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Monday, February 8th, 2010According to the founders of International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) and organizers of the American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) David and Lee Ann Lester, a record 5,200 collectors attended the opening Vernissage of the fair at the Palm Beach County Convention Center on February 2, 2010. “The 2010 edition of AIFAF looks to be [...]
Beam me up / Plug.in Basel
Friday, February 5th, 2010The current exhibition at the new media art institution plug.in in Basel, Switzerland, presents the online project Beam me up. Beam me up is an online project that invites artists and authors from different countries to concern themselves with the concept of space in the form of art contributions and essays. Interpretations of the concept [...]
Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil Jona / Stürm Wolf Architects
Monday, February 1st, 2010At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]
Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010The 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. [...]
James Turrell: Skyspace Piz Uter
Friday, January 22nd, 2010James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]
The Third Space
Thursday, January 21st, 2010On 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 [...]
Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals
Monday, January 18th, 2010On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum.
Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is [...]
Christian Boltanski: Personnes / Monumenta 2010 at Grand Palais Paris / Interview
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Monumenta is series of monumental exhibitions at the Grand Palais, one of the great historic buildings of Paris created for the 1900 World Fair in the heart of the French capital. After Anselm Kiefer (in 2007) and Richard Serra (in 2008), French artist Christian Boltanski was invited by the Ministry of Culture and Communication to [...]
Atelier Oï: The Dancers / Interview with Aurel Aebi at Design Miami 2009
Monday, January 11th, 2010The 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 such [...]
Bettina Pousttchi: Echo / Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin / Interview
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Just 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. [...]
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