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Gallery Weekend Berlin 2007, Gallery Crawl with VernissageTV correspondent Lizza May David, part 3: Ernesto Caivano at Carlier Gebauer, Lothar Hempel: Effetti Speciali at C/O Atle Gerhardsen, Jeff Wall at Johnen Galerie, and Danh Vo: Good Life at Isabella Bortolozzi. Gallery Weekend Berlin 2007, 29 Galleries, 29 Openings, April 27 – 30 2007. PS: Is [...]

25 Years Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel. After 25 years of its existance and a complete renovation the Museum of Contemporary Art Basel reopened with several events on Saturday, October 29, 2005: guided tours, workshops and activities for kids and the exhibition “Flashback. Revisiting the Art of the Eighties.” Open House, October 29, 2005. Click image [...]

In the second part of the interview Daniel Hug talks about four of the artists he represents: Michael Queenland, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Michael Wilkinson, and Chris Lipomi. The gallery is based in Los Angeles. Daniel Hug Gallery, Liste 06 – The Young Art Fair, Basel, June 17, 2006. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download [...]

“Women are Heroes” is a project and an exhibition by the artist JR that coincided with this year’s Nuit Blanche in Paris, France. For the Women are Heroes project, JR has been traveling to such countries as Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, to take portraits of more than 70 women around the world. It’s the [...]

After the 2009 exhibition “A Season in Hell“, Alison Jacques Gallery in London presents a show with work of Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition also inaugurates the gallery’s additional new exhibition space at 41-42 Berner’s Street. Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work has been curated by the New York pop band Scissor Sisters. Last year, the band used [...]

Iván Navarro’s work was already very present at ARCO, the contemporary art fair in Madrid, and now in New York his work seems to be omnipresent. At The Armory Show, one of the highlights was his site-specific installation at the booth of Paul Kasmin Gallery (see in our Armory Show coverage here). The gallery is [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice / Italy, directed by Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) is titled “People Meet in Architecture”. The show runs from 29th August to 21st November 2010. VernissageTV had a look at the exhibition during the Preview days. In this video we walk through the national pavilions and exhibitions in the Giardini [...]

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archbishopric Cologne: a triad of place, building and collection. Two thousand years of occidental culture – architecture, arts and crafts and fine art – can be experienced together at one place. Kolumba wants to recall: A museum is a place of slowness, of concentration, of playful-creative analysis, of [...]

In collaboration with Dürig Architects, the Berlin-based landscape architects Topotek 1 designed one of the largest sports facilities in Zürich, Switzerland. The sports facility is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It comprises twelve football fields and a baseball field complemented by three buildings: an ice-rink, a [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

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. [...]

At the College Exhibition at Pforzheim University we had an interesting conversation with Prof. James Kelly. He told us about the history and the concept of the Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, the application and selection process, and what the students learn in the undergraduate and masters courses of Transportation Design. Pforzheim, Germany, July [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]