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Art Basel Miami Beach takes place for the fifth time now. Over 35000 art enthusiasts are expected to visit the international art show. Prices of the art works start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, and soar into the millions for museum-quality masterpieces. “Its prominent list of participants makes [...]

Willie Doherty’s current solo exhibition at Gallery Peter Kilchmann in Zürich, Switzerland, presents his new film, Three Potential Endings. The name of the film is at the same time the title of the show, that is Willie Doherty’s sixth exhibition at Peter Kilchmann. In addition to the film a series of photographs are on display. [...]

Three artists are representing Venezuela at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy: Bassim Francisco, Yoshi, and Clemencia Labin. While Bassim Francisco and Yoshi exhibit artworks of individual character, Clemencia Labin chose to present a work that she has realized together with others, her social sculpture titled Velada Santa [...]

Following the presentations in Zürich and Bern, the city of Basel is the new film setting for Job Koelewijn’s Real Fiction Cinema. Real Fiction Cinema is a temporary art intervention by Littmann Kulturprojekte. It’s a mobile cinema featuring real-life images. It combines a window resembling a cinema screen that shows live views of the scenery [...]

A major exhibition by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel titled “Simply Botiful” is the second exhibition at the gallery Hauser & Wirth Coppermill in London’s East End. Coppermill, a 25,000 square ft industrial building, is Hauser & Wirth’s second London exhibition space. It provides a vast platform for ambitious large scale projects. The inaugural exhibition presented [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

VTV is talking with Kenny Schachter about his gallery’s concept and his booth at ARCO 2006. Amongst others he shows works by Zaha Hadid and Vito Acconci. Untitled (2006) by Zaha Hadid is a cell / body that offers / allows multi functional uses, as a table, counter, seat, container and as a surface to [...]

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 [...]

One of the events during Armory Week was the celebration of High Line Art’s Spring Season and Opening of the new public art project “Space Available” by Kim Beck. In this video, we take a walk on the High Line and speak with the curator and director of the High Line’s art program, Lauren Ross. [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

Galerie Mitterrand + Cramer in Geneva Switzerland, in collaboration with StonetouCH, an exclusive Swiss company working uniquely with Swiss stone, have put together the exhibition MINILAND, proposed by designer Claudio Colucci. Artists Pierre-André Bohnet, Claude Colucci, Vincent Du Bois, Sylvie Fleury, Christian Ghion and Atelier Oï contributed their artistic approaches to the theme and chosen [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

Part 2 of the interview with the curator of the exhibition Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future at the Vitra Design Museum, Mateo Kries, on January 20, 2006. One of the most successful designers of his time, Joe Colombo produced design classics such as the “Elda” armchair, the “Universale” chair or the lamp “Alogena”. In [...]

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 & [...]

With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). VernissageTV talks with his daughter Cathérine Prouvé at the occasion of the opening reception of the exhibition. Vitra Design [...]