a thematic exhibition (this year: Smile [...]

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Telefónica Foundation in Santiago de Chile presented the first solo exhibition of Alfredo Jaar in Chile in twenty five years. Jaar left the country and established in New York, where he developed an outstanding trajectory in the contemporary art scene. The artist has traveled around the world [...]

Masao Okabe is the artist who represents Japan at the 52nd Venice Biennale with his work “Is There a Future for Our Past? The Dark Face of the Light”. Masao Okabe (born 1942 in Hokkaido, Japan) displays 1,400 frottages from the port of Ujina in Hiroshima, as well as a 16 meters long row of [...]

Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation since 1988, talks about the exhibition “The Guggenheim Collection” at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, and the plans for a Frank Gehry-designed new museum in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates. Following the tradition established by the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. In 1976 [...]

In celebration of Ferrari’s latest sports car, the car manufacturer commissioned video artist Marco Brambillo to create a Formula 1-inspired 3D video loop. The work was showcased on the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach at the Ferrari party at Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron’s unique 1111 Lincoln Road parking structure in Miami Beach. [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]

“Luigi Colani is a great maverick of 20th Century design. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has placed organic design firmly on the contemporary agenda, producing biodynamic designs for cars, boats, planes, ceramics, consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for the design of transport and architecture. A powerful influence on [...]

Among the clients of designer Nacho Carbonell are collectors and celebrities such as Brad Pitt. A brand new piece that he presented at the booth of Galleria Rossana Orlandi is his “Bush of Iron”, a chair / desk combination in afro style, build with thousands of iron wires. “Bush of Iron” belongs the Nacho Carbonell’s [...]

“Along with his studio Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) that was set up in 1991 he has made a name for himself through experiments with materials and a constructive individuality. KGID products are characterised by their everyday usefulness and formal restraint as well as by humour and perspicacity. These are the kind of products that [...]