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With SOMA, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin presents an installation by Belgian artist Carsten Höller that appeals to all senses. Canary song fill the room as well as the smell of Reindeer. With SOMA, Carsten Höller (born 1961 in Brussels), has created his most complex and elaborate installation to date. The [...]

We have a look at the booth of Dunn and Brown Contemporary at the Scope art fair in London. Dunn and Brown Contemporary is based in Dallas, Texas. Sarah Stork talks about the gallery’s program at Scope London 2006. Among the artists the gallery represents are Joseph Havel, Robyn O’Neil, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Brian Fridge, [...]

This video documents the opening of Santa Fe-based artist William Metcalf’s show at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico / USA. The exhibition entitled “Infinity Series” presents works that are made of machined aluminum and translucent polyester fabric. At the first glance they look like a painting, then like a sculpture. The [...]

After it had to take strong criticism for some years, the world’s once largest and most important art fair, the Art Cologne, enjoyed exuberant reviews last year – “the miracle of the Rhine” (FAZ, April 24, 2009). The success of last year’s edition was attributed by most observers to the new director of the fair, [...]

“From October 26th to the 29th, The KUBE Hotel in the 18th arrondissement will host the DiVA Paris. In this second edition, DiVA Paris offers a selection of 11 international galleries that have dedicated special attention to the work of their artists that use video and digital media to express themselves. Galleries will use the [...]

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 [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With the 2009 edition, Design Miami celebrates its 5th Anniversary. Design Miami starts a day earlier than the art fair Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), and presents works that could also easily be shown at ABMB, Maarten Baas’ Real Time project, for example, or the Workshop Workshop project by Jim Drain, Graham Hudson and P. [...]

The Danner-Rotunda at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents contemporary works from over hundred international goldsmiths. The exhibition is to a large extend drawn from the international collection of the Danner Foundation (Danner-Stiftung). The collection reflects the broad creative spectrum of modern jewelry arts, starting with the avant-garde artists of the 60′s [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]

Luigi Colani: Translating Nature at the Design Museum London. Final part of the exhibition walkthrough with curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert. Design Museum London, May 17, 2007. Part 3/3. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > DVD available. Related Articles:Luigi Colani: Translating Nature / Design Museum London / part 2/3Luigi Colani: [...]