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Friday, January 1st, 2010Here they are: the 10 most popular videos of 2009 on VernissageTV. Happy New Year!
Takashi Murakami & Pharrell Williams: The Simple Things / Interview with Pharrell Williams / Art 40 Basel
JR: Women are Heroes / Ile Saint-Louis, Paris / Interview
Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame! / Museum Ludwig, Cologne
La Biennale di Venezia 2009 / Fare Mondi (Making [...]
Dzine at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Monday, December 28th, 2009Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) is a Chicago-based artist who appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language. As media, he mainly uses sculpture, painting and installation.
For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Dzine created a new custom lowrider tricycle inspired [...]
Art Basel Miami Beach 2009
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event of Switzerland’s Art Basel, again combines an international selection of top galleries with a program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 First Choice, Preview and Vernissage, December 2, 2009.
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F18: Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century / SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival
Friday, November 27th, 2009The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18’s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century.
Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, “allowing the objects familiar in an everyday [...]
Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms (“truisms”) on one of Times Square’s gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade [...]
Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell / Opening and Performance by Patti Smith
Thursday, October 15th, 2009If she ever wondered how many people fit into her gallery space, now Alison Jacques knows. The opening of the current exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell reminded visitors more of a Guinnes Book World Record attempt than a vernissage. The reason for this rush was obviously the announcement that the American singer-songwriter and [...]
JR: Women are Heroes / Ile Saint-Louis, Paris / Interview
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009“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 [...]
John Bock: The Greased Bendsteering… – Lecture / Fashion Show at HKW Berlin
Friday, October 2nd, 2009German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured.
John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sich [...]
Tadashi Kawamata: Berliner Baumhäuser (Berlin Tree Huts) / HKW Berlin
Friday, September 18th, 2009As part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks in Berlin, the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata built several of the tree huts he is known for at the facade of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the adjacent park. This video shows Tadashi Kawamata working on his tree huts.
Tadashi Kawamata was born in Mikasa, Hokkaido (Japan) in [...]
Veilhan at Versailles / Interview with Xavier Veilhan
Friday, September 11th, 2009Last year, American artist Jeff Koons presented his works at the Chateau de Versailles near Paris, France. This year, French artist Xavier Veilhan shows his works in the Gardens, Royal Court, and apartments of the Versailles Palace. Xavier Veilhan: “My project for Versailles mainly addresses the outdoor realm, following an east/west axis across the estate, [...]
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