Berlin

« Previous Entries Next Entries »

Cao Fei: RMB City / Installation at Deutsche Guggenheim

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Taking part in the exhibition Utopia Matters at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Chinese artist Cao Fei presents a unique and “cozy” installation of the virtual space RMB City. RMB City is a project that involves the creation of a virtual city and art platform in the online 3D world of SecondLife. “Playing on the idea of [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Rudolf Stingel. Live / Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin / Remix

Friday, April 9th, 2010

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Rudolf Stingel. LIVE / Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Especially for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Tyrolean-born artist Rudolf Stingel designed an installation which transforms the character of the iconic Mies van der Rohe building. Rudolf Stingel installed a giant carpet on the floor in the gallery’s large glass hall. The pattern of the carpet dates back to an original 19th century Indian [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin

Monday, January 25th, 2010

For her solo exhibition at the gallery Eigen + Art in Berlin, Swiss artist Annelies Štrba extracts 111 Madonnas from their initially religious context, presents them as tiny pigment prints on canvas, and arranges them like mosaics side by side on the wall. “Thereby the holly Madonna is no more the sacrificed mother giving birth [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Bettina Pousttchi: Echo / Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin / Interview

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Just a few months after the last remnants of the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) were removed, visitors of Schlossplatz can now experience a feeling of déjà vu. Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi’s (*1971) photo installation Echo covers the entire façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, evoking memories of the just recently demolished building. [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Zilvinas Kempinas Magnetic Tape Installation / Remix

Friday, November 20th, 2009

At this year’s Art Forum Berlin, Berlin’s international fair for contemporary art, Spencer Brownstone Gallery presented a magnetic tape installation by Zilvinas Kempinas. It was the only work on display at the gallery’s booth. The Lithuanian artist, who lives and works in New York is known for his works that use unspooled videotape as sculptural [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Interview with Julie Mehretu / Julie Mehretu: Grey Area, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin / part 2/2

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The current exhibition Julie Mehretu: Grey Area at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is dedicated to the American artist Julie Mehretu. Julie Mehretu has been asked to realize a work for the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist. The works of the suite of paintings she created for this [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Julie Mehretu: Grey Area / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin / part 1/2

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Currently on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is American artist Julie Mehretu’s suite of paintings Grey Area. It’s the fifteenth work within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist, followed by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Grosse Freiheit Nr. 8 / White Trash Contemporary

Monday, October 12th, 2009

During the international art fair Art Forum Berlin, Hamburg-based gallery White Trash Contemporary used a temporary showroom at Strausberger Platz 19, to present part of the gallery’s program in Berlin. White Trash Contemporary is run by Nils Grossien. In this video he provides us with a short introduction to his program. In Berlin he showed [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
« Previous Entries Next Entries »
  • Contemporary Art Search (Beta)

    VTV's custom search engine that searches the web with a focus on contemporary art (not perfect, yet - but we are working on it).
    Loading
  • Advertisements



    sponsorship via vernissagetv

  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Artists Archive

  • Most featured Artists

    Andy Warhol Carlos Amorales Carsten Höller Chen Zhen Christian Philipp Müller Christoph Büchel David Weinstein Fernando & Humberto Campana Franz West G.H. Hovagimyan Guerra de la Paz Herzog & de Meuron Imi Knoebel Isa Genzken Jean Prouvé Jeff Wall Jenny Holzer Jonathan Meese Joseph Beuys Justin Lieberman Konstantin Grcic Liam Gillick Lisa Kirk Luigi Colani Madelon Vriesendorp Mary Heilmann Matt Freedman Michael Beutler Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset Mike Meiré Oliver Ross Patrick Meagher Paul McCarthy Random International René Burri Robert Kusmirowski Sarah Oppenheimer Tal R Terence Koh Thomas Demand Tim Spelios Tobias Rehberger Wim Delvoye Zaha Hadid Zilvinas Kempinas
  • From the Archive: Art

    • Interview with Jonathan Meese at Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, Miami

      Just one week before Art Basel Miami Beach, VernissageTV had the chance to have a look at the new exhibition space of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, located in the Design District in Miami. The new museum will open on Wednesday this week, and when we visited the space, Rosa and Carlos [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight / MOCA North Miami / Interview

      Purchase Not By Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, MOCA, is Anri Sala’s first major museum exhibition in the US. The show features seven films from the late 1990s to the present including a new film, Answer Me, along with photographs and sculptures. The installation explores a dialogue about the interplay of [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Martí Anson: Martí and the Flour Factory / SITE Santa Fe Seventh International Biennial, Lucky Number Seven

      This is the first episode covering SITE Santa Fe’s “Lucky Number Seven“, the seventh edition of the international Biennial in New Mexico, USA. This video shows the work by Martí Anson. Martí Anson is one of the 22 artists who have been commissioned to create a work for “Lucky Number Seven“, which was curated by [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Das Kapital – Blue Chips & Masterpieces / MMK Frankfurt am Main / part 1/2

      The Rolf Ricke Collection is the most extensive and valuable acquisition made by Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since the purchase of the Karl Ströher Collection in 1981. The Rolf Ricke Collection includes works by such artists as Donald Judd, Richard Artschwager, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Jo Baer, Dan [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • LSR – Solo Exhibition of Li Shurui at Connoisseur Art Gallery Hong Kong / Interview

      On the occasion of the finissage of Li Shurui’s exhibition at Connoisseur Art Gallery and Connoisseur Contemporary, VernissageTV met with the artist who is using airbrush to create large format paintings. Her solo exhibition titled after herself, LSR, presents new and older work, giving an insght into her chosen subject matter. In this video, Li [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • From the Archive: Architecture

    • Interview with Frank Joss / Architecture Talks Lucerne / part 2

      Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Interview with Designer John Marquette / part 2/2

      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 [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú

      At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture / Vitra Design Museum / part 1/2

      Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture / Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

      Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • From the Archive: Design

    • Piero Lissoni in conversation with Anthony Haden-Guest / Dellis Cay

      Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Interview with designer Robert Stadler

      Viennese-born designer Robert Stadler studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy and then at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In Paris, he co-founded the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 he has been working solo while simultaneously continuing his activity with the group. He lives and works in Paris and Rio [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • The Third Space

      On December 3rd, during Design Miami 2009, Luminaire opened its showroom in Miami’s Design District. One of the highlights was the installation The Third Space conceived by 52 German interior design students. In this video, Sabine Trieloff talks with four of the students who created the installation during the opening of the exhibition at the [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Karim Rashid / Art Cologne 2006

      At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • CaixaForum Madrid by Herzog & de Meuron Architects / Madrid, Spain

      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 [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • Upcoming Programming

  • Networks

    VTV at NetworkedBlogs VTV at NetworkedBlogs
  • VernissageTV Shops

    VTV Amazon Store US VTV Amazon Store EU VTV T-Shirts US Store VTV T-Shirts EU Store