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On the fourth stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited Distrito Cu4tro Gallery. The gallery presented works by Rui Toscano, a young artist who lives and works in Lisbon / Portugal. Toscano started his career with painting but then switched to sculpture. His work is influenced by everyday film, rock music, and sound. [...]

The current exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, “Rooms Look Back”, (until November 16, 2008) brings together three international artists (Rosa Barba, Ursula Mayer, Margaret Salmon) who are concerned with the presentation of different concepts of space in the medium of film. Under the title “Insert”, three other artists (Manuela Leinhoss, Swantje Hielscher, and Davide Cascio) take [...]

Commissioned by Valie Export and Silvia Eiblmayr, the Austrian Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 presents works by Elke Krystufek, Dorit Margreiter, and Franziska & Lois Weinberger. Elke Krystufek’s work “Tabou Taboo” deals with different topics: Polynesia being regarded as a mythical place of liberated life and eroticism in [...]

The exhibition León Ferrari: Brailles and Rereadings of the Bible of renowned Argentinean artist León Ferrari recently opened at the Malba – Fundación Costantini in Buenos Aires. Amassed over the past three decades, the artwork shown consists of two series of work Brailles and Relecturas de la Biblia (Brailles and Rereadings of the Bible). Through [...]

With the 2006 edition of the international art fair the Art Cologne celebrates its 40th anniversary. “The exhibitors’ stands will present a comprehensive overview of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries — from modernism to the most recent works by contemporary artists.” (PR Art Cologne). Art Cologne, impressions from the professional preview and [...]

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 – [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

The High Line in New York City is a rather new place for New Yorkers to relax and enjoy the city. The pedestrian walkway and park was created by the non-profit Friends of the High Line along a former elevated rail spur in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first section of the part, from [...]

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 [...]

At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Takashi Murakami’s cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects [...]

In addition to the presentation of design galleries and design objects, Design Miami/ Basel set up a series of live design performances and design films that bring the theme of “Performance/Process” to life. Design Miami/ Basel presents the following Design Performances: Tom Dixon / The Micro Factory; ECAL / Mold Lamp; Martino Gamper / If [...]

Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment. Alfredo Häberli’s show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat or Moroso. In this [...]

In part 2 of our walk through the Colani retrospective at the Design Museum London, curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert explains the concept behind the exhibition. Luigi Colani: Translating Nature is divided into three parts: water, air and land. When the visitor enters the exhibition space, he immerses into a water world which invites him to [...]

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting [...]