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. Scott Cunningham.
Design Miami shows modern and contemporary design objects from 17 galleries from around the world in a stylish tent designed by Aranda/Lasch. There’s a retrospective of the work of Maarten Baas, who is featured as the designer of the year, a design performance by techno-design pioneer Moritz Waldemeyer and rock band OK Go, and a huge installation by architect and designer Greg Lynn for Swarovski Crystal Palace (interviews with Greg Lynn, Maarten Baas and Atelier Oi coming soon)!
Design Miami 2009. Collector’s Preview and Vernissage, December 1, 2009.
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Just in case that you are not yet sitting under the christmas tree with your family, singing and unpacking gifts, we have a special video for you today. The main protagonist is a tree as well, but: it’s not a fir but a palm tree with a very special talent or misbehavior. It has been planted among its conventional fellows by Brazilian artist Ana Linnemann in Lummus Park in Miami Beach as part of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Projects.
To the surprise of the amazed passersby, the palm tree, spins for 30 seconds and then stays still for two minutes. “That’s funny!”, one of the spectators calls out, and the piece is certainly one of the most popular art works during Art Basel Miami Beach. But there’s more behind it.
Ana Linnemann: (From the series) The Invisibles, 2008, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo. Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Projects. December 7, 2008.
PS: This is post number 990. Now the count down to #1000 has begun. We will celebrate this anniversary with a special screening online and in our new studio in Basel and online (more information on that coming soon). But we would like to thank our viewers, collaborators, friends, artists, designers, architects, art professionals, and everyone who supported us. It’s you who make this project so successful and so much fun. Thank you so much and Happy Holidays!
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At Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Hauser & Wirth presented Christoph Büchel’s installation “Training Ground for Training Ground for Democracy, 2007″. The installation is a scaled-down version of the aborted work for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art MASS MoCA. It consists basically of a shipping container and includes original Florida voting booths, Arabic propaganda films, a bomb, a ladder to climb the container’s roof, bad food, and lots of other stuff. According to The Art Newspaper it sold for $250,000 to the Flick Collection and is to be installed at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin. Art Basel Miami Beach, December 5, 2007.
PS: If you want to know more about the dispute between MASS MoCA and Christoph Büchel we recommend Roberta Smith’s article in The New York Times or just google “training ground for democracy”.
PPS: For more videos about Christoph Büchel’s work click here.
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 is the last Art Basel under the leadership of Sam Keller. Starting in January 2008 Art Basel will be led by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Artistic Director), Annette Schönholzer (Director of Operations and Finance), and Marc Spiegler (Director for Strategy and Development). This is part 3 of our walk through Art Basel Miami Beach 2007. December 5, 2007.
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The 6th edition of the international art show Art Basel Miami Beach presents 200 galleries from the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Special sectors of the fair feature new art works, curated exhibitions, video and sound lounges, a performance program, an open air cinema and art in public spaces. New this year is an experimental group show called “Art Supernova”: Instead of each gallery having its own separate booth, the exhibitors have interconnected exhibition spaces. This is part 2 of our walk through the fair, December 5, 2007.
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Art Positions is a special sector of Art Basel Miami Beach outside the Convention Center. Art Positions is a beachfront village of shipping containers converted into art spaces. According to the fair a record number of 140 galleries applied for a container, out of which the selection committee has chosen 20 young galleries “to showcase cutting-edge projects” there. December 5, 2007.
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The year 2007 was packed with major art events: Venice Biennale, Documenta, Sculpture Projects. After the art overdose in summer, the year ends with the crazy Art Basel Miami Beach week. Art Basel Miami Beach is an art fair – but equally a social highlight. Now in its 6th year, Art Basel Miami Beach is said to be the favorite meeting place of the international art world. This video shows impressions from the opening reception on the 5th December 2007.
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Galerija Gregor Podnar is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. At Art Basel the gallery presents the artists Attila Csörgö, Alexander Gutke, Irwin, Goran Petercol and Tobias Putrih. Director Gregor Podnar talks about the gallery’s program and the works on show at Art Basel. Art Premiere, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland. June 17, 2006. > Click image [...]
The booth of Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, at ARCO is dedicated to Ed Templeton. “Templeton made his mark initially as a professional skateboarder, becoming a celebrity among legions of young and eager fans, and this afforded him the unique opportunity to not only document his surroundings and the people he loves, but to further [...]
Until June 21, 2009, the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland is showing The Tracey Emin retrospective 20 Years, the most comprehensive Tracey Emin exhibition to date. We already posted a video that contains shots from the opening reception, and statements by Tracey Emin and the curator of the exhibition, Kathleen Bühler. This video focuses solely on [...]
Of the 59 galleries being presented at this year’s Liste, 24 are participating for the first time in Basel. The exhibitors come from a total of 24 countries, among which one-fourth are from countries overseas. Impressions from the preview, Liste 06 – The young art fair in Basel, June 12, 2006. Part 1. > Click [...]
In his third solo show at Kuttner Siebert in Berlin / Germany, Terry Haggerty shows new works that represent an logical evolution of his painting. Terry Haggerty was born in London in 1970. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. “Terry Haggerty’s works are marked by their extraordinary perfection, whereby several layers of [...]
Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]
Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]
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, [...]
During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]
The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]
Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]
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 [...]
The first Design Miami (formerly design.05 Miami) took place from December 1-5, 2005 in the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District. Driving force behind Design Miami is real-estate developer Craig Robins with his company Dacra. He is the principal of Design Miami/ Basel and known for his addiction to art, architecture and design [...]
Interview with Monica Pozzi about Resfest Swissmix. Swissmix is the selection for young Swiss filmmakers of Resfest Switzerland. Swissmix provides young Swiss talent with a professional platform and may work as a steppingstone to reach an international audience. This year’s participants have been Dominic Lahiff / GMD Three, Jonas Meier; Oliver Conrad (Kompost); Ramon & [...]
After our interview with the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana at Design Miami in December 2008 we now had the opportunity to have a closer look at the works of the two brothers. The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein near Basel presents an exhibition called Antibodies (Antikörper) that spans 20 years of [...]
